Wath Grammar School
Two identically carved wooden boards. A shield is carved at the top centre of each border with bosses carved around the border of the board.
There are 39 names listed in respect of the Second World War.
The inscription on the left panel reads:
With proud thanksgiving let us remember our elder bretheren They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old
and the right panels reads:
Age Shall not weary them nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun & in the morning we will remember them.
There are 39 names listed in respect of the Second World War.
The inscription on the left panel reads:
With proud thanksgiving let us remember our elder bretheren They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old
and the right panels reads:
Age Shall not weary them nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun & in the morning we will remember them.
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Additional Information
George Cyril Ankers (581136)
Royal Air Force - 82 Sqdn. - Sergeant (Obs.) 13 August 1940, aged 24 Son of George and Ann Ankers, of Wombwell, Yorkshire. Vadum Cemetery Blenheim aircraft R3904 lost on an operation to Aalborg, Denmark from Watton airfield John Edward Armitage (1548659) Royal Air Force - 21 O.T.U. - Sergeant (Air Bomber/Nav.) 11 February 1944, aged 23 Son of Thomas Liddall Armitage and Constance Marion Armitage, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire. Oxford (Botley) Cemetery Killed when a Wellington of 21 O.T.U crashed on take off from Moreton-in-Marsh at 1941. On 11 February 1944, Wellington X3215 was detailed to carry out a night non-operational Bullseye exercise. The engine cut on take off and it crashed near Black Downs near Stretton-on-Fosse, killing all on board. Alwyn Barber (FAA/FX. 96751) Royal Navy - H.M.S. Illustrious - Naval Airman 1st Class 29 January 1945, aged 20 Son of Thomas and Louisa Barber, of Darfield, Yorkshire. Lee-On-Solent Memorial Lost on air operations against the Japanese occupied Soengi Gerong oil refineries near Palembang in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). Kenneth Dudley Barker (D/JX 270130) Navy - H.M.S. Itchen - Telegraphist 23 September 1943, aged 22 Son of Alec and Amy Barker, of Swinton, Mexborough, Yorkshire. Plymouth Naval Memorial At 22.53 hours on 20 Sep 1943, U-305 missed HMS Itchen with a Gnat in 57°30N/31°10W, after sinking HMCS St. Croix near convoy ON-202. At 04.35 hours on 21 September, U-270 fired a Gnat and heard an end-of-run detonation after 11 minutes. The target of the attack must have been HMS Itchen or HMS Narcissus. At 23.57 hours on 22 September, U-952 fired a Gnat and heard an end-of-run detonation after 10 minutes 3 seconds. The target of this attack may have been HMS Itchen or FFL Renoncule. At 01.56 hours on 23 September, U-666 fired a Gnat, which detonated after 8 minutes 21 seconds in the wake of the HMCS Morden. At 02.01 hours, the U-boat fired another Gnat, which hit HMS Itchen after 1 minute 10 seconds. The frigate blew up after the hit. Debris from the vessel was later found on the conning tower of the U-boat and on HMCS Morden. The HMS Itchen had picked up 81 survivors from HMCS St. Croix and one from HMS Polyanthus, which had been sunk by U-952 on 21 September. Only two men from HMS Itchen and one from HMCS St. Croix were rescued. Convoy ON 202 Trevor Carr (1622921) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 4 Sqdn. - Sergeant 1 June 1944, aged 20 Son of Percy and Hilda Carr, of Wombwell, Yorkshire. Singapore Memorial Died in the Far East, possibly lost in Hurricane LB549 John Harrison Carr (1058666) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 144 Sqdn. - Sergeant (Pilot) 26 January 1942, aged 21 Son of John and Charlotte Carr, of Darfield. Rover Scout. Darfield Cemetery Part of the crew of Hampden P4378 which was airborne from Hemswell on a mission to Hamburg. Overshot on return to base and while trying to make a second circuit the bomber stalled and crashed killing three of the four crew. Jack Caswell (13047159) Pioneer Corps - 112th Company - Corporal 26 February 1941, aged 25 Son of Joseph and Mary Caswell, of Darfield; Husband of Mary Caswell. Wombwell Cemetery Killed in an air raid, when billet hit by a land mine Jack Causier (4693541) King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 1st Bn. - Private 19 January 1944, aged 24 Minturno War Cemetery Died in Italy during the crossing of the River Garigliano and push towards Minturno. Gordon Ebblewhite (149499) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 13 Sqdn. - Flying Officer (W.Op./Air Gnr.) 31 January 1945, aged 33 Son of William and Amelia Ebblewhite; Husband of Edith Verna Ebblewhite, of