Clitheroe War Memorial depicts a Grenadier Guard bowing his head and stands in the grounds of Clitheroe Castle in the eponymous Ribble Valley market town, facing East towards the Nick O’ Pendle.
The memorial was unveiled on the 18th of August 1923 by Lord Derby, the Mayor of Clitheroe at the time and commemorates the 332 Servicemen who died in the First World War, a further dedication, added after World War Two, commemorates the 72 men who died during that conflict.
In 1956 the surrounding area was made a Garden of Remembrance to all of the men and women of Clitheroe who have given their lives in wartime.
The War Memorial Register has a full list of the names inscribed upon the memorial.
The Castle and surrounding 10 acres of grounds were bought by the people of Clitheroe by subscription in 1920 for £9,500 from the Duke of Buccleuch, £15,000 was raised altogether with the remaining £5,500 being spent on landscaping the grounds to form the beautiful park you see now, improving access to the Castle Keep and erecting the memorial.
An inscription upon the memorial states that it was ‘Erected by the inhabitants of Clitheroe in Grateful Remembrance of their Fellow Townsmen who gave their Lives in Defence of their King and Country in The Great War 1914 1918’.
“Lest We Forget”
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Lest we forget, we will remember them
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