War Memorials in Sowerby, North Yorkshire

Joseph Addison

1 2 4

Private. 201885. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Born Sowerby. Enlisted Thirsk. Killed 13 February 1917. Buried Assevillers New British Cemetery, Assevillers, Somme, France. ww1y cwgc wgpp

Arthur Andrew

1 2

Robert Annakin

1 2 4

?. Private. 22272. 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars. Died 12 April 1917. Buried at Canadian Cemetry No 2, Neuville-St. Vaast, France. cwgc wgpp

Henry Appleton

1 2 4

?. Serjeant. 241001. "A" Coy. 1st/6th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers. Born Sowerby. Son of James Appleton, of 5, Tonacliffe, Whitworth, Rochdale and the late Martha Jane Appleton. Died 6 September 1917, age 29. Buried Tyne Cot Cemetry, Ypres, Belgium. cwgc other

Robert Crudas Appleton

1 2 4

John Richard Atkinson

1 2 4

Rifleman. R/20686. 9th Bn. The King's Royal Rifle Corps. Son of James and Emily Atkinson of Green Lane Sowerby. Husband of Gertrude Atkinson of Mexborough. Killed in action 15 September 1916, age 24. Buried Bronfay Farm Military Cemetry, Bray-sur-Somme, France. ukniwm cwgc wgpp

Fred Ayre

1 2 4

Thomas Edward Banks

1 2

Private. 1562. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William and M S Banks, of Brafferton, Helperby, Yorks. Born York. Enlisted Brafferton (Helperby). Killed in action 2 May 1915, age 21. Remembered Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing, Ypres (Ieper) West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. ww1y cwgc wgpp

Herbert Bell

1 2 4

Frederick Bendelow

1 2 4

Serjeant. 200088. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Born Thirsk. Enlisted Thirsk. Killed 23 April 1917. Remembered Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. ww1y cwgc

Sidney Clement Carr Bramley

1 2

William Edward Bramley

1 2 4

Arthur Briggs

1 2 4

Lance Corporal. C/1029. B Coy. 6th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps. Died 5 November 1916, age 23. Son of John and Annie Briggs, of Front Street, Sowerby. Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. cwgc wgpp

Thomas Wiliam Brown

1 2 4

?. Private. 25186. 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Peter and Christy Brown. Born Hartlepool. Enlisted Middlesbrough. His brother Edward also fell. Killed 17 January 1917, age 23. Remembered Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, Somme, France. ww1y cwgc

William Thomas Bulmer

1 2 4

Alexander Buchannan

1 2 4

Second Lieutenant. 6th Bn. attd. 16th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). Died 21 July 1917, aged 39. Son of Charles and Ellen Buchannan, of Whitby, Yorks; husband of Mary Wynyard Buchannan, of "Heathcote," Sowerby. A Solicitor. Buried at La Targette British Cemetery, France. cwgc wgpp

P Cartwright

1

Second Lieutenant. 25th Sqdn. Royal Air Force. Died 4 November 1918.Son of Pybus Edward and Mary Cartwright, of Sowerby Parks. Buried Villers-Sire-Nicole Communal Cemetery, France. cwgc

Percival Suffell Clarke

1 2 4

Private. 81090. 1st/7th Bn. Durham Light Infantry. Born June or July 1899. Son of John T and Margaret Elizabeth Clarke of 5 Melbourne Place. Topcliffe Road, Sowerby. Occupation on enlistment: Auctioneer's clerk. Resided 5 Melbourne Place, Topcliffe Road, Sowerby. Enlisted 25 August 1917. Missing 24 May 1918 or died 27 May 1918, aged 18. Remembered Soissons Memorial, France. cwgc other wgpp

Arthur Close

1 2 4

Lieutenant. MC. DCM. 14th Bn. Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment). Son of George and Mary Jane Close of Thirsk. Died 1 October 1918, age 33. Buried Cantimpre Canadian Cemetery, Sailly, France. ukniwm cwgc wgpp

Thomas Henry Coope

1 2 4

Private. 25517. 2nd Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), formerly 9705 the Yorkshire Regiment. Born New Wotley, Leeds on 15 June 1894. Son of Thomas Coope and Mary Elizabeth (née Cockfield) of 14 Railway Terrace, Sowerby. Enlisted Thirsk. Before enlisting in the Army he was employed as a Locomotive fireman on the North Eastern Railway. He had been home on leave from the Army in May 1918 and had married Marian Owens at St Oswald's Church, Sowerby on 18 May 1918, he returned to France 25 July 1918 and was killed in action 2 September 1918. Buried Vis-En-Artois British Cemetery, Haucourt, Pas de Calais, France. ww1y cwgc wgpp family photograph

