Woodthorpe

The memorial is located on Norbriggs Road, Woodthorpe Sacred TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD

In Grateful Memory OF THE HEROIC SOLDIERS OF THIS HAMLET WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR. 1914 – 1918

“GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN GIVETH HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIEND”.

L.CPL. @J. H. CHURM. SHERWOODS.

PTE. @T. H. CHILD. SHERWOODS.

PTE. @J. HADLEY. SHERWOODS.

PTE. @H. NEWMAN. SHERWOODS.

PTE. J. T. OAKLEY, SHERWOODS. PTE. @H. SMEDLEY, SHERWOODS. PTE. @W. WILKINS, SHERWOODS.

PTE. @W. WINNARD. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">SHERWOODS.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">PTE. @J. W. GILLINGS. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">SHERWOODS.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">PTE. @S. MERRICK. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">R. FUSILS.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">PTE. J. WHITLEY. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">R. FUSILS.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">PTE. @F. TUFFS. R. FUSILS. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">PTE. @W. LEWIS. R.F.A.

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

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">PILOT OFFICER @GORDON COLLIS <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">PRIVATE @JOHN FLETCHER <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">FLIGHT LIEUTENANT @GEOFFREY TONKS <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">GUARDSMAN @THOMAS IRESON <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">SCOTS GUARDS

Sources used: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919 Soldiers Died in the Second World War 1939-1945 The First World War Campaign Medals DVD-ROM Ancestry British Newspaper Archive All photographs copyright of Chris Preston, unless otherwise stated