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The Wooldale Community Group has erected a memorial plaque to the fallen of World War One to the left of the door of the Wooldale Arms in the village VILLAGE community has honoured its war dead.

Wooldale Community Group decided in the summer to create a memorial in the village for those who lost their lives in the Great War.

Members of the committee set about researching the names of those who were killed. The starting point was the Holme Valley War Memorial where 25 names were identified.

Then, with the help of the New Mill Branch of the Royal British Legion, who gave the researchers access to the relevant archives, it was confirmed that all 25 were either born or lived in Wooldale prior to them going into military service.

Not all the fallen of Wooldale have known war graves and many are only recorded on memorials such as The Menin Gate.

The community group commissioned two plaques listing all the men. Manufactured by engineering firm Pennine Industrial Equipment Ltd, of

Skelmanthorpe and kindly donated by managing director Mr Graham Hobbs, the plaques were erected. One of them is on the wall of the Wooldale Arms while the other is on a tree in the community park. “At last the fallen of Wooldale can be remembered,” said a spokesman for the committee.