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Carlisle

GRID REF: NY37892 45566  Postcode CA5 7DD 


Raughtonhead

This Memorial is a carved cross on a square granite pillar.  It stands by the roadside in a small grassed area just outside the churchyard entrance.

 

The Memorial bears the names of thirteen men who died in WW1, sixty-one who served and returned, and another 19 who served in WW2.

The Memorial tells us of: - “THOSE KILLED IN ACTION IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918, THOSE WHO SERVED IN HM FORCES 1914-1918  AND THOSE WHO SERVED 1939-1945.”

“IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE FROM THIS PARISH WHO ANSWERED THEIR COUNTRY’S CALL”.

THOSE KILLED IN ACTION are:-

RICHARD S GLYNN

ROBERT ROBINSON

JOSEPH GIBBINGS

ANDREW GRAHAM

JOSEPH ROBINSON

 CHARLES R GLYN

GILBERT MESSENGER

THOMAS G HARKER

ROBERT FAWKES

ALEXANDER DENHOLME

NELSON C JOHNSTONE

DAVID GRAHAM

EDWARD MASON