War Memorial Gravestones in Barnsley Cemetery

During both the First and Second World Wars re-repatriation of the bodies of fallen servicemen and women was not usual.  The Unknown Soldier, entombed in Westminster Abbey represents those buried and commemorated overseas who could not come home.  For many families, deprived of a graveside at which to mourn, one solution was to add the name of their lost son (or daughter) to the family gravestone in their local churchyard.    

The Imperial War Museum's War Memorials' Archive defines a War Memorial as "any tangible object which has been erected or dedicated to commemorate those killed as a result of war, conflict or peacekeeping; who served in war or conflict; or who died whilst engaged in military service."  This includes gravestones which commemorate a casualty buried elsewhere.  There must be a clear statement on the memorial (or in a printed document such as a newspaper report from the time) that defines the commemorative purpose of the feature and reports its erection. The full wording of their definition can be found here.

Thus gravestones which include wording such as: died of wounds received in action, killed in action, fell in France, died on active service, reported missing in action, or even killed accidentally while on active service all count as War Memorials.  The wording is a "clear statement" that the purpose of recording that person's name on the gravestone is as a memorial.

Gravestones which are situated on the site of the burial of a casualty, such as Commonwealth War Graves, are not War Memorials, however the Barnsley War Memorials Project is also collecting their details for inclusion in the Barnsley Roll of Honour.

Our researcher has found gravestones commemorating servicemen and women who fell after 31 December 1947 (the cut off date for Commonwealth War Graves Commission recognition) and who are not buried in this cemetery. These stones are not listed here as they are not war memorials, but the details have been recorded.

There is a searchable online Roll of Honour here for members of the Armed Forces who died in military service on or after 1 January 1948 (and Palestine 1945-1947).

Barnsley Cemetery contains  at least 157 War Memorial Gravestones and 131 Commonwealth War Graves (as at February 2021). With grateful thanks to Wayne Bywater for his continuing work in seeking out and photographing these memorials for us.

Friends of Barnsley Cemetery aim to promote the preservation, care and improvement of the Cemetery as a place of historic and ecological interest and as a burial ground.  They work with other agencies and interested parties to achieve those aims.  Via their web page you can request a search of their database and even order a photograph of a gravestone!

Barnsley Cemetery is very large, with over 80,000 people buried there.  It might take us a while to find all the War Memorial gravestones, especially as some of them are in a very poor state of repair.  Please be patient with us.  Thanks!

In the list below, where the name is blue click to follow the link to a page with a larger photograph and more information.
 

