Notification of a Forthcoming Event - Remembering and Forgetting

The Barnsley War Memorials Project has an entry on the South Yorkshire Through Time website with an overview of our project, weblinks and contact details.  

Barnsley War Memorials Project Logo as it appears on SYTT

We have received advance notification of an event in April this year which will probably be of interest to our readers.

Remembering and Forgetting: Exploring local commemorations of WW1

Sunday April 26th 11am - 4pm at Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield

A South Yorkshire Through Time event organised in conjunction with Sheffield Hallam University

The event will facilitate discussion of appropriate ways for commemorating WW1 and focus on the opportunities and obstacles for local groups involved in WW1 heritage projects. The schedule for the day is as follows:

11-11.20: Tea and coffee and introductions

11.20-11.50: Merv Lewis, Sheffield Hallam University: Sheffield – The Arsenal of the World

12-12.30: Applied History students (SHU) Becky Beal, Craig Bob Beaumont, Diane McNaught and Mariam Maqsood: Women in WW1

12.30-1: Karen Middlemast, Curator at Kelham Island Museum: Tour of the WW1 displays

1-1.30: Lunch (provided)

1.30-1.50: Mac McPherson, Rotherham Military Community Veterans Centre: The Great Families of the Great War- Personal Memories And Reflections From Old Rotherham 

1.50-2.10: Gertie Whitfield, Whitworks: The Joys & Challenges of the Courage of Conscience Local Derbyshire History HLF project

2.10-2.30: Mark Sheridan, Sheffield History Facebook page: WW1 Commemorations on Social Media    

2.30-2.50: Victoria Ryves, Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery: Doncaster 1914-1918, At Home, At War

2.50-3.20: Helen Peacock, Heritage Lottery Fund: Funding advice for WW1 commemoration projects

3.20-4: Round table discussion: Developing WW1 commemoration projects – Nicola Verdon and Alison Twells (SHU), Helen Peacock (HLF)(tbc)

There will also be:

Advice from the Heritage Lottery Fund on applying for WW1 heritage projects

A curator led tour of the Kelham Island WW1 displays

This is a free event but please RSVP to contactsytt@gmail.com for guaranteed entry.

Lunch will be provided so please let us know of any dietary requirements when booking.

Cawthorne, Methodist Church, Thomas Richard Allott Memorial Tablet

Memorial to Thomas Richard Allott in Cawthorne Methodist Church

Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Lives of the First World War

Photograph by Pete Schofield

Inscription: 
In Loving Memory of / Sec. Lieut. Thomas R. Allott / Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry / The devoted husband of Olive Allott  / and who died of wounds in France / Nov. 4th 1918 - aged 30 years / Organist of this Church / For 9 years.

Thomas Allott and other Cawthorne soldiers are mentioned in a piece in issue 31, Autumn 2014, of Memories of Barnsley.

Thomas is also remembered on the Cawthorne War Memorial, Cawthorne Museum, Taylor Hill, Cawthorne and the Barnsley, Holgate Grammar School Old Boys - WW1 Memorial 

He is buried in Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension in France and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. 



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Absent Voters in St Edward's Parish 1918

Streets in St Edward's Parish from a 1949 map

The War Memorial in St Edward the Confessor Church at Kingstone lists 45 who lost their lives in the First World War.  Within the boundaries of the parish were several non-conformist chapels and working men's clubs which also had memorials or rolls of honour. For example, Longcar Working Men's Club, on Racecommon Road.

We are very lucky that in Barnsley there survives a list of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and nurses who were serving abroad in late 1917, early 1918 in the form of the 1918 Absent Voters' List.  This was compiled following the changes in electoral franchise extending the vote to all men over 21 and to women over 30 who fulfilled certain property requirements.  So all servicemen who were over 21 or who would be 21 by the forthcoming General Election in 1918 were registered to vote.

The Absent Voters tab above will return you to the index page for these lists which contains more information.

The sections of the list are in a downloadable.pdf file and each file contains around 250-300 names. Due to the mismatch between Polling Districts and parish boundaries only streets in the area of St Edward's parish (see map above) have been transcribed.  Other streets and parts of streets will be transcribed as part of neighbouring parishes.

Pt.1 Polling Districts 6F
Pt.2 Polling District 12N

These pages have been transcribed by our volunteers and all mistakes are our own.  Please let us know if you spot anything glaringly wrong and we will make ever effort to correct it.  Note that abbreviations and spellings are transcribed as seen.

Barnsley, NP&UBE plaque, Nat West Bank, Market Hill

A simple bronze plaque (photographed February 2015)

Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Photographed by Hann Bunn and sent to us by Chris Reynolds

Some information on this type of memorial can be found in this blog post. 

NP&UBE stands for National Provincial and Union Bank of England.

