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Churwell

Churwell war memorials are bronze tablets set in a stone wall by the roadside on Elland Road. The wall surrounds the Memorial Gardens with the World War I plaque (WM3330) on the outside and the World War II plaque (WM1330) which this information relates to on the inside of the wall within the memorial gardens. Churwell is within the town of Morley near Leeds.  

The First World War plaque required cleaning and alongside this work the local community sought to erect a memorial to the Second World War on the reverse of the wall which carried the First World War plaque. In 2004 War Memorials Trust contributed £200 to the creation of the new World War II memorial.

By bringing a memorial inside the gardens the community could now gather for services within the garden rather than around the First World War plaque which led to problems with people spilling onto the roads.

The memorial reads:

In memory 
of all known 
Churwell soldiers
who gave their lives 
for their Country
in the world conflict of 
1939 - 1945

We will remember them

Rawdon Brooke
Sydney C. Brown
Andrew R. Davies
William Deacon
Arthur Ellis
Ernest M. Field
Kenneth Garnett
W. Stewart Monger
Leslie North
George Parkinson
Kenneth Pumphrey

Further information

War Memorials Trust reference WM1330
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: 29243

If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org

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