Situated in the churchyard opposite St Peters Parish Church.
A three-tiered octagonal base with a square tier on top leading to a tall column in the shape of a cross.
The periods commemorated are 1914-1919 and 1939-1945.
Inscriptions
The top square tier inscription reads:
Sacred to the honoured memory of men of Birstall who gave their lives for King and Country in the Great War 1914-1918 Their name liveth for evermore
An additional section at the front of the monument has an inscription that reads:
To the glorious memory of those who died in the 1939 - 45 war
Plaques and names
1914-1918
Right hand side of square tier.
First Name Last Name
Willie Akeroyd
Harry Alderson
William H. Allott
P. Banks
Harry Batley
Isaac E. Baxter
James H. Baxter
Walter Baxter
Arthur Barker
J.S. Bennett
Percy Beaumont
George Binks
P. Blaber
Harold Bromley
Clifford Bruce
Walter Burnley
1914-1918
Rear of square tier.
First Name Last Name
Fred Berry
Robert Birbeck
Ernest L. Briggs
Thomas Byrne
Victor Church
Harry Clayton
Percy Clegg
Willie Clegg
Ben Clough
Reginald Craven
Arthur Craven
Charles Day
Herbert Darnbrook
Martin Duffy
George W. Ellis
Thomas Fawcett
1914-1918
Left hand side of square tier.
First Name Last Name
Herbert Firth
Arthur Firn
Willie Fisher
William Fisher
John Flanagan
Harold Freeman
John Frain
Frank Furniss
J. Garner
John Goodall
Harold Greenwood
Joseph Hare
Wilfred Haigh
Isaac Haley
William Haley
Dennis Hartley
1914-1918
Octagonal upper tier.
First Name Last Name
T.W. Hepworth
Harry Hirst
Raymond Hirst
B. Hinchcliffe
T. Housecroft
Frank Holmes
Nelson Holmes
Norman Holmes
H. Hutchinson
C. Hutchinson
J.W. Inwood
Willie Jowett
Charles Jubb
James Judge
Charles Kaye
John Kilkenny
W.P. Kitson
J.H. Kitson
T. Lambert
H. Lawrenson
John Lees
John F. Locke
E.B. Longbottom
Thomas Linch
Percy Kilburn
James D. Lyon
Arthur Mann
J. Marshall
P.A. Margetts
Watson Maude
Arthur Moore
Frank Melvin
Horace Naylor
A.E. Overend
John Overend
B. Parkinson
P. Parkinson
A.P. Parkin
Willie Phelps
Tom Platts
Ernest Platts
E. Pollard
J. Randle
H. Radford
Edward Rowan
R. Rodgers
J. Richardson
J.J. Sayers
C.W.F. Sayers
R.W. Saville
Herbert Shires
Walter Shires
Ernest Sill
Fred Smithson
Robert Smith
F.C. Smith
Thomas Smith
Clarence Smith
E. Stirzaker
C. Sheard
Leonard Stone
H. Tomlinson
B. Thornton
Henry Ward
1914-1918
Rear of octagonal middle tier.
First Name Last Name
F. Wilson
C. Wilson
L. Wilson
George Wright
H. Radforth
A. Weavill
Harry Yates
C. Dewhurst
James Lyons
1914-1918
In front of octagonal lower tier.
First Name Last Name
Clifford Crowther
John Mitchell
Jack Holmes
1939-1945
Additional section at the front.
First Name Last Name
Eric Lawrence Brown
Kitty Blamires
Sarah Byrom
James Carr
Harry Crossley
Luke Farrar
James Henry Fenton
William Alexander Fiddes
Francis Frederick Fordham
Leonard Haywood
William Haywood
Douglas Holmes
Walter Holmes
Leslie Horton
Mary McLoughlin
John Maguire
Arthur Miller
Allan Muris
Arthur Parkinson
Robbie Ramsbottom
Norman Victor Riley
Clifford Senior
Geoffrey Smith
James Smith
Harry Wilkinson
1914-1918
Addenda panel at the front.
First Name Last Name
Albert Bloomfield
William H. Graham
A.B. Honeybone
Albert E. Illingworth
F. Jackson
George Lees
John Marchbanks
Richard H. Martin
T. Martin
John O'Brien
John H.W. Rhodes
A. Smith
Charlie Spink
William Stainthorpe
George S. Whitehead
1939-1945
Addenda panel at the front.
First Name Last Name
Walter Ackroyd
George E. Benson
Clarence F. Brown
John Carbutt
Stanley L. Foxton
Francis Gess
Clifford Lockwood
Eric Stansfield
George Staples