Greengates Cenotaph and Memorial garden

Greengates is a small suburban area to the North-East of Bradford. I passed here on the way back to Preston from Shipley. Took a detour to avoid heavy traffic. However small the town of Greengates, it has a beautifully maintained memorial and garden. There is more information here. At the bottom of this post is a list of the fallen. The unveiling was carried out by Lt Col Alderman Anthony Gadie on the 5th of November 1921.
I have to assume that the name plates on the memorial are replacements. These are just too clean to be original. Click on an image to enlarge it. Here are the photos that were taken:

It seems that Pte Rhodes name was omitted from the memorial originally.
After a campaign by the family his name is carved there (1999)

View from the Roebuck pub - they let me park - A good pie!

Below is the list of the fallen: there are more details on the Greengates website.

BARRACLOUGH Frank               
BAXTER Charles Alfred                                         
BAXTER William                                         
BLOMFIELD William   
BUCKLE Ernest                                         
CLAYTON Percy                                         
CLEAVER Joseph H                                         
COCKSHOTT Edmund                                         
COLLINS David                                       
CORDINGLEY Percy                                         
DOOLEY Ernest                                         
DOWNS Gilbert R                                         
EARNSHAW Albert   
ESPLEY Sam   
EXLEY Albert Edward               
FAICHNEY Harry William*    
FARNISH John Darnley
FARNISH Leonard                                         
FAWCETT Edward B                                         
FLETCHER Horace                                         
GALLOWAY Richard                                         
GIBSON     Norman                                       
GOODAIRE Horace*                                         
GOODALL Fred                                       
GOODALL Percy                                         
HALL George T                                         
HARRISON Fred                                         
HARRISON Walter          
HARRISON William A                                         
HINDLE     Percival U                                         
HOLLAND Gordon                                         
INGLE Percy                       
JACQUES Harry                 
JOYCE John                                         
KIPLING Herbert                                         
KNOWLES Jonathan E                                         
LEACH David                                   
LEE Wilfred                                         
LINDLEY Harold                                         
LLOYD Cecil               
LODGE Hiram                                         
LONG Arthur H                                         
MANN John N                                         
MASTERS Arthur                                         
METCALFE Harry                                         
MILNER J Barker                                 
NELSON Edward                                         
NELSON     Herbert Harold                                         
PATRICK Horatio                                         
PEACOCK Walter E                                   
PRIESTLEY Laurence                                         
PROSSER J H                                         
RHODES Albert                                         
RHODES Charles                             
RHODES William A   
ROBINSON Ernest                                         
ROBINSON Walter                                         
ROO James Walter                                         
ROO Richard                                         
SEAGE William S                                         
SHACKLETON Arnold                                         
SHUTTLEWORTH Gershom*    
SKEVINGTON Arthur Victor                                         
SMITH Clifford                                        
SMITH Percy Valentine                                         
SPENCE Walter                                         
STANSFIELD Allan                                       
STEELE     Arthur                                         
STEVENS Albert                                         
STEVENS Harry                                         
SYKES Alfred                                         
SYKES Norman 

WALTON     Ward                                         
WARD Fred                                         
WATERWORTH George                                         
WATERWORTH Percy                           
WATERWORTH W Laycock                                         
WHITEHEAD Jasper M                                         
WHITEHEAD John Walton                                         
WILSON Herbert
                 
WWII

BAXTER Ralph H                                         
CROWTHER Fred                                         
EVANS George                                         
FIRTH William                                         
GARNETT Geoffrey W           
GREENHOUGH Herbert                                         
HARKER Jack   
KEEN Adam                                         
KENNARD William D W *
LISTER William                                         
LUMBY Clifford C                                         
MOSLEY Harry S                                         
NORRIS Eric                                         
PERROW Cecil                                         
REYNOLDS Frank                                         
RHODES Harry*        
ROGERS Basil T                                         
SHUTT Dennis                                         
SMITH John R                                         
SPENCER Geoffrey G J                                         
SPENCER Ralph                     
STAPLES Harry                                         
STEVENSON George                                         
WATMOUGH William                                         
WILKINSON Robert                                         
WILSON Victor                                         
WOOD Jim                                         
WORTHINGTON Harry

Harry Rhodes name is carved at the bottom of the memorial not cast as the others are.