Errol Crisp

1 2 4

Private. 26371. 7th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment. Born South Bank (Yorks). Enlisted Thirsk. Killed 5 November 1916. Remembered Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, France. ww1y cwgc wgpp

Charles Dale

1 2 4

Harry Dale

1 2 4

Driver. 149389. "C" Bty. 173rd Bde. Royal Field Artillery. Died 23 December 1917, aged 26. Son of Nancy Mary and the late John Smith Dale, of 25, Grove Hall Drive, Dewsbury Rd., Leeds. Native of Sowerby. Buried Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, France. cwgc

Cyril Danby

1 2 4

Private. G/44233. 23rd Bn. Middlesex Regiment. Died 25 March 1918, aged 24. Son of James and Mary Danby, of 4, Sowerby Road, Sowerby. Remembered Arras Memorial, France. cwgc wgpp

Edward George Daynes

1 24

Private. 32540. 1st Bn. Yorkshire Regiment. Born Horstead (Norfolk). Resided Sowerby. Enlisted Thirsk. Died at sea, en route U.K. to India on H.M.T. "Sierra Leone" 16 January 1917. Remembered Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton. ww1y cwgc wgpp

Frank Bousfield Dent

1 2 4

George William Dickinson

1 2 4

Rifleman. 4129. 8th Bn. London Regiment (Post Office Rifles) Died of wounds 3 May 1916, aged 37. Son of Alfred and Eliza Dickinson, of South End, Sowerby; husband of Sarah E. Taylor (formerly Dickinson), of 3, Oxford Terrace, South Parade, Anlaby Road., Hull. Buried at Hersin Communal Cemetery Extension, France. cwgc wgpp

G A Dixon

1

R A Dixon

1

Frederick George Freeman

1 2 4

Wesley Shaw Garbutt

1 2 4

Lance Corporal / Private. 1987. 5th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John and Annie Garbutt of Islebeck Grange, Thirsk. Resided Sowerby. Enlisted Scarborough. Killed 12 July 1915, age 19. Buried Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France. ww1y cwgc ukniwm wgpp

William Aubrey Gilling

1 2 4

Company Serjeant Major. C/12468. 21st Bn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Born 1882. Son of Henry Gilling of Brier Villa, Sowerby. Resided Brier Villa, Sowerby. Enlisted 25 November 1915. Died 31 July 1917, aged 35. Remembered Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. other cwgc wgpp

Harry Greenwood

1 2 4

Private. 242705. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Mrs. H. M. Greenwood, of 8, Castle Yard, Pickering. Born Sowerby. Enlisted Thirsk. Killed 5 October 1917. Buried Godewaersvelde British Cemetery, Nord, France. ww1y ww1y wgpp

John Hardy

1 2 4

J W Hardy

4

Arthur Hesp

1 2 4

Herbert Hodgson

1 2 4

Private. 201230. 1st/4th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William and Sarah Ann Hodgson. Home at 16 Railway Terrace, Sowerby. Died of wounds 27 June 1917, age 27. Buried St Martin Calvaire British Cemetery, St Martin sur Cojeul, Pas de Calais, France. other ww1y wgpp

Harry Holmes

1 2 4

George Henry Horner

1 2 4

Private. S4/161848. Reserve Supply Personnel Depot (Prees Heath).Army Service Corps. Son of W J and M A Horner of Thirsk. Husband of Isabel R Horner of 4 Railway Terrace, Sowerby. Died 19 April 1918, aged 38. wgpp

Fred Hutton

1 2 4

Sapper. 58327. 62nd Field Coy. Royal Engineers. Son of Robert and Emma Hutton of 12 Melbourne Place, Sowerby. Enlisted Thirsk 7 December 1914. Killed 25 September 1915, aged 24. other wgpp

Harry Kendrew

1 2 4

Edmund Lascelles
(may be Edward)

1 2 4

?. Private. 40410. 16th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers. Born Thirsk. Died13 February 1917. Buried Serre Road Cemetery No.1, Pas de Calais, France. cwgc other wgpp

John Henry Lofthouse

1 2 4

Private. 22823. 8th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Stephen and Annie Lofthouse, of Church View, Sowerby. Born Sowerby. Resided Sowerby. Enlisted Thirsk. Died 19 October 1917, age 22. Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing, Ypres, Belgium. ww1y cwgc wgpp

John Henry North

1 2

Private. 22237.2nd Bn. Coldstream Guards. Son of Charles and Mary North of 25 Victory Row, Sowerby. Died 27 September 1918, aged 26. Buried Sanders Keep Military Cemetery, Graincourt-Les-Havrincourt, France. wgpp

