WILLIAM PARISH age 35 Pte 23903 Royal Lancaster Rgt 14
October 1917
Son of James and Rosetta Parish; husband of Maud Parish, of Leonard St., Keswick, enlisted 10th December 1915, entered Messopotamia 23rd October 1916, buried Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery
JAMES PARK age 21 Pte 9087 3rd Btn Coldstream Guards
17th September 1914
Born Keswick, son of Barwise and Sarah ( Grisdale ) living in Consett, Durham, in 1901. entered France 12th Aug 1914, died of wounds, commemerated at La Ferte-sous-Jouarre , 66 kilometres to the east of Paris, the La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial commemorates nearly 4,000 officers and men of the British Expeditionary Force who died in August, September and the early part of October 1914 and who have no known grave.
WILLIAM WALKER PARK age 24 260447 7th Border
Rgt 27th March 1918
Son of John and Margaret Park , Brother of Sarah Jane Park, of Brown Beck Farm, Naddle, Keswick., enlisted 31st May 1915, entered France 6th Dec 1915, killed in action, buried Millencourt Communal Cemetery Extension west of Albert.
PERCY PETTMAN PATEY age 30 2nd/4thBtn
LeicestershireRegiment 5th July 1917
Son of Helen Sophia Patey, of " Latrigg ",
Kingsdown, Deal, and the late Henry Horn Patey. Born keswick,
living at Thornthwaite in 1891. commemerated on the Thiepval Memorial.
JOHN PEET Pte 25/1532
25th (Tyneside Irish) Bn Northumberland Fusiliers 1st July 1916
Mrs Peet, Heads lane , Keswick, received word on
Wednesday morning of the death of her husband Pte John Peet,
Northumberland Fusiliers, he had enlisted 12 months ago
and proceeded to France just before Christmas.
Before enlisting deceased worked at Thornthwaite mines and
occupied his spare time in stuffing wild birds and animals. He
had a wide reputation for his taxidermist skills. For a time he
worked in the barytes mines at Ulverston and for twelve months
was engaged in some gold mines in West Africa.
He is the eldest
son of Mr and Mrs John Peet and Ann ( Thwaites ) 7 Hendersons Court, Keswick, commemerated on the Thiepval Memorial.
THOMAS EDWARD PEILL age 38 Pte 18976 2nd Yorkshire Rgt 18th
June 1918
Youngest son of Mr and Mrs W Peill, Church St,
Keswick, husband of Louisa Peill, of Church St., Castleton, Yorks, entered France 29th Aug 1915, killed in action, buried Philosophe British Cemetery between Bethune and Lens.
ALBERT CYRIL
PINKNEY age 19 Pte 36351 Machine Gun Corps 23 April
1917
Son of William and the late Charlotte Pinkney.
Living on Church St, Keswick in 1901, enlisted 23rd November 1915, entered France 17th July 1916, killed in action, buried Philosophe British Cemetery between Bethune and Lens.
CHARLES
MARTIN PEARS age 19 2nd Lt 52 Sqn Royal Flying Corps
23rd Nov 1917
Son of Joseph Henry and Laura L. Pears, of 20,
Southey St., Keswick, Cumberland. Joseph had a grocers shop on
Leonard St. Charles Pears attended Brigham and Keswick Schools
and was training to be a teacher before enlistment, he had been
with his squadron for four months when he was killed.
2nd Lt C M Pears (pilot) and 2nd Lt William Henry Harston (observer, formerly 7th Bn, Northamptonshire Regiment) of No 52 Sqn RFC were killed in a mid air collision while flying on a artillery observation sortie in RE 8 A3546 on 23 November 1917.
The other aircraft RE 8 A4273 Lt C.H.M.Platt & 2Lt G. J.Cooke who were killed was also from 52 Sqn. No 52 Sqn was based at Bray-Dunes aerodrome at the time. They are buried at Zuidcoote Military Cemetery.
ROBERT POSTLETHWAITE age
20 Pte 23305 11th Bn Kings Own Royal Lancaster Rgt
28th May 1917
Son of Edward and Kate Postlethwaite, of High Snab, Newlands, Keswick, before the war he was a auxiliary postman doing the Newlands round he also worked part time at Swinside farm and Derwent Bank.
He was killed in action at Gouzeaucourt, buried at Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery, south west of Cambrai.
