Risley

**RISLEY FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WAR MEMORIAL PILLAR** **ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH, DERBY ROAD, RISLEY.** **INSCRIPTIONS**: Front Face: 1914

1918 IN PROUD AND GLORIOUS MEMORY OF  OUR BOYS WHO DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
 * @COLIN C. BAKER. LT.**


 * @WM. MCCALL JOHNSTONE. 2ND. LT.**

**@LESLIE BAKER. M.C. LT.** **@JOHN C. JOHNSTONE. SERGT.** **@LEON CHARLES BOSWORTH** **@FREDERICK LAST** **@BERTRAM FIGG** **@WALTER PACEY. SERGT.** **@JOHN HITCHCOCK** **@FREDERICK J. PRINCE. M.M.** **@BASIL T. HOOLEY. M.C.** **@SIDNEY STAFFORD** **@HENRY A. JOHNSTONE.** **@ROLAND TIVEY**

Left Face: THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY MANY FRIENDS IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE

1939 – 1945 @GUNNER ALBERT EDWARD STEVENSON. R.A. @SERGEANT ARTHUR HALL WALKER. R.A.F.V.R. @A.B. ALEC WOOD. R.N. @SERGEANT M.E.WHEATCROFT. R.A.F.V.R.
 * Risley First World War Roll of Honour **
 * All Saints’ Church, Derby Road, Risley **



Inscription:

Risley Roll of Honour The prayers of the Congregation are desired in behalf of the following, who have gone from this Parish and neighbourhood, to serve in the forces of His Majesty the King, and in defence of the Empire Walter Topham Albert Birley, Mons Medal Henry A Johnstone Wm McCall Johnstone H Alan Johnstone J Gordon Johnstone Noel S Chambers Herbert E Chambers Reginald Wells Arthur B Wells Cyril E Wells Basil T Hooley, MC Noel J Hooley Hubert S Groves Reginald H Groves, MM Frederick James Prince, MM Harold P Prince, DCM Robert G Figg Bertie Figg Harry Hustwayte Percival Culver William Smith William Scrimshaw Sidney Stafford Frederick Last Lyndon J Massey Alfred P Taylor Reginald J W Massey Walter Pacey Joseph Mewes Ernest Grundy John H Bailey Mark Bishop Roland Tivey Horace Slaney Jack Simpson John Hitchcock Joseph Austin Henry H Draper William Stafford J L Hambling G R Hambling A J Bird Arthur Dawson George Last Colin C Barker John Edgar Dewis G Arthur Armson J A Shepherd Leon C Bosworth Herbert Pitman Leslie Barker, MC George H Todd Leslie H Sheppard J D French E Duriez In loving and honoured memory of the following; who have laid down their lives Wm McCall Johnstone Colin C Baker Bertie Figg Leon C Bosworth Leslie Baker, MC Walter Pacey Rowland Tivey John Hitchcock Frederick John Prince, MM Sidney Stafford Frederick Last Henry Archer Johnstone Basil Terah Hooley, MC

** Other War Memorials Inside the Church **

@EDWARD HANCOCK HALL

Sources used: Soldiers Died in the Great War CD-Rom Soldiers Died in the Second World War 1939-1945 CD Rom - Naval & Military Press Sailors Died in the Great War DVD-ROM Commonwealth War Graves Commission Ancestry The First World War Campaign Medals DVD-Rom – Naval & Military Press

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