Situated at the bottom entrance to the cemetery on Blacker Road, approximately one mile from Huddersfield town centre and near the Spinks Nest public house.
A three-tiered six-sided monument with a tall cross and seven plaques set into a wall behind.
The periods commemorated are 1914-1918 and 1939-1945.
Inscriptions
The inscription on the main monument reads:
This cross of sacrifice is one in design and intention with those which have been set up in France and Belgium and other places throughout the World where our dead of the Great War are laid to rest Their name liveth for evermore
The inscription on the centre plaque in the wall reads:
To the honoured memory of one hundred and three members of His Majesty’s Forces who gave their lives for their country in the Great War 1914 - 1918 Sixteen lie buried in Lockwood Cemetery and eighty seven in this cemetery but the graves of these twenty nine are not marked by separate headstones
Plaques and names
1914-1918 and 1939-1945
Small left hand side plaque. These soldiers and this airman lie buried in Emmanuel churchyard, Lockwood.
Rank First Name Last Name Suffix Died
Private Harold Haigh West Yorkshire Regiment 30.12.1918
Air Mechanic 2nd Class H.B. Lee Royal Air Force 23.6.1918
Sergeant A.H.H. Bamford Pioneer Corps 7.1.1941
1914-1918
Large plaque 1.
Service Number Rank First Name Last Name Suffix Died
143880 Staff Sergeant P. Arnold Royal Engineers 29.6.1919
12677 Private J.E. Banbury Duke of Wellington's Regiment 23.6.1917
267713 Private F. Barraclough Duke of Wellington's Regiment 28.10.1917
52008 Private B. Birrell King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 22.12.1918
3024 Lance Corporal J.T. Bower Duke of Wellington's Regiment 27.4.1918
L/32570 Gunner S. Burke Royal Field Artillery 5.6.1916
45400 Sergeant C.H. Callaghan Royal Field Artillery 30.12.1917, Age 30
R/21684 Rifleman J.L. Cockayne King's Royal Rifle Corps 3.9.1916
1914-1918
Large plaque 2.
Service Number Rank First Name Last Name Suffix Died
100109 Driver P. Daly Royal Field Artillery 25.3.1916
24866 Private T.H. Dobson East Yorkshire Regiment 7.1.1919, Age 34
8035 Private W.E. Fowle Norfolk Regiment 5.3.1919, Age 41
15/11 Private B.G. Gopsill Royal Warwickshire Regiment 16.12.1916, Age 22
C/6135 Rifleman P. Hepworth King's Royal Rifle Corps 22.12.1916
10425 Private F. Hunt Duke of Wellington's Regiment 5.1.1917
1765 Private L.L. Kenneally Royal Army Medical Corps 4.3.1919, Age 36
1914-1918
Large plaque 4.
Service Number Rank First Name Last Name Suffix Died
11939 Private A. Kenny Duke of Wellington's Regiment 13.12.1915
91734 Driver W. Le Vasseur Royal Field Artillery 2.11.1917
35929 Private R.A. Muirhead Highland Light Infantry 3.1.1919
234150 Private R.L. Murray 2nd Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) 16.12.1917, Age 20
1572 Private F. Parkinson Duke of Wellington's Regiment 15.5.1916
242189 Private T. Payton Highland Light Infantry 5.1.1920
44074 Private J. Revell Lincolnshire Regiment 12.6.1918, Age 27
1914-1918
Large plaque 5.
Service Number Rank First Name Last Name Suffix Died
2066 Corporal D. Shaw Duke of Wellington's Regiment 20.12.1915, Age 20
490 Private W. Shaw 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) 6.12.1915
129768 Private T. Stanley Royal Army Medical Corps 28.6.1918
6570 Driver J. Stephenson Royal Field Artillery 29.5.1921
268180 Private W. Thompson Duke of Wellington's Regiment 18.9.1919
140495 Gunner B. Wilson Royal Field Artillery 23.10.1916
12416 Private R. Wright King's Regiment (Liverpool) 5.5.1915
203657 Private J. Eccles Duke of Wellington's Regiment 14.3.1918
1914-1918
Small right hand side plaque. These soldiers lie buried in Zion Methodist burial ground, Lindley.
Rank First Name Last Name Suffix Died
Private W. Bray Duke of Wellington's Regiment 31.5.1916
Private B. Brook Royal Army Service Corps 6.12.1919
Corporal N. Dyson Royal Field Artillery 9.12.1918
Private H. Milnes Duke of Wellington's Regiment 12.9 1920
Private G.H. Moore Duke of Wellington's Regiment 28.6.1916