THOMAS BENNET POSTLETHWAITE age 62 Merchant Navy SS
Daybreak 24th Dec 1917
Husband of Mary Postlethwaite (nee Robinson), of Brookside,
Applethwaite, Keswick, they had three sons Joseph a Corporal in
Mesopotania, Sydney an air mechanic in the Royal Naval Air
Service and James who is foreman timber loader on the C.K. and P.
Railway. Thomas had been at Sea for 38 years and had sailed from
Barry Dock last June to West Africa, Dakar, the States, South
America, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, River Plate, Spain, Gibralter
and thence to Milford Haven. Mrs Poslethwaite had a letter on
Christmas Day to say they had arrived safely and would be home in
a day or so. They were unfortunately torpedoed 40 miles from
Belfast on Christmas Eve.
On Christmas Day, the same U-boat 87 attacked a convoy and sank the SS Agberi in the Irish Sea, U-87 was sunk after being rammed and depth charged by the sloop HMS Buttercup and British patrol boat PC56, All of its 44 crew perished.
SIDNEY PEPPER age 19 pte 19818 11th Btn East Lancashire Regiment 13th April 1918
Son of Joseph and Ann Pepper, born Stonethwaite, Borrowdale, Cumberland, died of wounds, buried at Longuenesse on the southern outskirts of St. Omer.
JOHN PERRY age 29 Pte 52014 17th Kings Liverpool Rgt 12th Oct
1916
Son of Henry and Margaret Ann Perry, of 22, Ratcliffe Place, Keswick, Cumberland. His body was found by a dispatch rider, one hand clutching a new testament, the other holding a sixpence given to him as a keepsake by his fiance, Miss Tweddle, Gray Crag, Portinscale whose name was found in the testament, and who received a letter from the finder, together with the book and the token, buried at Warlencourt British Cemetery, south-west of Bapaume, Warlencourt, the Butte de Warlencourt and Eaucourt-L'Abbaye were the scene of very fierce fighting in 1916.
WILLIAM PRATT age 26 Pte 14477 1st Border
Rgt 1st July 1916
Only Son of William and Fanny Pratt, of Lydias Cottages, Brigham, Keswick, Cumberland, enlisted 4th September 1914, entered France 10th Oct 1915, killed in action, buried at Y Ravine Cemetery, Beaumont Hamel.
ALBERT NOAH PRYCE age 23
Pte 201401 2nd/4th Border Rgt 28th Sept 1919
Son of Noah and Mary Ann Pryce Of Bridge House,
Braithwaite, Keswick, Cumberland. (Buried Cherat New
Cem).
JOHN RICE age 22 Sgt 5th Btn Essex Rgt 15th August 1915
Born Keswick, son of William and Bessie of Chelmsford, family lived on Eskin St, Keswick in 1891, killed in action, commemerated on the Helles Memorial
STANLEY RICE age 26 Gunner Royal Horse Artillery 14th May
1915
THOMAS RICHARDSON age
31 Pte 24475 6th Btn Border Rgt 31 Mar
1917
Son of the late John and Mary Richardson, of
Seathwaite, Borrowdale, Cumberland, Was a shepherd before the war, enlisted 11th December 1915, entered France 6th October 1916, died 1.30 a.m. 31/3/1917 at Etaples Hospital of german measles and acute bronchitis, buried at Etaples Military Cemetery.
JOSEPH
RITSON age 19 Sgt Border Rgt
19th May 1917
Second son of Mr an Mrs J Ritson, Boot and Shoe-maker, Station Rd, Keswick. He voluntarily enlisted in November 1914 though under military age and proceeded to France last March, his elder brother is serving in Mesopotania.
ALFRED ROBINSON age 25
Pte 28th Canadian Infantry 8th Aug 1918
Pte Alfred
Robinson, son of Mr Joseph Tom and Mary Ann Robinson ( nee Dixon
) , 56 St John St, Keswick , has been killed in action in
France. Pte Robinson after serving his apprenticeship to the
printing trade, went out to Canada and enlisted there in 1916 and
came to France in 1917. He has one brother serving in France and
another in Italy. He was living at Rosetown, Saskatchewan at the
time of his enlistment, killed in action, buried at
Caix British Cemetery, made after the Armistice when graves (mainly of March and August 1918) were brought in from the battlefields.
