By Andy Dalton
An old war memorial plaque has been put on public display this week in Armley.
Shoppers heading for Town Street can see the display outside the Leeds City Mission Compassion Centre in Mistress Lane.
It bears the names of six members of the Armley Temperance Society who lost their lives in the First World War.
Leeds City Mission acquired the former Mission Room at the time of the Covid pandemic. The Mission Room was built in the 1920s.
Enquiries established that the Armley Gospel Temperance Society transferred from their former chapel premises in nearby Wesley Street to the Mission Room in the 1960s. The war memorial would have been brought along with their other items in the move.
The memorial is in a wooden frame and the names of the fallen soldiers can be clearly read.
Six names are listed: L Coates, L Kirk, J Noble, W Storr, W Webster, W Wainwright.
City Mission Development Worker Andy Dalton said that as Remembrance Sunday approaches it was important to recall the wartime service of local men who served in the armed forces.
He said: “These were all local lads who served their country and never came home. We should never forget that the freedom we all enjoy was bought by the sacrifice they made all those years ago.”
The War Memorial is on display outside the Mission Room in Mistress Lane, Armley in the remaining days before Remembrance Sunday (weather permitting).
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Rest In Peace to the fallen, the brave, and the Slaughtered which War allus brings.
May we develop past our tribal hatred, confusion, and rush to violence and inner destruction and mental slavery into a world and Race where war is not necessary, a future possiblenworld of prosperity & peace & plenty.
Let’s aspire and werk to this world to come. Or at least try to ge a Peacemaker.
Blessed are the Peacekeepers. For they protect the meek.
Lest We Forget; Dulcet et Decorum Est.
Jesus Christ, Amen