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| FWW Memorial Cross with SWW panels on wall behind |
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| FWW names Adams to Hessam |
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| FWW names Heppenstall to Pearson |
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| FWW names Perry to Wroe |
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| Additional names (this photo by Sally Jowitt 9 July 2019) |
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Photographed by Nigel Croft 19 March 2017 (except for the final one)
(In very bright sunshine, we had difficulty getting good pictures of the first two panels that day, so the photos have been edited to improve legibility. The sun was just right for the third panel as you can see!)
Researched and Transcribed by BarnsleyHistorian
Inscription:
[art deco style lettering carved into the stone of the base in relief]
In / Proud And / Ever Living / Memory Of / The Men Of / This Town / Who Gave / Their Lives / In The / Great War / 1914-1918
[on a small metal plaque in raised gothic style font]
This Memorial erected by the townspeople Wath and district was unveiled by / Major A. D. B. Johnson M. A. T. D. on the 25th of September 1921
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| Newspaper photo from Find My Past |
Information:
The memorial's location, on the edge of the churchyard at All Saints, Wath, was not the original proposal. That would have seen the memorial erected on High Street, in front of Cross House, better known now as The Church House J D Wetherspoons pub. (Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, 27 March 1920, p.10.)
The change of site to the Town Hall grounds was announced in early March 1921. It seems that the Committee had faced problems buying the land initially proposed. Voluntary subscriptions had been collected and the fund then stood at £700 which would be sufficient to cover all costs if the memorial location was changed. (Mexborough and Swinton Times, 5 March 1921, p.3.)
The unveiling of the Wath-upon-Dearne and West Melton War Memorial Cross on Sunday 25 September 1921, by Major E. D. B. Johnson, was reported in the Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express on 1 October 1921, p.8. The Lord Bishop of Sheffield dedicated the memorial (see photo above). The memorial was officially handed over to the local authority of Wath, for safe custody in perpetuity, and accepted by Councillor Marshal Robson on behalf of the town.
During the singing of hymns hundreds of wreaths and flowers were placed by the memorial by relatives of the men lost. Friendly Societies and Clubs placed wreaths on behalf their fallen members.
The cross was described as being of 'Bolton Wood stone', and standing 18 feet high. Oddly the inscription was recorded as reading, "In proud and ever-living memory of the men of this town who have their lives in the Great War, 1914-1918. The names of the 244 men whose memories the monument is intented to perpetuate are recorded thereon." (This second sentence does not appear on the memorial today.) The name panels were of bronze and the newspaper report included a full list of names.
There are 244 names on the three main panels on the base of the memorial and another 12 on a small additional panel. The book, Wath upon Dearne War Memorial, 1914-1918 by G A Mangham (2021) suggests that five of the names are duplicate entries and two were not actually casualties, leaving 249 individual men.
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.
