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Addingham, Town Memorial
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The Town War Memorial, Addingham The Town War Memorial, Addingham
(Photo : Stan Grosvenor (<csstan@mametz.fsnet.co.uk>)

Stan Grosvenor (<csstan@mametz.fsnet.co.uk>) has photographed the Town War Memorial in Addingham (near Ilkley).
The Addingham Town Memorial is on the back of the bowls pavilion opposite the Fleece Hotel in the centre of town. There are two panels on the building, with the upper panel commemorating those who fell in the First World War and the lower panel for those who fell in the Second World War.

The names on the Memorial, for the Great War are;-

Thomas Ashton
Charles J Atkinson
George Bailey
Norman Beck
Frederick W Bell
Norman F Bell
Wilfred Blackburn
John H Brown
Philip Brown
Charles P Clarke
John Clarke
William Dixon
James Dove
Matthias Dove
Charles Ellis
James W Ellis
Ambrose Emmott
Walter Emmott
Fred Fisher
Arthur Foster
Tom Foster
William Gale
John W Goulding
Sidnye Hadley
Thomas Hodgson
Dennis Holgate
Norman Holmes
Wilfred Holmes
Wilfred Holmes
Charles Hood
Willie Horsman
Percy Hustwick
E J Cecil Kidd
Harry Leach
Jack Lister
John Lister
James Lister
(George) Nicholas Maudsley

Lawrence McRink
Patrick McShee
Carl S Moulding
William Ogden
Hedley Richardson
Arthur Ryder
Fred Ryder
Edward Sutcliffe
Frank Spencer
Ralph Smith
Reuben Smith
William Smith
Alfred Tiffany
Harry Town
James Townson
Robert W Townson
William Topham
John Waggitt
William Waggitt
James Whitaker
John Whitaker
William Whitaker
Charles Whiteoak
William Wild
Tom Wood
Harold Wright
A Dewhurst

(*) The above names are the same as on the Memorial Tablet in St. Peter's Church, Addingham, with the exception that "John R P Cunliffe" is not listed. Curiously, there is no J R P Cunliffe in either SDGW or the CGWC register.


Private James Lister, 7637. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of James and Emma Louisa Lister, of Addingham, Yorks.; husband of Mary Susannah Lister, of 32, Dale St., Hargreaves Square, Shipley, Yorks. Killed 2 April 1917. Aged 29.
Commemorated Bay 5, Arras Memorial.
Born Addingham (Skipton, Yorks), Enlisted Richmond (Yorks), Resided Shipley.

Private (George) Nicholas Maudsley, 7651. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 2 November 1914.
Commemorated Panel 33, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
Born Addingham (Leeds), Enlisted Keighley, Resided Addingham.


The Names on the Town War Memorial, Addingham The Names on the Town War Memorial, Addingham
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(Photo : Stan Grosvenor (<csstan@mametz.fsnet.co.uk>)

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