Holyland, Barnsley, Yorkshire. Udine War Cemetery Boston Mk IV BZ495 (code letter "S") based at Falconara, Italy failed to return from night intruder op. to Vigodazere, Padua Province George Hallows (151077) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 576 Sqdn. - Flying Officer (Nav.) 23 May 1944, aged 23 Son of Andrew and Lavinia Gertrude W. Hallows, of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Navigator on Lancaster ME687 coded UL-S2 airborne at 22:00 from Elsham Wolds on a mission to Dortmund. Crashed at Hiddingsel, a small village 8 km of Dülmen, where all were buried 24 May 1944. They have been subsequently re-interred in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery. Twenty days previously the pilot had brought home a very severely damaged Lancaster which had been badly shot about by a Ju-88 from the raid on Mailly-le-Camp with this same crew, except for the Air Gunners Charles Kenneth Hames (535711) Royal Air Force - Sergeant (W.Op./Air Gnr.) 5 September 1940, aged 22 Son of John and Charlotte Hames, of Pogmoor, Barnsley, Yorkshire. Amesbury Cemetery Killed when the wing of Anson R9815 struck the ground on final approach. The aircraft was at Boscombe Down test facility carrying out a beam approach development flight whilst enemy aircraft were in area Reginald Kerin Hanley (1059834) Royal Air Force - OADU - Sergeant 21 May 1942, aged 20 Son of Kathleen Mary Hanley, of Wath-On-Dearne, Yorkshire. Malta Memorial Attacked & shot down on delivery flight. Wellington Z8589. Base - Gibraltar Bernard James Hargreaves (1222132) Royal Air Force - Serjeant 14 July 1942, aged 29 Son of Albert and Ida Hargreaves; husband of Margaret Hargreaves, of Thurnscoe. Wath-Upon-Dearne Cemetery Motor accident at Catterick, North Yorkshire Raymond Tom Higgins (568305) Royal Air Force - 218 Sqdn. - Sergeant (Flight Engineer) 21 August 1942 Kiel War Cemetery Killed the rest of the crew at Short Stirling I W7573, HA-U. T/o Downham Market for Minelaying in Baltic. Crashed near Schleswig. The aircraft crashed between Brodersby and Geel, 9kms ENE of Schleswig. James Hodges (1675389) Royal Air Force - 227 Sqdn. - Sergeant (Flt. Engr.) 18 December 1944, aged 20 Son of George Henry and Martha Arm Hodges, of Wombwell, Yorkshire. Malbork Commonwealth War Cemetery Lancaster aircraft PB723 lost on an operation to Gdynia, Germany from Balderton airfield Herbert Reginald Howard Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve - H.M.S. Avenger - Sub-Lieutenant (A) 4 May 1942, aged 28 Lee-On-Solent Memorial Lost when an aircraft crashed Frank Jarvis (1910760) Royal Engineers - 673 Artisan Works Coy - Lance Corporal 17 September 1941, aged 24 Son of Edwin and Rebecca Jarvis; Husband of Helena Winifred Jarvis, of Sheffield. Krakow Rakowicki Cemetery Died after operations on his head whilst a prisoner of war in Poland, after being captured at Dunkirk George William Johnson (1018928) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Corporal 17 April 1945, aged 33 Husband of Edna Johnson, of Wombwell. Wombwell Cemetery Killed when an explosion and fire destroyed 6 Lancasters whilst being 'bombed-up' at East Kirkby. Robert Henry Lister (4541549) West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 2nd Bn. - Private 23 March 1941, aged 23 Son of Cecil and Annie Lister, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire. Keren War Cemetery KIA in Eritrea during the Third Battle of Keren George Pearson Lister (1064071) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 105 Sqdn. - Sergeant (Nav.) 27 May 1943, aged 28 Son of Cecil and Annie Lister, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire. Hanover War Cemetery Killed along with the pilot of De Havilland Mosquito DZ467. The aircraft coded GB-P took off from Marham at 19:20 on 27 May 1943. Target was the optical plant of Zeiss in the town of Jena. Shot down by the Flakgruppe Ostfriesland and Flakbrigade XV. The aircraft crashed 22:20, coming from northerly direction, in the garden of a house. Buried first on 30 May1943 in Diepholz and buried now in the Hanover War Cemetery. |
Jack Markham (410321)
