War Memorials Elsewhere, - Liverpool, - St. Athanasius Church

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St. Athanasius Church, Liverpool
Photo : Google Earth

St. Athanasius Church, Liverpool, is located on Fountains Road at the corner of Fonthill Road.

The original church building was destroyed by enemy action in the Second World War and was replaced by the current building which opened in 1956.

The War Memorial inside the church consisted of a Sceen and two tablets. The screen was destroyed in the war. The two tablets have since been lost, but the inscriptions on the tablets is as below.

A total of 204 names (First and Second World War) were on the tablets, 1 soldier of whom served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
A transcription of the names on the memorial is provided on the Imperial War Museum's Register of War Memorials website.

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Private Edward Fitzhenry, 41851. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Formerly 160320 RFA. Killed 5 October 1917.
Born Liverpool, Enlisted Liverpool, Resided Kirkdale.
Buried BUTTES NEW BRITISH CEMETERY.

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The inscription of the Screen;-

ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL
MEMORY OF THE BRAVE MEN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS CHURCH
AND PARISH WHOSE NAMES ARE RECORDED, AND WHO DIED
FOR HONOUR AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919
THESE MEN DIED, LEAVING THEIR DEATHS FOR AN EXAMPLE OF
A NOBLE COURAGE, AND A MEMORIAL TO VIRTUE, NOT ONLY
UNTO YOUNG MEN, BUT UNTO THEIR NATION II MACC.VI.,31.

The inscription on a tablet in the present church foyer;-

THE PARISH CHURCH OF
ST ATHANASIUS KIRKDALE
BUILT 1880 WAS DESTROYED
BY ENEMY ACTION MAY 1941
THIS FOUNDATION STONE OF
THE NEW CHURCH BUILT
ON THE SAME SITE WAS
LAID BY CHARLES ROBERTS
LORD BISHOP OF WARRINGTON
ON THE 29TH SEPTEMBER 1956

and on a tablet inside the present church;-

PRAISE GOD FOR
OUR BELOVED DEAD
VICTIMS OF WAR
1914-1918 *1939-1945
GREATER LOVE HATH NO
MAN THAN THIS THAT A
MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE
FOR HIS FRIENDS

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