EDWIN ROBINSON age 22
Pte 2697 1st/9th Durham Light infantry 20th Nov
1916
Son of Joseph and Jane Robinson,
Thirlmere, entered France 20th April 1915, died of wounds, buried St Sever Cemetery, Rouen.
OLIVER ROBINSON age 27 Pte 18175 1st Btn Border Rgt
30th July 1915
Son of Joseph and Jane Robinson, Bridge End, Thirlmere, enlisted 28th November 1914 at Keswick, landed Dardanelles 10th June 1915, died of wounds recieved in action 29th July 1915 ( G.S.W head ), buried at Pink Farm Cemetery, Helles, Pink Farm (properly Sotiri Farm) took its name from the red soil of the area. The three cemeteries which grew up around the farm were combined after the Armistice on the site of Pink Farm Cemetery No 3, and this cemetery was further enlarged when graves were brought in from other small burial grounds in the vicinity. There are now 602 servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery.
JOHN BROWNRIGG ROSE
age 25 L/Cpl 12934 8th Border Rgt 15th July
1916
Son of Brownrigg and Jane Rose, of 62 Blencathra St., Keswick. enlisted 5th September 1914, entered France 26th September 1915, killed in action, buried at Pozieres British Cemetery, Ovillers-La Boisselle.
DERWENT TELFORD RIGG age 20 Pte 23414 7th Btn Border Rgt 23rd April 1917
Son of John and Emma Rigg, living at Ratcliffe Place in 1901
ERNEST
RIGG age 29 Pte 20911 7th Border
Rgt 23rd April 1917
Son of John and Jane Rigg, of 103, Main St., Keswick, Cumberland, worked as a postman on the Thornthwaite round, joined up with and was killed within weeks of his pal Robert Postlethwaite.
killed in action, commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
JOHN WILLIAM RIGG age 27 Pte 20166 2nd Btn
Border Rgt 14 July 1916
Son of Thomas and Agnes Rigg, of Mountain View, Borrowdale, Keswick, Cumberland, worked as a quarryman before the war, enlisted 7th April 1915, entered France 7th December 1915, killed in action, commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
John`s brother Richard Thomas Rigg, enlisted 11th May 1915, Border Rgt/Machine Gun Corp, was wounded in the left thigh by shrapnel 16th December 1917 and medically discharged 11th September 1918.
JOE SANDHAM age 21 Pte 12939 8th Border Rgt 21 Oct 1916
Son of Joseph and Mary Jane Sandham, of Helvellyn House, Thirlmere, enlisted 7th September 1914, entered France 26th Sept 1915, killed in action, buried Stump Road Cemetery, Grandcourt, north-east of Albert.
Wythburn Church Memorial
IN LOVING MEMORY OF PRIVATE J. SANDHAM 8TH BATT THE
BORDER REGIMENT
KILLED IN ACTION AT MOUQUET FARM 21 OCTOBER 1916 AGED 20
YEARS
EDMUND LECK SANDERS age 30 Lcpl 18665 1st Border
Rgt 21st August 1915
Husband of Mary Margaret Birkett (formerly Sanders), of 19,
The Headlands, Keswick, Cumberland, entered Dardanelles 8th Aug 1915, killed in action, commemerated on the Helles Memorial.
Through Canon Rawnsley, who made inquiries on her
behalf, Mrs Sanders, Pear Tree Lane , Keswick, Has now received
an official intimation stating that her husband Lance-Corporal E.
Sanders, 1st Border Rgt who has been missing since August 1915
must be regarded as dead. Lance-Corporal Sanders was with the
Border Rgt at Sulva Bay, and the only information regarding his
fate comes from private Nield, a comrade who writes to say that
on the 21st August 1915, he was next to Sanders when the
Battalion was advancing and saw him hit with a bullet.
He tried to bandage him to stop the bleeding but was unable to do
so and he died within three minutes.
Private Nield was himself wounded a short time afterwards, and as
the battalion had to retreat the body would be left in the hands
of the Turks.
ROBERT F. SANDERSON age
25 116th Canadian Infantry 29th September
1918
Eldest son of Mr and Mrs John Sanderson late of Police station Yard, Keswick and now residing in the United States, husband of Erma Sanderson, of 413, South St., Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Robert will be remembered as a gardener with Mr T R Hayes.
