Newburgh War Memorial.

All photo’s Dawson.

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Photo Dawson

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56662 Pte 20th Bn Kings ( Liverpool) Regt.

Kia 31st July 1917. Aged 19.

Has no grave commemorated on Menin Gate Ypres.

Son of James & Elizabeth Ashcroft, of Moss Bridge, Lathom.

Former Ormskirk Grammer Schoolboy.

His brother James married Ellen Langton, wife of Robert Langton 11th Border

who was himself killed 1st Oct 1917

Also commemorated on Burscough & Lathom Memorials.

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2737 Pte 9th Kings( Liverpool) Regt (TF)

Dow 30th July 1915. Aged 27.

Buried Bethune Town Cemetery.

Son of John & Ruth Barrow of Newburgh.

Good bandsman & cricketer, great friend of Tom Gill MM 9th KLR dow 1918.

Image Richard Houghton

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Cpl 26544 4th Grenadier Guards.

Son of Ellen Bond of Newburgh

Dow 26th December 1917. Aged 35.

Married two children.

Lived at Boyes Schoolhouse, Newburgh.

Died in the 4th Gen Hospital, Rouen. Buried St Sever Cemetery, Rouen.

Images Commonwealth War Graves.

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330686 L’Cpl T Gill M.M.

9th Kings (Liverpool) Regt T.F. Aged 30.

Dow 2nd Sept 1918. 1st Australian General Hospital Rouen.

Buried St Sever Cemetery, Rouen.

Son of William & Hannah Gill of Dean Lane, Newburgh.

Very good cricketer long time friend of Albert Barrow schooled, enlisted together.

Commemorated Lathom & Burscough Memorial.

Image Commonwealth War Graves

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R/2358 Rifleman 13th Kings Royal Rifle Corps.

Dow 7th October 1917. Aged 28.

Buried Godewaersvelde British Cemetery, France.

Son of Henry & Hannah Glover 13 Ashton St, Higher Audley, Blackburn.

Born Newburgh, Lancashire.

.Commemorated at Lathom & Burscough Memorial.

St John The Baptist Church Burscough & the family grave there.

Image Commonwealth War Graves.

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20063 Pte 1st Essex Regt.

Formerly 79998 RFA

Dow 10th July 1916.

Leaves widow and four children.

Lived 3 Woodcock View ( known now as Cobbs Brow)

Bureid Knightsbridge Cemetery, Mesnil, Somme.

Gratefull thanks to family for images.

Commemorated on Lathom & Burscough Memorial.

St John The Baptist church Burscough.

Image Richard Houghton.

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118898 Pte 8th Bn Machine Gun Corps.

Kia 25th March 1918. Aged 20.

Has no known grave commemorated on Pozieres Memorial, Somme.

Son of the late James & Anna P Heap

Commemorated on Lathom & Burscough Memorial.

Image Richard Houghton.

Cpl 1432 5th Manchesters ‘Wigan Miners’ Bn TF.

Discharged unfit from wounds September 1916 after serving in Egypt,

Gallipoli & Mesopotamia

Died 18th October 1918. Aged 28.

He Lived at Mawdesley Cottage.

Son of Sidney & Elizabeth Porter, 66 Liverpool Road, Burscough.

Buried Christ Church Newburgh.

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2/Lt 25thBn MGC ( Infantry)

Kia 27th May 1918. Aged 23.

Son of William Reay of Edingarth, Parbold. & Ash Street, Southport.

Buried Jonchery -Sur- Vesle British Cemetery, Marne.

Formerly 3rd (depot) Kings Regt & Royal Welch Fusiliers with whom he went on active service to France. Commisioned into the MGC from the Inns of Court OTC. Wounded at Third Battle of Ypres ( Battle of Passchendaele in October 1917) returning to his unit in 1918.

His OC gave him a wonderfull testimony after his death which is worth recalling.

“I along with all ranks send our deepest sympathy to you, he was indeed a remarkable young man who had he chosen to remain in the army would have had an outstanding career. He held the utmost respect of his men, who would have followed him anywhere, he had the affinity with the private soldier that can only come from having been one himself”

Commemorated on Wigan Grammer School Roll of Honour,

Lathom & Burscough War Memorial, Christ Church Memorial Douglas in Parbold.

Image Richard Houghton.

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TS / 9054 Farr Staff Sgt John Westhead

Buried Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Somme.

Husband of Eliza Westhead of Briars Lane, Lathom.

Born Lived Lathom.

Parish magazine June 17 records his death.

Former Newburgh blacksmith, went to the Remount Depot at Lathom Park for work from were he enlisted into the army.

Image Richard Houghton.

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World War Two.

Sjt William Noel Green. RAFVR. Aged 30

576 Sqd Bomber Command.

Son of William and Beatrice Anne Green; husband of Georgina Green, of Benwell, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Buried RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY

Attacked by a night fighter, crashing at Mulartshuttein, near Aachen.

Source Ormskirk Advertiser (Richard Houghton)

Images Commonwealth War Graves.

Green.

Labelle.

Records above Commonwealth War Graves.

RAF Source International Bomber Command Centre.

