Wath - Church Street
The Wath-Upon-Dearne war memorial is a tall latin cross on a square plinth, this contains details of the WW1 war dead. Behind the cross is a wall on which a plaque is located that reads:
IN PROUD AND EVER LIVING MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945 65 names are then listed under the headings ROYAL NAVY ARMY ROYAL AIR FORCE |
ROYAL NAVY |
ARMY |
ROYAL AIR FORCE |
Ashley, Harry Bradley
Ballans, Harry Barker, Kenneth Dudley Carnill, Ronald Dove, Albert Frost, Mark Leslie Galloway, John Hartley, Stanley Haslam, Jack Hill, Roy Holman, Harold Law, Douglas Sands, Thomas Stanley Tingle, Frank Wake, Fred Wilson, Douglas Wilson, Roland Wilson, Ronald |
Buckley, Jack Kenneth
Burkinshaw, Charles Leonard Cadman, George Edward Carr, Cecil Catling, Frederick Chapman, Ernest Chapman, John Cooper, Frank Edwards, John Dunstan Griffiths, Samuel Richard Hancock, Harry Harding, Bernard Hargreaves, Frederick Smeltar Harper, Holly Ashton Hewitt, Ronald Hinchcliff, Patrick Howarth, Percy |
Humphreys, Cecil
Ingman, Albert Fawley Lambert, Howard Slater McEvoy, Harold Needham, David Dalton Pearson, Jim Parsons, Douglas Pike, Edgar James Pearce, Joseph Rawlinson, Bruce Rawlinson, Walter Shepherd, Eva Jane Sickler, Kenneth Turton, William Waterhouse, Thomas Wroot, William Richard |
Baxter, John Lawrence
Beaumont, Arthur Hanley, Reginald Kerin Hargreaves, Bernard James Harvey, William Hart, Frank Hollings, Harry Reginald Kendal, Kenneth Lyons, Thomas Leo Myers, Thomas Herbert Peploe, Frank Picton, Jack Rawson, George Edward Stamper, Percy |
Additional Info
Harry Bradley Ashley (P/JX 144693
Royal Navy - H. M. S. Egret 27 August 1943, aged 23 Lost when vessel sunk in Bay of Biscay Portsmouth Naval Memorial Harry Ballans (D/KX 81863) Royal Navy - H.M.S. Hunter 10 April 1940, aged 28 Lost when vessel sunk in the Norwegian Sea Plymouth Naval Memorial Kenneth Dudley Barker (D/JX 270130) Navy - H.M.S. Itchen 23 September 1943, aged 22 Lost when vessel sunk in the Atlantic Plymouth Naval Memorial Ronald Carnill (C/SSX 30686) Royal Navy - H.M.S. Firedrake 17 December 1942, aged 22 Lost when vessel sunk in the Atlantic Chatham Naval Memorial Albert Dove (D/KX 80472) Royal Navy - H.M.S. Glorious 9 June 1940, aged 28 Lost when vessel sunk in the Norwegian Sea Plymouth Naval Memorial Mark Leslie Frost (PLY/X 1761) Royal Marines - H.M.S. Edinburgh. 14 May 1942, aged 23 Lost when vessel sunk in the Arctic Plymouth Naval Memorial John Galloway Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve - H.M.S. Indomitable 13 June 1942, aged 23 Aircaft lost in Indian Ocean Lee-On-Solent Memorial Stanley Hartley (D/KX 118065) Navy - H.M.S. Gloucester 22 May 1941, aged 19 Lost when vessel sunk in the Mediterranean Plymouth Naval Memorial Jack Haslam (D/SSX 23390) Navy - H.M.S. Itchen 23 September 1943, aged 23 Lost when vessel sunk in the Atlantic Plymouth Naval Memorial Roy Hill (D/SSX 35787) Navy - H.M.S. Galatea 15 December 1941, aged 19 Lost when vessel sunk in the Mediterranean Plymouth Naval Memorial Harold Holman (C/KX 134907) Royal Navy - H.M. Submarine Parthian 11 August 1943, aged 21 Lost when vessel sunk in the Mediterranean Chatham Naval Memorial Douglas Law (P/JX 138916) Royal Navy - H.M.S. Vernon 29 June 1944, aged 27 Died in hospital in Brighton West Melton Congregational Churchyard Thomas Stanley Sands Merchant Navy - SS Reynolds (London) 31 October 1942, aged 30 Lost when vessel sunk in the Indian Ocean Tower Hill Memorial Francis Tingle (C/JX 234842) Royal Navy - H.M.S. Veteran 26 September 1942, aged 22 Lost when vessel sunk in the Atlantic Chatham Naval Memorial Fred Wake (P/KX 75562) Royal Navy - H.M.S. Egret 27 August 1943, aged 36 Lost when vessel sunk in the Bay of Biscay Portsmouth Naval Memorial Douglas Wilson (D/KX 82559) Royal Navy - H.M.S. Galatea 15 December 1941, aged 27 Lost when vessel sunk in the Mediterranean Plymouth Naval Memorial Roland Wilson (PLY/X 1758) Royal Marines - H.M.S. Dorsetshire 5 April 1942, aged 24 Lost when vessel sunk in the Indian Ocean Plymouth Naval Memorial Ronald Wilson Merchant Navy - SS Manchester Brigade (Manchester) 27 September 1940, aged 19 Lost when vessel sunk in the Atlantic Tower Hill Memorial |