He had served 3 years with 4th Border ( Keswick Territorials ) and 5 years with the U.S National Guard. Buried at St. Olle British Cemetery, France
ANDREW
SAUL age 31 Pte, South Lancs Regiment 2nd November
1919
Enlisted in the Duke of Lancashire Yeomanry, Manchester, on 6 October 1915, transferred to the 4th South Lancashire Regiment on 27 December 1916, posted to the 5th Battalion on 16 January 1917 and the 6th Battalion on 11 September 1917, served in France and Mesopotamia, was hospitalised in Bombay on 10 September 1918, and discharged as no longer fit for war service on 11 February 1919.
Andrew died at the Victoria Hospital, Blackpool, on 2 November 1919, aged 31, leaving his wife with a 2 year old daughter and 10 day old twin boys. The family returned to Portinscale and Keswick to live.
GILBERT SEWELL age 22 Pte 241009 1st Border
Rgt 2nd April 1918
Youngest son of William Stoddart Sewell and Ann
Sewell, of Otley Rd, Keswick, Cumberland. before enlistment he
had been an apprentice with Mr Lupton, boot maker, enlisted 15th May 1915, G.S.W. face and nose 4th October 1917, entered France 9th March 1917, killed in action, buried at Oxford Road Cemetery north east of Ypres, used by the units fighting on this front from August 1917 to April 1918.
JOSEPH WILLIAM SEWELL age 19 Pte 266024 South Lancs Rgt 27th Sept 1918
Son of John and Martha Sewell, 25 Lake Rd, Keswick, enlisted 16th August 1917, killed in action , buried at Anneux British Cemetery a little to the south of the main road from Cambrai to Bapaume.
ERNEST SCOTT age 19 Pte Royal Marine
Light Infantry 31st May 1916
Son of Robert and Isabella Scott, of Browfoot
Brewery House, Keswick, Cumberland. He worked at the Briery Bobbin Mill before enlisting aged 17, He was killed at the battle
of Jutland when his ship HMS Black Prince was destroyed by a
tremendous explosion, sinking with all hands.
ROBERT
SCOTT age 33 Pte 241351 2nd
Border Rgt 26th October 1917
Son of Robert and Isabella Scott, of Browfoot Brewery House, Keswick. Killed in action , buried Hooge Crater Cemetery
JAMES
SCOTT age 19 Pte 29109 2nd/5th Kings
Own Royal Lancaster Rgt 29th August 1918
Son of William and Margaret Ann Scott, born Portinscale, enlisted at
Penrith, killed in action, buried at Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy south of the main Arras to Cambrai road.
EDWIN M. SPARK age 33 Pte Cheshire Rgt 7th August 1916
Edwin was a twin, born in Keswick on or about 11th November 1882. His parents were William and
Elizabeth Spark (nee Jackson) who had married in Cockermouth in 1866. The parents had four surviving
children according to the 1911 census, and some others died in infancy. Those that can be found were :
Joseph, Sarah Jane, Harold Jackson, Walter Thwaite (died aged 1), and twins Edwin Mitchell and Eva.
The family were living in Poplar Street, Crosthwaite, Keswick on the 1881 & 1901 censuses (but they
cannot be found on the 1891 census.) In 1901 Edwin was 18 years old and working as an Apprentice
Electrician/Wireman for the Windermere & District Electrical Supply Company. He completed his
apprenticeship in 1904.
His family were living at No.33 Wordsworth Street in Keswick in 1911 but Edwin was not at home and
cannot be located on the census.
At some point between 1904 and 1914 Edwin arrived on the Wirral, and he was working as an Electrician
at Lever Brothers Soap Works in Port Sunlight.
He has some army service papers which show that he enlisted with the 13th Battalion Cheshire Regiment
(“Wirral Pals”) at Port Sunlight on 3rd September 1914. His age was given as 31 years+296 days and his
occupation was an Electrician. His next of kin was given as his father William, still living at No.33
Wordsworth Street.
His army service lasted just 20 days, and he was discharged as “Medically unfit” on 22nd September.
He is listed in Lever Brothers “Golden Book” of those employees who served in the war (the lack of any
rank being given is an indication of his short service.)
