Kirkby-in-Furness
The War Memorial, St. Cuthbert's Church Yard
The War Memorial, Burlington Quarries
The War Memorial Interpretive Display Panel, St. Cuthbert's Church Yard
1914 - 1918
MARK GRIGGS
Died 15th June 1915, aged 30 or 31 years.
Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
JOHN CARTER
Died 22nd March 1918, aged 26 years.
Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, and on the War Memorial in St James’s Church, Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
JOHN WILSON
Died 19th November 1915 age not known.
Buried in White House Cemetery, St. Jean-Les-Ypres, Belgium.
ERIC ROTHERY
Died at Birkenhead in March 1917, aged 27 years.
Memorial Service held June 1917 in Kirkby.
ISAAC HUDSON
Died 9th April 1917, aged 22 years.
Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Named on the family headstone in Kirkby Churchyard.
Memorial Service held June 1917 in Kirkby.
ISAAC KNIGHT
Died of wounds, 1st May 1918, aged 36 years.
Buried in Esquelbecq Cemetery, Nord, France.
Memorial Service held August 1918 in Kirkby.
JOHN RUSSELL
Died 21st August 1918, aged 21 years.
Commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
ROGER PRESTON
Died 26th April 1915 age not known.
Commemorated on the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium, and on his parents’ headstone in Kirkby Churchyard.
Memorial Service January 1916 in Kirkby.
WILLIAM SYKES
Died 15th June 1915, aged 22 years.
Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, and on the Furness Railway Memorial, Barrow Railway Station.
Named on the family grave in Kirkby Churchyard.
Memorial Service January 1916 in Kirkby.
WILLIAM RELPH
Died 4th September 1916, aged 26 or 27 years.
Buried in Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Nr. Albert, Somme, France.
THOMAS HEATON
Died in action 9th-12th April 1917, aged 32 years.
Buried in Tilloy Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
Named on the Quarry Memorial.
Memorial Service June 1917 in Kirkby.
THOMAS MARTIN
Died 8th August 1916, aged about 40 years.
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Memorial Service August 1918 in Kirkby.
JOHN SHEPHERD
Died 12th April 1917, aged 23 years.
Commemorated on the Arras War Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, and on the Quarry War Memorial.
Memorial Service August 1918 in Kirkby.
RICHARD KNIGHT
Died 8th May 1917, aged 27 years.
Commemorated on the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium.
Named on his grandparents’ gravestone in Kirkby Churchyard.
Memorial Service January 1916 in Kirkby.
JOSEPH FLEMING
Died 9th April 1917, aged 33 years.
Buried in Givenchy Road Canadian Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
Named on his parents’ grave in Kirkby churchyard.
Memorial Service June 1917 in Kirkby.
Died 3rd November1917, aged 23 years.
Buried in Baghdad War Cemetery, Iraq.
RICHARD TOWNSON
Died 2nd August 1917, aged 21 years.
Commemorated on the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium, and on the Furness Railway War Memorial at Barrow Station.
Memorial Service August 1918 in Kirkby.
WILLIAM PROCTOR
Died 4th December 1916, aged about 32 years.
Buried in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.
LEWTHWAITE SHAW
Died of wounds in England, 27th July 1919, aged 37 years.
Buried 30th July 1919, Kirkby Churchyard.
The only war casualty buried at Kirkby.
Named on the Quarry WarMemorial.
ROBERT RAWLINSON
Died 30th September 1918, aged 27 years.
Buried in Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
WILLIAM BROCKBANK
Died 8th November 1915 age not known.
Buried in Tancrez Farm Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium.
Memorial Service January 1916 in Kirkby.
ERNEST CARTWRIGHT
Died 1st November 1918, aged 26 years.
Buried in Maing Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France.
JOHN CRANKE
Died 20th April 1918, aged 30 years.
Commemorated on the Loos War Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, and on the Millom War Memorial.
Named on his parents’ gravestone in Kirkby Churchyard.
CLARENCE CHAMBERS
Died 12th May 1944, aged 29 years accidentally on the Indo-Burmese border.
Buried in Kohima War Cemetery, India.
GILBERT JOHNSON
Died 23rd November 1939, aged 43 years.
Commemorated on the Liverpool Naval Memorial.
FRASER FARISH
Killed over Marne, France, 10th November 1944, aged 21 years.
Buried in Clichy, Northern Cemetery, Paris. Commemorated in the Book of Remembrance of Ulverston Grammar School
FRED SIMPSON
Died 20th July 1943, aged 27 years
Buried in the Catania War Cemetery, Sicily.
Commemorated on the War Memorial at Field Broughton, Cartmel, and in the Gordon Highlanders’ Book of Remembrance in Edinburgh Castle.
THOMAS HUDSON
Died 17th January 1943, aged 36 years.
Buried in Yokohama War Cemetery, Japan.
Commemorated on the War Memorial inside St. Paul’s Church, Witherslack.
WILLIAM G. SPRY
Died 29/30th June 1944, aged 22 years.
Commemorated on the Bayeux Memorial, Calvados, France, and in Ulverston Grammar School’s Book of Remembrance.
JOSEPH CARTMELL
Killed over Cologne, 2nd March 1945, aged 21 years.
Buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany.