Post by BereniceUK on Mar 30, 2017 15:09:30 GMT
AT THAT CRISIS
IN THE HISTORY OF THE EMPIRE
WHEN VOLUNTEERS WERE INVITED FOR
ACTIVE SERVICE IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR,
THIS VILLAGE OF EAMONT BRIDGE SENT FOUR.
JOHN HINDSON, WILLIAM TODD, ARTHUR WARWICK
OF THE 24TH COY. (WESTMORLAND & CUMBERLAND)
IMPERIAL YEOMANRY, & WILLIAM HINDSON, OF THE
VOLUNTEER COY. OF THE BORDER REGT.
OF THESE
JOHN HINDSON & WILLIAM TODD
WERE KILLED IN ACTION AT FABERS CUT
30TH MAY, 1900
THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION
ON THIS HISTORIC SITE GRANTED BY LORD BROUGHAM VAUX 1901
Private William Todd
John Hindson
1939 - 1945
1568917 Private Clarence Smith 1st Royal Norfolk Regiment 18.4.1945, aged 31 Son of William Dargue Smith and Frances Smith, of Eamont Bridge
1427378 Gunner Thomas Stanley Poulson Warwick 1 Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery 23.9.1944, aged 24 Husband of Beryl Elsie Warwick, of King's Norton, Birmingham
3599651 Corporal Wilfred Warwick 6th King's Own Scottish Borderers 8.8.1944, aged 27 Son of Fred and Margaret Warwick, of Penrith; husband of Mary Warwick, of Penrith
The CWGC database gives the following four names with an Eamont Bridge connection -
4/9435 Private Herbert White Bell 1st Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 10.5.1915, aged 26 Son of Robert Bell, of Eamont Bridge
24386 Private Robert Blacklin Bousfield 11th Cheshire Regiment 9.9.1917, aged 27 Son of John Bousfield, of Eamont Bridge
2467 Trooper Joseph William Cass Household Battalion 20.11.1917, aged 31 Son of Joseph and Mary Cass, of Lowther Lodge, Eamont Bridge
253939 Private Albert Hindson 1st/6th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 20.10.1918, aged 29 Son of Edward and Jane Hindson, of Eamont Bridge