World War I Memorial Soldier - Carnforth, UK - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

The memorial is located on Market St, Carnforth, in a small memorial garden, and comprises a square granite plinth upon which stands a bronze figure of a soldier, standing at ease and with rifle. It is flanked by a United Kingdom flag and a French flag and was was dedicated on 9 November 1924.

It was amended after World War II for the men who died in that war.

It has three bronze plaques, one for those killed in WW1, one for those who died due to WW1 1918-1924 and one for WW2.

The inscriptions and names on the three bronze tablets are as follows.

6 o’clock face

ERECTED TO THE GLORIOUS
MEMORY OF THE MEN OF
CARNFORTH
WHO OBEYED THE CALL OF
DUTY, WENT FORTH AND DIED
FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY
IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918

ROBERT G ABBOTT	EDGAR HALL
ALBERT H ARMER	JOHN H HARPER
WILLIAM ATKINSON	HARRY HIGGINSON
JOHN BAINES	MORRIS KING
SAMUEL BALDERSON	JAMES S KIRKBY
THOMAS BALDERSON	RICHARD LITTLE
ROBERT BARTON	PERCY E MACEFIELD
HERBERT BEATTIE	CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL
ERNEST M BECK	GEORGE H MORLEY
JAMES BECKETT	GEORGE NELSON
THOMAS BEDFORD	EDWIN PARKINSON
NOEL BENNETT	WILLIAM PEDDER
ROBERT E BROCKBANK	HERBERT PENRITH
FRED W BULLOUGH	EDWIN PENSWICK
JOHN CAMPBELL	HARRY RATCLIFFE
THOMAS E CAPSTICK	W ARTHUR RIGG
JAMES HF CLARKE	WILLIAM SHAW
DAVID W CLARK	R SIDNEY SIMPSON
JAMES DISBERRY	JAMES WALKDEN
JOHN EDMONDSON	EDWARD WATSON
C FREDERICK FLEMING	JOHN C WATSON
HENRY GARDNER	GEORGE C WATSON
WILLIAM V GILBERT	WILLIAM S WHITESIDE
WILLIAM A GLAISTER

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

12 o’clock face

THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED
TO THE HONOURED MEMORY
OF THE MEN OF CARNFORTH
WHO HAVE DIED SINCE THE
ARMISTICE THROUGH THE
EFFECTS OF THEIR WAR SERVICE
1918-1924

BERT CAMBRAY	EDWARD H SMITH
THOMAS W CORNTHWAITE	RICHARD A SMITH
JOHN A NUTTALL	ROBERT P WHITESIDE
JOHN TH PARKINSON	JAMES WOOD
VICTOR H POSTLETHWAITE	JOSEPH WRIGHT

3 o’clock face

ERECTED TO THE GLORIOUS
MEMORY OF THE MEN OF
CARNFORTH
WHO OBEYED THE CALL OF
DUTY, WENT FORTH AND DIED
FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY
IN THE GREAT WAR   1939-1945

JACK ASTLEY	THOMAS C GARTH
ROBERT B BAGGULBY	HAROLD HELM
RICHARD S BATTERSBY	ANTHONY S JACKSON
CLARENCE I BENNETT	THOMAS JENKINSON
HARRY CARPENTER	STANLEY E LAWSON
ROBERT DAWSON	JOHN J MARTIN
HERBERT DUMBLETON	JOHN A PROUDLOVE
EDWIN D EDWARDS	EDWARD H STOTT
JOHN EDWARDS	JAMES W WALKDEN

HARRY WALKER

TO THE HONOURED MEMORY
OF THE MEN OF
CARNFORTH
WHO DIED AFTER THE CLOSE
OF THE 1939-1945 WAR
FROM THE EFFECTS OF
WAR SERVICE

EDWARD BAGGULEY

Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Carnforth Cenotaph Figure Type: Human Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Unknown Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 11/9/1924 Materials used: Bronze statue on stone plinth Location: Carnforth Memorial Gardens

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