Information received from Archivist Lyn Crawford at the RBS Archives:
The National Provincial & Union Bank of England plaque was placed in NatWest Barnsley branch as part of the bank's wider memorial repatriation project in 2013.

There are four results in a search of their Archives for Barnsley - Thomas Westby, Frank Bakel, Harry Bambridge and Ronald Saville all worked for Union of London & Smiths Bank, and are all remembered on the Holgate Grammar School Old Boys memorial in Barnsley.

In 1918, this bank amalgamated with National Provincial Bank of England to form National Provincial & Union Bank of England.

Inscription:
NP&UBE
A tribute / to the 2681 members / of the staff of this Bank / who served in / The Great War / 1914 - 1918 / and in honoured memory of / the 415 who gave their / lives for their country.



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Barnsley, Honeywell Inn WW2 Roll of Honour

With thanks to Members of the Great Houghton History Group

Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

Second World War - Barnsley War Memorials
Researched by MAC

Transcribed by BarnsleyHistorian

Discovered by members of the Great Houghton History Group in a box of old photographs.  Does this Roll of Honour still exist? 
The photo is not quite clear enough to make out all the details in the very bottom section headed, "Total Fund £500. Key to Success. The Committee & Artistes." - this suggests some fund raising by putting on entertainment.

The names to the bottom right in the section headed by the wreath may be those who lost their lives.

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.

L Ashley, T Abby, W Andrews, J Atkinson, H Bray, J W Booth, H Bone, E Bickerton, C Brown, J Booth, A Burton, Wm Bashforth, F Briggs, G Braithwaite, F Barlow, F Bradley, A Bedford, W Barlow, L Bailey, G T Bickerton, J Bailey, S Bennett, H Briggs, J Callear, J Crowe, W Charlesworth, S H Campbell, T Cole, J W Cawley, Wm Cooper, Jim Cooper, C Carr, Joe Cooper, R Cawley, T McCaffery,

J McCaffery, D McCaffery, A Cooper, G E Cooper, A Duke, J Duke, W Dockerty, H Dooley, A Dunk, E Dyson, L Elsworth, E Elsworth, S Farrar, H Fallas, S Fiddle, R Farrar, A J Flintoft, P T Falkingham, L Featherstone, L R Farrar, R L Gosling, J W Gosling, W Gibson, J Gardener, D Giles, J W Hepplestone, H Higginbottom, H Horbury, E G Holmes, A Hydes, W Holmes, T Houghton, T H Howarth, E Hill, H Higgins

A Hirst, I Holmes, W J Jones, P Jones, H Kelk, W Kemp, A Lee, T Littledyke, G H Levers, W Lowe, W Lee, J Lowe, J Lewin, F L Lockwood, H Micklethwaite, H Moseley, C A Milnthorpe, J J Maw, J Marrion, E J Morgan, C Ouldfield, Wm Pilling, J W Perry, C E Parkin, H Plowman, J Potter, D Randerson, F Randerson, A Ramsden, L Rushforth, L Ramshaw, K Ramskill, A Shaw, W Speight, A Shaw,

F Smith, J Short, B Swift, E Smith, T Swift, C S Sowter, C Summers, F Sanderson, C F Thompson, P Turton, H Turton, R B Thorpe, F Tate, J W Wildsmith, H Ward, G Walker, A Wilkinson, T H Walton, F Wilson, A Woods, A Wingill, E Wingill, C Woffinden, I White, J W Walker. E Gibson, J Thornton, E Kirk L Gibson, C Chilton, D Reaney, F Sedgwick

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Barnsley, Plumbers' Roll of Honour, Trades Club (newspaper report)

An ongoing search of the local newspapers in Barnsley is giving us evidence of many, now sadly lost war memorials and rolls of honour.

Barnsley Independent 27 March 1920
(thanks to Barnsley Archives)

From the Barnsley Independent of 1920 comes this report on the unveiling of an unusual Roll of Honour - one dedicated to Plumbers who served in the First World War.

There is still a Trades Club on Racecommon Road, but it is an newer building.  Did this and possibly other trade specific Rolls of Honour survive the move from one premises to another?
 
Links:

War Memorials Archive listing
 
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.

Although the report notes that there were 43 men on the Roll it only gives us the names of the two who lost their lives.

W E Exley,
G H Frudd












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Dodworth Cemetery Frank Baines

Frank is remembered on his father's grave plot in Dodworth Cemetery

Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Second World War - Barnsley War Memorials
Researched by MAC

Photograph by BarnsleyHistorian

Grave Location and Inscription:
G 93
Joseph Baines who died Jan 2nd 1952 in Sydney Australia aged 52 years / Interred Dodworth Aug 9th 1952 / Also Frank beloved son of the aforesaid / who was killed in Burma Aug 8th 1944 / aged 22 years.

Frank is also remembered on the Dodworth War Memorial.

He is buried in the Digboi War Cemetery in India and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. 



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