Nothing more is known about Edwin other than that he died of Phthisis (Tuberculosis) on 7th August 1916
aged 33. He is buried in Keswick (St. John) Churchyard with a CWGC headstone. He is commemorated on
Commonwealth War Graves, and he is also named on the Keswick War Memorial.
His parents may have received a Memorial Plaque and Scroll, but this is not certain.
EDWARD WILSON STANLEY age 28 L/CPL G/4093 2nd Btn Queen's
(Royal West Surrey Regiment) 1st Sep 1916
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Stanley, Otley-road, Keswick,
received the sad news on Sunday that their son, Edward Wilson
Stanley, had been killed in France on 4th September. He was in a
gun section, Queen's Own Royal West Surreys, having enlisted into
that regiment in January,1915, entered France 23rd Aug 1915, commemarated on the Thiepval Memorial. He served his apprenticeship with
Mr. T. W Hayes, Keswick, and afterwards was employed at the Tully
Nurseries, Killdare, Ireland, and the Enfield Nurseries, where he
was alpine gardener with a large staff under him. He had been in
the trenches in France for fifteen months. He went through the
battle of Loos, and had been in the big push ever since the
start. The letter announcing his death states: " I am very sorry
to have to write and tell that your son, Lance Corporal. E. W.
Stanley, 4093, has been killed in action. No words of mine can
comfort you in your great loss. We all feel very sorry for you
and feel the loss of a good and brave soldier and comrade, not
only in the platoon but in the whole company. Your son was in
charge of a Lewis gun at the time, and could not have suffered as
he died immediately. In him we have lost a good man indeed, he
was one of the best in my platoon ".
The deceased was 27 years of age, he has four brothers in the
army, Mark Stanley, Border Rgt, who has been home on convalescent
after being wounded on the 1st July, a rifle shot cought him in
the left foot and he crawled about in " no mans land " for 24
hours before being able to get to a dressing station. Harold is
in the Border Rgt in India, Frank is in the East Lancashires and
Joseph in the Border reserves at Barrow.
JOHN STAMPER age 25
Pte 14479 8th Btn Border Rgt 1st September
1918
Son of George and Margaret Ann Stamper, of Greta
Bank Cottage, Keswick, Cumberland, enlisted 9th Septemeber 1914, entered France 26th Sept 1915, missing from 28th June 1918, buried at Glageon Communal Cemetery.
HAROLD STEPHENSON age 30 Pte 49063 2nd
Btn Manchester Rgt 3rd September 1917
Son of John and Helen Stephenson, of Keswick,
Cumberland; husband of Elizabeth Stephenson, of 165, Upper Brook
St., Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, killed in action, buried at Coxyde Military Cemetery.
WILLIAM STEWART age 23
Gunner 8353 Royal Field Artillery 26th October 1917
Son of Sarah Jane Stewart, of 2, Gateys Court, Keswick, Cumberland, and the late William Stewart. Entered France 27th July 1915, died of wounds, buried at Dozinghem military cemetery.
WILLIAM HENRY STOCKDALE age 26 Sgt 3473 C Coy 8th Durham Light Infantry 2nd March 1916
Mr and Mrs James Stockdale of St Herbert Street,
have received word that their eldest son William has been killed
in the front line trenches on the 2nd March by German shrapnel.
A letter from a friend Sgt G S Jackson stated " the Huns shelled
our trenches unmercifully, thinking we were going to attack, the
casualty list from our battalion was I am afraid was pretty
large, Will was with his men in one part of the trench when a
shell came and did for seven or eight of them. Will was not
killed outright; his first thought was for his men and he ordered
they should be attended to first, he died very peaceably. His
loss will be keenly felt, his adjutant had strongly recommended
him to apply for a commission, but alas it was not to be " .
William had married in May 1915 to Miss Pritchard daughter of Mr
Thomas Pritchard , Heaton, Newcastle on Tyne. Buried at Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm) south-east of Ypres.
TOM GILLIN STOREY
age 25 Sgt 15787 8th Border Rgt 3rd July
1916
Son of the late John and Emma Jane Storey, of 5,
St. Herbert's St., Keswick, Cumberland, enlisted 13th September 1914, entered France 26th September 1915, killed in action, commemerated on the Thiepval Memorial.
