Gawber
Gawber War Memorial is situated within the grounds if Gawber Church on Church Street, and is inscribed:
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF GAWBER WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918
(NAMES)
1939 - 1945
(NAMES)
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF GAWBER WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918
(NAMES)
1939 - 1945
(NAMES)
Additional Details
Colin Hume (850970)
Royal Artillery - 9 Coast Regt. 1 May 1942, aged 25 Son of John and Mary Hume, of Barnsley, Yorkshire; husband of Eileen Patricia Hume, of Woolwich, London. Singapore Memorial Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, Colin Hume died as a PoW Albert Lee No details known Ronald Stones (851317) Royal Artillery - 8 Field Regt. 2 April 1946, aged 29 Son of Walter and Eliza Stones. Gawber (St Thomas) Churchyard Died in Bradford City Sanatorum, Grassington, Skipton. His unit spent the last three and a half years of the war in India William Harrison No details known Harold John Brailsford (1108724) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 23 December 1943, aged 27 Son of Harold E. Brailsford and Frances Brailsford, of Barnsley. Gawber (St Thomas) Churchyard Was killed at killed at Upavon when Oxford I serial number LX595 struck a flagstaff whilst attempting a night landing in bad visibility, crashed into a small 'C' type maintenance hanger on the north airfield and burst into flame. Leslie Palfreyman (1103189) Royal Artillery - 70 Field Regt. 17 March 1943, aged 23 Son of J. A. and Lottie Palfreyman, of Cannock, Staffordshire. Medjez-El-Bab Memorial Killed during the Tunisia Campaign during a German push around Sedjanne. Victor Lee (T/228577) Royal Army Service Corps 3 February 1942, aged 34 Son of Albert and Agnes Lee; husband of Elizabeth Lee, of Penistone, Yorkshire. Alamein Memorial Died in North Africa John Schofield (T/209390) Royal Army Service Corps 7 February 1944, aged 23 Son of Joseph and Dorothy Schofield; husband of Ida Harrison Schofield. Caserta War Cemetery Died during the Italian Campaign Walter Coldwell (1543965) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 27 May 1944, aged 22 Barnsley Cemetery Killed on Active Service in Nottinghamshire Harold Robinson (4347168) Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - 6th Bn 21 July 1943 Son of George and Mary Robinson, of Higham, Yorkshire Catania War Cemetery Died in the second week of the Sicily Campaign |
John Robert Coulsey (1050302)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 49 Sqdn. 15 June 1943, aged 23 Son of Charles and Miriam Coulsey, of Haxey, Lincolnshire. Uden War Cemetery Part of the crew of Lancaster ED434 coded EA-T, airborne from Fiskerton at 22:32 on a mission to Oberhausen. The crew were on their 3rd operation, although the aircraft had a total of 156 hours. Shot down by a night-fighter (Hptmn Hans-Dieter Frank 1./NJG1), crashing at 01:13 2 miles E of Dodewaard (Gelderland) on the N bank of the Waal, 16 km NW of Nijmegen. Five of the seven members of the crew were killed. Walter Leslie James (14333225) Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C. - 15th Regt. 27 March 1945, aged 20 Son of Walter and Adelaide May James; husband of Hannah Agnes James, of Barnsley, Yorkshire. Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Died in the final weeks of the war in Europe as the Allies push into Germany Norman Charles Wood (4346814) East Yorkshire Regiment - 4th Bn. 31 May 1942 - 4 June 1942, aged 26 Son of Norman Charles Wood, and of Harriet Ann Wood, of Barnsley, Yorkshire. Alamein Memorial Died during the Battle of Gazala in the Western Desert Camapign Frederick Playfair Howard (4392753) Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - 12th Bn. 29 July 1941 Gawber (St Thomas) Churchyard Died in Yorkshire Jack Heighway (PLY/X 4065) Royal Marines - H.M.S. Carlisle 9 October 1943 Son of Nellie Heighway, of Gawber, Yorkshire. Plymouth Naval Memorial Killed when the light cruiser was bombed in the Scarpanto Strait south of the Mediterranean island of Rhodes. On 9 October 1943 the ship was spotted by German JU87's dive bombers which succeeded in seriously damaging Carlisle in position 35º48'N, 27º36'E. Arthur Beevers (P/JX 380308) Royal Navy - HMS Penelope 18 February 1944, aged 19 Son of Harold and Hilda Beevers, of Barnsley, Yorkshire. Portsmouth Naval Memorial Lost when ship was sunk in the Mediterranean by U-410 whilst on passage to Naples Harry Turner (4689978) King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 1/4th Bn 22 June 1945, aged 27 Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Accidently killed in Germany Joseph Ware (2590733) Royal Corps of Signals - 2nd Sig. Security Sec. 8 November 1945, aged 29 Son of James and Laura Ware; husband of Joan M. D. Ware. Hamburg Cemetery Died in Hamburg six months after V.E. Day Irving Purseglove (2337946) Royal Corps Of Signals - 78 Div.Sigs. 20 April 1945, aged 25 Son of Samuel and Mary Purseglove, of Barugh Green, Yorkshire. Argenta Gap War Cemetery Died during the Italian Campaign |