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The War Memorial for Macclesfield
Photo :MIke Berrell (<mike_berrell@ntlworld.com>)
The Macclesfield War Memorial is in Park Green, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. It was unveiled in 1921, and consists of a stone pillar and pedestal and three bronze statues. One statue is that of a mourning female, and the others comprise Britannia laying a wreath over a soldier who had died from gassing (see photo below), an unusual subject for a war memorial at the time.
The main structure is flanked with four pillars on which the names of men who fell in the First World War are commemorated. Those who fell in the Second World War are named on a screen wall behind the memorial. The names of those who fell in the First World War (668) have been transcribed and can be found on the Carl's Cam website.
The website Cheshire Roll of Honour provides a great deal of biographical information on the soldiers named on the memorial. We are extremely grateful to Rosie Rowley (<macchistorian@gmail.com>) for drawing our attention to this. LInks to the individual biographies of Yorkshire Regiment soldiers, as shown on the Cheshire Roll of Honour website are provided below.
We are extremely grateful to MIke Berrell (<mike_berrell@ntlworld.com>) for providing the photographs of this memorial.
Four soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment are commemorated on the memorial..
Lance Corporal Walter Cox, 41740. 6th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Formerly 161220 R F A. Killed 9 October 1917.
Born Macclesfield (Cheshire), Enlisted Blackburn.
Commemorated on Panel 52 to 54 and 162A, TYNE COT MEMORIAL.
(Cheshire
Roll of Honour biographical data.)
Private Arthur Mottram. 46347. 12th Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment, formerly 168052 R E. Son of George and Mary Mottram, of Macclesfield;
husband of Violet Mottram, of 15, Cottage St., Macclesfield, Cheshire. Pupil
Teacher at Macclesfield School of Art. Killed 28 January 1918. Aged 26.
Born Christchurch (Ches), Enlisted Macclesfield.
Buried MORY ABBEY MILITARY CEMETERY, MORY.
(Cheshire
Roll of Honour biographical data.)
Arthur Mottram is also commemorated on a plaque in Christ
Church, Macclesfield.
Private George Sharpley. 202540. 10th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of Mrs. Sarah Ellen Sharpley, of 4, Cotton St., Macclesfield.
Killed 4 October 1917. Aged 18.
Born Macclesfield, Enlisted Macclesfield.
Commemorated on Panel 52 to 54 and 162A, TYNE COT MEMORIAL.
(Shown on the memorial as "C Sharpley")
(Cheshire
Roll of Honour biographical data.)
Corporal James Slack. 33446. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment, formerly 25183 Staffs Regt. Son of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Slack, of
7, Higginbotham St., Macclesfield. Cheshire. Killed 25 August 1917. Aged 24.
Born Bosley (Ches), Enlisted Tunstall.
Buried TORREKEN FARM CEMETERY No.1.
(Cheshire
Roll of Honour biographical data.)
The War Memorial for Macclesfield
Photo : MIke Berrell (<mike_berrell@ntlworld.com>)
Private Mottram's Name on the Macclesfield War Memorial
Photo : MIke Berrell (<mike_berrell@ntlworld.com>)
Private Sharpley's and Corporal Slack's Names on the Macclesfield War Memorial
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L/Col Cox's Name on the Macclesfield War Memorial
Photo : MIke Berrell (<mike_berrell@ntlworld.com>)
The Plaque Commemorating Arthur Mottram in Christ Church, Macclesfield. (Christ Church is a redundant Anglican church in Great King Street, Macclesfield).
Photo : Rosie Rowley (<macchistorian@gmail.com>)
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