JOHN STRONG
MM age 24 Pte 11776 1st Btn Royal Berkshire Rgt 3 May
1917
BIRKETT STUART age
20 Pte 260721 7th Btn Border Rgt 4th November 1918
Son of Mr and Mrs T Stuart, Brooklyn House, Threlkeld. 10th November 1914 Pte Stuart enlisted in the W and C. Yeomanry and after a few months training in Enland was sent to France on 10th July 1915 where he was subsequently transferred to the 7th Borders . In that regiment he saw much fighting and on the armistice being signed his parents naturally felt relieved, but by then Pte Stuart had made the supreme sacrifice at the age of twenty. this is the third son in addition to a nephew of Mr and Mrs T Stuart to fall in the war. Prior to enlistment Pte Stuart was employed by Mr Howe of High Hill farm, Keswick Entered France 11th July 1915, killed in action, buried at Englefontaine British Cemetery where the straight main road from Le Cateau to Bavay crosses the road from Le Quesnoy to Landrecies.
THOMAS STUART age
25 Sgt 12941 8th Btn Border Rgt 3rd July
1916
Son of Mr and Mrs T Stuart, Brooklyn House,
Threlkeld, enlisted 7th September 1914, promoted L/cpl 13th October, acting Cpl 5th November, Sgt 23rd July 1915, entered France 26th September 1915, killed in action, commemerated on the Thiepval Memorial.
CHARLES HENRY STUART age 35
Pte 1st Rgt South African Inf 18th July
1916
Son of Mr and Mrs T Stuart, Brooklyn House,
Threlkeld, Lived in Cape Town and left a wife and two children, served in Germen South West Africa and on being transferred to England had 10 days leave in Threlkeld before serving in Egypt and later France where he was killed at Delville Wood, buried at Delville Wood Cemetery, Delville Wood was a tract of woodland, nearly 1 kilometre square, the
western edge of which touched the village of Longueval in the Somme. On
14 July 1916 the greater part of Longueval village was taken by the 9th
(Scottish) Division and on the 15th, the South African Brigade of that
Division captured most of Delville Wood. The wood now formed a salient
in the line, with Waterlot Farm and Mons Wood on the south flank still
in German hands, and, owing to the height of the trees, no close
artillery support was possible for defence. The three South African
battalions fought continuously for six days and suffered heavy
casualties. On 18 July, they were forced back and on the evening of the
20th the survivors, a mere handful of men, were relieved. A memorial srvice was held at Threlkeld on 3rd September 1916.
JAMES BOWES STUART age 30 Pte 201487 1st/4th
Btn Border Rgt 16 Nov 1918
Son of Robert and Margaret Stuart, of Post Office, Threlkeld, Cumbria. Enlisted 8th March 1915, entered India 25th March 1916, died at Jubbulpore, India of influenza and pneumonia.
JOSEPH SWINBURN age
37 Gunner 189045 Royal Field Artillery 24th April
1918
Son of Henry and Elizabeth Swinburn, of Keswick;
husband of Eleanor Swinburn, of 5, Greta Hamlet, Keswick,
Cumberland. Died of wounds, buried at Etaples Military Cemetery.
JOHN SWINBURN age 31 Pte 203219 19th Btn Kings Liverpool Rgt 5th December 1917
Son of Henry and Elizabeth Swinburn, living on
Main St, Keswick in 1901, killed in action, buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery east of Ypres.
PETER WILLIAM SWINDLE age 29 Pte 28109 7th Border Rgt 23rd April 1917
Son of Peter and Isabella Swindle, living on
Helvellyn St, Keswick in 1901, killed in action, commemerated on he Arras Memorial.
VIPOND VICKERS
SWINDLE age 22 Pte 267518 Oxford and Bucks Light Inf 16th
August 1917
Son of Norman and Mary Swindle, Enlisted Huntingdon, born Keswick, killed in action, buried at Poelcapelle British Cemetery north-east of Ypres.
CLARENCE STANLEY TAYLOR age 23 Cpl 13494 11th Border Rgt
18th Nov 1916
Son of Hannah Greenhow, of 34, Helvellyn St., Keswick, Cumberland. born Kirkland ( Penrith), Cumberland, enlisted Keswick, entered France 23rd Nov 1915, killed in action, buried at Beaumont-Hamel, Waggon Road Cemetery (originally V Corps Cemetery No.10) contains 195 First World War burials (36 unidentified), 46 of them belonging to the 11th Battalion the Border Regiment, which attacked in the Ancre in both July and November 1916.
