Goldthorpe
The Goldthorpe War Memorial is with St John and St Mary Magdelene Church on Lockwood Road. The inscription is:
1914 TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD 1918 ROLL OF HONOUR (NAMES)
1939 - 1945 (NAMES)
1914 TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD 1918 ROLL OF HONOUR (NAMES)
1939 - 1945 (NAMES)
Armitage J E
Bailey A Bailey W Bellamy C H Bills C L Bowater J Bunting S Butler S Clarke D Claterworth J Cooper W Crossland E Cruise T Cullingworth S Dennis A Ellis G H Fisher J Foster G Glaswell E Gratton J Griffiths D Grundy S Hallows G Hamilton D Handley A |
Chivers F
Dunn A Sharman J Hayes F Hayes J Hollingworth J Hyde W Jackson L Jones A Kerry A Lenton G Longden G Margesson G Patrick W Pendlebury E Phillips J Roebuck R Rook G Sales L Sharman E Shaw B Shepherd W Swindells L W Tarmey A Wall G E Warner H Webster H Whitfield J J |
Additional Details
Albert Dennis (13021224)
Suffolk Regt. - 5th Bn.
31 July 1943, aged 23
Son of George William and Mabel Dennis, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire.
Singapore Memorial
Suffolk Regt. - 5th Bn.
31 July 1943, aged 23
Son of George William and Mabel Dennis, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire.
Singapore Memorial
John Edward Armitage (1548659)
Royal Air Force - 21 O.T.U. 11 February 1944, aged 23 Son of Thomas Liddall Armitage and Constance Marion Armitage, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire. Oxford (Botley) Cemetery Arthur Bailey (4744725) York and Lancaster Regiment - 6th Bn. 30 March 1943 Son of Adam and Eliza A. Bailey; husband of Emma Bailey, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire. Tabarka Ras Rajel War Cemetery Walter Hibberd Bailey (1381194) Royal Air Force - 54 O.T.U. 29 March 1942, aged 27 Son of Arthur and Annie Bailey; husband of Marguerite Bailey, of Goldthorpe. Bolton-Upon-Dearne Cemetery Clifford Henry Bellamy (4689768) King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 2nd Bn. 26 May 1942, aged 25 Son of Henry and Olive Bellamy, husband of K. C. Bellamy, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire Gauhati War Cemetery Charles Leslie Bills (851343) Royal Artillery - 16 Defence Regt. 3 October 1945, aged 29 Labuan War Cemetery James Bowater (4619325) Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 6th Bn. 17 June 1944, aged 26 Son of Jack and Edith Bowater; husband of Edith Gladys Bowater, of York. Hottot-Les-Bagues War Cemetery Joseph Bunting (4802741) West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 2nd Bn. 26 July 1944, aged 23 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Bunting, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire. Rangoon Memorial Samuel Butler (D/JX 188247) Royal Navy - HM Submarine P38 25 February 1942, aged 22 Son of John Thomas Buder and Harriet Buder, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire. Plymouth Naval Memorial D Clarke No details known John Clatworthy (2664361) Coldstream Guards - 2nd Bn. 1 December 1942, aged 21 Son of William and Sophia Clatworthy. Medjez-El-Bab Memorial William Cooper (4743733) York and Lancaster Regiment - 1st Bn. 21 January 1944, aged 34 Son of William and Elizabeth Cooper; husband of Mary Cooper, of Blackburn, Lancashire. Minturno War Cemetery Everett Crossland (1764075) Royal Artillery - 149 Bty, 27 Lt AA Regt 1 August 1945, aged 39 Son of John William and Edith Crossland; husband of Mary Crossland, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire. Hamburg Cemetery Thomas Francis Cruise (1874274) Lincolnshire Regiment - 1st Bn. 7 April 1944, aged 26 Taukkyan War Cemetery George Harry Ellis (4742101) Royal Artillery - 188 Bty., 67 H.A.A. Regt. 11 February 1945, aged 39 Son of Henry Ellis, and of Mary Emma Ellis, of Darton. Bolton-Upon-Dearne Cemetery J Fisher No details known Guy Foster (D/JX 237677) Royal Navy - HMS Jupiter 27 February 1942, aged 21 Son of Stephen and Florence Foster, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire. Plymouth Naval Memorial Frederick Walter Glasswell (3325093) Gordon Highlanders - 5/7th Bn. 5 November 1944, aged 21 Son of Richard and Lydia Elizabeth Glasswell; husband of Gladys Glasswell, of Balby, Doncaster, Yorkshire. Uden War Cemetery John George Gratton (D/SSX 26667) Royal Navy - H.M.S. Kandahar 20 December 1941 Son of George Gladstone Gratton and Gladys Gratton. Plymouth Naval Memorial David Griffiths (1620469) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 51 Sqdn 3 August 1943, aged 20 Son of David and Annie Pretoria Griffiths, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire. Runnymede Memorial Samuel Gundry (2821392) Seaforth Highlanders - 7th Bn. 16 January 1942, aged 20 Son of William and Emma Gundry, of Lower Hillmorton, Warwickshire. Brookwood Memorial David Victor Hamilton (2821114) Seaforth Highlanders - 1st Bn. 15 February 1943, aged 24 Son of David and Mary Hamilton. Imphal War Cemetery Albert Handley (4745742) York and Lancaster Regiment - 6th Bn. 12 October 1944, aged 30 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Handley; husband of Beatrice Handley, of York. Assisi War Cemetery |
Fred Chivers (7354488)
