War Memorial UK: Styal

Monday, 28 November 2011

Styal

1914 - 1919

TO THE MEN

OF STYAL

WHO LAID

DOWN THEIR

LIVES IN THE

GREAT WAR

BRIG. GEN. NOEL LEE V.D. & D.L.

CAPT. F.A.J. EASTWOOD

CAPT. ARTHUR T. GREG

CAPT. WILLIAM H. WATNEY

SEC. LIEUT. ROBERT P. GREG

SEC. LIEUT. NOEL E. LEE

SEC. LIEUT. GODFREY MASON

SERGT. JAMES GOLDSTRAW

CORP. GEORGE ALLMAN

LCP. WILLIAM BONE

LCP. ALFRED SPROWSON

PTE. ARTHUR ADSHEAD

PTE. JOSEPH H. BROWN

PTE. JAMES ASHPITAL

PTE. CHARLES BOWYER

GNR. JOHN T. EARLAM

PTE. ARTHUR FROST

PTE. ARTHUR JENKINS

PTE. ARTHUR JACKSON

PTE. HAROLD JOHNSON

PTE. THOMAS LEAH

PTE. THOMAS MOORE

PTE. ALBERT SCOTT

PTE. ALFRED WOOD

PTE. JOHN WORTHINGTON

1939 - 1945

F/O. JOHN L. HALLIDAY

P/O. PHILIP J. HALLIDAY

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War Memorial UK

War memorials have become a familiar part of towns and villages throughout the United Kingdom but are very often taken for granted. Consequently they are sometimes neglected and under threat from modern developments.

Nearly every community in the United Kingdom has a war memorial that was erected after the First World War. Usually the names of Second World War casualties were added. Some communities have memorials to the dead of earlier or later conflicts, for example, Crimean, Boer, Korean and Falkland Wars.

During the First World War approximately 750,000 British subjects died of which most were buried near where they fell or have no known graves. This left relatives at home with no place to focus their grief. During the war, local communities made lists of men and women who were serving and as news of causalities reached home, they were amended and often placed, decked with flowers, outside churches and other conspicuous places.

After the Armistice, decisions were made to build permanent memorials. The best known is the Cenotaph in Whitehall, which remains the national focus of annual commemoration. Local memorials took many forms, for example, village halls or cottage hospitals as well as the more familiar public monument. Some memorials recorded names in full with rank and unit and theatre of war, others just the name and initials with a few, gave no names at all.

Many memorials were sited outside churches or in churchyards. Sometimes the local landowners gave a piece of ground for the purpose or the memorial might be sited on common land.

War memorials can provide valuable clues for those tracing their family history. It is important to remember that information recorded on war memorials was often gathered informally and can be vague or inaccurate.

When I visit and record the details of a war memorial, every effort is made to ensure that the information is recorded correctly.

Additional photographs of each memorial including inscriptions and panels are available upon request.