Woodhouse
IN MARKET SQUARE
Market Square Woodhouse Sheffield South Yorkshire S13 7JX England OS Grid Ref.: SK 420 848 |
STONE WHEEL CROSS. HEXAGONAL HEAD. CROSS SET ON ROUGH-HEWN STONE BASE. INSCRIPTION ON SHAFT. NAMES ON BASE. CELTIC-STYLE CARVINGS ON HEAD OF CROSS.
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TO/ THE PROUD/ AND/ GRATEFUL/ MEMORY / OF THE/ MEN OF/ WOODHOUSE/ WHO DIED/ IN THE/ SERVICE/ OF THEIR/ COUNTRY/ 1914-1918/ 1939-1945/ (NAMES)
Archer J
Butterfield L Blyth J Clarke C Coleman L Darby H Ellis W Hartley W Keeton S Lilley G Lindsay T W R |
Levick G L
Pashley W Jones E Morley C Smith L Warren A Newey K Tibenham J H G Munford |
Woodhouse St James
St James Church War Memorial lists 91 names from WWI and 21 names from WWII
ST JAMES CHURCH
Tithe Barn La Woodhouse Sheffield South Yorkshire S13 England OS Grid Ref.: SK 410 850 Denomination: Church of England |
INSCRIPTION ON MARBLE TABLET FRAMED BY TWO PILASTRES. WW1 AND WW2 NAMES ON SEPARATE TABLETS MOUNTED BELOW
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TO/ THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND/ IN GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEN/ FROM THIS PARISH/ WHO WERE KILLED/ IN THE GREAT WARS/ 1914 - 1918/ 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES)/ SECOND WORLD WAR/ (NAMES)
Archer J
Blythe J Bradder B Butterfield L Clarke C Coleman L Darbey H |
Ellis W
Hartley W Keeton S Levick C L Lidgett F Lilley G Lindsay T RN |
Morley C
Newey K Pashley W Smith L Tibenham J Warren A Young R |
Additional details
Jack Archer - 410018
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 9th (The Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons) Bn. - Private
10 May 1943, aged 26
Son of John and Fanny Amelia Archer, of Woodhouse, Yorkshire.
Enfidaville War Cemetery
Died in the final days of the campaign in North Africa
Jack Blyth - 1521247
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 622 Sqdn. - Sergeant
9 July 1944, aged 23
Son of John William and Beatrice Blyth; Husband of Jessie Blyth, of Hillsborough, Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Runnymede Memorial
Lancaster mk I serial R5625 coded GI-B airborne from Mildenhall at 12:15 on a mission to Lisieux.
Bert Bradder - 4755807
Royal Berkshire Regiment - 1st Bn. - Private
13 May 1944, aged 30
Son of Charles and Beatrice Bradder; Husband of Ivy Bradder, of Aston, Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Kohima War Cemetery
Died in Burma
Leslie Butterfield - T/162904
Royal Army Service Corps - Lance Corporal
25 January 1946, aged 28
Son of Kirk and Nellie Butterfield, of Woodhouse, Sheffield, Yorkshire; Husband of Beatrice Irene Butterfield, of Woodhouse.
Hamburg Cemetery
Died in Hamburg in post-war Germany
Charles Henry Clarke - 4625157
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 8th Bn. - Private
12 January 1941, aged 29
Son of George William and Amelia Clarke, of Woodhouse, Sheffield; Husband of Doris Gertie Clarke, of Woodhouse, Sheffield.
Sheffield (Woodhouse) Cemetery
Death registered in St Austell, Cornwall
Leonard Coleman - 1794676
Royal Artillery - 48 LAA Regt - Gunner
23 December 1948, aged 28
Son of Frank and Mary Ellen Coleman, of Woodhouse, Sheffield. Husband of Lily Coleman.
Sheffield (Woodhouse) Cemetery
Died in UK, contracted TB and Malaria whilst serving in the Far East. Enlisted 1941 (17/10/41), discharged 6/6/1947.
48 LAA surrendered at Java in March 1942. All the captured British troops were relocated to Batavia and set to work in working parties in Boei Gorok jail. Sickness and overcrowding were rife and in September 1942 a large draft of the 242 Battery were sent to Changi, Singapore prior to being transported by Hell Ships to Borneo, from where very few survived.
Henry Darbey - 2114426
Royal Engineers - 625 Field Coy. - Sapper
15 July 1944, aged 33
Son of Joseph Henry and Ada Darbey, of Woodhouse, Sheffield.
