Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Photograph

Grave of Horace Sykes & Family

All Saints', Dudwell



The grave of Horace Sykes & family at All Saints', Dudwell

Epitaph


IN FOND MEMORY OF
HORACE SYKES D.C.M.
LATE 1/4 W.R.R.
   
THE DEARLY LOVED AND LOVING
HUSBAND OF EDITH SYKES
WHO DIED MARCH 4TH 1919
AGED 27 YEARS.
   
AFTER 3 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS ACTIVE SERVICE
APRIL 1915 – JAN. 1919
   
- DEEPLY MOURNED – 
   
"LIFE'S RACE WELL RUN, LIFE'S WORK WELL DONE,
LIFE'S CROWN WELL WON, NOW COMES REST."

[Taken in March 2014]

This image [HH511.JPG] was kindly submitted by Derrick Habergham

Epitaph – Right-Hand Side


ALSO THE 
AFORESAID
EDITH SYKES
DIED FEB. 3RD 1960
AGED 72 YEARS

[Taken in March 2014]

This image [HH512.JPG] was kindly submitted by Derrick Habergham

Epitaph – Left-Hand Side


ALSO
IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
PTE. ROWLAND TURNER
1ST R.S. FUSILIERS
BROTHER IN LAW OF
THE AFORESAID
   
WHO DIED FROM WOUNDS RECEIVED
IN ACTION AT YPRES
NOV. 17TH 1914, AGED 36 YEARS
INTERRED AT NEW CEMETERY, POPERINCHE.
   
"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT
A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"

[Taken in March 2014]

This image [HH513.JPG] was kindly submitted by Derrick Habergham



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