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The war memorial consists of a clock and two plaques on the wall of the Primary School, Pilsley 1914 – 1918

THIS CLOCK WAS ERECTED IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF THE MEN OF THIS VILLAGE WHO FOUGHT IN THE GREAT WAR AND IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES

@ALLAN BOWERING

@HARRY BRUMBY

@JOHN FEARNLEY

@GEORGE EDWARD SIDDALL M.M.

“HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE WHO SINK TO REST BY ALL THEIR COUNTRY'S WISHES BLEST”

1939 – 1945

THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THIS VILLAGE WHO SERVED DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES.

@GORDON BOWERING.

SYDNEY LORD.

@WILLIAM STONE.

@CYRIL THOMAS NEAVE.

GEORGE ALLEN HOWARD.

“THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE.”

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Sources used: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Soldiers Died in the Great War CD-Rom Soldiers Died in the Second World War 1939-1945 CD Rom - Naval & Military Press <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Commonwealth War Graves Commission <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Ancestry <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">British Newspaper Archive The First World War Campaign Medals DVD-Rom – Naval & Military Press

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