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The War Memorial in Lofthouse
Stone horse water trough with single tap (now filled with flowers) with a triangular topstone engraved: ARMISTICE SIGNED NOV 11 1918 PEACE DECLARED JUNE 28 1919 WAR COMMENCED AUGUST 4 1914 A water fountain which was converted in 1920 into a memorial with a Cross and tablet. It retains its tap and trough and is inscribed: ERECTED IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO MADE THE GREAT SACRIFICE IN THE WAR 1914 – 1918 JR A PINT OF COLD WATER THREE TIMES A DAY IS THE SUREST WAY TO KEEP DOCTOR AWAY WHO SO THISTETH LET HIM COME HITHER AND DRINK The third panel is inscribed: IF YOU WANT TO BE HEALTHY WEALTHY AND STOUT USE 1 ? OF COLD WATER INSIDE AND ? LET ? ? ? ? Then there is the Lofthouse Memorial Institute. Inside there are several Plaques Lofthouse WW1 Roll of Honour ROLL OF HONOUR LEST WE FORGET LIST OF THE FALLEN ROBERT BELL JOSEPH METCALFE WHITEHEAD BUSFIELD JAMES B PARKINSON JOHN KERR EGLIN THOMAS TELFER WILLIAM H DOLPHIN GEORGE T VERITY LIST OF THOSE RETURNED ALBERT ASHBY CYRIL S HALL JOSEPH G STONES JOHN W ASHBY WILLIAM HORNE LEVI J VERITY RICHARD H BRADLEY RAYNOR KIRKLEY JOSEPH H VERITY THOMAS R BROWN ROBERT KIRKLEY ELIAS WOODRUP EDMUND CALVERT THOMAS KIRKLEY ALFRED WIGGLESWORTH ERNEST CALVERT RICHARD LEE GEORGE WHITFIELD Snr WALTER CARLING JOHN W METCALFE GEORGE WHITFIELD Jnr CARLING EGLIN ALBERT MOATT THOMAS WELLOCK THOMAS EGLIN WILLIAM NELSON WILLIAM WILLIAMS ROBERT GRAHAM WILLIAM PARKINSON WALTER WILLIAMS JOHN W HARKER, JOHN RABBITT MATTHEW WARDMAN GEORGE HARKER HORNER RAWSON GEORGE METCALFE They die not who live in the memory of those that love them. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them An individual marble plaque SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF LANCE CORPL THOMAS TELFER 51ST DIVISION SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION MARCH 23RD 1918, AGED 24 YEARS HE GAVE HIS ALL FOR US A plaque for WW2 THIS TABLET COMMEMEMORATES Corporal ERNEST CALVERT Corps of Royal Engineers Guardsman JOHN DOLPHIN Grenadier Guards Who served King and Country in World War 1939-45 and gave their lives to save mankind from tyranny. May their sacrifice help to bring the Peace and freedom for which they died. Their presence we miss Their memory we treasure Those who Fell in WW1 BELL, Robert Gunner, 62nd Divisional Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery. Army no 796072 He died at home on Thursday 20 May 1920. He was 31. Army records tell us that he enlisted on 31 May 1915 and he was discharged on the grounds of sickness on 5 February 1919. He was awarded the Silver War Badge, serial number 488065. He was the son of William and Jane Bell, Lofthouse. He is buried in the churchyard of St. Chad’s, Middlesmoor BUSFIELD, Whitehead Private, 16th (Service) Battalion (1st Bradford), The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), 93 Brigade, 31st Division. Army no 32002. He was killed in action on Monday 13 November 1916 in the Battle of the Ancre. He was 23. He was the son of Martha and the late William Busfield, Low Farsipe, (is it Farside?) Greenhow Hill, Pateley Bridge He is buried in Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps DOLPHIN, William Horner Private, 9th (Service) Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), 32 Brigade, 11th Division. Army no 34459. He was killed in action on Tuesday 28 August 1917 in the fighting near St Julien. He was 38. He was the son of the late Matthew and Esther Dolphin and the brother of George Dolphin, 52 Bradford Road, Oakenshaw, Bradford. He is remembered on The Tyne Cot Memorial. EGLIN, John Kerr Lance Corporal, 2nd Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), 21 Indian Brigade, 7th Indian Division. Army no S/17483. He was killed in action on Wednesday 14 March 1917. He was 33. He was the only son of William and Agnes M Eglin, Wooddale, Scar Village, Harrogate. He is remembered on The Basra Memorial. METCALFE, Joseph Gunner, 49th Division, Royal Field Artillery, Brigade, Division. Army no 148903. He died on active service on Tuesday 27 February 1917. He was 27. He was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Metcalfe, Lofthouse, Pateley Bridge. He is buried in St. Pol Communal Cemetery Extension. PARKINSON, James Brookes Rifleman, 8th Battalion (Leeds Rifles) TF, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), 185 Brigade, 62nd Division. Army no 29052. He was killed in action on Sunday 1 September 1918 in the fighting around Arras. He was 23. He was the son of James and Annie Parkinson, Lofthouse. He is buried in Vaulx Hill Cemetery. TELFER, Thomas Lance Corporal, 6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s). Army no 267484. He died from his wounds on Saturday 23 March 1918. He was 24. He was the son of Thomas and Elliott Telfer, Angram, Pateley Bridge. He is buried in Grevillers British Cemetery and his headstone is inscribed Safely in His Care & Keeping. VERITY, George Thomas Private, (Reserve) 10th Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment). Army no 37358. He died from his wounds on Wednesday 18 April 1917. He was 29. He was the son of William and Mary Verity, Stean, Middlesmoor. He is buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery and his headstone is inscribed Beloved Son of William & Mary Verity, Stean, Stone Beck Down. Those who Fell in WW2 CALVERT, Ernest Corporal, 116 Road Construction Company, Royal Engineers. Army no 2189402. He died on active service on Monday 17 June 1940. He was 42. He was the son of George and Barbara Calvert; husband of Beatrice Maud Calvert, Lofthouse. He is buried in La Bernerie en Retz Communal Cemetery and his headstone is inscribed In My Lonely Hours of Thinking Thoughts of You are Ever Near. Additional information About 4,000 men, women and children lost their lives when the ss Lancastria sank 20 minutes after it was bombed by German aircraft near the French port of Saint Nazaire on 17 June 1940. Fewer than 2,500 people survived. This was the largest loss of life from a single engagement for British forces in WW2 and the largest loss of life in British maritime history. This was in the aftermath of Dunkirk when many refugees and service personnel were escaping from the invading German Army. DOLPHIN, John Guardsman 5th Battalion, Grenadier Guards Army no 2617911 He was killed on active service on Tuesday 25 January 1944. The Allies had landed at Anzio, behind the German Lines a few days earlier. He was 23. He was the son of Tom and Elizabeth A Dolphin, Glasshouses. He is buried in Anzio War Cemetery and his headstone is inscribed Thy Will Be Done. |
