Post by BereniceUK on Apr 15, 2017 17:39:47 GMT
(Lancaster Observer & Morecambe Chronicle, 30.4.1920)
If my understanding of the above is correct, the burial ground extension and a better approach to the church - the path from the car park? - comprise a war memorial, or a proposed one at least. Or perhaps it was intended that there be a war memorial sited on the newly-purchased churchyard extension.
9873 Private George Ernest Wadge 3rd Royal Fusiliers 24.5.1915, aged 28 Son of Josiah and Elizabeth Wadge, of 15, East Street, Farington, Leyland
3876 Private Henry Whitaker Hoole 1st/4th King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 18.8.1916, aged 39 Son of Robert and Alice Hoole, of Ball's Farm, Winmarleigh
26096 Private William Parkinson 10th East Yorkshire Regiment 12.11.1916 Husband of Alice Parkinson of Lamb Lane Cottage, Winmarleigh
37679 Private Richard Chippendale 13th The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 2.6.1917
John Whewell - possibly 33969 Private John Whewell 8th King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 13.4.1918
L/10990 Acting Bombardier Matthew Iddon Till 48th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery 31.7.1918, aged 22 Son of William and Mary Alice Till, of Winders Farm, Cabus
James Edward Dunn - either 38015 Private James Edward Dunn 12th York and Lancaster Regiment 7.11.1916 or 43398 Driver James Edward Dunn 51st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery 14.10.1917
37123 Private Richard James Bamber 2nd South Wales Borderers 24.10.1918, aged 22 Son of John and Agnes Bamber, of Nateby Hallgates, Nateby
241398 Private Robert Winder 1st/5th East Lancashire Regiment 5.7.1917, aged 22 Son of John and Margaret Winder, of Waggoner Farm, Tunstead, Stacksteads, Bacup; born at Hutton, Preston
923122 Bombardier William Jarvis Blankney 5 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery 10.5.1944, aged 24 Son of Harry and Betsy Blankney, of Garstang
2722335 Guardsman Richard Wilkinson Blackburn 1st Irish Guards 28.4.1943, aged 32 Son of William and Mary Ellen Blackburn, of Winmarleigh
14668927 Private Stanley Jenkinson The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), attached 13th (2/4th The South Lancashire Regiment) Battalion The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C. 19.8.1944, aged 19 Son of John and Hannah Jenkinson, of Winmarleigh
Lieutenant John Alfred Wilson Patten, 1st Life Guards. Born 24th October 1864, died 20th November 1889, aged 25.
37679 Private Richard Chippendale, 13th The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Died at Westminster Military Hospital, after being wounded at Arras, on 2nd June 1917, aged 24.
L/10990 Acting Bombardier Matthew Iddon Till, 48th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Fell in France on 31st July 1918, aged 22. Son of William and Mary Alice Till, of Winders Farm, Cabus. CWGC database gives his age as 21.
