Memorial Title
Belper and Milford - Book of Remembrance
Summary
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Click on a thumbnail to see a larger image. All pages have been copied and further images may be available on request. |
Locations
| Last known location: St John the Baptist's Chapel Heritage Centre St John's Road Belper Derbyshire |
Nearest postcode: DE56 1HX NGR: SK 35243 47532 (From online digital mapping.) (Map opens in new window.) |
Location details: In secure storage. |
| Previous location: Council offices 39 King St Belper Derbyshire |
Nearest postcode: DE56 1PZ NGR: SK 34870 47474 ±5m (Map opens in new window.) |
Location details: The exact location within the building is not known. |
Type
| Overall type: Book of remembrance. |
Overall condition: Fair. The inscription is legible and the memorial is cared for. |
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| Description: A cased book of remembrance. The book has paper pages bound in blue leather with a tooled gilt title in sentence case gothic lettering on the front. The explanatory page is in black upright capital roman calligraphy and the illuminated title page has a finely produced design, mainly in blue, including a wreath at the head, the shield of the Belper Urban District Council in red, blue and gilt at the foot, a broad border of sprays of laurel and an inscription in black and gilt upright capital roman calligraphy. The 55 pages of names each have a thin blue margin with a geometric design in each corner and five names in black upright mixed case roman calligraphy. The card case is bound in blue fabric with a tooled gilt title in sentence case gothic lettering on the front. Glossary |
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Inscription
| Face of case: | Face of book: | Pencil note on flyleaf: | Introduction: | ||||||||||||||||||
| Book of Remembrance |
Book of Remembrance |
Handed to the B U D C G W Strutt Aug 17. 1923 Produced June 24 1924 |
THE ROLL IS REFERRED TO ON THE BRONZE TABLET ON THE EXTERIOR OF THE BUILDINGS, HANDED TO THE TOWN AS A WAR MEMORIAL, BY DEED, DATED, 25TH. DECEMBER 1918. |
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| Title Page: | Names, p1: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| THIS ROLL OF HONOUR BEING THE RECORD OF THE MEN OF BELPER AND MILFORD WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919 IS PRESENTED TO THE BELPER URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BY ITS CHAIRMAN GEORGE HERBERT STRUTT J.P. D.L. DECEMBER 1921. |
ADAMS, ALBERT No. 22,p29 Private 17th. Sherwood Foresters. Killed on 23rd. June, 1917, at Ypres. ADDERLEY, CHARLES No. 10,072 Private Inns of Court Officers Training Corps. Died on 23rd. Oct., 1917, at King's Coll. Hospital, London. ALCOCK, RANDAL ARTHUR 2nd. Lieutenant. 7th. Batt. East Yorks. Killed on 1st. Sept., 1918, at Flers. ALLSOP. GEORGE HENRY No. 116,038 Private 10th. Sherwood Foresters. Missing on 18th. Sept., 1918. at Gauch Wood. ALLWOOD, WILLIAM No. 2,647 Private 5th. Sherwood Foresters. Killed on 19th. Nov., 1915. Place of deatyh not known. |
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| It would not be practical or desirable to reproduce the layouts of all pages, but the names on pp2-55 are: Alton, Herbert George; Alton, Thomas; Annable, Stephen; Arnold, Harold; Ashton, Arthur; Barber, David Johnson; Barker, Thomas William; Barnett, Raymond Theodore Fred; Bates, John; Bath, Samuel Wood; Batten, James Robert; Beeston, Thomas; Belfield, George Edward; Belfield, Samuel Arthur; Bembridge, Allen; Bembridge, Arthur; Bembridge, John; Bennett, Bernard; Beresford, Albert; Berkin, George; Birkin, Harry; Blackham, William; Blagg, James; Bloor, Charles Frederick; Blount, Albert; Blount, James William; Bond, William; Boot, Charles; Boot, Ernest; Boot, William Herbert; Booth, William James; Bower, Samuel; Bowler, Fred; Bowmer, George; Brailsford, William Charles; Brandreth, Charles Reginald; Brentnall, John; Brown, George; Bryan, George Robert; Burbridge, David John; Burdett, George; Burrows, Victor Leonard; Butler, Arthur; Butler, John; Butler, Sidney Thomas; Cartwright, Percy; Caudwell, James William; Cheetham, Fred; Cheetham, William; Clayson, Henry; Cooper, Arthur Samuel; Cooper, Ernest; Cowan, John Lambert; Cranfield, Walter; Cresswell, Arthur; Crofts, Henry; Cutts, Arthur Fred; Davis, Jim; Dawson, William; Day, William Henry; Donoghue, Frederick; Dring, John William; Easthope, Bernard Samuel; Elliott, William; Entwistle, James Leslie; Faulkner, Edgar; Fell, Albert; Fisher, Henry; Flint, Frank; Ford, Harold; Ford, Wilfred; Foster, Thomas; Fowke, William; Fox, Arthur; Fox, George Smedley; Frost, George Edward; Gamble, Charles Leonard; Gamble, John William; Gamlin, Frederick; Gardiner, Frederick Thomas; Garlick, Samuel; Garton, Samuel; Gillett, Herbert Edward; Glew, John; Glew, Samuel; Green, Jim; Green, Wilfred; Hackett, Harry; Hague, Walter; Hall, Clarence Gratrick; Hall, Frank; Hall, Harold; Hall, Harold; Hall, William