Plumtree, Nottinghamshire
The War Memorial in the Churchyard of St Mary the Virgin
Hallowed be the memory of the Men of this Parish
who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1919 Ernest Astill, Royal Engineers Gerald Barlow, Sherwood Foresters Frank M Braisby, Lincolnshire Regiment John W Cooper, King’s Own Scottish Borderers Joseph Cooper, Royal Garrison Artillery Frank Costall, Sherwood Foresters Bryant A Cutler, Sherwood Foresters John Darby, King’s Own Yorks Light Infantry Robert Davis, Royal ASC (MT) John L Hallam, Sherwood Foresters John T Hayward, Northd Fusiliers Walter Huyton, King’s Liverpool Regiment Amos Leon, Sherwood Foresters A Henry Longden, Sherwood Foresters John W Martin, Royal Sussex Regiment Thomas Mitchell, Army Labour Corps Herbert Pendleton, Shell Filling Factory S Benjamin Smith, Sherwood Foresters The victor heroes rest in many lands but here the symbol of their glory stands 1939 - 1945:
Gareth Bernard Banting Chaplain No 2 Commando Frederick Henry Holmes Flight Lieut, RAF Richard Alfred Terry Parachute & Linc’s Regts Melville Francis Fortune Cpl RAF Thank you Fiona Carruthers for the photos and your kind help with this research Her website is http://www.plumtreeparishcouncil.org.uk/plumtree-war-memorial.asp |
The Fallen in WW1
Ernest ASTILL Pioneer, 5th Battalion, Special Brigade, The Royal Engineers. Army no 147233. He was formerly with The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Army no. 11875 He was killed in action on 17 October 1916 in the fighting on the Somme. He was 21 He was the son of Edward and Elizabeth Astell He is remembered on pier and face 8A and 8D of the Thiepval Memorial Additional information Birth Place: Plumtree, Enlisted: Nottingham Gerald Walker BARLOW Sergeant, 17th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), 117 Brigade, 39th Division. Army no 27429 He was killed in action in the fighting on the Ancre on 3 September 1916. He was 28 He was the son of Edwin and Sarah Barlow of Plumtree He is remembered on pier and face 10C 10D and 11A of the Thiepval Memorial Additional information Born: Lowdham, Residence: Plumtree, Enlisted: Nottingham Frank Machin BRAISBY Private, 10th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment. Army no 49688 He died of his wounds on 1 May 1918. He was 19 He was the son of Sarah Ellen Braisby of Plumtree and the late Benjamin Braisby He is buried in grave IX B 23 Boulogne Eastern Cemetery Additional Information Birth Place: Plumtree, Residence: Plumtree Enlisted: Ilkeston Boulogne was a major hospital centre John William COOPER Private, 2nd Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers, 13 Brigade, 5th Division. Army no 40061. He was formerly with The South Staffordshire Regiment. Army no. 40456 He was killed in action on 8 November 1917 in the second Battle of Passchendaele. He was 27 He was the son of Jerry and Francis Cooper of Plumtree and the brother of Joseph He is buried in enclosure No 4 IV E 10 Bedford House Cemetery Additional information Birth Place: Colworth, Lincoln, Residence: Plumtree Enlisted: West Bridgeford Joseph COOPER Probably Gunner, 265th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Army no. 89341 He died of his wounds on 3 October 1917. He was 38 He was the son of Jerry and Francis Cooper of Plumtree and the brother of John William He is buried in grave XX F 9A Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Additional information Birth Place: Colworth, Lincoln, Enlisted: Nottingham Frank COSTALL Private, 1st Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Army no. 4774 He died of his wounds on 13 May 1915. He was 22 He was the son of William and Ellen Costall of Normanton-on-the-Wolds, Plumtree He is buried in grave VIII C 30 Boulogne Eastern Cemetery Additional Information Birth Place: Radcliffe, Enlisted: Nottingham Boulogne was a major hospital centre Bryant Alfred CUTLER Private, 1st/8th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Army no. 50239 He died, probably of natural causes, on 23 October 1918. He was 32 He was the son of Alfred and Annie Cutler and the husband of Charlotte F Cutler of Normanton-on-the-Wolds, Plumtree He is