Vigil Service…Remembering 10th August 2014

Researchers: Janet Chard, Pam Byrne, Lily Hopkinson

A Vigil Service is a dedicated worship of readings and prayers. This special service honors the men of the parish who lost their lives in the Great War 1914-1918 and remembers their families who awaited their return, highlighting the ultimate sacrifice they made. The quoted scripture emphasises love through sacrifice. Gratitude is also expressed for the researchers who helped reveal those memorialised.

During the service the names of the soldiers (provided by the researchers) to be remembered was read out.

  • George Randolph Allott (29)
  • Ben Buckley Allsop (23)
  • Ralph Ardern (19)
  • Raymond Ashton (22)
  • Philip Walter Jowett Bagnall (19)
  • James Bradbury
  • Thomas Piers Bradbury (23)
  • Frank Bax (25)
  • Gordon Bax (27)
  • John Howarth (19)
  • James Kenworthy (22)
  • George King (26)
  • John Henry King (21)
  • Thomas Lees (33)
  • Elliott Horsfall Longley (35)
  • Leonard Wild (31)
  • Ernest Mellor (20)
  • Arthur William Newby (18)
  • William Victor Hall (33)
  • Ernest Nigel Harvey (20)
  • Horace Heap (18)
  • Tom Bradbury Heywood (20)
  • Harry Hill (34)
  • Colin Hollingworth (22)
  • Amos Whitehead (25)
  • John Hall (19)
  • Wilfred Ward Buckley (24)
  • George Burke (28)
  • Thomas John Wade (26)
  • James Walsh (26)
  • Thomas Cartwright (21)
  • James W Clarke (19)
  • James Herbert Dearnley (31)
  • George William Dowden (37)
  • Albert Dransfield (21)
  • Charles Escott (24)
  • Richard Escott (22)
  • William Henry Escott (25)
  • William Norman Farrand (23)
  • Walter Raymond Ferns (32)
  • Frank Gartside (28)
  • Clifford Greenwood (23)
  • Joseph Gartside Haigh (31)
  • Wilfred Noble (21)
  • Harry Mottram (23)
  • Wilfred Washington (24)
  • Samuel Pilling (22)
  • Stanley Taylor (21)
  • John Frederick Broadbent (28)
  • Stanley Hadfield Broadbent (39)
  • John Buckley
  • Stephen Rupert Buckley (36)
  • Walter Buckley (31)
  • James Booth Bradbury (19)
  • Peter Peters (41)
  • Vincent Pontefract (24)
  • Handel Radcliffe (26)
  • James Radcliffe (26)
  • James Henry Rhodes (22)
  • Albert Roberts (29)
  • Clifford Slater (24)
  • Ephraim Swift (29)
  • John Edward Tetlow (21)
  • James Hollingworth Toolis (22)
  • Leonard Thornton (37)
  • James Titterington (28)
  • Henry Byram (22)
  • Thomas Richard Byram
  • William Harris (35)
  • Frank Watts (26)
  • Percy Matley (36)
  • Wendon Ray Wilde (24)
  • Robert Winterbottom (20)
  • Frank Wood (28)
  • Arthur Carl Wrigley (21)
  • Thomas Wroe (27)

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