Great Houghton
Methodist Church
A Great Houghton war memorial is situated in the Methodist church (formerly known as the Wesleyan Chapel)
It commemorates the names of 22 names, and reads:
REMEMBRANCE
1939 - 1945
(NAMES)
"LOVE'S LAST GIFT"
It commemorates the names of 22 names, and reads:
REMEMBRANCE
1939 - 1945
(NAMES)
"LOVE'S LAST GIFT"
St Michael and All Angels Church
Miners Welfare Hall
Additional Details
Thomas Atkins (4742633)
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) - 1/5th Bn 8 June 1940, aged 32 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stephen Atkins; Husband of Mary Atkins, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire. Incheville Communal Cemetery Died in Northern France Ronald Baxter (P/LX 26414) Royal Navy - HMS Neptune 19 December 1941, aged 18 Son of Fred and Polly Baxter, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire. Portsmouth Naval Memorial Lost when vessel sunk in the Mediterranean Alfred Bladen (1545262) Royal Artillery - 58 Anti Tank Regt. 20 January 1943, aged 26 Medjez-El-Bab Memorial Lost at Sea Arthur Chambers (C/MX 72765) Royal Navy - H.No.M.S. Bath 19 August 1941, aged 26 Son of Tom and Clara Alice Chambers; Husband of Elsie May Chambers, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire. Chatham Naval Memorial Lost when the destroyer HNoMS Bath was escorting convoy OG-71 as part of the 5th Escort Group in the North Atlantic about 400 miles southwest of Ireland. During combat, the destroyer fell behind the convoy and was sunk by two torpedoes from the German submarine U-204 at 02.05 hours on 19 August 1941 in position 49º00'N, 17º00'W. The commanding officer and 82 crew members were lost Ernest Chambers (4757627) Royal Artillery - 6 Bty, 3 Maritime Regt 25 May 1946, aged 32 Son of Tom and Clara Alice Chambers, of Great Houghton; Husband of Elsie Chambers, of Great Houghton. Darfield Cemetery Death registered in Hemsworth Frank Corbett (618707) Royal Air Force - 49 Squadron 16 October 1940, aged 22 Son of George R. Corbett and Emma Corbett, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire. Ambares-Et-Lagrave Communal Cemetery Hampden aircraft L4129 lost on a mine laying operation in the sea John Corbett (6143100) East Surrey Regiment - 2nd Bn 10 December 1941, aged 31 Son of George Rigby Corbett and Emma Corbett, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire. Singapore Memorial Died during the fighting in north-west Malaya after the Japanese invasion 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 Lost when vessel sunk in the Mediterranean Raymond Tom Higgins (568305) Royal Air Force - 218 Sqdn. 21 August 1942 Kiel War Cemetery Killed the rest of the crew at Short Stirling I W7573, HA-U. T/o Downham Market for Minelaying in Baltic. Crashed near Schleswig. The aircraft crashed between Brodersby and Geel, 9kms ENE of Schleswig. either Arthur Higgins (3133210) The Glider Pilot Regiment, A.A.C. - 1st 27 June 1943, aged 26 Enfidaville War Cemetery Killed on Operation Turkey Buzzard (Delivery of Gliders for Operation Husky - the invasion of Sicily) or Arthur Higgins (D/JX 237673) Royal Navy - HMS Gould 1 March 1944, aged 21 Son of Harold and Annie Higgins, of Barnsley, Yorkshire. Plymouth Naval Memorial Lost when the frigate was torpedoed and sunk south-west of Ireland by the German submarine U-358. |
Eric Bernard Horsman (1004766)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 23 July 1944, aged 32 Son of Anne Horsman, of Great Houghton; Nephew of Ernest Thorpe, of Great Houghton. Darfield Cemetery Death registered as Bromsgrove, Worcs. Sydney Leonard (3320137) Highland Light Infantry (City Of Glasgow Regiment) - 1st Bn 20 January 1945, aged 22 Son of Sydney and Eva Leonard; Husband of Leila Leonard, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire. Sittard War Cemetery Died in Holland Robert Henry Lister (4541549) West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 2nd Bn. 23 March 1941, aged 23 Son