Gravestone Location Section Row No. BWMP code	Soldier's Name & Regiment Date of Death	Photograph
E 272 BAR07/10	David Maurice Rowlands Notts & Derby Regt 12 March 1915
J 333 BAR07/09	Harold Allemby 14th York & Lancaster Regt 1 July 1916
B 5 BAR07/01	George William Heptinstall Royal Scots Fusiliers 3 July 1916
X 1196 BAR07/02	Herbert Kaye York & Lancaster Regt 7 October 1917
P 11 BAR07/03	Foster Lindley East Yorks Regt 5 September 1918 Frank Marcus Lindley Lancaster Fusiliers 23 July 1917 Claude Scott East Yorks Regt 13 November 1916
H 239 BAR07/08	Harry Scargill 13th York & Lancs Regt 1 July 1916
K 126 BAR07/06	George Henry Simms 1st/5th York & Lancs Regt 7 July 1916
M 27 BAR07/07	Crossland Barraclough 14th York & Lancs Regt 2 May 1918
L 14 BAR07/04	William Kenworthy 9th York & Lancs Regt 1 July 1916
H 13 BAR07/05	Gilbert Harry Edwards 2nd York & Lancs Regt 19 September 1918
Q 1018 BAR07/11	Tom Gomersall 6th York & Lancs Regt 18 November 1915
E 599 BAR07/12	George Smith RAF 15 August 1918
E 175 BAR07/13	Tom Jaques 2nd/5th York & Lancs Regt 3 May 1917
G 67 BAR07/14	Ernest Calvert Blackburn 1/5 York & Lancs Regt 24 May 1915
G 112 BAR07/15	Francis Henry Laister A S C 21 October 1917 Henry Wilkinson Brown Royal Navy 5 November 1915
G 127 BAR07/16	Harry Watson Robinson Highland Light Infantry 25 August 1916 Benjamin Robinson 2nd York & Lancs Regt 4 March 1917
G 131 BAR07/17	Joseph Walker York & Lancs Regt 11 September 1916
G 225 BAR07/18	John Betchetti Black Watch 1 August 1916
G 245 BAR07/19	Horace Ryder Royal Engineers  22 September 1917
G 310 BAR07/20	Francis John Potter 14th York & Lancs Regt 1 July 1916 Edwin Dalton Potter Notts & Derby Regt 17 July 1918
G 338 BAR07/21	Arthur White 2/5 York & Lancs Regt 3 May 1917
G 341 BAR07/22	Ernest Wainwright Royal Scots Fusiliers 10 July 1918
G 371 BAR07/23	Albert Bennett 13th York & Lancs Regt 22 December 1916
G 372 BAR07/24	Eli Royston 14th York & Lancs Regt  1 July 1916
G 373 BAR07/25	Edwin Bower  8th York & Lancs Regt 1 July 1916 Tom Bower 10th West Yorkshire Regt 10 September 1918
G 499 BAR07/26	George Armitage 14th York & Lancs Regt 9 May 1917
E 204 BAR07/27	Herbert Milthorpe 14th York & Lancs Regt 1 July 1916
E 182 BAR07/28	John Arthur Williamson Northumberland Fusiliers 11 April 1918
(a) 605 BAR07/29	William Ford  13th York & Lancs Regt 2 July 1916 George Ryan 1/5 York & Lancs Regt 7 July 1916
T 835 BAR07/30	Thomas William Halton Lancashire Fusiliers 24 April 1918
E 458 BAR07/31	Harold Raymond Oldham Hebdon York and Lancaster Regt 7 June 1917
E 547 BAR07/32	John Kenny York and Lancaster Regt 8 May 1917
E 621 BAR07/33	Frank Leslie Bailey York and Lancaster Regt 1 July 1916
E 662 BAR07/34	Sidney Nicholson King's Royal Rifle Corps 7 October 1916
E 671 BAR07/35	Arthur Foster York and Lancaster Regt 12 October 1917
E 681 BAR07/36	Leonard Micklethwaite Black Watch 31 July 1916
E 761 BAR07/37	Joseph White K O Y L I 26 August 1916
G 1017 BAR07/38	Robert Mark Richardson West Riding Regt 29 October 1917
G 829 BAR07/39	Edwin Fieldsend South Wales Borderers 18 August 1918
G 711 BAR07/40	Ronald Stanwix Royal Navy 7 May 1941
F 11 BAR07/41	Wilfred Leadbeater Royal Field Artillery 28 July 1916
F 130 BAR07/42	Uriah Tetlow South African Infantry 23 July 1916 Harold Tetlow Machine Gun Corps 12 October 1918
C 50 BAR07/43	James Burford Clark South Lancashire Regt 2 September 1918
C 59 BAR07/44	Harry Tock West Riding Regiment 4 November 1918
C 69 BAR07/45	Arthur Crossley Royal Engineers 30 September 1918
C 137 BAR07/46	William Wood K O Y L I 9 September 1943
C 235 BAR07/47	George Wainwright R A F 25 March 1945
C 286 BAR07/48	James Kenneth Walton Royal Navy 10 December 1941
C 288 BAR07/49	Robert Hurd Royal Engineers 31 March 1943
G 644 BAR07/50	Arthur Edon  York and Lancaster Regt 11 May 1917 James Willie Edon York and Lancaster 21 July 1918
J 821 BAR07/51	William Arthur Bird West Yorkshire Regt 20 July 1918
M 41 BAR07/52	Cyril George Bayford York and Lancaster 28 June 1917
P 251 BAR07/52A	Cyril George Bayford York and Lancaster 28 June 1917
M 10 BAR07/53	Harry Liddall Bambridge East Yorkshire Regt 31 March 1918