John Lawrence Baxter (629458)
Royal Air Force - 37 Sqdn. 21 February 1941, aged 26 Wellington aircraft lost on a transit flight in North Africa Alamein Memorial Arthur Beaumont (1107864) Royal Air Force - 432 (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn 22 March 1944 Halifax aircraft lost on a mission to Germany Hanover War Cemetery Reginald Kerin Hanley (1059834) Royal Air Force - OADU 21 May 1942, aged 20 Wellington airacraft lost on a delivery flight ot North Africa Malta Memorial Bernard James Hargreaves (1222132) Royal Air Force 14 July 1942, aged 29 Motor accident at Catterick, North Yorkshire Wath-Upon-Dearne Cemetery Frank Hart (631366) Royal Air Force - 99 Sqdn. 3 March 1940, aged 18 Wellington aircraft crashed on return from a leaflet dropping mission Wath-Upon-Dearne Cemetery William Harvey (1596012) Royal Air Force - 514 Sqdn. 2 February 1945, aged 21 Lancaster aircraft lost on a mission to Germany Durnbach War Cemetery Harry Reginald Hollings (1433950) Royal Air Force 6 March 1945, aged 21 Killed on active service in France Limoges (Louyat) Communal Cemetery Kenneth Kendall (2207084) Royal Air Force - HCU1662 14 August 1943, aged 19 Lancaster aircraft missing on a training flight Runnymede Memorial Thomas Leo Lyons (624994) Royal Air Force - 15 O.T.U. 31 May 1942, aged 27 Wellington Mk.1C aircraft lost on a mission to Germany Charleroi Communal Cemetery Thomas Herbert Myers (39893) Royal Air Force - 114 Sqdn. 18 April 1941 Blenheim aircraft crashed on return from convoy escort duty Runnymede Memorial Frank George Peploe (1549732) Royal Air Force - 158 Sqdn. 27 September 1943, aged 21 Halifax aircraft lost on a mission to Germany Runnymede Memorial Jack Picton (658095) Royal Air Force - 90 Sqdn. 23 June 1943, aged 25 Stirling aircraft lost on a mission to Germany Runnymede Memorial George Edward Rawson (572735) Royal Air Force - 76 Sqdn. 20 November 1942, aged 21 Halifax aircraft lost on a mission to Italy Milan War Cemetery Percy Stamper (1492841) Royal Air Force - 102 Sqdn. 17 June 1944, aged 23 Halifax aircraft lost on a mission to Germany Reichswald Forest War Cemetery |
Jack Kenneth Buckley (14262236)
Royal Armoured Corps 19 December 1943, aged 20 Died in hospital in Aldershot West Melton Congregational Churchyard Charles Leonard Burkinshaw (2656687) Coldstream Guards - 5th Bn. 8 September 1944, aged 31 Died in Belgium Heverlee War Cemetery George Edward Cadman (4626975) Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 1st Bn. 21 April 1943, aged 21 Died in North Africa Massicault War Cemetery Cecil Carr (4612853) Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 2nd Bn. 23 January 1941, aged 27 Died in India Delhi War Cemetery Frederick Catling (2659028) Coldstream Guards - 1st Bn. 4 October 1944, aged 27 KIA in Holland Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery John Chapman (4749934) York and Lancaster Regiment - 1st Bn. 29 March 1943, aged 25 Died of gunshot wounds in Egypt Fayid War Cemetery Ernest Chapman (1069163) Royal Artillery - 7 Coast Regt. 26 February 1943, aged 39 Died of illness as a PoW of the Japanese Singapore Memorial Frank Cooper (2356667) Royal Corps Of Signals - 68 H.A.A. Regt., R.A., Sig. Sec. 14 November 1942, aged 36 Died as a PoW, captured in