Mapplewell and Staincross
The Mapplewell War Memorial and Staincross War Memorial is a combined memorial set in a small garden on Blacker Road, Mapplewell. It is inscribed:TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE MEN OF MAPPLEWELL & STAINCROSS WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918
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"LEST WE FORGET."
GREAT WAR 1939 - 1945
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"LEST WE FORGET."
GREAT WAR 1939 - 1945
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George Allott
Douglas Baddeley Stuart N Ballis Arthur Bateman Harold Bellin John H Coyle Stuart N Bailes |
Norman Coatesworth
Norman Flower Frank Green William Haigh Leslie Howard Herbert R Howard |
Harry Hart
William Hine James R Jackson Eric Leach Harry Lockwood Lionel Longbottom |
George Ledger
Clarence H T Mallinson Roy Milner Stanley Milner Ben Naylor John Parker Leslie truelove Butler |
James E Poulter
Alec Street Donald P Turner Stenton Ward Eric Walker Richard Wilby |
Additional details
George Allott (PO/22532)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Hood 24 May 1941, aged 34 Son of Fred and Mary Allot; husband of Gladys Winifred Allot, of Bitterne, Southampton. Portsmouth Naval Memorial Douglas Hiram Baddeley (814205) Royal Air Force (Auxiliary Air Force) 26 June 1942, aged 25 Son of Herbert and Mabel Baddeley, of Dalton, Huddersfield. Kiel War Cemetery Stuart N Ballis (mis-spelling in memorial, corrected below) Arthur Fred Donald Bateman (4693572) King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 1/4th Bn 3 September 1944, aged 24 Son of Harry and Edith Bateman, of Staincross, Yorkshire. St Aubin-Routot Churchyard Harold Bellin (1065217) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 8 December 1942, aged 28 Son of William Abraham and Florence Annie Bellin, of Woolley; husband of Dorothy Irene Bellin, of Mapplewell. Darton (All Saints) Churchyard John Henry Coyle (1905075) Royal Engineers - 161 Rly Constr Coy 2 July 1944, aged 26 Son of John Thomas Coyle and Elizabeth Coyle, of Staincross, Yorkshire. Cassino War Cemetery Stuart Neil Bailes (946609) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 148 Sqdn 30 October 1941 Alamein Memorial Norman Coatesworth (953084) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 110 Sqdn 27 December 1941, aged 25 Son of Benjamin and Nora Coatesworth, of Staincross, Yorkshire. Runnymede Memorial Norman Flower (1081246) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 26 May 1945, aged 27 Son of George and Annie Flower; husband of Iris Flower, of Overton, Yorkshire, England. Port Elizabeth (South End) Cemetery Frank Green (402745) Royal Armoured Corps - Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons) 30 July 1944, aged 33 Son of John and Hannah Green, of Cudworth, Yorkshire. Ranville War Cemetery William Haigh (878433) Grenadier Guards - 3rd Bn. 21 December 1944 Santerno Valley War Cemetery Leslie Harrison Howard (2660862) Coldstream Guards - 3rd Bn. 28 June 1944, aged 28 Son of Herbert and Eliza Howard; husband of Kathleen Howard, of Harrogate, Yorkshire. Foiano Della Chiana War Cemetery Herbert Reginald Howard Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve - H.M.S. Avenger 4 May 1942, aged 28 Lee-On-Solent Memorial Harry Hart No details known William Hine (1078909) Royal Artillery - 28 Field Regt 8 September 1944, aged 28 Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery, Kolkata James Reginald Jackson (797570) Royal Artillery - 27 Bty, 2 AA Regt 6 March 1944, aged 31 Son of John Ernest and Harriet Ann Jackson, of Darton; husband of Ida Jackson, of Mapplewell. Darton (All Saints) Churchyard Eric Leach (T/196602) Royal Army Service Corps - 511 Gen Transport Coy 7 June 1944, aged 30 Son of Arnold Hanby Leach and Alice Leach, of Mapplewell, Yorkshire; husband of Nancy Leach, of Mapplewell. Hermanville War Cemetery |
Harry Lockwood (999798)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 7 February 1945, aged 48 Son of James and Mary Lockwood; husband of Mary Lockwood, of Staincross. Staincross (St John) Church Burial Ground Lionel Longbottom (259316) Royal Engineers 14 October 1943, aged 28 Son of Lionel and Alice Longbottom; husband of Marjorie Cathrick Longbottom, of Staincross, Yorkshire. Tripoli War Cemetery George Ledger (T/97889) Royal Army Service Corps - 4 Div Petrol Coy 27 May 1940, aged 21 Son of John Alfred and Ada Lena Ledger, of Staincross, Yorkshire. Hondschoote Communal Cemetery Clarence Herman Mallinson (C/JX 278178) Royal Navy - H.M.S. Avenger 15 November 1942, aged 34 Husband of Lilian Ivy Mallinson, of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. Chatham Naval Memorial Roy Milner (14391759) Royal Engineers - 26 Assault Sqn 18 July 1944, aged 21 Son of Horace and Edna Milner, of Mapplewell, Yorkshire. Ranville War Cemetery Stanley Milner (3131433) Royal Scots Fusiliers - 2nd Bn 10 May 1940, aged 17 Son of Sydney and Katherine Milner, of Staincross, Yorkshire. Bus House Cemetery Ben Naylor (1624128) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 37 Sqdn 21 July 1944, aged 20 Son of Arthur and Ellen Naylor, of Mapplewell, Yorkshire. Malta Memorial John Sykes Parker (7691848) Corps Of Military Police 17 March 1944, aged 33 Son of John Henry and Clara Louisa Parker; husband of Dorothy Parker, of Staincross, Yorkshire. Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio Arthur Leslie True-love Butler (1892533) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 84 O.T.U. 27 January 1944, aged 20 Son of Benjamin and Ada Evelyn Butler, of Lupset, Wakefield Staincross (St John) Church Burial Ground James Leeman Poulter (1534581) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 90 Sqdn 26 May 1943, aged 21 Son of Arthur and Martha Alice Poulter, of Staincross, Yorkshire. Runnymede Memorial Donald Stuart Turner (131600) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 101 Sqdn 23 September 1943, aged 20 Son of Hubert and Edith Turner, of Mapplewell, Yorkshire. Choloy War Cemetery Stenton Ward (614781) Royal Air Force 29/10/1941, aged 20 Son of Thomas William and Blanche Ward, of Barnsley, Yorkshire, England. Durban (Stellawood) Cemetery Eric Walker (P/KX 115621) Royal Navy - H.M.S. Vortigern 15 March 1942, aged 20 Son of Fred and Winifred Walker, of Mapplewell, Yorkshire. Portsmouth Naval Memorial Richard Henry Wilby (C/JX 357224) Royal Navy - HMLCH 275 7 June 1944, aged 20 Son of George Alfred and Edith Wilby, of Staincross, Yorkshire. Chatham Naval Memorial |
Alec Street (972854)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
16 February 1945
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16 February 1945
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