First Panel
| Adams, Charles H Ashwin, Guy J H Askee, Thomas Ball, George Barlow, Arthur Barrs, George E Beevers, Edwin Beevers, Joseph Bird, Walter Blackburn, Joseph Booth, W M Bower, A Bower, Ernest Briggs, George Briggs, Tom Brooke, Albert Brown, G E Burdin, Clifford Burland, Ellis Burland, Joseph Butler, Harry Calvert, Harry Carr, Clifford Casswell, Herbert Castle, Herbert Catling, George Clark, Albert J Clark, James Clarke, George Clarke, William A Clarke, William Clegg, Albert Coggan, Thomas Collier, Truelove Cooke, James Creamer, Theo W Crook, Arthur Crook, William Crossley, Arthur Cusworth, Charles Cusworth, William |
Dickinson, Frank Dickinson, Stanley Dickinson, Thomas Dodson, George Dryden, George E Duffy, T Bernard Earl, W E Ellis, Ben Ellis, Reginald Espley, Alfred Evans, Frank Evans, H Theo Eyre, Fred Fletcher, Sam Fox, Ernest Fretwell, William H Froggatt, Benjamin Fullwood, William Garbett, Enoch Garbutt, Fred Garbutt, Vivian Gething, Thomas Gill, Arthur Gilford, William Glew, F Gray, John W Greaves, George W Greaves, James Green, Roebuck Greenway, James W Groves, Stanley V Guest, Charles A Hadwin, Harry Hardy, Albert Harrison, Harold Harrison, Thomas Hartley, Frank Harwood, John Heaton, Fred Hemsworth, H Hessam, Walter |
Second Panel
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Heppenstall, George Hewitt, James W Hirst, William Holmes, Robert Holmes, Tom Hopwood, Joseph Horne, Oriel Horsfield, Tom Howson, Harry Hudson, Henry Hulley, Frank Humphreys, Ernest Hunt, Albert Ibbetson, Cyril Jackson, Joseph Jaques, Tom Jewsbury, George Johnson, Cuthbert C Johnson, Ernest E Johnson, Frank Johnson, John Johnson, John M Jones, R R Keefe, John Kemp, Ernest Kettlewell, George Kinshott, Arthur Kirby, Harry Kirby, Wilson Knowles, William Lander, J R Langford, S L A Larkin, Arthur Law, Leonard A Lawton, James Lee, Wilfrid Lidster, Clifford Lightley, Albert Lightley, Richard Limer, John |
Lister, G T Locke, Horace Longley, George E Lord, Joseph H Maclean, Harry A Maclean, George A Mangham, Ernest Mangham, George Mansbridge, John A Mansell, Ernest Markham, Harry Markham, William Marsden, Harry Marwood, Charles H Matthews, George Matthews, Joseph Metcalf, Albert Mitchell, J Spencer Mitchell, Tom Monks, Walter J Moore, Harry Moore, Mark Morris, David Munro, Simon Newton, George Nicholls, Herbert Nightingale, W Harry Norris, Charles R Norris, Ernest Oates, William Oldham, Albert E Osborne, Harry Otter, William Outram, James Outram, John Paskell, Ernest Patrick, Fred W Pears, Herbert Pears, James Pearson, George |
Third Panel
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Perry, Richard Petty, William H Phelps, H G Pilley, Herbert Pyatt, William F Pyott, Albert Pyott, Thomas J Ranyard, W W Redgewell, Alfred Reed, Ernest Reid, Bruce Riddell, Ernest E Roberts, William H Robinson, Herbert Roper, Walter Rouse, Harry Rowan, John H Royle, Ernest Ryalls, Harry Ryman, Albert Salmons, John Sanderson, Sam Scott, Ernest Scott, Fred J Scott, Walter Sellars, Walter Severn, Ernest Shaw, Percy A Simister, Alfred Simms, Albert H Simms, Henry N Skirrow, Walter Sleight, E Douglas Smalley, Albert Smeaton, John T Smith, Charles Smith, C Arthur Smith, Charles W Smith, James Smith, John T Smith, Sydney |
Smith, Walter South, George Speight, John W Spencer, Clifford Stamper, Ernest Stables, Sam Stainthorpe, Herbert Stansfield, Thomas Steer, William Stocks, Edmund L Stocks, Fred W Stone, James Swallow, Alfred Swallow, Richard Swift, Harry Sykes, Alfred Sykes, John Tate, G William Taylor, George H Taylor, James A Taylor, Thomas A Thompson, Ernest Thompson, Michael Thompson, Thomas W Trout, Thomas Turton, Fred Turton, James Twite, Sydney Venables, Horace Waddington, Edgar Waddington, William Wade, Burton E Watson, Thomas Watson, Walter White, Ernest Whiteley, John Willcock, Harry Wilson, William Winfield, Richard Wright, Albert Wroe, George |
Additional Names
| Bradbury, Herbert Cleary, James Hirst, George Hoyland, Percy |
Hulme, Percy Lister, William Newham, James Saunders, Arthur |
Simpson, George Smith, Herbert Swift, Harold Wright, Robert |
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