(b) 573 BAR07/54	Eric George Smith Northumberland Fusiliers 5 June 1917
J 33 BAR07/55	Frank Bakel York and Lancaster Regt 20 May 1917 Cecil Cuthbert Thompson Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 14 July 1916 Arthur Henry Thompson York and Lancaster Regt 1 July 1917
I 99 BAR07/56	Brian Martin Royal Armoured Corps 15 March 1945
(d) 576 BAR07/57	Tom Barraclough Brown York and Lancaster Regt  21 July 1918
B 72 BAR07/60	George Alfred Guest Hewitt York and Lancaster Regt 27 November 1917
S 394 BAR07/99	Keiron Terry King's Own Yorkshire LI 25 April 1917
S 496 BAR07/100	Willie Taylor York and Lancaster 3 May 1917
(a) 566 BAR07/101	Mark Ruckledge West Riding Regt 19 July 1917
(a) 401 BAR07/102	William Crawford Northumberland Fusiliers 29 May 1918
C 27 BAR07/103	Henry (Harry) Atkinson Army Service Corps 2nd or 4th December 1918
Q 441 BAR07/103A	Henry (Harry) Atkinson Army Service Corps 2nd or 4th December 1918
Y 109 BAR07/59	Frederick Parry Army Service Corps 8 January 1918
(b) 381 BAR07/58	Lewis Whitaker West Yorkshire Regt 17 April 1918
(a) 294 BAR07/61	Cecil Robert Lawson East Yorkshire Regt 29 May 1918
(c) 126 BAR07/62	George William Starkie York & Lancaster Regt 9 June 1917
(c) 186 BAR07/63	Francis James Rackley York & Lancaster Regt 26 November 1915
(d) 146 BAR07/64	James Arthur Plant  York & Lancaster Regt 22 October 1917
(e) 255 BAR07/65	Willie Simpson West Yorkshire Regt 5 November 1918
(c) 171 BAR07/66	Sidney Laycock Auxiliary Military  Pioneer Corps c. May 1940
(e) 28 BAR07/67	George White York & Lancaster Regt 10 September 1915  Harry White York & Lancaster Regt 9 October 1917  Arthur Percy White York & Lancaster Regt 28 March 1918
(d) 565 BAR07/68	Joseph Hooson York & Lancaster Regt 9 January 1916
M 1223 BAR07/69	John Sharp York and Lancaster Regt 21 March 1918
B 229 BAR07/70	Edward Percy Smith York & Lancaster Regt 9 October 1917
B 273 BAR07/71	Henry (Harry) Joseph Dennis Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regt 31 August 1918
B 282 BAR07/72	Frederick Ormson Guest Mercantile Marine 21 September 1918
B 308/309 BAR07/73	William Barraclough West Yorkshire Regt 28 September 1916
B 299 BAR07/74	Arthur Spencer York & Lancaster Regt 1 July 1916
C 58 BAR07/75	Newby Thornley Machine Gun Corps 15 April 1918
C front 227 BAR07/76	William Tingle York & Lancaster Regt 26 April 1918
B 171 BAR07/77	William Batty York and Lancaster Regt 1 July 1916
D 34 BAR07/78	John Thomas Vowles Royal Field Artillery 2 September 1917
G 734 BAR07/79	Charles Hatcliffe Ellerby King's Own Yorkshire LI 9 May 1915
G 1080 BAR07/80	William Windlow Potts Civilian - Marine Engineer Lost at Sea 31 October 1940
G 869 BAR07/81	Frederick William Williams York and Lancaster Regt 27 May 1918
H 263 BAR07/82	George William Pickering West Yorkshire Regt 28 March 1918
H 743 BAR07/83	Thomas Walton Australian Imperial Force 20 July 1916 Frederick Walton Black Watch  (Royal Highlanders) 2 September 1918
H 339 BAR07/84 Find A Grave	Joseph Swift Rifle Brigade 28 May 1918
H 522 BAR07/85	Frederick Bramley West Yorkshire Regt 17 September 1918  (also remembered at Ardsley Cemetery)
H 429 BAR07/86	John Clitheroe Coldstream Guards Boer War  9 January 1900
H 267 Find A Grave BAR07/87	John Edward Davies York and Lancaster Regt 9 April 1917
H 395 BAR07/88	Joseph Cotterill York and Lancaster Regt 12 May 1917
H 1250 BAR07/89	Walter Armitage Australian Imperial Force 7 August 1915
H 1258 BAR07/90 Find A Grave	George Law Royal Fusiliers 26 October 1917
J 7 BAR07/91	William Henry Wilkinson York and Lancaster Regt 28 September 1918
J 153 BAR07/92	Robert Jesse Prosser Royal Field Artillery 12 September 1916
J 558 BAR07/93	Percy Jackson York and Lancaster Regt 1 July 1916
J 612 BAR07/94	Ronald John Saville Royal Fusiliers 10 October 1916
J 883 BAR07/95	George Henry Frudd Royal Engineers 31 July 1917
J 897 BAR07/96	Robert Dryden King's Own Yorkshire LI 24 August 1918
H 1195 BAR07/97	Harry Midgley York and Lancaster Regt 19 April 1918
H 915 BAR07/98	Tom Archer East Yorkshire Regt 22 August 1918
L 161 BAR07/104	Norman Ball York and Lancaster Regt 18 September 1916
