Post by BereniceUK on Apr 12, 2017 14:57:58 GMT
A couple of the names on the memorial aren't too clear so a big thank you to Charlie Watson who had already researched the following information and passed it on to me after we had met at the memorial
NAME - OCCUPATION (1911 Census) - RANK - REGIMENT - WHERE ENLISTED - AGE AT DEATH - DATE OF DEATH - WHERE KILLED - WHERE BURIED
Bertie George DAVIE - Director of Companies - Lieutenant-Colonel - 1/8TH(City of London) Battalion TF (Post Office Rifles) - ? - 43 - 24/12/1917 - Died in Sussex of illness and/or wounds - Stanton Cemetery?
Herbert EVANS - Stone Cutter - Sapper - 76th Field Company Royal Engineers - Rowsley - 38 - 17/8/1917 - Boesinghe, Belgium - Artillery Wood Cemetery
James William GLADWIN - Tool sharpener, gritstone quarry - Private - 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters - Rowsley - 21 - 15/10/1916 - Somme, France - No Known Grave, Thiepval Memorial
Harold HARVEY - Gardener - Private - 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters - Rowsley - 22 - 5/7/1916 - Somme, France - No Known Grave, Thiepval Memorial
John William HOLMES - Gritstone quarryman - Private - 15th Battalion Cheshires - Youlgrave - 30 - 24/3/1918 - Marriecourt Road, Somme, France - No Known Grave, Pozieres Memorial
John Bernard SIDDALL - Schoolboy - Private - 42nd Company Machine Gun Corps - Rowsley - 20 - 20/3/1917 - Arras, France - Faubourg D’Amiens Cemetery,Arras
Charles Henry PENISTONE - Gardener -? - Infantry Works Company - ? - 41? - 1921? - Died in Chesterfield after war
Arthur WHITWORTH - Gardener - Able Seaman - Hawke Battalion, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve - ? - 22 - 2/4/1919 - Died in Birmingham after war, of illness/wounds - Stanton Cemetery
John STEVENSON - ? - Private - 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters - Bakewell - 29 - 16/8/1917 - Passendaele, Belgium - No Known Grave, Tyne Cot Memorial
(n.b. The War Memorial cites John R Stevenson, but this name does not square with other available data. Of the John Stevensons which do, this is the most likely one.)
