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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
54 names. _
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Plaque 2 – left column:
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.
Plaque 2 – right column:
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
54 names._
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Plaque 3 – left column:
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.
Plaque 3 – right column:
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
53 names. _
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