War Memorial, Edgerton Cemetery, Huddersfield
Details
- location: near Blacker Road entrance to Edgerton Cemetery, Huddersfield
- status: still exists
- category: war memorial
Inscriptions
Courtesy of Kirklees Museums & Galleries.
and intention with those which have
been set up in France and Belgium and
other places throughout the World
where our dead of the
Great War are laid to rest
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
and this Airman
lie buried in
Emmanuel
Churchyard
Lockwood
Private Harold Haigh
West Yorkshire
30.12.1918
2nd Airmech H. B. Lee
Royal Air Force
23.6.1918
Sergt. A. H. H. Bamford
Corps Pioneer
7.1.1941
lie buried in
Zion Methodist
Burial Ground
Lindley
Private W. Bray
Duke of Wellington's
31.5.1916
Private B. Brook
Royal Army Service Corps
6.12.1919
Corporal N. Dyson
Royal Field Artiller
9.12.1918
Private H. Milnes
Duke of Wellington's Regt
12.9 1920
Private G. H. Moore
Duke of Wellington’s Regt
28.6.1916
honoured memory of
one hundred and
three members of
His Majesty's Forces
who gave
their lives for
their Country
in the Great War
1914 – 1918
Sixteen lie buried in
Lockwood Cemetery
and eighty seven in
this cemetery
but the graves of
these twenty nine
are not marked by
separate headstones
First World War
143880 Staff Sergt. P. Arnold
Royal Engineers
29.6.1919 11B 116
12677 Private J. E. Banbury
Duke of Wellington's Regt.
23.6.1917 6684G
267713 Private F. Barraclough
Duke of Wellington's Regt.
28.10.1917 11B 125
52008 Private B. Birrell
King's Own Yorkshire L. I.
22.12.1918 11B 116
3024 Lance Cpl. J. T. Bower
Duke of Wellington's Regt.
27.4.1918 11B 116
L / 32570 Gunner S. Burke
Royal Field Artillery
5.6.1916 60 117G
45400 Sergt. C. H. Callaghan
Royal Field Artillery
30.12.1917 Age 30 11B 116
King's Royal Rifle Corps
3.9.1916 11B 125
100109 Driver P. Daly
Royal Field Artillery
25.3.1916 11B 115
24866 Private T. H. Dobson
East Yorkshire Regiment
7.1.1919 Age 34 3B 48
8035 Private W. E. Fowle
Norfolk Regiment
5.3.1919 Age 41 11B 116
15 / 11 Private B. G. Gopsill
Royal Warwickshire Regt.
16.12.1916 Age 22 11B 125
C / 6135 Rifleman F. Hepworth
King’s Royal Rifle Corps
22.12.1916 3B 57
10425 Private F. Hunt
Duke of Wellington’s Regt.
5.1.1917 11B 125
Royal Army Medical Corps
4.3.1919 Age 36 17 R 44C
11939 Private A Kenny
Duke of Wellington’s Regt
13.12.1915 11B 115
91734 Driver W Le Vasseur
Royal Field Artillery
2.11.1917 11B 125
35929 Private R. A. Muirhead
Highland Light Infantry
3.1.1919 11B 116
234150 Private R. L. Murray
2nd Bn London Regt. R. Fus
16.12.1917 Age 20 11B 125
1572 Private F Parkinson
Duke of Wellington’s Regt.
15.5.1916 11B 115
242189 Private T Payton
Highland Light Infantry
5.1.1920 17R 43
Lincolnshire Regiment
12.6.1918 Age 27 11B 116
2066 Corporal D. Shaw
Duke of Wellington's Regt.
20.12.1915 Age 20 11B 115
490 Private W. Shaw
Queens Bays
6.12.1915 11B 115
129768 Private T. Stanley
Royal Army Medical Corps
28.6.1918 11B 116
6570 Driver J. Stephenson
Royal Field Artillery
29.5.1921 11B 117
268180 Private W. Thompson
Duke of Wellington's Regt.
18.9.1919 11B 117
140945 Gunner B. Wilson
Royal Field Artillery
23.10.1916 11B 125
12416 Private R. Wright
The King's Liverpool Regt.
5.5.1915 11B 115
Duke of Wellington's Regt.
14.3.1918 3B 137
Omissions
The following are buried in the cemetery but were omitted from the memorial:
- Capt. Daniel Stewart MD RAMC (1884-1918)[1]
- Served at Sulva Bay in the Gallipoli campaign and "was one of the last two medical men to leave". After returning home to Huddersfield, "he had grieved very much about what he had seen" at Gallipoli. He took his own life on 11 November 1918 prior to announcement of the Armistice.[2]
Gallery
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Location
The following map shows locations linked to those named on the memorial:
Links
Notes and References
- ↑ https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ww1-biography/?id=3261
- ↑ "Doctor's Suicide" in Huddersfield Daily Examiner (13/Nov/1918).