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The War Memorial for Rothwell (West Yorks)
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Kirby and licensed for reuse under this Creative
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The War Memorial for Rothwell is situated at the junction between Gillett Lane and Oulton Lane. The memorial is a grade II listed structure first unveiled in November 1923. A life-sized granite statue of an infantryman surmounts the memorial, and the inscriptions read"HONOUR THE FALLEN" at the top and on the pedestal"THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918". The names of 100 men who lost their lives in the First World War are recorded on all four sides. A further inscription on the base reads "1939-1945" and commemorates 39 names.
A transcript of all the names on the memorial, with brief details of each
name, can be found on the Wakefield
Family History Sharing website. Another transcript, but without any details,
is on the Roll
of Honour website.
Three soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment are commemorated on
this memorial.
(There is also one resident of Rothwell, Private Arthur Field, whose
name does not appear on the memorial.)
Corporal John Herbert Judson. 20707. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of John and Eliza Judson, of 52, Wood Lane, Rothwell, Leeds.
Killed 3 July 1916. Aged 31.
Born Rothwell (Yorks), Enlisted Leeds, Resided Rothwell.
Buried LA NEUVILLE BRITISH CEMETERY, CORBIE.
Serjeant Walter Lancaster. 8251. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 22 March 1918.
Born Sturton (Leeds), Enlisted Leeds.
Commemorated on Panel 31 and 32, POZIERES MEMORIAL.
Private Harry Routledge. 12282. 13th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 23 November 1917.
Born Belfast, Enlisted Leeds, Resided Rothwell (Leeds).
Commemorated on Panel 5, CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL.
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