of Cecil and Annie Lister, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire. Keren War Cemetery KIA in Eritrea George Pearson Lister (1064071) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 105 Sqdn 27 May 1943, aged 28 Son of Cecil and Annie Lister, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire. Hanover War Cemetery Killed along with the pilot of De Havilland Mosquito DZ467. The aircraft coded GB-P took off from Marham at 19:20 on 27 May 1943. Target was the optical plant of Zeiss in the town of Jena. Shot down by the Flakgruppe Ostfriesland and Flakbrigade XV. The aircraft crashed 22:20, coming from northerly direction, in the garden of a house. Buried first on 30 May 1943 in Diepholz and buried now in the Hanover War Cemetery. Cyril Love (901226) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 83 Sqdn 14 December 1941, aged 38 Son of James and Eliza Love; Husband of Martha Love, of Sandhills, Great Houghton. Darfield Cemetery Hampden P5393 coded OL-T, whilst preparing to depart on a gardening sortie, collided on the ground at Scampton with AE374 as both aircraft taxied towards the runway. The impact caused the mine on P5393 to explode, wrecking both aircraft. Frank Makings (PLY/18561) Royal Marines - HMS Courageous 17 September 1939, aged 41 Son of Tom and Annie Makings; Husband of Annie Makings, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire. Plymouth Naval Memorial Lost when the aircraft carrier HMS Courageous was sunk in the North Atlantic by a German Submarine. On 17 Sept 1939, HMS Courageous was on anti-submarine patrol about 350 miles west of Lands End. At 14.45 hours, the group picked up a distress call from a ship being attacked by U-53 about 350 miles west of Cape Clear. The carrier launched four Swordfish aircraft, one of them forced the U-boat to dive without damaging it at 17.00 hours. About 18.00 hours, U-29 spotted the carrier group and began chasing it, but had no chance to get into a favourable attack position until the carrier turned into the wind to recover the four Swordfish returning from the search for U-53. She was now heading on a straight course at 18 knots towards the U-boat which attacked only five minutes after the last aircraft landed. At 19.50 hours, U-29 fired a spread of three G7e torpedoes at HMS Courageous (50) and hit her with two of them on the port side abaft the bridge. She almost immediately took a heavy list to port and sank after 17 minutes about 190 miles southwest of Dursey Head, Ireland. The commander, 17 officers and 501 ratings were lost, including 36 RAF service crewmen. John Nuttall (1704371) Lancashire Fusiliers - 2nd Bn. 23 October 1944, aged 33 Husband of Dorothy Nuttall, of Little Houghton, Barnsley, Yorkshire. Cassino Memorial Died in Italy Charles Parker (P/JX 167993) Royal Navy - HMS Egret 27 August 1943, aged 25 Son of Albert Edward and Mary Gurney Parker. Portsmouth Naval Memorial Lost when the sloop HMS Egret was sunk off the Atlantic coast of Spain. HMS Egret was the first Allied warship to be sunk by a guided missle. 30 nautical miles west of Vigo, Spain she was attacked by a squadron of Dornier aircraft, one of which carried and launched the Henschel Hs-293A guided bomb which hit sank Egret in position 42º10'N, 09º22'W, killing 194 of its crew. John James Stoyles (D/KX 98288) Royal Navy - HMS Trinidad 14 May 1942 Son of James Percy and Alice Maud Stoyles, of Great Houghton, Yorkshire. Plymouth Naval Memorial HMS Trinidad was hit by one of her own torpedoes on 29 March 1942, while in battle with the German destroyers Z 24, Z 25 and Z 26, sinking the latter. She received temporary repairs in Murmansk, Russia and sailed for home on 13 May 1942. She was scuttled in the Arctic Ocean north of North Cape after being hit by German Ju-88 bombers on 15 May 1942 Cyril Wilmott (4611968) Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 1st Bn 29 May 1940 Warhem Communal Cemetery Died in France, just in land from Dunkirk |