Not Forgotten - Men not Named on Barnsley War Memorials - A

This is a page for Barnsley connected men and women who fell in the First World War who are not remembered on any War Memorial in the Barnsley Borough discovered so far.  It is provided to assist relatives to find the places where their First World War serviceman is remembered.  

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We currently (Nov 2021) have 3800 names on our Master List of servicemen and women who lost their lives in the war, who were born in Barnsley or who lived in Barnsley when they enlisted, or who are remembered on a memorial in the Barnsley area. Of these approximately 700 (these numbers are regularly updated as research continues) are not named on any memorial in this area, and the names of a number of others have only recently been commemorated in the Barnsley Borough, either on completely new memorials like the Somme Centenary Artwork, or as the result of research by local groups, such as the additional panels in Hoyland. 

We have discovered that some of the men apparently omitted from commemoration in Barnsley immediately after the war, ARE named on memorials outside the Barnsley MBC, and where we have sufficient evidence to prove this we have indicated the places and the reasons we think lie behind these other commemorations. 

The First World War Roll of Honour produced by the Barnsley War Memorials Project (BWMP) and published in November 2018 contained the names of 3,784 men and women, along with 1,990 photographs. An online version can be accessed by clicking the FWW Roll of Honour tab above.

It has been our intention to record all Barnsley war related deaths including the deaths of volunteers, nurses and war workers. 

Please let us know if you have a Barnsley connected relative who lost their life in the war whom you cannot find on any of our webpages (use the search box above), or in the BWMP folders in Barnsley Archives.

Contact details can be found on the About tab above.

The names of those from Barnsley who lost their lives in connection with the Great War 1914 - 1919 will be "Not Forgotten" by us or their families.

If there are words in blue it means there is a link to further information, for example on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, and/or to the solder's 'Life Story' on the Imperial War Museum's Lives of the First World War website. This is sadly no longer interactive, however the IWM have made the archived version freely available so photographs and information uploaded during the Centenary can still be viewed.

As there are so many names the list has been split into sections - click on the letter of the surname that you want to search or use the search box at the top left of the screen.

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Ellis Adshead Gunner 294466 Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 14 December 1918
Born Higham, nr Barnsley, lived Stockport (buried and remembered in Stockport)

Joseph Allen Private 235325 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Killed in Action 5 August 1918
Born Barnsley, his family moved to Hull.
He lived 17 Leo Terrace, Waterloo St, Hull (remembered on Needlers Ltd. (confectioners), Hull)

Maurice Allen Private 18479 Coldstream Guards
Killed in Action 9 October 1917
Born Hemsworth, lived Worsbro' Bridge (remembered at St Helen's Hemsworth) 

Thomas Henry Allen Squadron Sergeant Major 4339 15th Hussars
Killed in Action 2 February 1917
Born Hoyle Mill, Barnsley, lived Lincolnshire (remembered at St Medard's, Little Bytham)

Walter Allen Private 358775 Liverpool Regiment
Killed in Action 12 June 1917
Born Thurlstone, lived Manchester
 
William Henry Allen Boy 1st Class J/21873 Royal Navy HMS Bulwark
Killed in Action 26 November 1914
Lived in Grimethorpe, nr Barnsley

George Allott Private 9202 King's Own Scottish Borderers
Killed in Action 19 November 1914
From Heelis Street, Barnsley   

John Almond Private 14/994 York and Lancaster Regiment
Missing Presumed Dead 26 June 1917
Born in Burnley, Lancashire. Member of 14th Y&L so must have enlisted in Barnsley

Arthur Andrews Corporal 1727 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Killed in Action 29 July 1915
Born Barnsley, lived in Mexborough

Ralph Armfield Private 41593 Lincolnshire Regiment
Missing Presumed Dead 31 July 1917
Born Barnsley, lived 9 Pindar Oaks Cottages

George William Ashby Private 11314 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Killed in Action 29 August 1916
Born Stairfoot, Barnsley, lived Doncaster (remembered at St John's, Balby, Doncaster)

Roland Ashton Lance Corporal 241241 York and Lancaster Regiment
Killed in Action 9 October 1917
From Hope Street, Barnsley  

Albert Asquith Private 14/458 York and Lancaster Regiment
Killed in Action 13 October 1918
From Newton Street, Barnsley 

Maurice Gawthorpe Atkinson Corporal West Yorkshire Regiment
Killed in Action 14 July 1917
Born Barnsley, lived Conisborough

Peter Walter Atkinson 63066 South Lancashire Regt
Died of pneumonia 4 September 1918
From Wilfred Terrace, Princess Street, Barnsley (buried in Barnsley Cemetery) 

Charles Turner Attewell Private 42197 Manchester Regiment
Killed in Action 22 March 1918
Born Birdwell, Barnsley
Remembered at St Jude's, Hexthorpe (as G Attewell). His sole relative was an aunt who lived in Hexthorpe, with whom he had lived before the war.  

Ernest Attewell Private13/1485 14th Btn York and Lancs Regt
Killed in Action 27 June 1917
From Summer Lane, Barnsley

Albert Denham Avison Gunner 1969 Machine Gun Corps
Killed in Action 14 April 1918
Born Barnsley, lived in Liverpool

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This list is not complete.
Ordered alphabetically 18 December 2015
Included 223 names on 1 March 2016

Separated into sections and began to update 21 August 2021