Herbert Paul

2

Herbert Pollington

1 2 4

Guardsman. 20454. 3rd Bn. Grenadier Guards. Son of Mr and Mrs Pollington of 1 Melbourn Place, Sowerby. Drowned 31 January 1919, aged 22. Buried Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany. wgpp

Albert Rogers

1 2 4

William Thomas Seavers

1 2 4

? Rifleman. C/12577. 21st Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps. Died 17 September 1916. Remembered Thiepval Memorial, France. wgpp

Waldo A Skipsey

1 2 4

Private. 34676. 10th Bn. King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry). Formerly 5377 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William and Mary Skipsey. Born Thirsk. Enlisted Northallerton. Killed 19 September 1916, age 28. Buried Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-l'Abbe, Somme, France. ww1y cwgc ukniwm wgpp

Albert Spence

1 2 4

Private. 36325. 9th Bn. King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry). Son of John Joseph and Mary Ann Spence, of Back Lane, Sowerby. Died 27 May 1918, age 19. Remembered Soissons Memorial, Aisne, France. cwgc wgpp

Ernest Spence

1 2 4

Private. 23/378. 1st/7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. Son of John Joseph and Mary Ann Spence, of Back Lane, Sowerby. Died 13 April 1918 aged 25. Remembered Ploegsteert Memorial to the missing, Belgium. cwgc wgpp

William Thomas Thornton

1 2 4

Thomas William Trenholme

1 2 4

Sapper. 79982. 1st Tunnelling Company Canadian Engineers. Son of William and Kate Trenholme of Sowerby. Husband of Meggie Bortoft (formerly Trenholme) of 3 Manfield Terrace, Carlton Road, Thirsk Junction. Killed in action 27 August 1918, aged 30. Buried Windmill British Cemetery, Monchy Le Preux, France. wgpp

Thomas Todd

4

Private. 200980. 2nd Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). Son of Sydney Todd and Mary Jane Simpson. Born in Thirsk in 1887 and married Louisa Geldard (Geldart, Geldered, Gelder) on 13 May 1909 in St Oswald's Parish Church, Sowerby. Lived Sowerby. Enlisted Harrogate. Killed in action 24 April 1918. Remembered Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France. family cwcg wgpp

William Ward

1 2 4

Son of John William and Rachel Ward. Fell in action 22 August 1918, age 28. ukniwm

Harry Wardman

1 2 4

Private. 24400. 9th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Ralph and Fanny Wardman, of Sowerby. Born Sowerby. Resided Sowerby. Enlisted Thirsk. Died of wounds 12 May 1916, aged 20. Buried Bruay Communal Cemetery Extension, Bruay, Pas de Calais, France. ww1y cwgc wgpp

John Chinnery Walker

1 2 4

Son of John Walker. Killed in action 19 December 1915. Buried Essex Farm Cemetry, Boezinge, Belgium. ukniwm

Cornelius Herbert Watson

1 2 4

Private. 19799. 2nd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). Son of John and Jane Watson, of Hope Cottages, Sowerby. Died 1 July 1916 aged 31. Remembered Thiepval Memorial, France. cwgc wgpp

George Watson

1 2 4

Son of Robert and Elizabeth Watson. Killed in France 4 August 1916, age 25. ukniwm

Wilfrid Percy Watson

1 2 4

Private. 201717. 2nd Bn. Yorkshire Regiment. Formerly 4th Bn. Son of John and Jane Watson, of Hope Cottages, Sowerby. Resided Thirsk. Enlisted Northallerton. Killed 21 March 1918, age 22. Remembered Pozieres Memorial, Ovillers-la-Boisselle, Somme, France. ww1y cwgc wgpp

Thomas Webster

1 2 4

Private. 17249. A Company, 2nd Bn. Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Thomas and Clara Webster, of Market Place, Thirsk. Born Thirsk. Enlisted Thirsk. Killed in action 23 July 1916, age 20. Buried Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, Montauban, Somme, France. ww1y cwgc wgpp

John Western Warner

2

John Norman Payne Arkle

1 3 5

?. Flight Lieutenant (Pilot). 124908. 263 Sqdn, Royal Air Force. Died 26 November 1944, age 22. Buried Susteren (St. Amelberga) Roman Catholic Churchyard, Netherlands. wgpp cwgc

Cyril Taylor Atkinson

1 3 5

?. Sergeant. 984792. Royal Air Force. Died 26 March 1941. Remembered Runnymede Memorial, Surrey. wgpp cwgc