Arnold; Hallam, Frank; Hallam, Percy; Hallsworth, Bert; Hallsworth, Ernest; Hallsworth, Walter; Hann, George Lionel; Harrison, Charles John; Hartle, Harry Silvester; Haslam, John William; Hind, James; Hitchcock, Herbert Arthur; Hobson, Frederick; Hobson, Fred; Hobson, Herbert Henry; Hobson, William Alfred; Hodgkinson, Thomas; Hodson, John William; Holden, Wilfred; Holland, William Alonza; Howarth, Edward; Hunt, Charles; Hunt, Ernest; Hunt, Frederick James Arthur; Hunt, John Wilfred; Hunt, John William; Hunt, William; Hurst, Alfred Henry; Jackson, Harry; Jennison, Albert Edward; Jennison, Leonard; Johnson, Thomas Howard; Jones, Charles Melville; Jones, Miles William; Key, John; Key, Laurence Ferdinand; Kirk, John Reginald; Knight, Harry; Land, Winfield; Lees, Clifford Granville; Lees, John Thomas Holmes; Lichfield, George; Liggett, James; Litchfield, James Herbert; Little, William Henry; Loving, William; Maiden, Joseph; Marsh, George; Marsh, George; Mason, Frederick Enos; Melbourne, Francis William; Melbourne, Francis Gration; Mewis, William Albert; Miller, William Burbage; Milward, Leslie; Mitchell, Frank; Montford, Douglas Raymond; Moore, Leonard; Morley, Sydney Herbert; Moseley, Francis; Newton, Herbert; Nightingale, George; Noble, Wilfred; Ogden, Frank; Ogden, John; Orme, Jesse Richard; Pape, Samuel; Parker, William Frederick; Parkin, George Arthur; Parkin, Thomas John; Paxton, Ernest; Payne, Richard; Peden, James; Pepper, Walter; Percival; Harold Arthur; Porter, Samuel; Potter, Ronald Joseph; Powditch, Sydney; Price, James; Prime, Thomas Rowland; Raistrick, John William. Rendall, Hubert; Rice, Cecil; Rice, William; Richards, Jacob; Richardson, Arthur; Robertson, Herbert; Rodgers, William Kiddy; Rollinson, George William; Ryde, Edgar; Ryde, Frank Edgar; Ryde, George Herbert; Sanders, Abner Edwin; Selby, Herbert; Sellors, Charlie; Shaw, John Francis; Shepherd, Harry; Shipway, John Cecil; Simpson, John William; Sims, Frank; Skidmore, Frederick; Slater, Percival Henry; Slater, Radford; Slater, William Thomas; Smith, George Herbert; Smith, Gerald; Smith, John Alfred; Spencer, Arthur; Spencer, Charles Battison; Spencer, Charles Edgar; Spencer, Edward; Spencer, George Charles; Spencer, William; Spencer, William Henry; Spendlove, William Henry; Stamper, Eric William Parker; Stevens, Albert Edward; Stevenson, Thomas; Stone, Arthur Samuel; Stone, Charles; Stone, George William; Street, Fred; Strutt, Anthony Herbert; Sunderland, William Albert; Swindall, Arthur; Swinscoe, James Henry; Taylor, Ernest; Taylor, George William; Taylor, Joseph; Throw, Herbert; Tomlinson, John Arthur; Tomlinson, Arthur; Topham, George; Topham, John Wilfred; Turner, Thomas; Varney, Arthur; Waldron, Thomas Bertram; Walker, Herbert Norman; Walker, John William; Walker, Joseph; Wardle, Cyril Usherwood; Wass, John William; Waterfall, Albert; Waterfall, Alfred; Waterfall, Leonard; Waterfield, Henry Herbert; Wathall, Ernest; Watson, Albert; Watson, Frederick; Watson, Frederick Arnold; Watson, Harold; Watson, Henry; Watson, James Arnold; Watson, Maurice; Watson, Thomas; Watson, Wilfred; Webster, Stanley; Weston, Joseph; Whawell, William; Wheatley, Ernest Harrison; Wheatley, William; White, Frederick; Wigley, Robert; Wilkinson, William; Williams, Alfred; Wilmot, John Maurice; Winson, George; Wooley, Fred; Wright, Henry Gordon; Wynne, George; Yeomans, Albert Alfred; Yeomans, Samuel; |
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| Foot of p 55: | Pencil note inside back page: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Designed & written by Edward N. Dawson | This Roll from the Print made & compiled for the unveiling of the War Memorial Obelisk, in the Paddock on Sunday 30 Oct 1921 John Hunter Aug 17 1923 |
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Administration
Local authorities:
From WW1: Belper Parish Council; Belper Urban District Council; Derbyshire County Council.
From 1974: Belper Town Council; Amber Valley Borough Council; Derbyshire County Council.
History and Conservation
c1923: The book was sponsored by Ald G H Strutt and written by Edward N Dawson, artist and art master at Herbert Strutt School, Belper, in the 1920s.
17th July, 1923: The book was presented to Belper Urban District Council by Ald G H Strutt.
3 February 1966: St John's Chapel was listed Grade II, Heritage List for England number 1335668.
1970s: The chapel became redundant and was converted to become the offices of the Belper Town Council and a Heritage Centre.
1st April; 1974: With the abolition of Belper Urban District Council, responsibility for the book devolved to the Belper Town Council who arranged for its safekeeping by the Belper Historical Society.
1975-1992: The chapel lies within the Belper and Milford Conservation area designated and extended during that period.
December 2001: The chapel lies within the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site inscribed on that date.
7th February, 2013: The memorial was surveyed by Roy Branson and Eric Naden. It was in fair condition and cared for.
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