Allerton Bywater War Memorial – Construction

Junction of Station Road and Main Street

The monument was Erected in 1920 in memory of the men who fell in the 1914-18 war.

It is a Hexagonal column of Portland Stone is 22 feet high crowned with a Maltese Cross, and is set upon a plinth

Bronze angels mounted on faces either side of the main inscription, one holding a sword and the other a wreath.

The other sides have name panels of local men who died in WW1

Allerton Bywater collieries panel is separate and laid at an angle at the base

Dedicated to men who worked at the colliery but lived outside the village

It cost £1000 to build and the money was raised by public subscription

PEACE CELEBRATION and  WAR MEMORIAL COMMITTEE
1918  –  1920

S. Dunwell, P. Blight, Jas. Robinson, J.B. Hudson, W. Ward, F.Linley, Hbt. Rhodes, J.W. Simpson, E. Williams, E. Brooks,

Hy. Crossland, Jr., Joe Cowell, F. Phillips, T. Webster, Geo. Phillips, J. Elsworth, M.P. Haigh, Hy. Hague, T. Wainwright, J.T. Willis, F. Fenton,

T. Wood, A. Jackson, G. Willis, Hy. Crossland, Senr., The Vicar, The Lord Bishop of Knaresborough, Walter Robinson, I. F. Roslyn, R.B.S., W. Dooley, P.R. Naylor, W. Smith, E. Andrews,

Jas. Bowers, Wm. Robinson, A. Muscroft.                                                                                     G. Linley, Hy. Jackson, R. Farrell.

They also presented a small medal

These Gold Medallions were probably, only given out to

Military Medal Winners from Allerton Bywater

 

They were approx.. 25mm. ( 1 inch ) in diameter and made of 9 CARAT GOLD

FOLLOWING W.W.2. 

A FURTHER PLAQUE WAS ADDED in memory of the men who fell in the 1939 – 1945 CONFLICT

Later work was carried out around the plinth adding a small elevated flower bed, surrounded by a low stone wall.