Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Roll of honour or book of remembrance
- District
- South Lakeland
- Town
- Middleton
- County
- Cumbria
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
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Current location
Holy Ghost Church
Middleton
South Lakeland
Cumbria
LA6 2NB
England
OS Grid Ref: SD 62308 86192
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Paper Roll of Honour in a glazed wooden frame
- Inscription
- FOR/KING AND COUNTRY/ROLL OF HONOUR/THESE MEN FROM MIDDLETON and Middleton Homes/NOBLY RESPONDED TO THEIR COUNTRY'S CALL: LET US/ REMEMBER THEM IN OUR PRAYERS / (Names) / GOD SAVE THE KING.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Airey, H
Airey, S
Askew, Anthony
Bell, John
Birtle, Tom
Bowness, William
Capstick, Miles
Carswell, D
Coulthwaite, James
Dodgson, John
See details for all 24 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 24
Served and returned: 22
Died: 2
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, rank, regiment, forename
Order of information: Surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Frame
Measurements: depth 20mm, height 475mm, width 320mm
Materials: Wood, Glass - Roll of honour
Measurements: depth <5mm, height 405mm, width 245mm
Materials: Paper
- Frame
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Middleton (Cumbria) Roll of Honour
- WMO ID: 182060
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 20-03-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Full transcript- FOR/KING & COUNTRY/ROLL OF HONOUR/ These men from Middleton and Middleton Homes/nobly responded to their Country’s call: let us/remember them in our prayers. Private William Jackson 4th Batt Border Rgt/Lance Corpl H Airey 9th Batt Border Rgt/Private S Airey 9th Batt Border Rgt/ Private Miles Capstick 8th Batt Border Rgt/Private Ernest March 4th Batt Border Rgt/Private John Wilson 9th Batt Border Rgt/ Trooper Thomas Kitching Westmd & Cumbd Yeomanry/Private John Dodgson 6th (Reserve) Duke of Wellington’s/ Driver John Wane Royal Engineers/2nd Lieutenant Alan Hardy 16th Sherwood Foresters/ Private RL Naphtali 3rd (City) Manchester/Lamce Corpl Anthony Askew 11th Border (Lonsdales)/ Private Tom Birtle 4th Batt Border Rgt/Private E Tomlinson RAMC/Private D Carswell RAMC/ 2nd Lieut James Coulthwaite Border Regiment/Robert Shepherd RAMC/Lawrence Lupton Border Regiment/ John H Shepherd Border Regiment/Willliam Bownass Border Regiment/Leonard Wildgoose Grenadier Guards/ John Bell Royal Engineers/Shepherd Sedgwick Royal Innis Fusiliers/Richard Sedgwick Royal Garrison Artillery/ GOD SAVE THE KING
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