buried in grave IV E 15 Tourgeville Military Cemetery Additional Information Birth Place: Seale, Surrey, Residence: Plumtree Enlisted: Nottingham John DARBY Private, 2nd/5th Battalion, The King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry), 187 Brigade, 62nd Division. Army no. 42544 He died of his wounds on 25 May 1917 after the fighting on the Hindenburg Line. He is buried in grave I I 8 Achiet-Le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension Additional Information Enlisted: Mansfield Robert DAVIS Private, attached to XVII Corps, Heavy Artillery "R" Siege Park, Royal Army Service Corps. Army no M2/188907 He died after the Armistice probably of natural causes on 3 December 1918. He was 34 He is buried in grave I F 32 St Roch Communal Cemetery, Valenciennes He was the son of Thomas and Mary Jane Davis of Normanton on the Wolds and the husband of Annie Davis, Long Acre, Bingham. John Longley HALLAM Private, 8th Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment), 57 Brigade, 19th Division. Army no 27675 He was killed in action on 7 June 1917 in the Battle of Messines. He was 27 He was the son of Thomas and the late Rhoda Hallam He is remembered on panel 55 of the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres Additional Information Born: Plumtree, Enlisted: Nottingham, Residence: Plumtree John Thorpe HAYWARD Private, 1st/4th Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers. Army no 3709 He died of his wounds on 21 September 1916. He was 33 He was the son of John Needham and Rachel Hayward, Hawford House, Plumtree He is buried in grave XVI A 8A Étaples Military Cemetery Additional Information Born: Wormhill, Derby, Enlisted: Bridgeford Walter HUYTON Private, 2nd/7th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment), 171 Brigade, 57th Division. Army no. 57883. He was formerly with The Army Cyclist Corps. Army no. 16726 He was killed in action on 27 September 1918 at the Battle of the Canal du Nord. He is buried in grave I B 4 Anneux British Cemetery Additional Information Residence: Plumtree Amos Lawrence LEON Private, 1st/6th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), 139 Brigade, 46th Division. Army no 57880 He was killed in action on 3 October 1918 at the Battle of the Beaurevoir Line. He was 33 He was the son of William and Eliza Leon of Saxmundham and the husband of Mary Leon of Harby, Melton Mowbray He is buried in grave V I 6 Bellicourt British Cemetery Additional Information Enlisted: Nottingham Alfred Henry LONGDEN Captain, 5th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) He died at the Military Hospital, Rugeley on 2 March 1919. He was 38 He was the son of J A and J B Longden and the husband of Amy Longden, of Ash Mount, Plumtree He is buried in the Churchyard of St Mary’s Church, Plumtree Additional Information His address at Probate was Ash Mount, Plumtree John William MARTIN Private, Royal Sussex Regiment. Army no. G/366 Additional Information He had been transferred to Class Z Army Reserve on demobilzation on 9 February 1919 He died from influenza and flu on 4 March 1919 at New Street, Station Road, Pilsley, Derbyshire. He was 37 His death is registered Deaths Mar 1919 MARTIN John W 37 Chesterfield 7b 1102 The pre-war detail i have gleaned is: He had been a coal miner/heaver and he had previously served for 4 years with South Nottinghamshire Hussars His family were: father William , Mother Elizabeth and Brother Hubert Baden of Flawford Cottage, Plumtree He had married Eliza Dodson 31 October 1916 at The Primitive Methodist Chapel, Keyworth He had initially arrived in France on 29 November 1914 with the Royal Sussex Regiment If you can add to or clarify this please tell me Thomas MITCHELL Private, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) Army no. 40465. He was transferred to The Labour Corps Army no. 125340 He died in England on 1 November 1918. He was 35 He was the son of Robert and Sarah Ann Mitchell He is buried in in the Churchyard of St Mary’s Church, Plumtree Additional Information Residence: Normanton on the Wolds, Enlisted: West Bridgford Herbert Pendleton A worker at the Shell Filling Factory The