War Graves in the Church of St Anne cemetery

Another visit and further time in the graveyard revealed more servicemen's graves in the churchyard. I also include a couple of panoramas of the church yard.

Looking towards the south side of the church

Looking from the south door towards the lych gate

These graves are in the southern part of the graveyard - this is within the area of the panorama:

1000251 FLIGHT SERGEANT
C.HARRISON
AIR GUNNER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
10TH APRIL 1943 AGE 28

67819 SAPPER
L.A. GILLETT
ROYAL ENGINEERS
15TH JUNE 1918 AGE 27

1051094 DRIVER
C. VENABLES
R.E.M.E.
22ND DECEMBER 1942 AGE 38

9871 PRIVATE
R.CAHILL
EAST LANCASHIRE REGIMENT
31ST JULY 1917 AGE 29

These graves are in the northern part of the graveyard:

201819 Private Horace Smith
Manchester Regiment
15th February 1920
Age 22

2590439 Signalman
Robert Norman Sykes
Royal Signals
29th of March 1942
Age 31

1740682 Gunner
Ronald James Avison
66th Searchlight Regiment R.A.
(Gloucesters) T.A.
26th January 1942

There are other interesting memorials in the churchyard - another post.

Royal Scots Greys - Edinburgh

On the Edinburgh Castle side of West Princes Street, overlooking the gardens is the  Royal Scots Greys Memorial.   It commemorates the regiment's fallen since the Boer War. It is very imposing. There is an interesting history on the statue here, in particular an unfinished debate on who the model for the soldier  really was!  This is quite likely to be one of the most photographed memorials in Scotland. Certainly one of the best known. I am surprised that there is not a list of the fallen anywhere. I hope I have done a good transcription.

There is a record of the memorial on the IWM's UK Memorial Database, but it does not have a record of the other conflicts that this regiment has been involved in. The number is IWM WMA  REF: 53588

A link to the unveiling ceremony is here

The names of the fallen  on this Datastore blogpage.

THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED IN 1906
IN MEMORY OF THE ROYAL SCOT GREYS
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN SOUTH AFRICA
DURING THE BOER WAR 1899 TO 1902

TABLETS WERE ADDED AFTER THE THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914 TO 1918
AND AFTER THE SECOND  WORLD WAR 1939 TO 1945

IN 1971 THE ROYAL SCOTS GREYS AMALGAMATED WITH
THE 3RD CARABINERS TO FORM
THE ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS
(CARABINERS AND GREYS)

Looking upwards from the gardens. West Princes Street is to the left.

The Boer War Plaque

The plaque with a list of the fallen from the Great War
1914-1918
This is the first part

This is the second part of the list of the fallen from The Great War

The left hand side the World War 2 Plaque

The right hand side of the plaque

  

Korea, Northern Ireland and Iraq plaque.
The name of the sculptor  MR WILLIAM BIRNIE RHIND can be seen on the top left corner of this photo

St Cuthbert's Church Memorial

Just up the road from St Cuthbert's cross is a memorial in front of the church hall is a small cross dedicated to those who fell related to the church. For some reason it is quite insignificant. I have driven and cycled past quite a few times and not noticed it. I have added the dedication stones of the hall to this blogpage, they are dated in the early 1920's. The church hall has predated the memorial by only a few years. The names on this memorial are also on the memorial in Hastings place

UKNIWM REF: 42707

 IN GRATEFUL MEMORY
OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR.
 1914 - 1918
 "FOR THEIR SAKES - I CONSECRATE MYSELF. 

H. W. ADAM
C.BELL
C.D. BROWN
B. BROTHERS
N.T.BRYCE-SMITH
W.BILSBOROUGH
E.BURROW
H.CASHMORE
R.CHALLONER
A.DAVIES
P.DAY
D. DUGDALE
R.EAVES
J.C.FAIR
R.FISHER

F.FOX
D.D.HAYES
R.HELM.
A.J.HEPBURN
C.B.HOLMES
W.HOLLAS
L.HOWARD
H.HOWARD
J.K.JACKSON
W.JAMES
R.JAMES
T.C.LEAVER
H.R.LEAVER
A.J. LEWIS
J.C.McLELLAN
R.MILLER

J.C.MEYRICK
D.S.MILLIGAN
E.H.MOULDEN
H.NICKSON
S.HEWSON
F.SNALAM
R.A.STRICKLAND
W.TOOTELL
G.O. THACKER
H.WANE
J. WARD
H.J.WILKINSON
E.C.WRIGLEY
H.G.DAWSON
J.DENTON

View from the front of the building. St Cuthbert's church is on the left.
Lytham and the "other" cross  is to the right.

THIS HALL
WAS DEDICATED BY
THE RIGHT REV E.A.KNOX D.D.
LORD BISHOP OF MANCHESTER
OCTOBER 29th 1920
JOHN SINKER VICAR

J.F.GRUNDY
W.PHILIPSON
CHURCHWARDENS

THIS STONE WAS LAID
BY
EDWARD WILLIAM MELLOR
ON OCTOBER 15th 1919
_________
THANKS BE TO GOD WHICH
GIVETH US THE VICTORY

St Cuthbert's church hall

St Cuthberts church

Lytham War Memorial

Set in Hastings place in the centre of Lytham, this was once the site for the John Talbot Clifton Memorial fountain. However the fountain was moved to the plot of land by the station and this was erected. The names on the memorial are posted on the datastore page here. Not complete yet.

