Littleover

Memorial is located outside St. Peter's Church, Church Street, Littleover **TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE ENDURING MEMORY OF THOSE PATRIOTIC MEN OF LITTLEOVER WHO WENT FORTH TO THE GREAT WAR AND WHO FOUGHT AND FELL IN OUR DEFENCE THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED IN THE YEAR 1921 AS A GREATFUL AND IMPERISHABLE TRIBUTE**

**THE COURAGE AND DEVOTION OF THOSE WHOS NAMES ARE HERE INSCRIBED IMPELLED THEM AT ONCE TO RESPOND TO THEIR COUNTRY'S CALL.**

**THEIR GALLANT EFFORTS, IN THE BATTLES OF THE NATIONS HAVE FOUND AN HONOURED PLACE IN BRITISH ANNALS, WHICH WILL RECORD THROUGHOUT THE AGES THEIR HEROIC SELF SACRIFICE UNDER PROVIDENCE TO SAFEGUARD OUR LAND FROM INVASION BY A RUTHLESS FOE:** **AND GLORY ENCIRCLES WITH A NOBLE DIADEM THESE BRAVE SONS WHO WENT OUT FROM OUR MIDST AND DIED THAT ENGLAND MIGHT LIVE.**

**Moes Janua Vita**

**1915**

**@HAROLD LANE. 2nd. SHERD. FORS. FRANCE.** **@WILFRED R. LEE. 1/1 DERBYS. YEOY. GALLIPOLI.** **@ARTHUR TURNER. 10th. SHERD. FORS. FRANCE.** **@HENRY D. OTTEWELL. 1st. GLOSTS. FRANCE.** **@HAROLD G. COLLARD. 10th. SHERD. FORS. FRANCE.**

**1916** **@LEWIS SPENCER. 2nd LEICESTERS. PERSIAN GULF.** **@GEORGE W. FREESTON. 10th. SHERD. FORS. FRANCE.** **@RICHARD VICKERS. MANCHESTERS. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@JOHN E. McINNES. 5th SHERD. FORS. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@FREDERICK JOHNSON. 2nd GRENR. GDS. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@FRANK WILLIAMSON. 7th CANADIANS. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@CHARLES J. W. HOBBS. D.S.O. 2nd SHERD. FORS. FRANCE.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**1917**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@HERBERT L. WIBBERLEY. 24th NORTHD. FUSL. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**GEORGE SMITH. 5th SHERD. FORS. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@ALFRED L. FORD. 8th HUSSARS. GERMANY.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@THOMAS MOORCROFT. R.A.M.C. MALTA.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@JOSEPH CORDEN. 5th SHERD. FORS. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@CHARLES NEWTON. 2nd SHERD. FORS. FRANCE.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@SAMUEL WILLIAMS. 2nd SHERD. FORS. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@FRED R. SHAW. DURM. L. I. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@JAMES F. POPPLE. 5th SHERD. FORS. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@JOHN OSBORNE. 13th SHERD. FORS. ENGLAND.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@FRANCIS D. STONES M.C. 5th SHERD. FORS. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@WILLIAM H. MARSHALL. 1st NORTHD. FUSL. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@WILLIAM H. SHAW. NORFOLKS. PALESTINE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@JAMES W. GROVE. 8th S. STAFFS. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@WILLIAM R. JERRAM. CANN. R. H. A. FRANCE.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**1918**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@FRED BALDWIN. R. ENGINEERS. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@STUART L. THIRLBY. 6th LEICESTERS. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@ERNEST ALLSOPP. 2/5th SHERD. FORS. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@ALFRED H. SPALDING. M.M. 1st GRENR. GDS. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@FRANCIS E. HOULSTON. 205th M. G. C. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@CHARLES E. STOPPARD. 7th EAST KENTS. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@ALFRED WOOTTON. 1st CANADIANS. ENGLAND.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@RICHARD E. HILL. 1/1 HERTS. FRANCE.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@BENJAMIN T. WIBBERLEY. 3rd K. R. R. SALONIKA.** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**@FRED VICKERS. 5th SHERD. FORS. DARDANELLES.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**1939 – 1945**


 * @V. A. ALBRECHT**
 * @R. M. ALDUS**
 * @J. R. BANKS**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">J. BARTON **
 * @H. V. CHATTERTON**
 * @K. C. CHINN**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">A. R. CLARKE **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@R. J. COCKSHOTT **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@E. CONWAY **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">T. COOPER **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@P. M. DAVIES **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@H. P. GRANGER **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@D. R. GREENUP **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@T. A. HALES **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@E. HOLMES **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@L. HUNT **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@L. H. KIRKLAND **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@E. C. WARDLE-KNIGHT **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@G. E. LEADBETTER **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@P. LEEMAN **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@F. H. LOWNDES **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@T. J. MEEK **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@H. MITTON **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**747887 FLIGHT SERGEANT @JAMES EDWARD SELLORS KILLED IN ACTION IN 1941**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@K. P. MITTON **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@W. B. MURFIN **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@H. M. MYCROFT **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@A. PALIN **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@S. J. W. PAULSON **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">E. W. PRIOR **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">@G. V. REEVES **
 * @M. H. RUDGE**
 * @B. SALT**
 * @F. C. SALT**
 * @P. W. SANFORD**
 * @N. B. SCOTT**
 * @G. A. SELBY**
 * @H. C. SELBY**
 * @H. SMITH**
 * @A. F. THOMAS**
 * @J. H. TROTT**
 * @J. E. VAN SCHAICK**
 * @P. P. B. WILSON**
 * @K. W. WRIGHT**
 * @R. A. WRIGHT**
 * @P. L. YORKE**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Sources used: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Soldiers Died in the Great War CD-Rom <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Commonwealth War Graves Commission <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Ancestry <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Library and Archives Canada

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