The Yorkshire Regiment, Local War Memorials

War Memorials Elsewhere, -
Dudley (Worcs),
Clock Tower

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The War Memorial Clock Tower, Dudley (Worcs)
Photo © Copyright Graham Beckley of the War Memorials On Line website.

The memorial is to be found in Priory Road, Dudley and is in the form of a clock tower forming part of the civic complex. Above the window on the main facade is a partly gilded relief of St. George and the dragon with four bronze lion heads supporting flagpoles to each side of the main entrance and a balcony above the entrance carries a specially composed inscription by Thomas Hardy. The names of the fallen are inscribed on walls of a vaulted chamber at the base of tower. A stone vault springs from corbels in the four corners carved in the form of rose, thistle, shamrock and daffodil.

719 names are commmemorated as having lost their lives in the First World War. The Roll of Honour website lists all of the names.

1 soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on the memorial.

Private Joseph Read. 35570. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 3780 Berks Yeomanry. Son of Joseph and Hannah Read, of I, Oak St., Darby End, Netherton, Dudley. Killed 27 May 1918. Aged 19.
Born Dudley (Worcester), Enlisted Worcester, Resided Netherton.
Buried VENDRESSE BRITISH CEMETERY.

WW1 Commemorations "M - "W" in the War Memorial Clock Tower, Dudley (Worcs)
Photo © Copyright Patricia Hughesof the War Memorials On Line website.

WW1 Dedication and Commemorations "A - "L in the War Memorial Clock Tower, Dudley (Worcs)
Photo © Copyright Patricia Hughesof the War Memorials On Line website.

Dedication Outside the War Memorial Clock Tower, Dudley (Worcs)
Photo © Copyright Patricia Hughesof the War Memorials On Line website.

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