Wath upon Dearne, All Saints Church, Joseph Spencer Mitchell plaque

 

Joseph Spencer Mitchell plaque
(photographed 25 September 2021)

Links:

War Memorials Register listing

War Memorials Online listing

Photographed by Nigel Croft

Newspaper research by BarnsleyHistorian

Inscription:

To the Glory of God
In Loving Memory of
Joseph Spencer
Mitchell
2nd Lieutenant R.F.C.
Only Son of Col. Thomas
Wilfred Howe Mitchell V.D.
& Ethel Spencer His Wife
Died 5th October 1916
of wounds accidentally
recived while flying
Aged 20
Buried in
Gezaincourt Cemetery
France

The erection of this plaque was reported in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph on 15 October 1917, p.7.  This was just over a year after the death of Joseph Spencer Mitchell.

At Wath Parish Church yesterday a mural tablet was unveiled, and dedicated by the Vicar, the Rev. W. Keble Martin. The tablet bears the badge and motto of the R.F.C., and is inscribed [the inscription above was then quoted].

Joseph Spencer Mitchell is also remembered by a window in St Mary's Church in Wombwell, on the First World War Memorial Plaque in All Saints Church, Wath upon Dearne. He was remembered by an endowed bed in Beckett Hospital in Barnsley, however any physical plaque connected to that commemoration has been lost.

Joseph Spencer Mitchell, as it says above, is buried in Gezaincourt Cemetery, Somme, France and his grave is marked by the Commonweath War Graves Commission. 

This photo of Joseph's grave was taken in 2020 by Paul Reed. Thank you for sharing this with us via Facebook Paul. 

More information about Joseph Spencer Mitchell can be found here.

Lives of the First World War (includes a photograph)

A Street Near You  

The War Graves Photographic Project

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Wortley, Golf Club, First World War Members' Memorial

 

Wortley Golf Club, photographed 17 September 2018
(click picture to enlarge)

Links:

War Memorials Register listing

War Memorials Online listing

See also - An article in the Memories of Barnsley magazine, Issue 47, Autumn 2018, which includes biographies of all the men named on the memorial with photographs.

Photographed by CG

Inscription:

In Honoured Memory of the Members
of the Wortley Golf Club Who Fell
In the Great War - - - 1914 - 1918

Names:
Where further information has been discovered for any of these men it will be linked (look for names underlined and in blue) to a page on this site or to an external site.  In this way we try to avoid duplication and encroaching on the research of other groups and individuals.

T.C. Allport
F.P. Belcher
A.D. Bond
H. Colver
E.W. Colver
W.A. Colley
S. Green
J.A. Stainsby (Torpedoed in Hospital Ship)
B.R. Heape
G.A.G. Hewitt
V.S. Simpson

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Wortley, St Leonards, Second World War Roll of Honour

 

Second World War Roll of Honour
(photographed 15 September 2021)

Links:

War Memorials Register listing

War Memorials Online listing

See also the Lychgate at St Leonards, Wortley which has First and Second World War names

Second World War - Barnsley War Memorials
Researched by MAC

Photographed by Nigel Croft

Transcribed by BarnsleyHistorian

Inscription:
Roll of Honour
[with four columns headed ...]
Name /  / Regiment / Remarks

Names:
Where further information has been discovered for any of these men it will be linked (look for names underlined and in blue) to a page on this site or to an external site.  In this way we try to avoid duplication and encroaching on the research of other groups and individuals.

Name		Regiment	Remarks
Fullerton	John RR	Q.O.Y.D.	Discharged
Turton	William	York & Lancs	Missing
Walker	Frank	R.A.M.C.	*
Davies	Thomas	Royal Air Force	*
Eaton	Edward	York & Lancs	*
Green	Frederick	K.O.Y.L.I.	*
Hawkes	John	York & Lancs	*
Parker	Ernest	Duke of Wellington's	*
Francis	Kenneth	5th Queen's Own Regt.	Died February 14th 1940
Dronfield	Dorothy	A.T.S.	*
Barstow	Alex. John	Royal Engineers	*
Crossland	Fred	Royal Artillery	*
Copley	Joseph	Duke of Wellington's	*
Stanley	Spencer	Searchlight Battery	Prisoner of War, May '40
Foster	James	Manchester Regt.	*
Jeffrey	Ronald	Royal Engineers	*
Severn	Ernest Ed.	R.A.S.C.	*
Pearson	Edgar	Royal Engineers	*
Kirk	Donald	Royal Air Force	*
Purdy	William	Royal Artillery	*
Turner	George	R.A.M.C.	*
Rees	Illtyd Noёl	Royal Air Force	*
Ibbotson	Denis Lewis	Royal Navy	*
Green	Leonard	Royal Armoured Corps	*
Burkinshaw	Stanley	Royal Air Force	*
Wilson	Rowland	Lancashire Fusiliers	*
Green	Blanche	W.A.A.F.	*
Hill	Vera	W.A.A.F.	*
Marsh	Thomas	Royal Air Force	*
Matthewman	Bernard	Royal Navy	*
Helliwell	John	R.C.S.	*
Maidment	Ethel Annie	W.A.A.F.	*
Stuart Wortley	Lady Diana	M.T.C.	*
Moss	Harry	Royal Air Force	*
Senior	Ronald	Royal Artillery	*
Turner	Mable B.H.	W.A.A.F.	Accidently killed, Aug 25th '43
Laycock	Dennis	R.A.O.C.	*
Clarke	Colin	R.A.S.C.	*
Turton	Diana	A.T.S.	*
Armitage	Jack	Royal Air Force	*
Senior	Ronald	Royal Artillery	*
Copley	Isabel	W.R.N.S.	*
Pearson	William A.	Royal Air Force	*
Burkinshaw	Sheila	W.R.N.S.	*
Woodock	C. Geoffrey	Royal Air Force	*
Senior	Wilfred	Royal Air Force	*
Parker	Peter	Royal Navy	*
Jowitt	Titus	Royal Navy	*
Richardson	Bryan	Royal Navy	*

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