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FRIENDS OF BOGGART HOLE CLOUGH

Protecting our natural heritage

Friends of Boggart Hole Clough (FoBHC), before 2015 named Boggart Hole Clough Community Action Trust (BHCCAT), was founded in 2000.

Angel Hill War Memorial a symbol of yearning for an end to wars, for world peace.

98 years ago today, 11th November 1918, the Armistice of Compiegne was signed stopping hostilities on the Western Front, thus ending the

1st World War, fighting on the Eastern Front having been halted by the Russian Revolution at the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 3rd March 1918.

The memorial is located in the north west of the Clough near Charlestown Road. A bronze sculpture stands on an 18-

foot high pillar of sandstone blocks. Although the sculpture officially depicts Winged Victory with olive branch in

raised left hand & laurel wreath in right hand, the sculpture is known locally, & surely more appropriately, as the

Angel on the Hill. Three sides of the pillar each have a bronze plaque inscribed with the names of local people killed

in the 2 world wars, 320 names in total – please see pages 3 to 5 below. Inscribed into the pillar is the following:

TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE MEN OF BLACKLEY

WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919

ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF BLACKLEY

UNVEILED MAY 28TH 1921

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND GREAT WAR 1939 - 1945

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

Assimilating the lessons of history - stopping capitalism’s drive towards a nuclear 3rd World War.

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Imperial War Museum (IWM) website - iwm.org.uk – 20.10.2016: “.. information held by IWM’s War Memorials Register for

this memorial .. Louis Frederick Roslyn, sculptor .. Winged Victory surmounting a tall pedestal. The whole stands on a broad

stone base with pillars at the four corners on which are placed four smaller figures holding emblems of the Army, Navy, Air

Force and Nursing Services. These figures are now missing .. The four small figures were lost, reason unknown .. First World

War .. Total names on memorial .. Died: 204 .. Second World War .. Total names on memorial .. Died: 0 ..”

The four small figures mentioned above as now missing seem to have been missing for several decades. The IWM’s number of

Total names on memorial quoted above are incorrect - 320 people are listed, see pages 3 to 5 below.

Two bronze plaques were stolen in 2010, subsequently remade & replaced – see Minutes 5.10.2010 AGM & Executive Committee Open

Meeting, BHCCAT, 27.6.2012, which can be seen on our website.

Photos - page 1: PFM, 25.10.2016; page 2: PFM, 1.10.2016; page 3: PFM, 3.2.2007; page 4: Paul McCrystal, 27.7.2013; page 5: Paul McCrystal, 15.10.2016.

The photo above shows the 1st World War dates inscribed on the memorial are 1914 – 1919 rather than the usual 1918. This

anomaly perhaps deliberate to include those dying of wounds soon after the war ended. The cut-off date could no doubt

have been extended indefinitely onwards from 1919, many war veterans suffering life-long trauma, dying prematurely.

Keir Hardie (1856 - 1915), first socialist Member of Parliament (elected 1892, West Ham South constituency in London’s

East End) & first leader of the Labour Party (founded 1900), spoke at mass meetings in the Clough.

Boggart Hole Clough & the 1896 Campaign for Free Speech, FoBHC, 24.8.2016 - document on our website, about Keir

Hardie among others.

“A pacifist, Hardie was appalled by the First World War & along with socialists in other countries he tried to organize an

international general strike to stop the war ..” – Wikipedia, 23.10.2016.

The war to end all wars, 1st World War catchphrase. Simple FoBHC graphic on this theme -

See also accompanying document on our website: Angel Hill War Memorial anti-war flyer / poster, FoBHC, 11.11.2016.


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Plaque 1 – left column:

