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Those in our extended family who gave their lives in World Wars

Name: ANDREW, STANLEY
Initials: S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant (Pilot)
Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 46 Sqdn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 11/09/1940
Service No: 740169
Additional information: Son of John William and Amelia Andrew, of Swanland.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Grave 141.
Cemetery: NORTH FERRIBY (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD    

     LINK to Stanley and 46 Squadron

Name: ANDREW, OSWALD ADAM
Initials: O A
Nationality: Canadian
Rank: Private
Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regt.)
Unit Text: 14th Bn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 07/09/1916
Service No: 441232
Additional information: Son of John William Andrew and Maybelle Jane Andrew (nee Cowan). Enlisted 1915 in the 53rd Saskatchewan Bn.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Cemetery: VIMY MEMORIAL   On the opening day of the Battle of Arras, 9 April 1917, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps, fighting side by side for the first time, scored a huge tactical victory in the capture of the 60 metre high Vimy Ridge. After the war, the highest point of the ridge was chosen as the site of the great memorial to all Canadians who served their country in battle during the First World War, and particularly to the 60,000 who gave their lives in France. It also bears the names of 11,000 Canadian servicemen who died in France - many of them in the fight for Vimy Ridge - who have no known grave. The memorial was designed by W S Allward.

The Vimy Memorial overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted.

       

Vimy Memorial       Medals and other memento of Oswald Adam ANDREW

Name: ELGEY, HAROLD
Initials: H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Seaman
Regiment: Royal Naval Reserve (Patrol Service)
Unit Text: H.M. Trawler Lord Stamp.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 14/10/1940
Service No: LT/X 21020A
Additional information: Son of George and Elsie Amelia Elgey; husband of Vera Elgey (nee Lupton), of Hull.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 2, Column 2.
Cemetery: LOWESTOFT NAVAL MEMORIAL 

Grave or Reference Panel Number:   Panel 2, Column 2.

Location: The Naval Memorial is located to the north of the town alongside the A12 Yarmouth Road, approximately one mile north of the harbour. The memorial is in a prominent position within a local authority gardens, known as Bellevue Park. The park is on the top of the cliffs and the memorial itself is on the edge of the cliff so providing an unobscured view of the foreshore and sea. Commemorating almost 2,400 men of the Royal Naval Patrol Services who have no grave but the sea, the memorial consists of a fluted column rising from a circular base 12 metres in diameter surmounted by a bronze ship device (Lymphad), the uppermost point of which is over 15 metres from the ground level. Around the circular base are arranged bronze panels that bear the names. The panels are set in recesses and protected from the weather by a cornice. A Portland stone panel at the front of the Memorial, flanked on either side by the Naval Crown with wreath and foul anchor, faces towards the sea.

 

Lowestoft Naval Memorial

Name: ELGEY, JOSEPH W.
Initials: J W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: East Yorkshire Regiment
Unit Text: "D" Coy 1st Bn.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 09/04/1917
Service No: 23114
Additional information: Son of George and Amelia Elgey, of 905, English St., Hessle Rd., Hull.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. B. 21.
Cemetery: HENINEL-CROISILLES ROAD CEMETERY  
Heninel and Croisilles are villages approximately 5 kilometres and 8 kilometres south-west of Arras (D33), in the valleys of the Cojeul and the Sensee respectively, and they are joined by a road which crosses a high plateau. On the eastern side of that road, nearer to Heninel, is the Heninel-Croisilles Road Cemetery which is approached down a 2 kilometre track.

The 21st Division captured Heninel on 12 April 1917 and advanced eastwards on the two following days. The 33rd Division then took over the attack. These two divisions are largely represented in the cemetery. In April 1918 this ground was lost, and the eleven German graves in Plot I, Rows D and E, were made when the cemetery was in German hands. After the Armistice, graves were brought in from a wide area round Heninel. The cemetery now contains 307 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 104 of them inidentified. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.

 

HENINEL-CROISILLES ROAD CEMETERY  

Name:

KELLINGTON, ERLING JAMES

Initials:

E J

Nationality:

Canadian

Rank:

Private

Regiment:

Calgary Highlanders, R.C.I.C.

Date of Death:

25/07/1944

Service No:

K/69419

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

VI. E. 14.

Cemetery:

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY  This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) about 14 kilometres south of Caen and just north of the village of Cintheaux. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the cemetery.

