Friday 31 July 2015

Barnsley Cemetery William Wood WW2


The family gravestone of William Wood (click to enlarge)
Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Photograph by Pete Schofield

Grave Location and Inscription:
C137
Treasured memories / Of / Leonard / beloved son of William and Charlotte Wood / who died April 9th 1942 aged 21 years / Ever in our thoughts / Also William beloved son of the above / killed in action in Italy Sept. 9th 1943 / aged 30 years / Sweet memories of those we love so well / Also the above named / William Wood / who died March 30th 1951 aged 69 years / Also the above named Charlotte Wood / who died Jany. 22nd 1957 aged 78 years.


William Wood is buried in the Salerno War Cemetery Italy and commemorated on
Commonwealth War Graves Commission website




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Barnsley Cemetery Ronald Stanwix WW2


The family gravestone of Ronald Stanwix
Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Photograph by Pete Schofield

Grave Location and Inscription:
Plot G711
In / Loving / Memory Of / Frank / the beloved son of / John William / and Ethel Stanwix / born April 14th 1909 / died April 19th 1912 / God's finger touched him and he slept / Also the above named / John William / Stanwix / who died Oct. 9th 1937 / aged 52 years / Also in loving memory of / Able Seaman Ronald Stanwix / younger son of the above / who died from enemy action on the / Clyde, May 7th 1941 aged 19½ years / Sweetest memories.


Ronald Stanwix is buried in the Greenock cemetery UK and commemorated on
Commonwealth War Graves Commission web site




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Tuesday 28 July 2015

Barnsley Cemetery Arthur Crossley

The family gravestone of Arthur Crossley
Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Photograph by Pete Schofield

Lives of the First World War

Grave Location and Inscription:
Plot C.69 Sacred to the Memory / of / Charles Henry / the beloved husband of / Mary Hannah Crossley / died June 22nd 1918 / aged 54 years / Also Sergt. Arthur Crossley, R.E. / son of the above / killed in action Sept. 30th 1918 / aged 30 years / interred at Choques Cemetery, France / Also the above named / Mary Hannah Crossley / died Dec. 24th 1954 / aged 91 years / Re-united.

Arthur Crossley is remembered on the St Marys Church Combined War Memorial Barnsley

He is buried in the Chocques Military Cemetery in France and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website





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Barnsley cemetery James Burford Clarke


The family gravestone of James Burford Clarke (click to enlarge)

Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Photograph by Pete Schofield

Lives of the First World War

Grave Location and Inscription:
Plot C.50
In Ever Loving Memory of (Jim) / James / the dearly loved husband of / Alice Clarke / died October 26th 1938 aged 64 years / Also Alice Sophia dearly loved wife of the above / died May 21st 1943 / Also (Jimmy) Lieut. James Burford Clarke / the beloved only son of the above / killed in action at Perronne Sept. 2nd 1918 aged 23 years / "Deep are the memories that cannot fade".

James Burford Clarke is remembered on the Barnsley Holgate Grammar School  WW1 Old Boys Memorial and on the  Combined St Marys Church War Memorial Barnsley

He is buried in the Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension in France and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.


BWMP # BAR07/43



Sunday 19 July 2015

Barnsley Cemetery Sidney Nicholson

       
The family gravestone of Sidney Nicholson
Links:

War Memorials Archive listing 

War Memorials Online listing

Photograph by Pete Schofield

Monumental Inscription by the Friends of Barnsley Cemetery

Grave Location and Inscription
Plot E.662
In Loving Memory / Of / John William / the beloved husband of / Elizabeth Nicholson / who departed this life / March 18th 1906 / in his 51st year / Also L/Cpl Sidney Nicholson / (21st K.R.R. Corps) / son of the above / who was killed in action / on the Somme Oct. 7th 1916 / in his 27th year / Also Elizabeth Nicholson / daughter of the above / who died Nov. 3rd 1918 / aged 30 years / "I hope to see my pilot face to face / when I have crossed the bar" / Also the above named Elizabeth Nicholson / who died January 23rd 1929 / in her 71st year / Also Arthur eldest son of the above / and dearly loved husband of Laura Gertrude Nicholson / who died Nov. 30th 1933 aged 55 years

Read more about Sidney Nicholson on Lives of the First World War where you can add your own photos and stories.

He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial in France and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission  website.



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