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Thomas Bruce Rushworth Horrocks.

218 Sqdn RAFVR. (3 Group) Aged 20.

Sqdn Motto “In Time”

Flying from RAF Methwold ( Feltwell Suffolk)

Heavy Bomber Sqdn (Lancasters)

1588162 Sjt Air Gunner.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rushworth Horrocks. Husband of Sybil Horrocks, of Gateacre, Lancashire.

Buried Hotton War Cemetery, Belgium. Exhumed Spring 1947 from Henri Chappelle United States Military Cemetery, with Humphrey & Chew reburied April 1947 Hotton.

Image Des Phillipett.

Document Commonwealth War Graves.

Shot down by Flak near Aachen during a Raid on the Opel Factory at Russelsheim, 3 of the Crew survived and were injured.. Only slight damage was inflicted with may of the bombs falling in open countryside.

Source International Bomber Command Centre.

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The crew of Lancaster PD 252

417488 P/O Vernon Leicester Humphrey Pilot. Age 23,

Son of Walter Henry and Ellen Olive Humphrey, Renmark, South Australia.

Buried as with Horrocks & Chew at Henri Chapplle, Re-interred Jan 1947 at Hotton War Cemetery, Belgium.

Humphrey image Des Phillipett.

Flt/Sgt Alan David Chew. Navigator. Age 23.

Son of Samuel and Bessie May Chew, Bilston, Staffs.

Buried as with Humphrey’s & Horrocks at Henri Chappelle, Re-interred Jan 1947 at Hotton War Cemetery, Belgium.

Chew Image Des Phillipett

426776 P/O J.H. Hynd Air Bomber. Age ?

Baled out/captured POW No 7480,

Stalag Luft VIII Bankau.

2203720 Flt/Sgt G.E. Bower Flight Engineer. Age ?

Baled out/captured POW No 5537,

Stalag Luft VIII Bankau.

W/O Abraham Thomson Lyon. Wireless Operator. Age 35.

Son of Alexander and Isabella Lyon, Dundee, Scotland.

Baled out, captured and died of wounds,

Remembered on Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.

Flt/Sgt Thomas Bruce Rushworth Horrocks. Air Gunner. Age 20.

Son of Mr & Mrs Thomas Horrocks, Gateacre, Lancs,

Husband of Sybil Horrocks. Resident in Newburgh, Lancs (prior to enlistment).

Buried originally as Humphreys & Chew, Re-interred at Hotton War Cemetery, Belgium April 1947.

Southport Cemetery.

Image Kevin Laroux Wood

Buried originally as Humphreys & Chew, Re-interred at Hotton War Cemetery, Belgium April 1947

Horrocks. Image Des Phillipett

Flt/Sgt L.E. Westerbrook DFM. Air Gunner Age ?.

Baled out/captured POW No 686,

Stalag Luft III Sagan.B

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Richard Melling.

P/JX 219784 Able Seaman R.N.

Kia 13th December 1941.

Served aboard H.M.S Puckeridge.

Has no known grave commemorated on the Plymouth Memorial to the R.N. missing.

Son of Richard & Ellen Melling of Newburgh.

On the 6th September 1943 HMS Puckeridge Commd Capt J C Cartwirght DSC R N was hit by two of four torpedoes fired by U617 (Kptlt Albrecht Brandl Knights Cross) Sinking within 8 minutes forty miles east of Gibraltar, enroute to Oran with messages.

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Source Royal Air Force Commands.

37620 Wing/Cdr John Henry White DFC. Pilot. Age 28

Son of Henry Thomas and Frances Margaret White, Weybridge, Surrey.

Grave image courtesy ‘Uwe’ Find a Grave.

Flt/Lt Reginald Roberts DFC. Age 30.

Son of Thomas and Miriam Emma Roberts, Streatham, London.

156599 P/O John Clifford Otter DFC. Air Bomber. Age 22.

Son of Vincent Frederick and Mabel Annie Otter, Staveley, Derbyshire.

156357 P/O Wilfred Wilkinson DFC. Flt Eng Age 28.

Son of John & Jane Wilkinson, Husband of Mrs Margaret May Wilkinson, Maghull Lancs.

P/O Michael John Ernest Stoneley DFM Wire Operator Age 22.

Son of Ernest and Annie Stoneley, Husband of Jessie Stoneley of Belfast.

Flt/Lt Edward Mackson Thompson DFC. Air Gnr Age

Grave image courtesy ‘Uwe’. Find a Grave.

Flt/Lt David Mark Claude Silverman DFM. Air Gnr. Age 20.

Son of Maurice David and May Silverman of Bishopton, Warwickshire.

Grave image courtesy ‘Uwe’ Find a Grave.

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Exhumation report Silverman, Thompson, White.

Original research by The Late Henk Welting. Most of the allied casualties in the Berlin area were brought to the Berlin Olympic Stadium for identification. Then burial took place at the “Heeresstandort-Friedhof” Dalgow-Döberitz. Post war this area became a Russian tank exercise site; many graves damaged / lost. From within the Döberitz (Russion Zone) reburials taken to the British War Cemetery Heerstrasse, Berlin-Spandau.