Royston, A E Shepherd VC Railway Locomotive Plaque in A E Shepherd VC Centre

Name Plaque now on display in the A E Shepherd Centre, Station Road, Royston

0-4-0 Saddle Tank N0. HC1784/47 with nameplates bearing inscription SHEPHERD VC

0-4-0 Saddle Tank N0. HC1784/47 with nameplates bearing inscription SHEPHERD VC

Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Photograph of plaque by Pete Schofield.  Other photos, access to the A E Shepherd Centre and additional information with grateful thanks to Joyce Johnson of the Royston Local History Group.

Information from the War Memorials Archive:
Locomotive built 1947 and scrapped at Royston by Roe Brothers & Co. Ltd of Sheffield in November 1972.
The Industrial Locomotive No.135, Vol.13, No. 6 (June 2010). "Pte (later Cpl) A E Shepherd was awarded his VC for action, and worked at the collieries before and after WW1."

Albert is also remembered on the:
Royston, Old Lychgate, St John the Baptist, Church Street, A E Shepherd V C
Royston, Plaque on War Memorial, St John the Baptist, Church Street, A E Shepherd VC
Royston, A E Shepherd VC Centre, Station Road, Royston (ROY09)
Royston, Albert E Shepherd, Blue Plaque on ROY09
Royston, A E Shepherd, Royal British Legion Plaque in ROY09
Royston, Albert E Shepherd, Framed Photo and Biography, in ROY09


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Thurlstone, St Saviour's Church, Major Richard Day Table

This table is a War Memorial - see below for close up of plaque on left below table top (photo by PS)

Difficult to photograph due to reflections - (photo by NC)

Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Photographs by Pete Schofield and Nigel Croft

Further Information:

RICHARD DAY.
Articled to Ben. Day, of Leeds. Mobilised Aug. 1914, as Lieut., Royal Field Artillery (T.) and subsequently attained the rank of Major. Awarded the M.C. and Bar. Served in France throughout from the spring of 1915, and was in command of his Battery at the Passchendaele Ridge. Killed in action Feb. 23, 1918.
(from Record of Service of Solicitors)
 
Inscription:
To the * and in loving memory of our nephew Major Richard Day MC West Riding * RFA
Killed near Passchendaele 23rd February 1918 aged 27 years. 
Resting in the Second * Military Cemetery at Vlamertinghe

Richard Day is buried in Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, Ieper, Belgium and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. 



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Worsbrough St Thomas Churchyard Maurice P Ellis

Maurice Paul Ellis is remembered on his mother's gravestone

Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Photograph by Pete Schofield

Grave Location and Inscription:
In Loving Memory of Alice The Beloved Wife of John Ellis Who Fell Asleep Feby 19th 1912 Aged 44 years "Thy will , O Lord, be done" Also Pte M.P. Ellis 2/5 Y & L Regt The Beloved Son of the Above Who died from Wound Received in France may 4th 1917, Aged 19 Years.

Maurice is also remembered on the Worsborough Combined Memorial, St Thomas And St James Church, Worsborough Dale 

He is buriedAchiet-Le-Grand Communal Cemetery, France and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. 


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Monk Bretton Cemetery Thomas Hilton Horbury

Thomas H Horbury is remembered on the family gravestone

Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Photograph by Nigel Croft

Monumental Inscription by Barnsley Family History Society

Grave Location and Inscription: 
G 88
In / loving / memory / of / Pte FRANK HORBURY / son of GEORGE and / SARAH ANN HORBURY / who passed away November / 16th 1918, aged 31 years. / Also Gunner THOMAS HILTON HORBURY / their son. And beloved husband of / MARY ANNIS HORBURY / who died in Etaples. France, May / 12th 1917. Aged 26 years. / Also EDWARD, their son / who died November 7th 1895 / aged 17 days. / Also the above named / GEORGE HORBURY / who passed away August / 29th 1928, aged 75 years. / Also the above named / SARAH ANN HORBURY / who died March 22nd 1933 / aged 71 years. / Faithful unto death.

Thomas is also remembered on the Monk Bretton, St Paul's Church, WW1 Memorial Book and the Monk Bretton, St Paul's Church, WW1 Memorial Tablet and the Monk Bretton War Memorial, Cross Street, Monk Bretton

He is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.  

Note that his brother Frank is buried in this plot, there is no Commonwealth War Graves Commission stone, although he is remembered on their website.  This would have been by family choice.




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Darfield Churchyard Percy Stuart Kitson

Percy Kitson is remembered on his mother's gravestone in Darfield Churchyard

Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Photograph by BarnsleyHistorian

Grave Location and Inscription: 
[This gravestone is near the top of the churchyard, near the wall to the right as you walk down the path - letter A on the Friends of Darfield Churchyard's map which can be downloaded as a .pdf file here]

In Loving Memory of / Harriet Ann / the beloved wife of / George Kitson / Schoolmaster, Great Houghton / who died September 19th 1887 / aged 23 years / Not Lost, But Gone Before / also Percy Stuard Kitson, her only / child, who fell on the Field of Honour in ?? / September 3rd 1916,aged 28 years.

Read more about Percy Stuart Kitson on the Australian War Memorial website.

Percy is buried in Bedford House Cemetry in Ieper, Belgium and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.  



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Thurnscoe Local History Group, Memorial to the Fallen, Thurnscoe Park

Thurnscoe Local History Group provided this memorial (photo by Peter Davies)

Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing


Information:

This plaque was proposed by members of the Thurnscoe Local History Group and stands in front of a plot of grass where crosses for the Fallen will be placed on Remembrance Day.  It is to pay tribute to all the Thurnscoe men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in wars and conflicts.  

It was funded by the Group in co-operation with the local undertaker.

Inscription:
Thurnscoe Local History Group
Memorial to the Fallen
1914 [image of poppies] 2014

There are no names on this memorial.


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