Assisi War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Wilfred Ellis - 7369849
Royal Army Medical Corps - 184 Field Amb. - Private
28 April 1943, aged 25
Son of Arthur James Ellis and Sarah Ann Ellis, of Woodhouse, Sheffield.
Medjez-El-Bab Memorial
Died in the final weeks of the campaign in North Africa
William Hartley - 4747649
York and Lancaster Regiment - 6th Bn. - Private
16 May 1940, aged 18
Sheffield (Intake Village) Cemetery
Died in Sheffield
E Jones
Not Yet Identified
Sydney Keeton - 7599832
Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Private
27 July 1944, aged 24
Son of Walter and Emma Keeton, of Woodhouse, Sheffield.
Shorncliffe Military Cemetery
Died in the UK
Cyril Lionel Levick - D/MX 52017
Royal Navy - H.M.C.S. Fraser - Leading Supply Assistant
25 June 1940, aged 22
Plymouth Naval Memorial
On 25 June 1940, Fraser, her sister HMCS Restigouche, and the cruiser Calcutta were returning from St. Jean de Luz after rescuing refugees trapped by the German Army (Operation Ariel), when Fraser was rammed by Calcutta in the Gironde estuary. Struck forward of the bridge by the cruiser's bow, Fraser was cut in half and sank immediately. All but 45 of the ship's crew were rescued by Restigouche and other nearby ships.
Fred Lidgett - S/200987
Royal Army Service Corps - Private
30 September 1940, aged 26
Son of Frederick James Lidgett and Edith Lidgett; Husband of Kathleen Lidgett, of Mansfield.
Mansfield (Nottingham Road) Cemetery
Death registered in Surrey North Western
George Lilley - 2760817
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) - 1st Bn. - Private
3 November 1942, aged 27
Son of George and Sarah Ann Lilley; Husband of Mary Lilley, of Woodhouse, Sheffield, Yorkshire.
El Alamein War Cemetery
Died during the Second Battle of El Alamein
T R N Lindsay
Not Yet Identified
Charles Edwin Morley - 293737
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry - 1st Bn. - Lieutenant
16 November 1944
Son of Walter and Rosa Morley; Husband of Helen Rosa Morley, of Slough, Buckinghamshire.
Venray War Cemetery
Died in Holland
Henry James Munford - 4861424
Leicestershire Regiment - 2nd Bn. - Private
12 December 1940, aged 24
Son of Mrs. F. Munford, and Stepson of John William Dumford, of Woodhouse, Sheffield.
Alamein Memorial
Died during Operation Compass, the first large Allied military operation of the Western Desert Campaign British and Commonwealth forces attacked Italian forces in western Egypt and Cyrenaica, the eastern province of Libya. The campaign began on 9 December 1940 as a five-day raid against the Italian positions of the 10th Army in fortified positions around Sidi Barrani and in Cyrenaica.
Kenneth Newey - 1438648
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 2945 Sqdn. R.A.F. Regt. - Corporal
31 July 1944, aged 22
Son of John Henry and Alice Newey, of Woodhouse, Sheffield.
Maynamati War Cemetery
Died on Active Service in India, probably at one of the hospitals which were established in the area of Maynamati, which included Nos. 14 and 150 British General Hospitals
William Pashley - C/JX 313471
Royal Navy - H.M.S. President III. - Able Seaman
25 June 1942, aged 20
Son of Harry and Eva Pashley, of Woodhouse, Sheffield.
Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery
Died of illness in Egypt
L Smith
Not Yet Identified
John Edward Pyke Tibenham - 1794542
Royal Artillery - 241 Bty., 77 H.A.A. Regt. - Gunner
9 September 1943, aged 32
Son of David N. Tibenham and Mary E. Tibenham, of Sheffield; Husband of Florrie Tibenham, of Arbourthorne, Sheffield.
Ambon War Cemetery
Bacillary Dysentry at Amboina
Arthur Warren - 4747653
York and Lancaster Regiment - The Hallamshire Bn. - Lance Corporal
10 July 1944, aged 24
Son of Thomas and Isabella Warren, of Woodhouse, Sheffield.
Bayeux Memorial
Died in the Normandy Campaign nr Vendes
Roy Young - D/KX 601578
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Caesar - Stoker 1st Class
20 February 1945, aged 19
Son of Leonard Young, and of Eliza Young, of Woodhouse, Sheffield.
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Lost overboard
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