Arthur Brown

1 3 5

Alec (Alick) Reginald Camburn

1 3 5

?. Sergeant. 1092905. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 1 May 1943. Buried Apeldoorn (Ugchelen-Heidehof) General Cemetery, Netherlands. wgpp cwgc

John Robert Francis Conder

1 3 5

Private. 14565912. 6th Bn Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Son of Leslie and Olive May Conder of Thirsk. Died 12 November 1944, age 19. Buried Forli War Cemetery, Italy. wgpp cwgc

Edward Handshaw

1 3 5

Private. 4611372. 1st Bn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Son of William Gunson Handshaw and Catherine Handshaw. Husband of Jane Handshaw, of Ripon. Died 24 December 1943, age 31. Buried Massicault War Cemetery, Tunsia. cwgc

Joseph Gunson Handshaw

1 3 5

Private. 4753148. 1st Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment. Son of William Gunson Handshaw and Catherine Handshaw, of Sowerby. Died 16/17 February 1944, age 28. Buried Taukkyan War Cemetery, Rangoon (now Yangon), Burma (now Myanmar). other wgpp cwgc

John Herbert Hemingway

1 3 5

Supply Assistant. D/MX 67599. H.M.S. Prince of Wales, Royal Navy. Son of Ralph and Lilian Margaret Hemingway of Sowerby. Died 10 December 1941, age 24. Remembered Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon. wgpp cwgc

Reginald Albert Hudson

1 3 5

Lance Corporal. 4390368. 4th Bn. Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment). Son of Fredric and Mary Hudson, of Sowerby. Died 18 September 1942, aged 28. Buried at Tripoli War Cemetry, Libya. cwgc

Wilfred Huson
(wrongly named on memorials as William)

1 3 5 

Driver. 2122703. 140 Mechanical Equipment Workshop and Park Company, Royal Engineers. Son of John and Jane Huson. Died 27 June 1942, age 34. Remembered Alamein Memorial, El Alamein, Egypt. wgpp cwgc family photograph

Clyde Ibbetson

1 3 5

Lance Corporal. 4389710. 6th Bn, Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment). Son of John James Ibbetson and Elsie Hilda Ibbetson of Sowerby. Died 6 January 1943, age 21. Remembered Medjez-El-Bab Memorial, Tunisia. wgpp cwgc

Brian Holroyd Watts Jackson

1 3 5

Major. 39119. 4th Bn, Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment). Son of Edward Barker Jackson and Harriet Louise Jackson. Husband of Elisabeth Yvonne Hemsworth Jackson of Sowerby. Died 4 June 1942, age 34. Buried Benghazi War Cemetery, Libya. cwgc ukniwm wgpp

Robert Edwin Metcalf

1 3 5

?. Guardsman. 2661897. 3rd Bn. Coldstream Guards. Son of Fred and Ada Metcalf. Died 25 September 1943, age 30. Buried Cassino Memorial, Italy. cwgc wgpp

Mark Middleton

1 3 5

?. Private. 4753356. 7th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment. Died 15 June 1945, age 30. Buried Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery, India. wgpp

Harry Normington

1 3 5

James Wesley Rooke

1 3 5 

Sergeant (W. Op.). 1077030. 102 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Son of James William and Minnie Rooke, of Thirsk. Died 28 July 1943, age 22. Buried Kiel War Cemetery, Germany. cwgc wgpp

John Francis Slater

1 3 5

?. Corporal. 936838. 242 Sqdn, Royal Air Force. Died 24 December 1942. Buried Yokohama War Cemetery, Hodagaya, Japan. wgpp cwgc

Joseph Hepton Walker

1 3 5 

?. Private. 4391219. 4th Bn, Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment). Died 29 June 1942, age 22. Remembered Alamein Memorial, Egypt. cwgc wgpp

Sowerby War Memorial - north and east faces

ERECTED IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE BRAVE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918

Sowerby War Memorial - south and west faces

ALSO THOSE WHO FELL IN THE 1939 - 1945 WAR

World War One memorial inside St Oswald's Church

1914 † 1919
THEY DIED FOR KING & COUNTRY

World War Two memorial inside St Oswald's Church

1939 † 1945
FOR CHRISTENDOM

World War One memorial inside Sowerby Methodist Church

1914 - 1919
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING MEN FROM THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR

World War Two memorial inside Sowerby Methodist Church

THESE CHAIRS ARE IN MEMORY OF THE MEMBERS OF THIS CHURCH AND MEN OF THE PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR
1939 - 1945

Sowerby War Memorial - postcard 1921