Show on mapCARLIN HOW
WAR MEMORIAL
1914 – 1918
TO THE GLORIOUS DEAD
THE PATH OF DUTY WAS THE WAY TO GLORY
2nd Lt G Mason
Sergt. F Hutton
Sergt. J Williams
Corp. W Cherry
Corp. J W Stephenson
Corp. A Teasdale
Corp J Thomas
L. Corp. A Cudd
L. Corp. J Elliott
L. Corp. J H Wisbey
L. Corp. T Wood
Gunner J H Medcalf
Driver D E Robinson
Private J Burnett
Private H Bury
Private J Clarke
Private F T Crossman
Private J H Cryer
Private W Defty
Private R G Elliott
Private P Flynn
Corp. J J Clough
Private A E Glover
Private T A Goldby
Private G Hicks
Private L C Hodgson
Private J Jefferson
Private W Kemp
Private W Long
Private E Loughran
Private G R Mainforth
Private G G Price
Private J Rafferty
Private J Richardson
Private J Shaw
Private J H Shepherd
Private P Walker
Private J Ward
Private E Welham
Private J Welham
Private J Wickham
Private E Wood
Private J Jose
1939 – 1945
J A Auckland
F Roper
A W Clayton
D W Stewart
F Faye
R Winspear
R Locke
J W Brackley
J R Appleton
H Cocks
A F Brackley
E Welham
A E Harrison
L Richardson
W Page
F Miller
H Miller
42 WW1 names, and from a working class community – only one a commissioned officer. I can guess this meant a lot of resentment in the intervening years towards Alf Myers, the local Methodist lay preacher and mines deputy who was a leading CO in the conflict. As an aside I recall especial care being taken by Cleveland CC’s engineers to underpin the memorial when the straightening out of the A174 was underway in the very early 1980’s.
I wonder why Henry Pearson mentioned on the Bible Class War Memorial Brass in St Helen’s Church (seen here) is missing from the war memorial ?https://www.flickr.com/photos/bolckow/51489010386/in/album-72157719871143036/