This information is derived from the Commonwealth War Graves Commision.

There is plenty of information. Many of the names above could be traced from here.

Private HARRY WILLIAM FAICHNEY
34004, 2nd Bn., York and Lancaster Regiment
who died age 25
on 01 December 1917
Son of Henry and Margaret Faichney, of "Linden Lea," 8, Linden Crescent, Hawick, Roxburghshire.
Remembered with honour
CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL

Serjeant HORACE GOODAIRE
21/2, 1st Bn., West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
who died
on 14 July 1918
Remembered with honour
TYNE COT MEMORIAL

Gunner GERSHOM SHUTTLEWORTH
42169, 39th T.M. Bty., Royal Garrison Artillery
who died age 23
on 15 August 1915
Son of Benjamin and Lucy Ann Shuttleworth, of 275, Davisville Avenue, Toronto, Canada.
Remembered with honour
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL 

Driver WILLIAM DAWSON WHITFIELD KENNARD
T/75814, Royal Army Service Corps
who died age 20
on 17 December 1940
Son of Bernard George Kennard, and of Dorothy Kennard, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Remembered with honour
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL

Harrogate Memorial

This very small memorial is on the road to Weatherby. It stands about a mile from the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate. It stands about 7 ft tall and "looks" over parkland. The poppies seem rather poignent and seem to suit the the faintly dejected air of the monument..



"In Loving Memory of the nine men who died of wounds in the hospitals of H.I.H The Grand Duchess George of Russia in Harrogate during the Great War 1914-1918

Jonathan Owen, 

Percy Meadwell, 

Ramsden Farrar, 

William Bailey, 

John E Robinson, 

Oliver Sewell,

William H Thomas, 

William Fenton,

Arthur J. Crook 

and of those who after leaving the Hospitals fell on the field of battle."

"I am the resurrection and the life, he that beliveth in me though he were dead, yet shall he live"

Cannot fail to be intrigued by this memorial. Pasted below is an excerpt from the BBC website.

 

"In 1914 Grand Duchess George of Russia came to Harrogate with her two daughters Nina and Xenia. The Duchess was the Greek wife of Grand Duke George Mikhailovitch, cousin of the Czar Nicholas II. She had left left her husband behind in Russia, where he was assassinated by the Bolsheviks in 1919.

A month after the family's arrival in England war broke out. During the First World War the Duchess ran a number of hospitals in Harrogate for wounded soldiers. One of these was Heatherdene on Wetherby Road. The Matron from 1915 was Christina MacRae and in 1917 Queen Alexandra presented a red cross brooch, made by Fabergé, to her during a visit to Harrogate. The Harrogate Herald of March 14th 1917 records that Nurse MacRae and three other nurses at the Grand Duchess's hospitals had been given awards for their services.

In 1920 Grand Duchess George erected a war memorial to the soldiers who died in her hospitals. It can still be seen on the corner of Wetherby Road, next to the Stray. Heatherdene was later demolished.

The brooch was later given to the Royal Pump Room Museum by a fomer colleague of Nurse MacRae. "

The name Heatherdene is still connected with NHS services in Harrogate, but a little snippet from a website says:

"Heatherdene Cottage is the home of the Harrogate Hospital Sports and Social Club. It was originally the gardener's cottage of the Heatherdene Convalescent Home opened in 1892 as a memorial of the Victoria Hall fire disaster which occurred in Sunderland on 16th June 1883. A total of 183 children lost their lives when a fire broke out at a children's concert. The cottage has been extended and extensively modified to provide a comfortable bar area and a function room at the rear.

Heatherdene Cottage is situated on Lancaster Park Road in Harrogate. The premises are on the opposite side of the road to the large District Hospital, approximately 50 yards from Wetherby Road. The Cottage lies between the entrance to the Ambulance station and the Heatherdene Nurses Residence.

This memorial is on the United Kindom National Inventory of War Memorials as

GRAND DUCHESS GEORGE OF RUSSIAS HOSPITALS

UKNIWM Ref: 29724