Museum returns Roll of Honour to school in Bolton

Clarendon Street Primary in Bolton, used to have two rolls of honour in memory of the pupils - one for those who died and one for those who survived - hanging in the school hall.

But, in the 1970s, they were donated to Bolton Museum.

Staff there recently uncovered the frames in the museum's stores and decided they should be returned to the school.

The rolls, which are hand painted on card and in oak frames, will be fitted with UV- resistant glass to prevent the colours from fading, and installed at the school next month. One roll, a Roll of Service, lists 383 former pupils who served during the war and survived. The other, a Roll of Honour, lists 52 pupils who lost their lives in the conflict.

A former pupil, John Hamer, funded the original commission of the memorials.

They are thought to have cost 125 guineas - approximately £2,800 today.

They were painted by W. A. Kelsall, a local artist who created many of the hand- painted memorials in the 1920s.

The rolls were officially unveiled by the town mayoress at the school on December 22, 1920, in front of an audience of 500.

Most recently, they were on show at the "Our Brothers Died" war memorial exhibition at Bolton Museum in 2004. Headteacher at the school in Clarendon Street, Naomi Richardson, said: "We feel the rolls of honour should be placed back in the school. We are hoping to reinstate them in the exact position where they were hung originally.

"We are very proud of the school's history and we will be using the boards as an educational resource for current and future students."

The school is now planning a tea party to officially unveil the boards on Tuesday, June 24, and is inviting relatives of those named on the memorials to attend.

Anyone who believes they may be a related to someone named and would like to attend should contact the school on 01204 333411.