National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell, was a Government-owned WW1 Factory. Its formal title was National Filling Factory No. 6. It was located near Chilwell on the main road from Nottingham to Ashby de la Zouch. A substantial part of the Factory was destroyed in an explosion of 8 tons of TNT on 1 July 1918. The blast was heard twenty miles away. 134 people were killed, of whom only 32 could be positively identified. A further 250 were injured. The unidentified bodies are in a mass grave in St. Mary's Church, Attenborough. The factory returned to work the next day, and within one month of the disaster reportedly achieved its highest weekly production. Winston Churchill, Minister of Munitions, sent a telegram "Please accept my sincere sympathy with you all in the misfortune that has overtaken your fine Factory and in the loss of valuable lives, those who have perished have died at their stations on the field of duty and those who have lost their dear ones should fortify themselves with this thought, the courage and spirit shown by all concerned both men and women command our admiration, and the decision to which you have all come to carry on without a break is worthy of the spirit which animates our soldiers in the field. I trust the injured are receiving every care." A telegram was also sent from Buckingham Palace, on behalf of the King Samuel Benjamin SMITH Private, 1st/8th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), 139 Brigade, 46th Division. Army no 2153 He was killed in action on 14 October 1915 at Hohenzollern Redoubt in the Battle of Loos. He was 19 He was the son of Samuel Henry Smith, Church Road, Plumtree, and the late Eliza Smith He is buried in grave XXVII M 14 Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez Additional Information Birth Place: Plumtree, Residence: Plumtree Enlisted: Newark The Fallen in WW2 Gareth Bernard BANTING Chaplain 4th Class, attached to No. 2 Commando, Royal Marines. Army no. 159706 He died of his wounds on 10 October 1944. He was 32 He was the son of the Revd Edgar Banting and Charlotte Emily Banting, Plumtree Rectory, Nottingham He is buried in Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery Additional Information MA (Cantab) His address for Probate was The Rectory, Plumtree Quote from the No. 2 Commando War Diary dated 10 October 1944 at Sarande: "Revd. Banting takes party from 3 Tp. to bury Capt. Parsons, Lieut. Coyle, Gnr. Clarke, and Pte. Lyons. After burial he moved fwd. to bury German dead in the same posn., but is blown up on a mine. Stretcher party finds he has died of wounds - carried back to Sarande by M.O. before nightfall. Stretcher party moving down hillside encounter mines - 3 men badly wounded. Parties brought down to Sarande in pouring rain." Rev Banting was buried the next day at 3pm For a photo see: http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/2/In+Remembrance/Padre+Gareth+Banting+-+No_2+Commando.jpg.html See also: http://www.plumtreeparishcouncil.org.uk/revd-gareth-banting.asp Frederick Henry HOLMES Flight Lieutenant Pilot, 487 (RNZAF) Squadron, Royal Air Force. RAFVR no. 76583 He died on active service on 4 December 1944. He was 31 He was the son of Henry and Florence Bradfield Holmes and the husband of Daphne Freda Holmes of Minting, Lincolnshire He is buried in Joint grave 16 E 14-15 Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Richard Alfred TERRY Private, 2nd Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment. Army no 4341834 He was killed in action on 2 March 1945 in Operation Veritable which was a campaign to clear and occupy the land between the Rhine and the Maas rivers. He was 32 He was the son of Alfred and Daisy Maud Terry and the husband of Esther Winifred Terry of Muston, Nottinghamshire He is buried in grave 48 C 6 Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Additional Information His description on the Memorial states Parachute & Linc’s Regts Melville Francis FORTUNE Corporal, Royal Air Force. RAF no. 620140 He died on active service on 30 April 1943. He was 22 He was the son of Melville and Florence Fortune of Plumtree He is buried in grave 1 A 15 Karachi War Cemetery |