Pte. Clifford A. Andrews

L/Cpl. Frederick Andrews

Capt. Norman B. Antrobus

Pte. Joseph A. Appleton

Cr. Wilfred Ashbrook

Pte. Alfred Ashton

Pte. Charles H. Ashton

Pte. Stanley Ashton

Pte. Leonard Ashton

Pte. Alfred Baccaley

Pte. John W. Baccaley

Pte. Alfred J. Balding

Pte. Frank Ball

Cpl. William Bamford

Pte. Frank Barber

Pte. William R. Barker

Pte. Frank Barnes

L/Cpl. Harry R. Barnes

Cpl. George W. Bartlett

Pte. Joseph Bates

Pte. William Beadon

Sig. Arthur Beetson

Cr. Stanley E. Berry

L/Cpl. Arthur Bertenshaw

Pte. Samuel Bird

Pte. Walter Birds

Pte. Jabez Blore

Pte. Joseph Boote

Sgt. John Booth

Pte. Thomas Booth

Pte. Leonard Bowker

Pte. Norman Brentnall

Pte. Harry Brierley

Pte. Robert C. Briggs

Lieut. Oswald C. Brittorous

Pte. James L. Brown

Sgt. Sam Brown

Spr. John Buckley

Gr. Charles H. Budge

Pte. Arthur Buerdsell

L/Cpl. John Burgess

Pte. Frank Butterworth

Pte. William Butterworth

Cpl. Clarence P. Calvert

Pte. Harry Cawley

L/Cpl. Albert Chadwick

Pte. Edwin Chadwick

Pte. Walter Chadwick

Pte. Fred T. Chapman

Sgt. Edward V. Chatters

Pte. Robert J. Chatters

Pte. Frank Clague

Sgt. Henry Clark

Pte. James Clark

54 names.

Plaque 1 – right column:

Cr. Charles A. Clarke

Pte. William Cleworth

Pte. John Coffey

Pte. Arthur Collings

Pte. Fred Consterdine

Pte. Fred W. Consterdine

L/Cpl. Lawrence H. Cooke

Pte. Richard H. Cooper

Pte. Robertson Cordiner

Pte. Thomas Cosgrove

Pte. Francis Coulthurst

Pte. Homer Coutts

Pte. Thomas Cowan

Pte. John Cox

Pte. Philip Crewe

Pte. James Crosby

Sig. William Crowe

Pte. John Crowther

Pte. George Crozer

Cpl. Victor Darke

Pte. Albert Davies

Cr. George Davies

Pte. Edgar Dawson

Pte. James Dawson

Pte. John Dawson

Pte. Frank Dearden

Pte. John Dearden

Pte. Ernest Dennerley

Pte. Alfred Derbyshire

Pte. James Derbyshire

Pte. Joseph Dennis

Pte. Wilfred H. Dickinson

Pte. Thomas Dimelow

L/Cpl. George H. Dobs

Pte. Noel Dodds

Pte. William Dolan

Pte. George Duffett

Pte. Hugh Dunion

Spr. John E. Earnshaw

Pte. William Earnshaw

Pte. Gilbert Eatough

Pte. Joseph Entwhistle

Drvr. Arthur Evans

Pte. Harry Evans

Pte. Harry Evans

Pte. Arthur Evanson

Pte. John H. Fagan

Cr. William H. Fairbairn

Pte. Joseph Falkner

Pte. Herbert Fallowfield

L/Cpl. William E. Fallows

Pte. Thomas Farnworth

Pte. Frederick Faulkner

Pte. Joseph Faulkner

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Pte. James W. Ferrier

Pte. John W. Fielding

Pte. Joseph R. Finn

Pte. James Fisher

Pte. George A. Fletcher

Lieut. Joseph M. Flynn

Pnr. William J. Flynn

Pte. Alfred Ford

Pte. Joseph W. Forgham

Pte. Alfred E. Forshaw

Sig. George B. Foulkes

Pte. George E. Gage

Pte. James Gallacher

A.B. James C. Genovese

Pte. George H. Gorton

Pte. Robert Greenwood

Pte. Charles R. Grimes

Pte. Frank Grocott

Pte. Fred Grundy

Pte. Albert Hall

Pte. Joseph E. Hall

Pte. William Hall

Pte. James M. Hargreaves

Pte. George Harris

Pte. John R. Harris

A.B. Thomas Harris

Pte. Henry Harrison

Pte. John H. Harrison

Pte. Alfred W. Hart

L/Cpl. John W. Hartley

ColSgt. Robert Hartley

Pte. Rowland Herrick

L/Cpl. Robert K. Higginbottom

Spr. Samuel P. Higham

Pte. George A. Hill

Pte. Ernest Hilton

Pte. George Hodgkinson

Pte. Albert Hope

Drvr. Joseph Hopkins

Pte. George Horrocks

Pte. Thomas Horrocks

Pte. Harry Hough

Pte. Alfred Howard

Pte. Ernest Howard

Pte. Frank Howard

Pte. Joseph Howard

Pte. Alec Hughes

Pte. Herbert R. Hughes

Pte. Richard Hughes

Lieut. Henry J. Ibberson

Pte. James Ingham

Pte. John Ingham

Pte. Herbert Incoe

L/Cpl. Edward Irving

54 names.


