© Susan Eldridge June 2005

 

 

Location: By the school which is just before you reach Sawley Abbey

 

OS ref: 103  SD778465

 

Date: 10th July 1921

 

 

 

ERECTED IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE

OF THE MEN WHO WENT FROM THIS PARISH

TO FIGHT FOR RIGHT AND FREEDOM

AND WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES

IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918

THEY WON THE VICTORS CROWN

IN MANY LANDS AFAR THEY REST

AT HOMW THEIR TOKEN STANDS

 

 

Richard BATTERSBY

Albin HAWKINS

Arthur HOLGATE

The Rt Hon Lord LUCAS

Joseph MOON

Lewis PROCTOR

Thomas RIGBY

Arthur TOWNSON