Post by BereniceUK on Apr 16, 2017 15:08:09 GMT
* indicates a burial or family gravestone inscription in the churchyard extension; all other inscriptions and burials are in the original churchyard.
* 10596 Private Thomas Richard Stretch, 7th North Staffordshire Regiment. Died 4th November 1915, aged 23. Husband of S. Trevor (formerly Stretch), of 1 17, Uttoxeter Road, Longton, Staffordshire.
* S/12913 Rifleman John Hughes, 8th Rifle Brigade. Killed in action in the battle of the Somme on 16th August 1916, aged 18.
B/2087 Rifleman Wilfrid Cope, 9th Rifle Brigade. Killed in France on 5th October 1916, aged 25. Son of John and Anne Cope, of 9, London Road, Nantwich. CWGC database gives his age as 26.
35685 Private James Latham, South Wales Borderers, transferred to (129640) Labour Corps. Died 3rd September 1917.
Captain Edward Hibbert Binney, 1st Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment). Died 11th October 1917, aged 21. Son of the late Rev. John E. H. Binney.
36851 Gunner Alfred Potts, 230th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action in France on 29th May 1918, aged 23. Son of Alfred and Sarah Potts, of 156, Gresty Road, Crewe. Born at Shavington.
523117 Private John William Platt, 545th Agricultural Company, Labour Corps. Died 27th June 1918, aged 37. Son of Peter and Sarah Platt, of Bridgemere.
* 7686 Lance Corporal Albert Oakes, 1st Cheshire Regiment. Contracted illness while with the B.E.F. in 1914 and died at Wybunbury Lane on 5th November 1918, aged 31. Husband of Mary Oakes.
15526 Lance Corporal Charles Edward Cornes, 1st King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Died 26th November 1918, aged 22. Son of Joseph and Mary Cornes, of Broad Lane, Stapeley.
* 102051 Company Serjeant Major A.E. Kerley, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). 5th January 1920, aged 45.
* 244899 Private Jack Hodgkisson, Royal Army Service Corps. Died 23rd January 1941, aged 20. Son of John and Mabel Ann Hodgkisson, of Wybunbury.
* J/4825 Pilot Officer (Pilot) Richard Pryce Hughes, 10 (R.A.F.) Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force. Died 15th April 1942, aged 33. Son of Pryce Edward and Ethel Bessie Hughes; husband of Jane Elizabeth Gillian Hughes, of Grampound, Cornwall.
* 610543 Sergeant (Air Gunner) Dennis Booker, 158 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Died 14th February 1943, aged 22. Son of John Herbert and Agnes Isabella Booker, of Wybunbury.
* 7908832 Trooper Leonard Hewitt Quayle, Royal Armoured Corps. Died 16th January 1945, aged 28. Son of Edith Quayle, of Crewe.
Thomas ...son. Killed in action on 3rd September 19.., aged 30 or 36. Son of John and Elizabeth ...son.