Pte. George Irving

Pte. Albert Jackson

L/Cpl. Frederick Jackson

Cpl. Harry Jackson

Sgt. William Jackson

Pte. Harvey Jepson

Pte. Fred Johnson

Pte. Alexandria Johnstone

Cr. Henry Johnstone

Rfn. Arthur E. Jones

Pte. Robert Jones

Pte. George W. Kay

L/Cpl. Vernon Kay

L/Cpl. Cecil H. Kelly

Pte. Sydney H. Kelly

Pte. Roland T. Kent

Drvr. Lewis Kirk

Pte. Thomas Kirkland

Pte. John Kitto

Pte. George H. Knight

Q.M.S. Thomas Lamb

Pte. W. McMillan Lambert

Pte. Albert Lancashire

L/Cpl. Charlie Lancashire

Pte. Louis Ledger

Pte. William Leverington

Pte. James E. Lewis

Pte. Job Lewis

Sgt. Ernest Lindley

Pte. Harold Litchfield

Pte. Frank Lockwood

Gr. James H. Longworth

Pte. Harold Lovatt

Sgt. George A. Low

Pte. James P. Low

Pte. Alexander Lynch

Pte. Edward Machin

L/Sgt. James E. Machin

Pte. Albert Mather

Pte. William E. Mather

Pte. Albert Mawson

Pte. Clarence May

Pte. Harry R. McCormack

L/Sgt. James McCormack

Pte. Joseph McCreey

Pte. William McCreey

Pte. John McGhie

Cpl. Norman McHardy

Pte. Alfred M. Middleton

Pte. James Miller

Pte. Charles Millward

Pte. Andrew Mitchell

L/Cpl. George A. Morris

Pte. Frank B. Morris

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Pte. John W. Morriss

L/Cpl. William R. Mokon

Pte. Samuel Needham

Sgt. Henry Nichols

Pte. Alfred Oliver

Drvr. Arthur E. Oliver

Pte. Patrick O’Neill

Pte. Harry Ormson

Rtn. Arthur Owen

Pte. Charles R. Owen

Pte. Harry F. Parker

Cr. Thomas Parker

L/Cl. Leonard Parkin

Pte. James Parsons

Sgt. Harry Paterson

Pte. Samuel Patterson

Cr. Richard W. Paul

Pte. Thomas Peacock

Pte. Frederick W. Pearson

Pte. Abel Pennington

Pte. Lawrence Pickup

Pte. William Pollard

Pte. Victor L. Pomfret

Pte. Plato Postlethwaite

Pte. Albert E. Ramsbottom

Pte. John Raw

Q.M.S. William Reed

Pte. Harry Reynolds

Pte. Alfred Richardson

E.R.A., R.N., J. Willie Rigby

Sgt. William Robinson

Pte. James S. Roscoe

Pte. John Rostern

Pte. William Rowlands

Pte. Ernest Royle

Pte. Josiah Russell

L/Cpl. Thomas Russell

Bdr. James Ryan

Pte. Joseph Salt

Pte. Arthur Seddon

Pte. Charles Seymour

Pte. Henry Sharples

Pte. Fred Sharrocks

Pte. Loius J. Shorrocks

L/Cpl. T. Currie Siddell

Rfn. William E. Skeer

Cpl. Harold F. Sethurst

Pte. Herbert Smethurst

Pte. Arthur Smith

Pte. Frank Smith

Pte. James Smith

51names.


Pte. Stanley Smith

Pte. Sydney J. Smith

Pte. Charles Soldarini

Pte. Harry Spraoo

L/Cpl. Ames Stafford

Pte. Albert R. Sunderland

Pte. Herbert Tay

Pte. Alfred Taylor

Pte. Herbert Taylor

Spr. John J. Taylor

Pte. Joseph Taylor

Cr. Vernon Taylor

Pte. William Taylor

Pte. Fred Tetlow

Pte. James Thorp

Pte. Charles E. Thurgood

L/Cpl. John E. Tiernan

Pte. Cyril Trueman

Pte. Harry Turner

Pte. James Tyson

Sgt. Maj. Joseph T. Vernon

Pte. Douglas Walker

Pte. George F. Wall

Pte. Frank Wallwork

Pte. Fred Warburton

Stf.Sgt.Maj. Wilfrid Ward

M.S.M. Mention

Lieut. Alfred Warrell

Pte. James H. Welch

Pte. Charles E. Weston

Capt. Henry M. Weyman

Lieut. Perry Weyman

Pte. James Whalen

L/Cpl. James Whalley

Pte. Leonard Wharfe

Pte. Robert Whitehead

Pte. John M. Whitehill

Pte. Herbert Whitehurst

Pte. Charles Whitfield

Pte. George Whittaker

Pte. George F. Whittaker

Pte. Frank Wilber

Pte. William Wildgoose

Pte. Ernest Wilkinson

Pte. George Wilkinson

Pte. Robert Wilkinson

Pte. Thomas Wilkinson

Pte. Samuel D. Willis

Pte. John W. Withington

Pte. George Wolstencroft

Pte. Arthur Wood

Pte. John Worrall

Pte. Harry Worsley

S.S. Fred Yates

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