The Allied offensive in north-western Europe began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944. For the most part, those buried at Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards - led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions - to close the Falaise Gap. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the cemetery. The cemetery contains 2,957 Second World War burials, the majority Canadian, and 87 of them unidentified.     

 

   

                     Erlings Grave

                               with a cross added

                               during D Day 2004 events

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY 

 

Name:

KELLINGTON, LLOYD G.

Initials:

L G

Nationality:

Canadian

Rank:

Trooper

Regiment:

British Columbia Regiment, R.C.A.C.

Unit Text:

28th Armd. Regt.

Date of Death:

09/08/1944

Service No:

B/17025

Additional information:

Son of James and Anne Kellington; husband of Vera E. Kellington, of Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

Panel 19, Column 3.

Cemetery:

BAYEUX MEMORIAL     The Allied offensive in north-western Europe began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944. The  MEMORIAL stands opposite the cemetery and bears the names of more than 1,800 men of the Commonwealth land forces who died in the early stages of the campaign and have no known grave. They died during the landings in Normandy, during the intense fighting in Normandy itself, and during the advance to the River Seine in August. There was little actual fighting in Bayeux although it was the first French town of importance to be liberated. BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY is the largest Commonwealth cemetery of the Second World War in France and contains burials brought in from the surrounding districts and from hospitals that were located nearby. The cemetery contains 4,144 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 338 of them unidentified. There are also 505 war graves of other nationalities, the majority German.

 

        

                                 Lloyds name on the Cenotaph, a cross  placed

                                               at the base during D Day 2004 event  [ Photo left by others ]

Bayeux Memorial

Name:

FEATHERSTONE, ARTHUR

Initials:

A

Nationality:

United Kingdom

Rank:

Serjeant

Regiment:

East Yorkshire Regiment

Unit Text:

6th Bn.

Date of Death:

09/08/1915

Service No:

8431

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

Panel 51 to 54

Cemetery:

HELLES MEMORIAL In Turkey, The Helles Memorial stands on the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula. It takes the form of an obelisk over 30 metres high that can be seen by ships passing through the Dardanelles.

The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac. On 6 August, further landings were made at Suvla, just north of Anzac, and the climax of the campaign came in early August when simultaneous assaults were launched on all three fronts. However, the difficult terrain and stiff Turkish resistance soon led to the stalemate of trench warfare. From the end of August, no further serious action was fought and the lines remained unchanged. The peninsula was successfully evacuated in December and early January 1916. The Helles Memorial serves the dual function of Commonwealth battle memorial for the whole Gallipoli campaign and place of commemoration for many of those Commonwealth servicemen who died there and have no known grave. The United Kingdom and Indian forces named on the memorial died in operations throughout the peninsula, the Australians at Helles. There are also panels for those who died or were buried at sea in Gallipoli waters. The memorial bears more than 21,000 names. There are four other Memorials to the Missing at Gallipoli. The Lone Pine, Hill 60, and Chunuk Bair Memorials commemorate Australian and New Zealanders at Anzac. The Twelve Tree Copse Memorial commemorates the New Zealanders at Helles. Naval casualties of the United Kingdom lost or buried at sea are recorded on their respective Memorials at Portsmouth, Plymouth and Chatham, in the United Kingdom. 20839 casualties

Son of George and Margaret FEATHERSTONE of Hessle

Helles Memorial

Name: FEATHERSTONE, FREDERICK
Initials: F
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers
Unit Text: 1st/5th Bn.
Date of Death: 15/09/1916
Service No: 8058
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 10 B 11 B and 12 B

 

Cemetery: THIEPVAL MEMORIALSomme, France 

Grave or Reference Panel Number: Pier and Face 10 B 11 B and 12 B

 

The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929).

Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. 

 

 

The Thiepval Memorial

 

 

Name:

NOSSITER, GEORGE

Initials:

G

Nationality:

United Kingdom

Rank:

Second Engineer

Regiment:

Mercantile Marine Reserve

Unit Text:

H.M. Tug "Char."

Age:

48

Date of Death:

16/01/1915

Additional information:

Son of George and Elizabeth Nossiter, of 18, Harbour Terrace, West Hartlepool; husband of Emily Nossiter, of Lax Terrace, Wolviston, Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham.

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

9.

Cemetery:

PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL     The Memorial is situated centrally on The Hoe which looks directly towards Plymouth Sound. It is accessible at all times.

