Memorial details

Memorial type
Composite
District
St Helens
Town
Newton Le Willows
County
Merseyside
Country
England
Commemoration
First World War (1914-1918)
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
53060

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Current location

The plaque is in the sanctuary
the cross and photographs the side of the organ
All Saints' Church
Crow Lane East
Newton Le Willows
St Helens
Merseyside
WA12 9ZH
England

OS Grid Ref: SJ 57847 95661
Denomination: Church of England

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Description
Firstly: A brass plaque set into a sandstone frame in the North wall of the sanctuary. It has a border of climbing red roses of Lancaster,with green leaves and stalks. On the left of the title of the dedication is the badge of the man's Regiment, while his family crest is to the right. The inscription and designs are incised and painted. Secondly: A plain battlefield cross with an embossed metal strip across the cross-piece carrying the inscription. There is evidence that a cemetery position marker was above, on the down piece. There is a damaged white enamelled metal roundel attached below the cross piece which has the red rose of Lancaster at its centre and the motto of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division around the outside between green rings. This 'cocarde de souvenir' was placed on the graves of all the men from the Division, and was funded by an appeal, The Grave Identification Fund, launched among the surviving officers and men in August 1918. They were priced at 2 shillings (10p) each. Thirdly: A glazed wooden picture frame containing a photographic portrait of Capt. Collingwood above a photograph of his original battlefield grave marker - which may have been damaged when the Germans took the area of the cemetery in the 1918 Spring offensive. His grave is shown as having a picket fence around it.
Inscription
PLAQUE: TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ CARLTON COLLINGWOOD/ CAPTAIN PRINCE OF WALES' VOLUNTEERS/ (SOUTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT)/ WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE/ AUGUST 8TH 1916/ (INTERRED AT DIVES COPSE NEAR CORBIE)/ "WELL DONE THOU GOOD AND FAITHFUL DERVANT/ ENTER THOU INTO THE JOY OF THY LORD" BATTLEFIELD CROSS: CAPT. C. COLLINGWOOD 4/SOUTH LANCS. 8/8/16 On enamelled disc: They win or die who wear the rose of Lancaster
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Collingwood, Carton
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Commemorations
  • First World War (1914-1918)
    Total names on memorial: 1
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 1
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: Christian names, surname, rank, unit, manner, country, and date of death, place of burial
    Order of information: Christian names, surname, rank, unit, manner, country, and date of death, place of burial
Components
  • Cross
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Wood
  • Plaque
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Brass
  • Photograph/s
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Paper
Listing information
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Responsibility
The Parochial Church Council
Reference
  • Wigan Observer, 09/08/1919: Report of the Liverpool Diocesan Consistory Court - to permit a brass tablet to Carlton Collingwood.
  • From the website of the King's Own Regiment Museum - correspondence relating to the 55th Division roundel attached to Capt. Collingwood's Battlefield Cross: www.kingsownmuseum.com/55thdivgravesfund.htm

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