Here are the names on the board

Placing on record the names of former pupils who served with his Majesty's forces in the cause of right and freedom in the Great War of 1914-1919Abbott, John Anderton, Thomas Ashley, J. Ashworth, Caleb Aspinall, James Aspinall, William James Astley, Thomas Aston, Reginald B. Auber, Alfred Banks, Thomas Barker, Walter Barlow, John Barlow, R. Barnett, R. Bates, James Bateson, Samuel Bateson, Walter Battersby, W. Beardsworth, Isaac Bell, Alexander W. Bent, A. Berry, Charles H. Berry, John William Berry, Percy Berry, Samuel Berry, William Binks, George Binks, George E. Binks, Robert Birchall, John Edward Blackburn, James Blackledge, Eli Blackledge, Henry Blackledge, James Bocock, Rhoda Bogle, John Walter Bolton, Jack Bolton, John Thomas Bond, Thomas Booth, Albert Booth, John Boyle, John Boyle, Joseph Brabbin, David Brayshaw, Percy Britton, John Britton, Robert Britton, Walter Broughton, James H. Broughton, W. E. Bull, Frank Bull, Robert Burton, Albert Burton, John Burton, William Butler, John Butler, John E. Butler, William Buttersworth, Fred Buttersworth, W. Cadle, Herbert Cardwell, Arthur Cardwell, Fred Cardwell, Leonard Carter, William Chadwick, Harry Clark, Fred Clark, Joseph Clark, William Collier, Fred Collier, James Collier, John Collier, John E. Cook, Albert Cooper, George Crompton, Fred Crompton, James Henry Cross, Henry Cross, Henry Cross, John C. Croston, Herbert Cupitt, T. Cupitt, W. Dagnall, Thomas Dalley, Edwin Dalley, Fred Davies, Percy Dawning, Frank Deakin, Thomas W. Dewhurst, William Dixon, Robert Dugdale, Herbert Dugdill, Albert Eckersley, Giles Egerton, Wiliiam Eglin, E. Eglin, T. Fearns, Clarke Fishwick, Henry Fishwick, James Fishwick, John Fishwick, Thomas Fiske, Stanley Fletcher, Thomas, Henry Flitcroft, A. C. Foote, Henry Forshaw, F. Forshaw, Robert Forshaw, William Harold Forshaw, William Henry Foster, Joseph Fullard, Harry Gaskell, Joseph Gaunt, Frank Gibbon, Charles Gidman, Miles Gilpin, Harry Gilpin, John Gilpin, William Gowan, Peter Gradwell, James Gradwell, Alfred Graham, Albert Green, James Greenhalgh, James A. Greenhalgh, John Greenhalgh, Richard Greenhalgh, R. Greenhalgh, R. E. Gregory, John Gregory, Thomas Grew, William Grindrod, Edward Grindrod, J. M. Hamer, James Hamer, J. W. Hamer, Peter Hampson, James W. Hardie, Norman Hardman, Ernest Hardman, Stanley Hardman, Thomas Hardman, Walter Hargreaves, Joseph Harrison, George Harrison, Stanley Hartley, Fred Hartley, Percy Haslam, Leonard Haslam, Thomas Haslam, Tom Haynes, William Hazzleton, James Heyes, Harold Hill, James Hill, Joseph Hill, J. E. Hill, Rowland Hinchcliffe, W. Hindley, John Hodges, Edwin, A. Hodgkinson, Peter Hodgkiss, William Holden, I. Holt, Samuel Hope, Edward Horridge, Thomas Hough, Albert Hough, Fred Hough, Robert Howarth, Arthur M. Howarth, Charles Howarth, George Howarth, James Howarth, James E. Howarth, John Howarth, John Howarth, John Howarth, Mark Howarth, Thomas Hughes, James Hughes, John Hughes, Thomas Hulme, A. E. Hulme, Samuel Humphreys, Stephen Humphreys, W. E. Humphreys, W. T. Humphries, Daniel Humphries, Thomas Hunt, Albert Hunt, William Hutchinson, A. Hutchinson, Edward Hutchinson, Fred Hutchinson, William M. Jardine, Thomas Jardine, William Jevons, Earnest Jevons, James Johnson, David Johnson, James Johnson, Wilfred Johnson, William Joule, William Kay, Edmund Kay, John R. Knight, Jack Knott, Fred Lavender, Thomas Lazenby, Robert H. Lazenby, William Leach, F. W. Leach H. Leach, Stanley Lee, Robert Lever, Jack Lever, Tom Litherland, F. Lofthouse, A. Lofthouse, J. Lomax, George Lomax, James T. Lyons, Thomas Mahon, Henry Makin, Franklin Mann, Harry Mann, John Markland, Ellis Markland, Harry Markland, Hurbert Markland, William Marsden, George Marsh, Harry Marsh, John R. Marsh, W. E. Marsh, Herbert Marshall, Stanley Mather, Robert Mawson, Edward McCarthy, Daniel McClelland,Fred McClelland, John Miller, Harry Mills, Isaac Mills, Samuel Morton, F. Morton, W. E. Moscrop, Abraham Moscrop, Samuel Mullineaux, William Naylor, George Alfred Nelson, John Nelson, J. Nelson, Stanley Nicholson, Isaac Noon, fred Nuttall, Fred Nuttall, Harry Nuttall, Stanley Nuttall, William Orrell, Frank Orrell, Frank Pace, Albert Pace, Arthur Palmer, Albert Palmer, E. Palmer, G. Palmer, James Palmer, Thomas Parkinson, J Parkinson, Richard Parkinson, Thomas Partington, Herbert Pasquill, William Pemberton, Harold Pemberton, James Pemberton, John Pennington, John Pennington, Robert Pickersgill, William Pilling, Fred Pilling, Harold Podmore, George H. Poole, Frederick Potts, Robert Price, Thomas Pryers, Thomas Pye, Edmund Pye, Nathaniel Pye, Thomas Radcliffe, Harry Radcliffe, John Ramsden, John, James Reader, Albert Reader, Arthur Reader, John Richardson, Charles E. Richardson, James Rigby, Harry Rigby, John Riley, Alfred Ross, Benjamin Rostron, A. Rostron, H. Rothwell, John J. Rothwell, Stanley Sanderson, John Schofield, Charles Seddon, William Seed, William Sewell, H. Sewell, J. Singleton, Richard Slater, Arthur Slater, Felix Slater, Herbert Slater, Thomas Henry Smith, Arthur Smith, David Smith, Harold Smith, Harold Smith, Harry Smith, James Smith, Stanley Smith, Stanley Smith, William Smith, William Sofield, S. Stevens, Richard Sumner, William Swift, John William Taylor, Robert J. Thompson, F. Thompson, John Thornley, Frank Thornley, Samuel Thornley, Thomas Todd, Walter H. Unsworth, Albert Unsworth, Fred Varle, Albert Varle, William Vickers, Earnest Walker, James Walker, Robert Walker, Stanley Walker, Thomas Watson, John Watson, William Welsby, William Westby, Peter Westby, William Whenlock, W. F. Wilkinson H. C. Williams, Albert Williams, E. Williams, James Williams, John Winsper, John Winsper James H. Winterbottom, Alfred Winterbottom, Cecil Winterbottom, Henry Winterbottom, James Winterbottom, T. Winterbottom, William Winward, H. Wood, George Wood, John Wood, John Wood, Reuben Wood, Simeon Woodhead, James Worthington, Alfred Worthington, Z. Wright, Harry Yates, Ellis Yates, James Yates, Thomas. Placing on record the names of former pupils who fought and died in the cause of right and freedom in the Great War of 1914-1919.Banks, Thomas Bateson, Walter Berry, John William. Berry, William Binks, Robert Bolton, John Thomas Boyle, Joseph Cardwell, Fred Carter, William Clarke, Willam. Crompton, James Henry Cupitt, William Dalley, Edwin Fletcher, Thomas Henry Forshaw, Robert Gilpin, William Graham, Albert Greenhalgh, Richard. Greenhalgh, R. E. Hamer, James Hardie, Norman Haslam, Leonard. Hodges, Edwin A. Holt, Samuel Horridge, Thomas Hutchinson, William M. Joule, William Lever, Jack McCarthy, Daniel Morton, W.E Naylor, Geoffrey Alfred Noon, Fred Nuttall Stanley Nuttall William Palmer, Edward Palmer, James Palmer, Thomas Radcliffe, Harry Richardson, Charles E. Sanderson, John Seddon, William Slater, Arthur Smith, Harold Unsworth, Fred Varle, Albert Walker, Stanley Winterbottom, Alfred Wood, John Wood, John Wood, Reuben Worthington, Alfred Wright, Harry