Memorial Title
St Lawrence's Church - Book of Remembrance
Summary
Derbyshire War Memorials: a description of a WW1 and WW2 war memorial book of remembrance in St Lawrence's Church, Whitwell, Derbyshire.
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Locations
| Last known location: St Lawrence's Church High St (B6043) Whitwell Derbyshire |
Nearest postcode: S80 4RE NGR: SK 52622 76831 (From online digital mapping.) (Map opens in new page.) |
Location details: The display case is on the north wall at the east end of the north aisle. |
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 book of remembrance in a display case. The black-covered bound book contains generally two or three short biographies printed on each page. After the title page, and before the biographies, is a poem by the local war poet Sgt John William Streets. The book is displayed in an oaken wall-mounted case with a glass front. Glossary |
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Inscription
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| It is neither practical nor desirable to reproduce the biographies of those listed, but the following is a list of the names with their year of death: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harry Buckingham, 1943 Roland Leslie Harness, 1943 John Henry Alcock, 1917 Francis Watkins, 1916 Joseph Collingham, 1916 James William Coupe, 1916 Harold Sugden, 1944 C Wood, 1918 Wilfred Henry Swann, 1918 Daniel Gee, 1918 F J G Malthouse, 1918 Joseph White, 1918 Frank Squires, 1943 Richard Ramsden, 1918 Harry Squires, 1918 Percy Noel Coupe, 1917 Thomas Gascoigne, 1917 Arthur Robert Streets, 1917 John Durward Stone, 1916 Arthur Bennett, 1917 William Edward Hurt, 1917 Percy Cartwright, 1918 William Alexander Smith, 1918 Harry Ellis, 1916 George Henry Johnson, 1916 Lawrence Edward Beeston, 1944 Joseph William Willis, 1944 Sam Forest, 1917 Joseph Butterfield, 1918 Harold Rodgers, 1916 Arthur Dalby, 1918 Arthur Stevens, 1918 A Grainger Aubrey Crawford Sibbring, 1917 |
George Herbert Young, 1917 Joseph Ramsden, 1917 George Bennett, 1917 Arthur Bird, 1940 Levi Squires, 1917 Ethelbert H Harrop, 1915 Francis Ernest Edwards, 1943 Andrew Kirk, 1915 R Morris, 1917 Walter Hewkin, 1917 Cyril Hunt, 1943 Stephen Storey, 1917 John Richard Carding-Wells, 1916 Thomas Stansbury, 1916 John William Streets, 1916 Stanley Norman Shakespeare, 1942 Joseph Pilkington Lindley, 1916 A Alletson, 1916 Mathew Lee, 1916 John Thomas Presley Ellis, 1916 Thomas C Lowe, 1916 H Harvey, 1916 Albert Woodhead, 1915 Frederick Charles Brown, 1915 Arthur Godley, 1915 Joseph Wood, 1915 Charles J Jackson, 1915 William Norton, 1915 Joseph William Taylor, 1915 William Wareham, 1915 Douglas Joseph Wheatley, 1941 Walter Clarke, 1917 Joseph Hancock, 1917 William Cooper, 1915 |
Harold Ekin, 1942 John Watson, 1918 Colin Ashley, 1918 John Lindley Godley, 1919 Albert Wilkinson, 1916 Joseph Astle, 1916 Thomas Henry Binch, 1918 William Walker, 1917 Edward Kitchen, 1916 Frank Alban Pentelow, 1916 John William Thorpe, 1914 William Burley Higgins, 1940 Joseph Smith, 1914 Joseph Walter Wilkinson, 1917 Thomas Bostock Fox, 1915 John Gallimore, 1916 John Thomas Dolby, 1917 John Thomas Buckingham, 1917 James F Sheen, 1918 Samuel Snooks, 1916 Harry Hawkins, 1916 William Bailey, 1917 George Parker, 1918 Thomas Heeley, 1918 R Hunt, 1915 G E Lee, 1920 John Robert Hurt, 1915 Richard Smith, 1918 Arthur Stubbings, 1918 William Perrett, 1943 A Hillaby, 1918 James F Hollingworth, 1941 Luke Raynes, 1916 James Richard Mellish, 1917 |
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Administration
Local authorities:
From WW1: Whitwell Parish Council; Clowne Rural District Council; Derbyshire County Council.
From 1974: Whitwell Parish Council; Bolsover District Council; Derbyshire County Council.
History
14th January, 1971: The church lies within the Whitwell Conservation Area first designated on that date.
July 1987: The church lies within an area subject to an Article 4 Direction first made on that date.
22nd October, 2016: The memorial was surveyed by Roy Branson and Anne Branson. It was in fair condition and cared for.
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