Royal Armoured Corps - Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons - Trooper 6 November 1942, aged 23 Son of Fred and Ethel Markham, of Doncaster, Yorkshire. El Alamein War Cemetery Died during the Battle of Alamein George Walton Marwood (564032) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 114 Sqdn. - Sergeant (Obs.) 13 October 1939, aged 25 Son of Hugh Marwood and of Emmaline Marwood, of Barwick in Elmet, Yorkshire. Rheinberg War Cemetery Flying in Blenheim N6160 from the squadron’s base at Villeneuve in France on a reconnaissance mission of the Ruhr in Germany. Believed shot down by a combination of Flak and fighter, possibly by Ltn. Kurt Kirchner 1./JG 52 (1st victory). Jack Oldknow (1108940) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 1 Coastal O.T.U. - Sergeant 25 March 1942, aged 20 Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Oldknow, of Hemingfield, Yorkshire. Runnymede Memorial Killed with 3 other member of the crew of Hudson V serial number AM699 which was on a night navigation exercise. Crashed in sea 3 miles SW of Silloth, 2250 hours. Presumed collided with Hudson N7392 Albert Edward Osguthorpe (1239576) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 27 Sqdn. - Sergeant 21 February 1943, aged 21 Son of Albert Edward and Gladys Mary Osguthorpe, of Bolton-On-Dearne, Yorkshire. Singapore Memorial Lost when a Beaufighter aircraft went missing Frank George Peploe (1549732) Royal Air Force - 158 Sqdn. - Sergeant 27 September 1943, aged 21 Son of Frank George and Ethel May Peploe, of Wath-On-Dearne, Yorkshire. Runnymede Memorial Halifax aircraft JN905 lost on an operation to Hannover, Germany from Lissett airfield Jack Picton (658095) Royal Air Force - 90 Sqdn. - Sergeant 23 June 1943, aged 25 Son of Horace and Lucy Picton, of Wath-On-Dearne, Yorkshire; Husband of Olive May Picton, of Wath-On-Dearne. Runnymede MemorialStirling aircraft BK804 lost on an operation to Mulheim, Germany from West Wickham airfield Stanley Pocklington (1007940) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Palembang - Leading Aircraftman 28 October 1942, aged 28 (son of George and Hannah Pockington) Yokohama Cremation Memorial Captured 20/3/1942. Part of Java Party 5a on 27-10-1942 moved with Dainichi Maru 4 to Japan (457 POWs). Died whilst a Japanese PoW George Edward Rawson (572735) Royal Air Force - 76 Sqdn. - Sergeant (Flt. Engr.) 20 November 1942, aged 21 Milan War Cemetery Halifax aircraft DT571 lost on an operation to Turin, Italy from Linton-on-Ouse airfield Kenneth W Robinson Merchant Navy - MV Darlington Court (London) - Second Radio Officer 20 May 1941, aged 21 King's Commendation For Brave Conduct. Son of Alfred Robinson, and of Agnes A. Robinson, of Wombwell, Yorkshire. Tower Hill Memorial On the 20th May 1941 when on route from New York - Halifax - Liverpool in Convoy HX-126 and carrying a cargo of 8,116 tons of wheat and aircraft she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-556 when 126 miles south of Cape Farewell. 22 crew, 3 gunners and 3 passengers were killed. Frank Robinson (7522046) Royal Army Medical Corps - 44 Field Hygiene Sec - Private 1 July 1943, aged 23 Son of Charles and Hannah Robinson, of Wombwell, Yorkshire. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Died as a prisoner of war of the Japanese, after being captured when Singapore was surrendered. Jim Salmon (935602) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Sergeant 2 February 1941, aged 22 Son of John and Sarah Elizabeth Salmon, of Jump. Wombwell (Hemingfield) Cemetery Died on Active Service in Oxford E Senior Not yet identified Colin Singleton (4755733) York and Lancaster Regiment - The Hallamshire Bn. - Lance Corporal 27 July 1944, aged 31 Son of Frank and Maud Singleton, of Parkgate, Rotherham, Yorkshire; Husband of Margaret E. Singleton, of Parkgate. Ranville War Cemetery DoW Caen area Frederick Keith Slaughter (628781) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 211 Sqdn. - Corporal 11 November 1944 Son of Arthur and Gertrude Anne Slaughter, of Scarborough, Yorkshire. Singapore Memorial Taken prisoner on 8 March 1942 when Java fell and died on board the SS Maros Maru during a journey from Ambon Island to Surabaya, Java Lawrence William Swindells (1549852) Royal Air Force - No 1 O T U Saguenay P Q - Sergeant (Pilot) 9 November 1943, aged 21 Son of John William and Emma Swindells, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire, England. Arvida Protestant Cemetery Killed whilst training in Canada in Hurricane serial number 1361 J H Walker Not yet identified (unless John Arthur Walker P/KX 94639) Dorothy Margaret Wardell (6923) Women's Royal Naval Service - H.M.S. Daedalus - Wren 23 November 1940, aged 22 Daughter of Henry and Dorothy M. Wardell, of Ackworth, Yorkshire. Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery Killed along with nine other WRNS in an air raid when an unexploded shell hit the Mansfield Hotel, Lee-On-Solent and exploded at the dinner table. Herbert Wathey (47586) Royal Air Force - 144 Sqdn. - Flying Officer 12 February 1942, aged 29 Runnymede Memorial Operation Fuller (Channel Dash). Hampden AT175. Base - North Luffenham Arthur Winter (591751) Royal Air Force - Corporal 3 March 1944, aged 21 Son of Patterson William and Florence Winter, of Thurnscoe. Dearne (Thurnscoe) Cemetery Died in Basingstoke |