Memorials - Leyland - St.Ambrose C.E. WW1 Plaque

St. Ambrose C.E. Church, Moss Lane, Leyland PR25 4XA
Ordnance Survey Grid Reference: SD 54994 22638
IWM War Memorial Database - Ref 42643
War Memorials Online - Not on site

NB: IWM War Memorial Database has the wrong location for this memorial (3 May 2017)
The dedication of this memorial took place 23 May 1920 and was attended by the relatives and friends of the fallen.  The memorial takes the shape of a wall-mounted nowy-headed brass plaque on a wooden mount.  It has a decorative border of laurel garland with clover leaves in the corners.  A crown is depicted under the inscription "TO THE GLORY OF GOD", and a cross inlaid in marble at the foot, breaking up the border. 

There are 62 names on the memorial, arranged over seven columns.  The names appear in no particular order.
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION OF
ST AMBROSE CHURCH
WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 19
WILLIAM EAVES,
GEORGE HEWITSON,
FRED BLUNDELL,
GEORGE HULL,
J.ALBERT FALLOWS,
STANLEY CLITHEROE,
JOHN CLITHEROE,
FRED FAIRCLOUGH,
WILLIAM WIGGANS,
TOM FINCH,
CHARLES GILLETT,
ROBERT BRAITHWAITE,
GEORGE BALL,
JAMES HIGHAM,
FRED BOLTON,
TOM LANCASTER,
WALTER COOKE,
JOSEPH JOYCE,
HARRY HEYES,
RICHARD COTTAM,
WILLIAM CARLTON,
WILLIAM J. BERRY,
HAROLD WOODS,
RICHARD YATES,
SAMUEL YATES,
WILLIAM JAMES HIGHAM,
JOHN WILLIAM SIMPSON,
JAMES FINCH,
JOSEPH HULL,
THOMAS POTTER,
JOHN EDWARD PYE,
JOSEPH SWALES,
JAMES WILDMAN,
ROBERT BEARDSWORTH,
HARRY BEARDSWORTH,
ROBERT HEYWOOD,
HAROLD SOUTHWORTH,
ROBERT TURNER,
HENRY BENNETT,
HENRY DEWHURST,
TOM MORRIS,
PETER RYDING,
CLEMENT WAREING,
ROBERT HOLMES,
ALBERT HOLMES,
GEORGE WADGE,
TOM HIGHAM,
JAMES BARNES,
ERNEST CARLINE,
JACK BRETHERTON,
ANDREW HATTON,
ERNEST FERNLEY,
HARRY GILLETT,
WILLIAM COLLINGE,
GEORGE COLLINGE,
EDWARD BARKER,
RICHARD BELL,
JOHN BANNISTER GRAY,
ROBERT GRAY,
WILLIAM C. N. PRESTON,
ROBERT OXENDALE,
JAMES BAMFORD SWARBRICK,
"Greater love hath no man than this, That a man lay down his life for his friends."

THIS TABLET WAS PLACED HERE
BY THE
MOTHERS CLASS OF ST.AMBROSE
Charles O'Donnell
Please email the project with any amendments or corrections 
Edited 3 May 2017
With thanks to Reverend Duncan Clarke and the Curate Louisa McFarlane for access to St.Ambrose.
Plaque detail
Image (C) Charles O'Donnell
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