IT must be one of the highest war memorials in the country.

This wooden cross was put on top of Pule Hill to remember local World War Two heroes.

And it makes a dramatic image captured by Linthwaite photographer Gary Quarmby as he looked out over Marsden and the moors on a bright winter’s morning.

The cross is in honour of the 2nd Battalion of the 7th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment from the 1939 to 1945 war.

Former soldier Walter Horne, of Marsden, made and inscribed the first wooden cross in memory of his colleagues who never came home and it was first put on top of the hill in 1991.

Lt Horne was awarded the Military Cross in recognition of his bravery during a battle at Telberg in Belgium where he personally helped his troops withdraw under heavy artillery fire, twice passing through a minefield. He died in 1997 aged 80.

The latest one was put up last November and was constructed by Mr Horne’s neighbour, Nick Horn, after the previous one was vandalised. It was dedicated in a simple ceremony conducted by the Rev Sue Pegg, minister of three Colne Valley churches. The cross was transported up to its position by the National Trust and a wreath – which can still be seen – was laid by those who attended the event.

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