Royal Army Medical Corps - 5 General Hospital 12 January 1940, aged 27 Son of Horace and Elizabeth Chivers; husband of Alberta Chivers, of Hillsborough, Sheffield. Janval Cemetery, Dieppe Allan Raphael Dunn (LT/JX189038) Royal Navy Patrol Service 11 December 1945, aged 26 Son of Christopher and Mary Dunn; husband of Alma Mavis Dunn, of Barking. Barking (Rippleside) Cemetery John Sharman (552728) Royal Armoured Corps - 4th Queen's Own Hussars 14 June 1942, aged 30 Son of Thomas Arthur and Clare Sharman, of Sheffield. Benghazi War Cemetery Frank Hayes (P/JX 312050) Royal Navy - Cape Corso (HMS President III) 2 May 1942, aged 19 Son of James Thomas Hayes and Ada Florance Hayes, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire. Portsmouth Naval Memorial John Desmond Hayes (1507661) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 2 August 1943, aged 20 Son of John and Ethel Hayes, of Little Houghton. Darfield Cemetery James Hollingworth (4693248) Army Catering Corps - Reconnaissance Corps attd. 46th Regt. 7 January 1943, aged 25 Son of Joseph Hollingworth, and of Lily Hollingworth, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire. Brookwood Memorial Walter Hyde (884804) Royal Artillery - 7 Coast Regt 9 April 1945, aged 29 Son of Walter Enos Hyde and Amy Minnie Hyde, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire. Kranji War Cemetery Leonard Jackson (1018226) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 16 October 1944, aged 32 Son of Herbert and Minnie Jackson; husband of Irene Jackson, of Darton, Yorkshire. Ambon War Cemetery Albert Jones (T/228571) Royal Army Service Corps 13 December 1940, aged 33 Husband of Alice Jones, of Darton Darton (All Saints) Churchyard Arthur Kerry (D/JX 265938) Royal Navy - H.M.S. President III / Somme 16 February 1942, aged 21 Plymouth Naval Memorial George Lenton (863208) Royal Artillery - 5 Field Regt. 16 December 1943, aged 26 Son of Robert and Hannah Lenton. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery George Longden (4974184) Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) - 1st Bn. 8 March 1940, aged 23 Ramleh War Cemetery George Margison (13027838) Pioneer Corps 13 February 1941, aged 41 Son of John and Emma Margison, of Darton. Darton (All Saints) Churchyard William Patrick (2764323) Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) - 70th Bn. 18 September 1941, aged 20 Son of William and Ellen Tunstall Patrick, of Goldthorpe. Bolton-Upon-Dearne Cemetery E Pendlebury No details known Jack Phillips (870428) Royal Artillery - 188 Bty., 67 H.A.A. Regt. 11 June 1942, aged 33 Son of Ernest and Kate Evelyn Phillips; husband of Beatrice E. Phillips, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire. Gauhati War Cemetery George Arthur Rock (320375) Royal Corps Of Signals - 46th Div. Sigs. 8 January 1943, aged 22 Husband of Grace Lilian Rock, of Goldthorpe. Bolton-Upon-Dearne Cemetery Richard Eric Roebuck (4541243) West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) 17 April 1943, aged 23 Son of William Edward and Margaret Roebuck, of Goldthorpe; husband of G. H. Ella Roebuck, of Doncaster. Bolton-Upon-Dearne Cemetery Leslie Sale (1491828) Royal Air Force - 426 Squadron 16 December 1943, aged 32 Son of Percy Oswald and Jane Sale, of Mexborough; husband of Gertrude Amy Hawley (formerly Sale), of Erdington, Birmingham, Warwicks. Mexborough Cemetery E Sharman No details known B Shaw No details known W Shepherd No details known Albert Tarmey Q3 1942, aged 24 Died in Wharfedale G.E Wall No details known H Warner No details known Kenneth Webster (1005563) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 27 December 1942, aged 21 Son of Tom and May Webster, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire. Khartoum War Cemetery Joseph James Whitfield (526295) Royal Air Force - 56 Sqdn. 13 July 1940, aged 25 Son of Joseph Whitfield, and of Emma Whitfield, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire. Runnymede Memorial |
Leonard Sales (4535078)
Royal Engineers - 263 Field Coy. 8 June 1944 Son of Leonard and Hephzibah Daykin Sales; husband of Florence Edith Sales, of Yeovil, Somerset. Hermanville War Cemetery Died in the Normandy Campaign |
Lawrence William Swindells (1549852)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
9 November 1943, aged 21
Son of John William and Emma Swindells, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire, England.
Arvida Protestant Cemetery
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
9 November 1943, aged 21
Son of John William and Emma Swindells, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire, England.
Arvida Protestant Cemetery
Goldthorpe Reform Working Men's Club and Institute
Killed In Action
J Bunting
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G Margerson
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P Cruise
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G Foster
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Goldthorpe Library
Located in Goldthorpe Library is a plaque to those who served during the war, it reads:
DEARNE U.D.C. STAFF SERVING IN H.M. FORCES 1939 TO 1945 (NAMES & SERVICE) Of those listed as served it is believed that two became casualties: CLARKSON F R.A.M.C. GRIFFITHS D R.A.F. Frank Hayes Clarkson (7402501) Royal Army Medical Corps 7 January 1943, aged 28 Son of George Rose Clarkson and Nellie Clarkson; husband of Eda Clarkson, of Thurnscoe, Yorkshire. Medjez-El-Bab Memorial David Griffiths (1620469) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 51 Sqdn 3 August 1943, aged 20 Son of David and Annie Pretoria Griffiths, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire. Runnymede Memorial |