UKNIWM REF: 18596

View north. The road to Blackpool passes to the left.
The memorial is sited on a triangular plot of land
UKNIWM REF: 18596

Closer view

Facing south. This is looking towards Warton street which is the main shopping street in Lytham

Facing south again. The Blackpool road is on the right.

The Sacred Heart Church in Blackpool

I want to split the photographs of the church into two separate blogs. The church is so magnificent that it deserves a page all to itself, the two memorials deserve a page as well. This is the memorial page.

Situated in the south-east corner

Close-up of the plaque

UKNIWM REF: 42244

TO THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD

 BAPTISTRY

THANK OFFERING TO ALMIGHTY GOD/ FOR VICTORY IN THE GREAT WAR

AND ALSO

IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS CONGREGATION

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY

1914 - 1919

SURGEON JOSEPH EDWARD PARKER R.N.

JAMES ATKINSON

JOSEPH EDWARD BROUGHTON

THOMAS CARNEY

JAMES DEWHURST

FRANCIS FLANAGAN

FRANCIS GOSLING

ALBERT HALSALL

THOMAS HALSALL

JOHN KAY

WILLIAM KIRKHAM

JOHN LEE

ROBERT LIVSEY

STANLEY VINCENT DOYLE

EDWARD O'CONNOR

STEPHEN PARKINSON

DOMINIC FRANCIS PEENEY

CHARLES ROGERSON

GEORGE ROGERSON

JOHN ROGERSON

JOSEPH LEO SHARPLES

EDWARD TAYLOR

SIDNEY TAYLOR

JOHN WALMSLEY

WILFRED TYRELL WILLIAMSON

HENRY WOODS

"MAY THEY REST IN PEACE"

Polish Airmen acknowledgement plaque
UKNIWM REF: 42246

1940 1945

THIS PLAQUE IS TO COMMEMORATE THE EFFORTS

 SACRIFICES AND VICTORIES FOR WHICH THE FOUNDATIONS 

WERE LAID AT THE POLISH AIR FORCE/ TRAINING

CENTRE AT BLACKPOOL. 

IT WAS HERE ALSO THAT THE EVERLASTING LINKS EXISTING BETWEEN 

POLISH AIRMEN AND THE MOST HOSPITABLE

CITIZENS OF BLACKPOOL WERE FORGED

The link to the polish airmen CEMETERY is here

Shipley, South African Campaign

St Paul's Church in Shipley has an interesting collection of memorials. They seem to have "migrated " to the back of the church. This is the Parish church of Church of Shipley.

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I am however going to split the  blogpages up. The first Memorial is to the 3 men who lost their lives in the South African Campaign.

This is the transcript of the memorial:

FOR GOD FOR KING AND COUNTRY

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN MEMORY OF HERBERT O'DONNELL

3RD ROYAL WARWICKS

KILLED IN ACTION AT NOONSKRAAL S.A.

DECR.25TH 1901 AGED 21 YEARS

HIGSON LISTER

ST JOHN'S AMBULANCE BRIGADE

DIED OF ENTERIC AT PINETOWN. S.A.

JUNE 12TH 1900- AGED 23 YEARS

ALBERT JOWETT

2ND KINGS OWN YORKS LIGHT INANTRY

DIED OF ENTERIC AT ELANDSFONTEIN. S.A.

SEPT 3RD 1901 AGED 27 YEARS

THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY

INHABITANTS OF SHIPLEY

Looking closely at the very base of the memorial shows the engraver. I think it reads Dell or Bell & Scott Engravers Bradford.
I cannot find any reference to this company. Nicely engraved and well kept. The memorial is in good condition and the lack of a good polish helped the photography no end! Unable to find a reference to Noonskraal on the internet. The references to Higson Lister of Shipley appear to refer to an older Higson Lister - dangerous to presume a father. But certainly seems a relative. The grave is at St Pauls church too.

Herbert O'Donnell:- This is the Ancestry record, the place of death is different.

UK, Casualties of the Boer War, 1899-1902 about H O\'Donnell

Name: H O\'Donnell Casualty Type: Killed Casualty Date: 25 Dec 1901 Casualty Place: Kokskraal Rank: Lance Corporal Force: South Africa Field Force Regiment: Royal Warwickshire Regiment Battalion: 3rd Battalion Number: 5661

Albert Jowett :- This is the Ancestry Record, Interestingly a difference of a day.

K, Casualties of the Boer War, 1899-1902 about A Jowett

Name: A Jowett Casualty Type: Died Casualty Date: 4 Sep 1901 Casualty Place: Elandsfontein Rank: Private Force: South Africa Field Force Regiment: Yorkshire Light Regimant Battalion: 2nd Battalion Number: 5848

I do not have an issue with the errors. I would think that communications were difficult and details difficult to come buy. There have been 100 years + to piece the history together.

SHIPLEY - BOER WAR

UKNIWM REF: 50784