After the First World War, an appropriate way had to be found of commemorating those members of the Royal Navy who had no known grave, the majority of deaths having occurred at sea where no permanent memorial could be provided. An Admiralty committee recommended that the three manning ports in Great Britain - Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth - should each have an identical memorial of unmistakable naval form, an obelisk, which would serve as a leading mark for shipping. The memorials were designed by Sir Robert Lorimer, who had already carried out a considerable amount of work for the Commission, with sculpture by Henry Poole. After the Second World War it was decided that the naval memorials should be extended to provide space for commemorating the naval dead without graves of that war, but since the three sites were dissimilar, a different architectural treatment was required for each. The architect for the Second World War extension at Plymouth was Sir Edward Maufe (who also designed the Air Forces memorial at Runnymede) and the additional sculpture was by Charles Wheeler and William McMillan. In addition to commemorating seamen of the Royal Navy who sailed from Plymouth, the First World War panels also bears the names of sailors from Australia and South Africa; the governments of the other Commonwealth nations chose to commemorate their dead elsewhere, for the most part on memorials in their home ports. After the Second World War, Canada and New Zealand again chose commemoration at home, but the memorial at Plymouth commemorates sailors from all other parts of the Commonwealth. Plymouth Naval Memorial commemorates more than 7,000 sailors of the First World War and almost 16,000 from the Second World War.

 

            

           Plymouth Naval Memorial                                    York  N E R Memorial

NOSSITER
Initials: C E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regt.)
Unit Text: 1st/7th Bn.
Date of Death: 02/10/1918
Service No: 33907
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. G. 4.
Cemetery: ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION  The town of Abbeville is on the main road from Paris to Boulogne (N1), about 80 kilometres south of Boulogne. The communal cemetery and communal cemetery extension are located on the left hand side of the road when leaving the town in a north-east direction for Drucat. CWGC direction signs will be found within the cemetery. Enter the Communal Cemetery by the left hand side main gate and follow CWGC signs within the Cemetery. The extension may be entered from the communal cemetery or from the side lane.

Another son of George and Elizabeth Nossiter, of 18, Harbour Terrace, West Hartlepool

ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Two of Mark Andrew's mothers BARNFATHER/NOSSITER family of Whitby and Hartlepool

JOHN RICHMOND GRESTY:

 

In Memory of  JOHN RICHMOND GRESTY 

Private G/27645

1st Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)

 

who died on Friday 26 October 1917 . Age 20 .

 

Additional Information: Son of John Richard and Jessie M. L. Gresty, of Shade Mount, Shade Lane, Levenshulme, Manchester.

Cemetery:      TYNE COT MEMORIAL Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Grave or Reference Panel Number:  Panel 106 to 108

One of Roma's fathers sisters sons. RICHMOND family of Manchester

Tyne Cot Memorial

  WARE, BERNARD HORACE
Initials: B H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Serjeant
Regiment: East Yorkshire Regiment
Unit Text: 1st/4th Bn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 03/05/1915
Service No: 1298
Additional information: Son of Charles William and Rebecca Ware, of 32, Westbourne Grove. Hessle, Yorks.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. D. 3.
Cemetery: HAZEBROUCK COMMUNAL CEMETERY France  Hazebrouck is a town lying about 56 kilometres south-east of Calais and is easily reached from Calais or Boulogne. The Communal Cemetery is on the south-western outskirts of the town. From the Grand Place in Hazebrouck follow the D916 Bethune road. Traverse the first set of traffic lights and the Communal Cemetery will be found 200 metres further along on the right hand side of the road, as indicated by a signpost. The War Graves Plot lies immediately inside the entrance to the cemetery.

From October 1914 to September 1917, casualty clearing stations were posted at Hazebrouck. The Germans shelled and bombed the town between September 1917 and September 1918 making it unsafe for hospitals, but in September and October 1918, No.9 British Red Cross Hospital was stationed there. Commonwealth burials began in the communal cemetery in October 1914 and continued until July 1918. At first, they were made among the civilian graves, but after the Armistice these earlier burials were moved into the main Commonwealth enclosure. During the Second World War, Hazebrouck was garrisoned and was on the western flank of the area occupied by the British Expedionary Force until May 1940. The cemetery was used again, mainly for the burial of those killed in late May 1940 during the fighting which covered the retreat of the BEF to the Dunkirk-Nieuport perimeter The cemetery now contains 877 Commonwealth burials of the First World War (17 of them unidentified) and 86 from the Second World War (20 of them unidentified). The Commonwealth plot, for the construction of which the town of Hazebrouck contributed 20,000 francs, was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.

