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Title
War Memorial
Date
1919
Medium
italian marble
Accession number
DL13_FJ_S125
Acquisition method
purchased by public subscription
Work type
War memorial
Owner
Tow Law Town Council
Custodian
Tow Law Town Council
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II (England and Wales)
Listing date
05/06/87
Access
at all times
Inscription description
on north face in raised letters: FOR COUNTRY; in lead letters incised: ERECTED / BY THE INHABITANTS OF / TOW LAW, THORNLEY, / SUNNISIDE, HEDLEY HOPE, / EAST HEDLEY HOPE, / AND SATLEY, / TO THE SACRED MEMORY / OF THOSE GALLANT MEN / WHO, AT THE CALL OF KING / AND COUNTRY, LEFT ALL THAT / WAS DEAR TO THEM, AND, AFTER / ENDURING HARDSHIPS AND / FACING DANGER IN THE GREAT / EUROPEAN WAR 1914 - 1919, / PASSED FROM AMONG THEIR COMRADES BY THE PATH OF / DUTY AND SELF SACRIFICE, / GIVING THEIR OWN LIVES / THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM; on base in lead incised Roman letters: GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT / A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS; east face, in raised letters: 1919 / (list of names); south face, in raised letters: FOR COUNTRY / (list of names); west face, in raised letters: 1914 / (list of names)
