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From the front, the memorial looks to be a bit wonky.



UNVEILED BY E. J. BRUCE ESQ., MARCH 25TH 1904.


Although they have no inscription, the other three sides have some decoration.



DEATH OF MR. J. C. MELLOR. - It is sad to record the death from enteric fever of Private Joshua Charlesworth Mellor, at Bloemfontein, on Friday last (22nd of June). It was only last February that he left Marsden, along with Private G. W. Ward, as members of the Volunteer Company of the West Riding Regiment for the front in Africa. He sailed in the Guelph, in February, and arrived at Cape Town about the middle of March, where the troops remained a day or two awaiting orders. They proceeded to Norval's Pont, and afterwards gradually on to Bloemfontein. Good news of his health was regularly received by his relatives, and it was a great shock for all to learn of his death, news of which arrived on Tuesday morning. Before leaving Marsden Mr. Mellor was employed at Messrs. Henry Fisher and Co's mill at Marsden, and a great demonstration was made at Marsden on the occasion of his departure, when he was presented with the sum of £13, and received a most hearty send-off. He was an old scholar of the Marsden Town School, which he attended for years. He was at the time of his death in his twenty-fourth year. He was of a quiet, unassuming disposition, and much respected by those who knew him. Very deep sympathy is felt for his relatives in his sad and sudden death.

Huddersfield Daily Examiner, Friday 29th June 1900

Mellor's was the only one of the three whose death I could find a report of in the Huddersfield Daily Examiner. Staff at Local Studies, Huddersfield Library, told me that the Huddersfield Chronicle ceased being published in 1900 - however, that's incorrect, it actually continued until June 1916, so it should be available to read somewhere.