White+Knowle

The memorial is located in the White Knowle Methodist Chapelyard, on Hayfield Road, just outside the village of Chinley TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN SINCERE REMEMBRANCE OF THE BOYS OF WHITE KNOWLE CHAPEL WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN “THE GREAT WAR”. THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM

ALSO IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF THE EFFORTS OF ALL THE OTHERS WHO SERVED AND WHOSE LIVES WERE MERCIFULLY SPARED

THEIR NAME SHALL REMAIN FOR EVER AND THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE FORGOTTEN

1914 – 1919

@JAMES E. HAMER @WILLIAM H. HAMER

@GEORGE BARNES @MARK KIRKHAM

IN MEMORY OF THE BOYS CONNECTED WITH CHINLEY WESLEYAN CHAPEL AND SCHOOL

SAMUEL BAINBRIDGE @THOMAS BLEACKLEY @WALTER LEESON @JOHN H. SHARPE @JAMES WEBSTER @JOHN WATERHOUSE

Sources used: Soldiers Died in the Great War CD-Rom Sailors Died in the Great War DVD-ROM The First World War Campaign Medals DVD-Rom – Naval & Military Press Commonwealth War Graves Commission Ancestry

All photographs, unless otherwise stated, copyright of Chris Preston