Belper+Baptist+Church

**First World War Memorial**
 * Belper Baptist Church War Memorial** **Belper Baptist Church, Bridge Street, Belper**



INSCRIPTION: TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS CHURCH CONGREGATION AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WHO HEARING AND RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR FRIENDS THIS PULPIT HAS BEEN ERECTED 1914 – 1918 BLACKHAM WILLIAM DRING JOHN WILLIAM FOX ARTHUR NIGHTINGALE GEORGE PAXTON ERNEST ROLLINSON GEORGE WM. SIMPSON JOHN WILLIAM SPENCER WILLIAM HENRY SWINSCOE JAMES TOPHAM WILFRED WATSON HAROLD WATSON WILFRED WARDLE CYRIL USHERWOOD Sources used: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website (www.cwgc.org.uk) Illustrated History of Belper and its Environs, by Jean Giles, George Power and Michael Smith Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919 CD ROM - Naval & Military Press The First World War Campaign Medals DVD-ROM – Naval & Military Press Ancestry British Newspaper Archive All photographs copyright of Chris Preston, unless otherwise stated