Willington

The memorials are located inside St. Michaels' Church, Repton Road, Willington IN MEMORY OF MEN OF WILLINGTON PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919.

GEORGE E. ADAMS. 1st Grenadier Guards Somme. Sept. 20th 1917.

THOMAS WM. ADAMS. 2/5 Notts & Derby Regt. November 18th 1917.

@THOMAS C. ADAMS. 1/7 Hampshire Regt. Aden. November 18th 1918.

@W. S. ALFORD. 18th Kings Royal Rifles. Messines. June 30th 1916.

@EDWARD WALLACE REA. 17th Gloucester Regt. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">June 17th 1917.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@PERCY ANKER. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">5th Notts & Derby Regt. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Hazebrouck. July 1st 1915.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">GEORGE ALLSEBROOK. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">1st Northamptonshire Regt. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Mons. May 9th 1915.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">GEORGE BENNETT. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">16th Sherwood Foresters <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Passchendaele. Sept. 20th 1917.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@THOMAS BRADSHAW. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">15th Durham Light Infantry. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Ypres. Octr. 2Nd 1917.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@JOHN H. MARTIN. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">16th Northumberland Fusiliers. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Nieupoort. July 11th 1917.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@JOSEPH DAKIN. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">13th Yorkshire Regt. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Havrincourt May 2nd 1917.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">CHARLES DYER. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">H.M.S. “Invincible”. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Jutland. May 31st 1916.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@ANDREW MAHON. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">2nd Yorks. K. L. I. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Rawal Pindi, East India. July 4th 1918.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@STANLEY MANSELL. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Royal Navy. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">June 19th 1917.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@THOMAS WILLIAM FEARN. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">September 7th 1918.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@WILLIAM ARCHIBALD REA. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Royal Field Artillery. Oct. 11th 1919.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">ALSO IN THE WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945

@DENIS BENNETT <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Captain – Staffordshire Yeomanry – October 26th 1942

@JAMES BENJAMIN BROWNSON <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Sergeant – Royal Air Force – June 7th 1944

@HARRY NOEL FAULKNER <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Private – Sherwood Foresters – February 8th 1944

@WILFRED FOWERS <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Trooper - 1st Derbyshire Yeomanry – May 18th 1944

@HERBERT J. SEDGWICK <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Private – Somerset Light Infantry – February 20th 1941

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Sources used: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Soldiers Died in the Great War CD-Rom Soldiers Died in the Second World War 1939-1945 CD Rom - Naval & Military Press <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Sailors Died in the Great War DVD-ROM <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Commonwealth War Graves Commission <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Ancestry The First World War Campaign Medals DVD-Rom – Naval & Military Press

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