Monday, 24 December 2012

St Cuthbert's servicemen and memorials

In the churchyard at St Cuthbert's in Lytham there are both memorials and also gravestones. The photos are below. Somewhat disappointing that the graves have the little Remembrance Day crosses and the memorials do not. Perhaps the memorials are not so obvious. But its nice that people remember anyway. Hopefully I can derive links from some of them. Some will cross reference onto the main memorial in Lytham at Hastings Place and at St Cuthbert's.

ALSO WALTER ECCLES, SEC LIEUT
L.N. LANCS REGT, THEIR GRANDSON
BORN JULY 20TH 1888
KILLED IN ACTION, FRANCE, MAY 30TH 1916

CLOSE UP OF THE BOTTOM OF THIS MEMORIAL,
REGRETTABLY THE INSCRIPTION IS NOT VISIBLE


IN
EVER LOVING MEMORY
OF
JOYCE
DEARLY BELOVED WIFE OF
ALAN EGERTON FERGUSON
DEC 8TH 1939 IN HER 26TH YEAR
"THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD"
ALSO HER HUSBAND ALAN EGERTON F/LT R.A.F. V.R.
MISSING PRESUMED KILLED MANNHEIM
SEP 6th 1943 AGED 32 YEARS
AND WAS INTERRED IN RHEINBERG CEMETERY



IN LOVING MEMORY OF
ESTHER
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
HENRY SNALAM
WHO DIED FEB 11TH 1832
AGED 62 YEARS
ALSO FRED THEIR SON
KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE
JUNE 16TH 1917 AGED 19 YEARS
"AT REST"
ALSO MARY SNALAM
DIED JAN 13TH 1937 AGED 24 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE HENRY SNALAM
WHO DIED NOV 7TH 1947 AGED 81 YEARS
(More details are available at the link above)


IN LOVING MEMORY OF~
WILLIAM BROWN ROWSON
WHO DIED JAN 1ST 1936
IN HIS 81ST YEAR
MARY KEZIA ROWSON
WHO DIED MAY 29TH 1922
IN HER 67TH YEAR
ALSO
2ND LIEUT STANLEY ROWSON
11TH LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS
ONLY SON OF THE ABOVE
KILLED IN THE GREAT WAR IN FRANCE
SEPT. 30TH 1916 (the date at the CWC is the 29th of Sept)
ALSO EMMA DAUGHTER OF
WILLIAM BROWN ROWSON
WIFE OF THE LATE HARRY JACKSON
WHO DIED FEB 3RD 1961
IN HER 79TH YEAR


IN LOVING MEMORY OF
WILLIAM MILLIGAN M.D.
DIED MARCH 27TH 1923
AGED 64 YEARS
ALSO DONALD S.E. MILLIGAN
11 R.C. C.S., L.R.C.P., LIEUT R.A.M.C.
SON OF THE ABOVE AND LAID TO REST IN YPRES
OCT 12TH 1917
"AS A WELL SPENT DAY BRINGS A HAPPY SLEEP
SO LIFE WELL USED BRINGS HAPPY DEATH"
(more info at the link)

SEE BELOW

SUB LIEUT.
DONALD MORRIS MULLER
R.N.V.R.
THE DEVOTED SON OF
PAUL AND ANN MULLER
MISSING PRESUMED KILLED
OCTOBER 18TH 1941
AGED 23 YEARS
"HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR THOSE HE LOVED
AND THOSE HE LOVED REMEMBERED"
(more info at the link)

ALSO OF
JOHN EDWARD (Clark)
ONLY SON OF
JOHN SARGENT AND ADA MARY CLARK
KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE
SEPT 11 1918 AGED 19 YEARS

Below are the familiar white gravestones:

SECOND LIEUTENANT
J.C.MEYRICK
LOYAL NORTH LANCS REGIMENT
26TH JUNE 1917 AGED 19

FLYING OFFICER
F. BARLOW
ROYAL AIR FORCE
5TH OF APRIL 1944

JUNIOR COMMANDER
H. LEIGH (Eleanor)
AUX. TERRITORIAL SERVICE
1ST OF JUNE 1943 AGE 31

"TO LIVE IN HEARTS
WE LEAVE BEHIND
 IS NOT TO DIE"


213437 GUNNER
J. MYERS
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
25TH OF FEBRUARY 1917 AGE 36

P/7919 LANCE CPL
J. ANDERSON
MILITARY POLICE CORPS
4TH DECEMBER 1917 AGE 56

47337 PRIVATE
H.J. LAMB
K.O. SCOTTISH BORDERERS
30 APRIL 1920

13364 PRIVATE
E.MEDCALF
ROYAL LANCASHIRE REGIMENT
17TH OCTOBER 1920 AGE 21
As before I appear to have missed several servicemen's graves. Any of the links will take you back to St Cuthbert's graveyard. There you will find the missing graves. There is more information on many of the CWGC website. The memorials will also take you back to the CWGC website too. I have not done any searching anywhere else.

2 comments:

  1. Esther Snalam died 1932 not 1832. Death registration 1932 Lytham sub-district.

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  2. Same stone as above, Mary Snalam was 74 years old when she died, not 24 years old.

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