North Africa Alamein Memorial John Dunstan Edwards (2658940) Coldstream Guards - 2nd Bn. 6 October 1944, aged 25 KIA during the Italian Campaign Faenza War Cemetery Samuel Richard Griffiths (1426871) Royal Artillery - 7 Bty., 5 H.R.A. Regt 19 December 1941, aged 22 KIA in the Battle for Hong Kong Sai Wan Memorial Harry Hancock (4748143) York and Lancaster Regiment - 2nd Bn. 13 August 1942, aged 21 Died of illness whilst a Japanese PoW Rangoon Memorial Bernard Harding (14819044) East Lancashire Regiment - 1st Bn. 16 April 1945, aged 18 Died in Germany Becklingen War Cemetery Frederick Smeltar Hargreaves (869206) Royal Artillery - 188 Bty., 67 H.A.A. Regt. 3 September 1942, aged 48 Died of illness in hospital in India Gauhati War Cemetery Robert Holly Ashton Harper (777618) Royal Artillery (sec Commando) - No 6 26 February 1943, aged 32 KIA in the North African Campaign Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery Ronald Hewitt (14609682) King's Shropshire Light Infantry - 4th Bn. 23 November 1944, aged 19 DoW in Holland Mierlo War Cemetery Patrick Hinchcliffe (4541557) Army Catering Corps 3 November 1944, aged 27 Died in Holland Overloon War Cemetery Percy Howarth (1470498) Royal Artillery - 7/4 Marine Regt. 19 February 1942, aged 21 Lost when steamship Empire Comet was sunk in the Atlantic Plymouth Naval Memorial |
Cyril Humphreys (14710777)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 1/4th Bn. 3 September 1944, aged 21 Died in France Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Havre Albert Fawley Ingman (T/244983) Royal Army Service Corps 14 March 1942, aged 34 Died in Yorkshire Wath-Upon-Dearne Cemetery Harold McEvoy (4758288) Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - 5th Bn. 15 May 1942, aged 22 Died in North Africa Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma Howard Slater Lambert (2593018) Royal Corps Of Signals 12 October 1940, aged 27 Died in Surrey Mexborough Cemetery David Dalton Needham (14333199) Royal Artillery 22 July 1946, aged 22 Bombing of King David Hotel, Jerusalem Ramleh War Cemetery Douglas Parsons (2079434) Royal Engineers - 580 Army Troops Coy. Between 28 April and 16 July 1941, aged 20 KIA in the Greek Campaign Phaleron War Cemetery Joseph Pearce (1520837) Royal Artillery - 2 Bty., 1 Searchlight Regt. between 25/26 May 1940, aged 21 Died at Dunkirk Dunkirk Memorial Jim Pearson (1468433) Royal Artillery - 180 (M) H.A.A. Regt. 5 October 1943, aged 22 Accidently killed in Scotland Wath-Upon-Dearne Cemetery Edgar James Pike (14566154) Gordon Highlanders - 1st Bn. The London Scottish 17 April 1945, aged 20 KIA during the Italian Campaign Ravenna War Cemetery Bruce Rawlinson (3320165) South Staffordshire Regiment - 13th Bn. 8 January 1941, aged 23 Died in Norfolk Wath-Upon-Dearne Cemetery Walter Rawlinson (T/10704738) Royal Army Service Corps - 487 Gen. Transport Coy 13 October 1944 Died in North Africa Dely Ibrahim War Cemetery Eva Jane Shepherd (W/146249) Aux. Territorial Service 18 March 1945, aged 24 Died in hospital in Rotherham Brampton Bierlow (Christ Church) Kenneth Sickler (7371189) Royal Army Medical Corps 10 May 1942, aged 25 Lost when hospital ship Ramb IV was sunk in the Mediterranean Alamein Memorial William Turton (7958946) Royal Armoured Corps - 9th Royal Tank Regt. 10 July 1944, aged 21 KIA during the Normandy Campaign Bayeux War Cemetery Thomas Waterhouse (4626966) Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 1st Bn. 6 May 1943, aged 20 Died in North Africa Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery William Richard Wroot (1086195) Royal Horse Artillery - 4 Regt. 9 December 1941, aged 24 DoW during the North Africa Campaign Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery |