| Names
on Scarthin's War Memorial |
Listed below are the names of all those commemorated on
Scarthin War Memorial.
Men from both WW1 and WW2 are commemorated.
Background information is included
Names on the Memorial | World War
1 | World War 2
There are photos of Arras, Thiepval and Etaples
elsewhere on this site
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Photo © Charles Beresford
2006 |
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ERECTED
TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN
OF SCARTHIN
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR 1914 - 1919
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JOSEPH TOMLINSON
WILLIAM SHERRATT
ARTHUR BIDDULPH
THOMAS KEIGHTLY
THOMAS WORTHY
WILLIAM H. ALLEN
JOHN J. ALLEN
GEORGE KIRK
JOHN A. PIDCOCK
MAY THEIR REWARD BE AS GREAT
AS THEIR SACRIFICE
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1939 - 1945
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HARRY KNIVETON
GEORGE A. PIDCOCK
ARTHUR H. RUSSELL |
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 Abbreviations |
DoW - Died of Wounds
KiA - Killied in Action
ToW - Theatre of War
F & F - France and Flanders |
M Bank - Matlock Bank
M Bath - Matlock Bath
M Dale - Matlock Dale |
Mar - Married
s/o - son of
Unm - Unmarried |
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| Those who died in WW1, 1914
- 1919 : further information |
ALLEN, William H (William Hoades)
Born Matlock Bath 1888
Died 21 Mar 1918
Private 2nd/6th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Service No: 241587
ToW: F & F
s/o John and Ann Allen. Living Scarthin 1901 (half brother of
John Joseph A below) and already working as a packer in the
cotton mill
Memorial: Arras Memorial
Memorial Reference: Bay 7. |
ALLEN, John J (John Joseph)
Born Matlock 1898
Baptised 4 Jun 1899 Matlock Bath Holy Trinity
Died 29 Jun 1918, aged 21
ToW: F & F
Private 2nd Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Service No: 202673
s/o John and Kate Allen. Living Scarthin 1901 (half brother
of William Hoades A above)
Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial, is NE of Ieper and one of four
Memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders
Memorial Reference: Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A. |
BIDDULPH, Arthur
Born Matlock 1891
KiA 23 Apr 1917
Corporal 8th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment
Service No: 43037
ToW: F & F
Enlisted Matlock. Formerly 23033, Notts & Derbys Regt
Cemetery: Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery, Wancourt (a village
in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais)
Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. E. 16. |
KEIGHTLY [KEIGHTLEY], Thomas
Born M Bath
KiA 23 Apr 1917
Private 8th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment
Service No: 43145
ToW: F & F
s/o Everard and Grace Keightley of Scarthin. Living Scarthin
1901.
Enlisted Chesterfield. Formerly 211013, Notts & Derbys Regt
Memorial: Arras Memorial
Memorial Reference: Bay 6. |
KIRK, George
Born 1891 Scarthin
Baptised 18 Mar 1891 Matlock Bath Holy Trinity
Died 14 Feb 1916
Private 10th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Service No: 15170
ToW: F & F
s/o Walter and Elizabeth Kirk of Scarthin. Living Scarthin 1891
and 1901
Memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, one of four memorials
to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known
as the Ypres Salient
Memorial Reference: Panel 39 and 41. |
PIDCOCK, John A (John Arthur)
Born 1900
Died 27 Nov 1918, aged 18
Private "D" Coy. 53rd Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts
and Derby Regiment)
Service No: 6/53557
s/o the late Isiah and Martha Pidcock, of Cromford. He was living
at Crich in 1901
Cemetery: Cromford (St. Mark) Churchyard
Grave/Memorial Reference: 4. 16. 21. |
SHERRATT, William
Born 1891
Died 9 May 1915, aged 24
Private 1st Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Service No: 11390
ToW: F & F
s/o George and Jane Sherratt, of 55, Thoresby Rd., Mansfield
Woodhouse, NTT.
Memorial: Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium.
The Ploegsteert Memorial commemorates more than 11,000 servicemen
of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in this
sector during the First World War and have no known grave.
Memorial Reference: Panel 7. |
TOMLINSON, Joseph
Born M Bath 1891
KiA 12 Mar 1915, aged 24
Private 1st Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Service No: 14148
ToW: F & F
s/o Joseph and Sarah Tomlinson, of Chapel Hill, Cromford, Matlock.
Enlisted Derby
Memorial: Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L'Avoue, Pas
de Calais (between Bethune and Armentieres)
Memorial Reference: Panel 26 and 27. |
WORTHY, Thomas
Born Cromford (Scarthin?) 1887
Died 4 Oct 1917, aged 30
Private 1st Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
Service No: 204551
ToW: F & F
s/o Peter and Mary Worthy, of Scarthin, Matlock Bath. Living
Scarthin 1891 and 1901
Cemetery: Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. E. 9. |
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| Those who died in WW2, 1939-45
: further information |
KNIVETON, Harry
Died 26 Dec 1944, aged 19
Stoker 1st Class H.M.S. Capel, Royal Navy
Service No: P/KX 601704
H.M.S. Capel sunk by German submarine U-486 in the English Channel,
26 Dec 1944. 76 members of the crew went down with the ship.
s/o James Harry and Hilda Annie Kniveton, of Cromford.
Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Memorial Reference: Panel 86, Column 1. |
PIDCOCK, George A
Died 6 Jun 1942
Lance Corporal Royal Army Service Corps
Service No: 193007
Cemetery: El Alamein War Cemetery
Grave/Memorial Reference: XXXII. C. 22. |
RUSSELL, Arthur H
Died: 23 Oct 1944, aged 29
Trooper 17th/21st Lancers Royal Armoured Corps
Service No: 5053521
s/o Charles Henry and Lucy Alice Russell; husband of Jessie
Hannah Lorraine Russell.
Cemetery: Forli War Cemetery, Italy. Many of those buried there
lost their lives in the heavy fighting between Rimini and Ravenna
which took place in appalling weather in October-December 1944
Grave/Memorial Reference: II, C, 4. |
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With very grateful thanks to Mr. Charles
Beresford for help and additional material. Background research
from "The High Peak News", GRO BMD indexes and FreeBMD,
from returns for the 1891 census and
1901 census (click link to go to on-site
transcripts), parish registers and family members. Names also compared
with information provided on "Soldiers Died in the Great War"
CD.
If you know any more about the above men, we would particularly like
to hear from you. Please email and in the
subject line write Scarthin War Memoria lin the subject line. Thank
you.
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