M 26 BAR07/105	Harold Feasby York and Lancaster Regt 11 April 1918
M 344 BAR07/106	Walter Jackson MM Durham Light Infantry 14 September 1918
M 320 or M 368 BAR07/107	Arthur William Frost York and Lancaster Regt 1 July 1916
M 826 Find A Grave BAR07/108	Herbert Outwin Durham Light Infantry 20 November 1917
P 8 BAR07/109	Arthur Ogley Royal Welsh Fusiliers 24 (or 22)  July 1917
P 16 BAR07/110	Frank Drury Notts and Derby Regt  28 August 1918
P 117 or Q 117 BAR07/111	John Whalley York & Lancaster Regt 10 July 1915
X 687 BAR07/112	John William Norton Carr  York and Lancaster Regt 27 June 1918
X 1143 BAR07/113	Fred Sharpe MM Durham Light Infantry 26 October 1918
T 472 BAR07/114	Francis Peter McGuirk Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 7 January 1916 James Frederick McGuirk Royal Munster Fusiliers 30 August 1915
S 588 BAR07/115	Tom Lindsey York and Lancaster Regt 29 April 1918
R 236 BAR07/116	Benjamin Haigh Green Royal Lancaster Regt  26 April 1917
R 69 or 70 BAR07/117 Find A Grave	Wilfred Perkin York and Lancaster 9 April 1917
Q 442 BAR07/118	George Henry (Harry) Bird Army Service Corps 12 July 1918
P 853 BAR07/119	Wilfred Pemberton King's Own Yorkshire LI   14 April 1918
P 587 BAR07/120	John Normansell York and Lancaster Regt 10 March 1917
P 844 BAR07/121	Sidney Gill York and Lancaster Regt 1 July 1916
P 568 BAR07/122	Frank Liversedge New Zealand Rifles 8 January 1918
P 654 Find A Grave BAR07/123	Benjamin Thomas Moody York and Lancaster Regt 2 July 1917
Q 891 & 892 Find A Grave BAR07/124	Sydney Smith Roginson Loyal North Lancashire 30 December 1917
1 425 BAR07/125	William Dearnley Hirst (aka Butler) Royal Artillery 20 June 1942
X 116 BAR07/126	James Topham York and Lancaster Regt 1 October 1918
X 235 BAR07/127	Harold Wright York and Lancaster Regt 16 December 1915
X 244 BAR07/128	Arthur Redhall Royal Field Artillery 18 May 1917
X 442 BAR07/129	William Potter  Coldstream Guards   Boer War 4 January 1900
X 662 BAR07/130	Albert Edward Wilde Welsh Regiment 24 September 1918
X 837 BAR07/131	George Edward Seed Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 27 August 1916
X 1050 BAR07/132	Reginald Dunk York and Lancaster Regt 3 July 1916
X 1098 BAR07/133	Thomas Henry Scorah King's Own Yorkshire LI 28 September 1918
X 1112 BAR07/134	Harold Willott Royal Fusiliers 28 January 1917
X 1126 BAR07/135	Thomas William Briggs Coldstream Guards 16 September 1916
Y 165 BAR07/136	Henry (Harry) Bennett H.M.S. Afrikander Royal Navy 5 October 1942
5 79 BAR07/137	Walter Cross York and Lancaster Regt 2 October 1917
5 277 BAR07/138	James Downend King's Own Yorkshire LI 8 July 1916
1 159 BAR07/139	Thomas McNicholas Parachute Regiment 24 March 1945
1 358 BAR07/140	George Sheehan 1 Searchlight Regt,  Royal Artillery 23 May 1940
5 29 BAR07/141	(Robert Arthur) Alwyne Blackburn King's Own Yorkshire LI 12 September 1918
1 260 BAR07/142	Joseph Mulraney H.M.S President III, S.S. Orion, Royal Navy 1 November 1944
3 54 BAR07/143	Gordon Speight H.M.S. Saumarez Royal Navy 22 October 1946
4 30 BAR07/144	James Maurice Steele H.M. Submarine P.514 Royal Navy 21 June 1942
6 629 BAR07/145	Frank Downend Royal Artillery 13 February 1942
6 226 BAR07/146	Albert Brown Royal Tank Regt 13 July 1943
6 109 BAR07/147	Edmund Wilson Rifle Brigade 1 or 3 July 1916
7 371 BAR07/148	Irving Lindley King's Own Yorkshire LI 20 November 1917 Irving Parry RAF Volunteer Reserve 19 November 1944
7 411 BAR07/149	James Haywood  Royal Scots Fusiliers 6 June 1940
10 488 BAR07/150	Arthur Storrs York & Lancaster Regt 1 July 1916
10 287 BAR07/151	John Deeley Royal Army Service Corps 4 or 5 July 1944
11 43 BAR07/152	Ronald Steele Durham Light Infantry 20 October 1944
11 135 BAR07/153	George Eric Coldwell Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 5 September 1945
12 59 BAR07/154	George Walmsley Suffolk Regiment 22 March 1918
B 12 BAR07/155	Bert Wadsworth 1/4th Y & L 29 April 1918
(b) 573 BAR07/156	Eric George Smith 20th Northumberland Fusiliers 5 June 1917
M 1114 BAR07/157	Frank Armitage 1/5th Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire) Regt 28 September 1916
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