Providence Chapel Memorial

This site has been created by myself David Drury, and my good friend Paul McDevitt, who continues to help me with some of the technicalities and general running of the site and to whom i am most grateful.   Providence Chapel War Memorial started a number of years ago for me as an introduction into the Great War of 1914-1918 and the  people who fought it including my own family who also lost a son in 1918.      The people who initially took me under their wing when starting in the subject, also had similar but much larger projects ongoing covering most memorials in Burnley (see link Burnley in the Great War, by Andrew Gill and Allen and Andrew Mackay).   The site of the former Providence Chapel ,(the Chapel was demolished in the1960’s), was a place i passed regularly on my way to and from  work in Manchester and Liverpool area.    It being  just on the Burnley /Rossendale boundry i decided to start here  as there are only nine commemorated names from the First World War period, plus three from the Second World War that are named on the memorial.   After gathering information from various sources the project was put on the “back burner” due to work commitments and my researching of other areas of the Great War.       I have stood before the graves/memorials of some named on Providence Chapel  Memorial, both  in France, and Belgium, and, whilst studying the battlefields of the former Western Front and Ypres Salient, i have seen the very ground where they fought and fell.      This will always be an ongoing and updated site, as  new information and photos are added.    I hope that in some way this site  is a worthy memory to those who gave their lives in all conflicts, and were indeed sons of Providence.