HAZEBROUCK CEMETERY

A MERRYWEATHER family member

ALEC LEITH JOHNSTON, Lieutenant  King's Shropshire Light Infantry  1st Bn.
Age: 26 Date of Death: 22/04/1916
Additional information: Son of George F. Johnston, M.D., of 23, Seymour St., Portman Square, London.and Mary Alice nee MERRYWEATHER

Grave Reference: II. Q. 19.ESSEX FARM CEMETERY
Country: Belgium Locality: Ieper, West-Vlaanderen

   

Alec's Grave          Essex War Cemetery

MEMBERS OF THE QUEST FAMILY

SENIOR : A

Private East Yorkshire Regiment "A" Coy. 4th Bn.
Age: 29 Date of Death: 21/04/1918 Service No: 205301 Awards: MM
Husband of Eva Senior, of 9, Nelson Avenue, Wellington Lane, Hull.
Grave Reference: II. G. 2. Cemetery: TOURNAI COMMUNAL CEMETERY ALLIED

Location Information: Tournai Communal Cemetery is located in the south west district of Tournai itself on the N508, Chaussee De Douai, a road leading from the R52 Tournai ring road. 900 metres after leaving the R523 and joining the N508, lies the left hand turning onto the Chaussee de Willemeau, and the cemetery is along this road on the right, fronted by large iron gates.


Historical Information: Tournai was captured by the German II Corps on 23 August 1914, in spite of resistance from a French Territorial Brigade, and the town remained in German hands until it was entered by the 47th (London) and 74th (Yeomanry) Divisions on 8 November 1918. The 51st (or Highland) Casualty Clearing Station arrived on 14 November and remained until 20 July 1919; during the occupation, the German sick and wounded had been nursed in the "Asile", the Allied in the Hopital Notre-Dame. The (Southern) Communal Cemetery, in the Faubourg-St. Martin, was used and extended by the Germans, although the graves were later regrouped by nationality and some were brought in from other cemeteries in a wide area around Tournai. The Allied extension now contains 689 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 34 of them unidentified. There are also 117 Russian burials, all of men who died as prisoners of war, and two Belgian war graves. Almost all of the 52 Second World War burials in the extension date from May 1940 and the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force ahead of the German advance.
 

TOURNAI COMMUNAL CEMETERY ALLIED

HOPPER, RAYMOND

 Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps Unit  60th Sqdn.
Age: 23 Date of Death: 11/01/1917
Son of Annie Hopper, of 46, De la pole Avenue, Hull, and the late W. H. Hopper.
Grave V. A. 22. Cemetery: AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Loction Aubigny-en-Artois is a village approximately 15 kilometres north-west of Arras on the road to St. Pol (N39). From the N39 turn onto the D75 towards the village of Aubigny-en-Artois. The Cemetery lies south on a road leading from the centre of the village, and the Extension is behind it.
Historical Information: From March 1916 to the Armistice, Aubigny was held by Commonwealth troops and burials were made in the extension until September 1918. The 42nd Casualty Clearing Station buried in it during the whole period, the 30th in 1916 and 1917, the 24th and 1st Canadian in 1917 (during the capture of Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Corps) and the 57th in 1918. The extension now contains 2,771 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and seven from the Second World War. There are also 227 French burials made prior to March 1916, and 64 German war graves. The extension was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.


AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

STORR, HENRY GEORGE Initials: H G
Rank: Gunner Regiment: Royal Artillery Unit: H.Q. 6 H.A.A. Regt.
Age: 37 Date of Death: 27/03/1945
Service No: 815954
Additional information: Son of William and Margaret Jane Storr, of Hull; husband of Lena Storr, of Hull.
Grave Brit. Sec. P. B. 13. Cemetery: YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY

Yokohama War Cemetery - Japan

CRIMEAN WAR

FRANCIS JOHNSON:  Trumpet Major 12th Lancers , Francis died at Scutari Hospital on 22 December 1855 having been at Sebastopol Entitled to Crimea medal with Sebastopol clasp

 

Details of his Memorial at Scutari

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