A YORK war memorial which is one of the few to honour women who fell victim to First World War hostilities has been made a grade II-listed building by English Heritage.
The Leeman Road War Memorial, in Salisbury Terrace, has been included in a scheme to list 500 historic war memorials across the country as the centenary of the outbreak of the war approaches.
The listing was officially announced by Culture Secretary Maria Miller at the Imperial War Museum on International Women’s Day.
The Leeman Road memorial is unusual in that it includes the names of three women who were among the 35 killed in the explosion at the Barnbow filling factory in Leeds in 1916.
Mary E Carter, Lilian Eva Ellis and Gertrude Reed are honoured alongside dozens of men.
Research uncovered the fact the three women were killed in the Barnbow explosion, which was not reported at the time because of security concerns.
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