Elsecar, Holy Trinity New Churchyard, Clifford Portman

The Portman Family gravestone has fallen face down (photo taken 6 April 2015)

Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Lives of the First World War

Photograph by Nigel Croft

Monumental Inscription by Elsecar Family History Society (also available at Holy Trinity Church, Elsecar on Mondays between 10.30am and 2.30pm).

Grave Location and Inscription:
321 A
In Loving Memory of / Thomas Solomon / The beloved husband of / Emily Portman / Who died May 16th 1018 / aged 64 years / Also of their son, / Lce Cpl Clifford Portman / who died from wounds received / in action in France / Sept 28th 1917 / aged 20 years / Also of the above named / Emily Portman / Who died March 6th 1938 / aged 83 years / "Re-united" / "At Rest".

Clifford is also remembered on the Hoyland War Memorial, West Street and Kirk Balk, Hoyland  and on the Elsecar, Holy Trinity Church, WW1 plaque

He is buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery in Belgium and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. 
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Elsecar, Holy Trinity New Churchyard, Ernest Frederick Whittlestone

Ernest Whittlestone remembered on his parents' gravestone

Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing
 
Lives of the First World War

Photograph by Brian Yarham

Grave Location and Inscription:
Plot no. 4A
In Loving Memory of / Frederick Carr / the beloved husband of /  Julia Whittlestone / who died Oct 25th 1930 / aged 64 years / also the above named / Julia Whittlestone / who died Feb 8th 1940 / aged 71 years / also Ernest Frederick / son of the above / killed in France May 15th 1918 / aged 26 years / "At Rest".

Ernest is also remembered on the Hoyland War Memorial, West Street and Kirk Balk

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





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Hemsworth, WW1 Memorial Tablets, St Helen's Church, Cross Hill

WW1 Memorial Tablets in St Helen's Church, Hemsworth (photo taken 1 April 2015)

Links:
 
War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Lives of the First World War Community

Church website with more pictures of the interior

A book is available with information about the men named on the memorial; Roll of Honour: Hemsworth by Gil Harrison.

Transcribed and photographed by BarnsleyHistorian

Inscription:
1914 To the Glory of God and in Undying Memory of the Men of This Parish who gave their Lives for King and Country 1918

Names:
Where further information on a name has been researched by our volunteers it will be linked here  (look for the names in blue) to a page on this site or to an external site.

Adams, Nathaniel Allen, Ernest Allen, James E Allen, Maurice Arnold, Edward S Atkins, William Ball, John Bamford, Jethrew Banks, Joe Barrett, Bernard Baxter, James Beddoes, Job Beedham, Alfred E Bennett, Walter Bethnam, John Bestwick, Fred Billington, John A Billington, Horace Bingley, Edward Blair, Walter Blaymire, Sam Boocock, Joseph Brailsford, Thomas Bridges, Harry Burke, Bernard Butt, William H Campbell, Thomas Carter, Alfred G Challoner, Alfred Chapman, Fred Chennell, Allen Chopping, Ernest Clark, Thomas A Clements, George W Coleman, Cecil M Colley, David Comer, James Creighton, Edward Creighton, James R Creighton, Percy Cutts, Kelvin Cupit, Wilfred

Dale, Charles H Darbyshire, Robert Davies, John Diggins, George W Donohoe, Albert Downend, John M Drake, Alfred Duckworth, Albert Evans, Joel Evans, Sam Eyre, Joseph M Fenwick, Matthew Finch, George Freeman, Arthur Gash, Ernest Gee, Ernest A Gibson, George H Gibson, Tom Glew, Arthur Godfrey, Herbert Guest, Herbert Haigh, Ernest Haigh, George Haigh, Peter Hales, Harry Halton, George Halton, Richard Hanley, William P Harper, Abraham Harper, Joseph Harratt, John Harratt, John H Harris, James Hartley, Sydney S Havenhand, Roger Hellewell, George Heppenstall, Fred Hill, Robert F Horsfall, John H Hughes, Freddie Hughes, Walter Hulse, Joseph Imms, Edward Kramer, Alfred

Lawley, Lionel Leatham, Bertram H Lee, Matthew Lees, Fred Leornard, Charles Lloyd, Thomas R Lodge, James W McDonald, Harry Maher, Thomas Matthewman, John H Merritt, Joseph W Middleton, Cecil Miles, Joseph Moody, Thomas Morgan, George Morris, Frederick Moseley, Benjamin Mountford, William Murray, James W Naylor, Edmund B Newton, David E Newton, Harold Nobes, William H Ogden, Ernest Olley, Albert Olley, Charles F Outram, George A Pagett, Albert Parsonage, Walter Pattison, Albert E Peacock, John Prendergast, Thomas Radford, Arthur Radford, George Ramsden, Alfred Randall, Hugh Rhodes, Sadler Richards, Ernest Richards, Harry Riding, Samuel D Roberts, Charles H Roberts, John Robinson, Frederick G

Robinson, Leslie Rodgers, Charles Rodgers, George W Sanderson, John W Scott, Thomas Searles, Ernest Senior, Arthur Senior, Fred Sharman, Frank Shaw, James Sheldon, Jonathan Shelley, Harry Simpson, William W Smedcar, William Smith, George Smith, Sydney Steel, Arthur Steel, Herbert Stollard, Laurence H Stones, Allison Strutt, Frederick Sydall, William Taylor, George Taylor, Joseph H Taylor, Rodger Thompson, Joshua Tomlinson, John Tordoff, Frank Tordoff, Harry Thornton, Harold Varley, Harry Watson, Frank Watson, James Watson, William Webster, John T Willman, Solomon Wilson, James W Wincer, George Whitaker, Albert Whitaker, Frederick Wootton, Bert Wright, Walter Yates, James

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