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Cookstown |
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54.646085 |
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| Date Unveiled : |
10/12/1922 |
| Molesworth Presbyterian Church is located at the junction of Molesworth Street and Union Street in central Cookstown. It is also known as Third Cookstown Presbyterian Church. The Church was founded in 1835. There are separate Memorials for WWI and WWII |
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| Molesworth Street Presbyterian Church is located at the junction of Molesworth Street and Union Street in central Cookstown.
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| The Church was founded in 1835.
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| 69-71 Molesworth Street, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone.BT80 8PA
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| The Memorial Tablets were unveiled on Sunday 22nd December 1922 by Lieutenant Colonel Rev David H Hanson B.A., C.B.E.., H.C.F.
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| The tablets listed those who died and those who served.
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| Tablet One reads:
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| Molesworth Street Presbyterian Church, Cookstown. Erected in loving memory of the men of this congregation who dies for us in the Great War 1914 - 1919.
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| ‘As our dead were equal in sacrifice, so are they equal in honour, for the greatest and least of them have proved that sacrifice and honour are no vain things, but truths by which the world lives’ - from the message of King George V, at the Stone of Remembrance.
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| Here are also inscribed the names of our overseas brethren who, for the honour of our flag, gave their services for the Empire, and have survived the campaign.
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John Crooks
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Richard Espie
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Robert Espie
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David Kennedy
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John Knipe
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James Smyth
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Thomas Telford
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| United States of America
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Joseph Bell
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Bartley Millar
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Thomas McKinney
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James Rankin
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Thomas Rankin
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Henry Telford
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| Australia
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Robert Telford, Sergeant
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| South Africa
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John Devlin
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| Tablet Two reads:
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| Roll of Honour of the members and adherents of the Molesworth Street Presbyterian Church, Cookstown, who nobly responding to the Empire’s call fought and worked on behalf of liberty and civilisation 1914-1919.
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George H Allen
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Harry Anderson
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William Anderson
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Andrew Artt, Lance Corporal
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Robert J Bell
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James Black
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Robert Calders
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George Compton, Sergeant
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Alexander Compton, Sgt-Major
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Frederick Crooks, Capt., R.A.M.C.
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Alfred Crossan
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William Currie M.M.
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Frederick W Devlin
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William Doey
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Samuel Espie, Sergeant
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Harry Ferguson
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William S G Ferguson, Lieutenant
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Robert Fulton
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John J Gibson
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Robert Harkness M.M., Sergeant
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Frederick Harris, Captain
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James Hogg
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John Hogg
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William Hogg
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Samuel Johnstone
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Joseph MacKenzie
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John Maxwell
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John Fitzgerald Mayne, Major, R.A.M.C.
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James W McKinney, Major, R.A.M.C.
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Hector McDonald Porter
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Thomas Quigg
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James Reid
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John Reid, Sergeant
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William Reid
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William Scott
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William Seaton, M.M.
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William H Shaw
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Stanley Telford
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Robert Thompson
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John Wilkinson
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Thomas Wilkinson
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William Woodburn
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Mrs Christie
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Miss Marion Entrican, Ulster Volunteer Hospital
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Miss Josephine Ferguson, Nurse in France
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Mrs Gerald Mayne, Nurse in France
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Miss Dorothy McKinney
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Miss Ruby McKinney
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