ROBERT R. TEARE age 26 Pte 24638 7th Btn Border Rgt 23rd March 1918
Originally from Laxey, I.O.M., husband of Sarah Mary ( Burrow ) living at Ormathwaite farm Keswick at enlistment 11th December 1915, entered France 16th July 1916, G.S.W right cheek/mouth, loss of ten teeth 26th August 1916, 61 days in hospital, missing presumed dead as from 23rd March 1918, commemerated on the Arras Memorial
GILBERT TODHUNTER age 25 Lt 10th Canadian Infantry 20th May 1915
Son of George and Margaret A. Todhunter, of Keswick, England; husband of Harriet Todhunter, of Covington, Kentucky, U.S.A. Formerly 106th Winnipeg Light Inf, and 6 years with the Border Rgt. Enlisted 24th Sept 1914, he was a carpenter by trade. Gilbert was killed by shellfire and Buried at Pont-Du-Hem Military Cemetery, Nord,France
ALLISON WHITE TOWERS age 22 Pte 2457 Westmorland &
Cumberland Yeomanry 2nd October 1916
Son of John and Mary Towers of Lorton, killed while on patrol near
Levante. entered France 27th July 1915, buried at St. Vaast Post Military Cemetery , Richbourg-L'Avoue, north-east of Bethune.
MAURICE TOWERS Pte 27014 11th Border Rgt 18th November 1916
4th Son of John William and
Margaret Towers, of 4, Heads Lane, Keswick,
Cumberland, killed in action, commemerated on the Thiepval Memorial.
JAMES TOWERS age 30 Pte
34996 11th Border Rgt 12th July 1917
Son of John William and Margaret Towers, of 4, Heads Lane, Keswick, Cumberland. Enlisted Barrow in Furness, died of wounds, buried at Larch Wood ( Railway Cutting ) Cemetery, south-east of Ypres
Son of Joseph and Jane ( Banks ), living on Blencathra St, Keswick in 1901, buried at Pont-De-Nieppe Communal Cemetery which was used by Commonwealth field ambulances and fighting units from October 1914 to March 1918, by German troops during the summer of 1918, and by Commonwealth troops again in September-November 1918.
WILLIAM TYSON age 19 Dvr 266890
Royal Field artillery 25th Aug 1918
Son of Sarah Jane and the
late Robert Tyson, Kings Arms Hotel, Keswick. He was killed by a
shell which exploded on the road beside the team he was driving,
before the war he had been an apprentice with W. Cowperthwaite and
son, Builders, buried at Caestre Military Cemetery, midway between the towns of Cassel and Bailleul, it was opened in mid April 1918 by the
Australian Corps and troops of the 9th (Scottish) Division. It was used
until September 1918 for the burials of casualties sustained during the
German offensive.
HAROLD VICKERS age
18 Pte 51606 4th Btn Border Rgt 25th Nov 1918
Son of Albert and Jane
Vickers, living at Atkinson`s Court, Keswick at enlistment, worked as farm hand, enlisted 4th November 1918, died of
influenza , buried at Crosthwaite. Harolds family moved to Hamilton, Ontario after the war.
ROBERT
USHER Sgt 25813 11th Border Rgt 18th Nov
1916
Son of Mr & Mrs James Usher, Bank Tavern , Keswick, Cumberland. Printer by trade, enlisted in Territorials at Keswick 1st April 1908, served in India 29th October 1914 to 19th April 1916, killed in action, buried at Beaumont-Hamel, Waggon Road Cemetery (originally V Corps Cemetery No.10) contains 195 First World War burials (36 unidentified), 46 of them belonging to the 11th Battalion the Border Regiment, which attacked in the Ancre in both July and November 1916.
CHARLES R WALLACE age 43 Dvr T/173715
Royal Army Service Corps 2nd September 1919
Husband of Betsy Wice Wallace, of 3, Bridge Terrace, Keswick. buried at Crosthwaite.
JOHN
WATSON age 21 Pte 30362 1st/5th East Lancs 4th
April 1918
Son of William and Mary
Watson, of School House, Brigham, Keswick, Cumberland. Died in a
Canadian Stationary Hospital from a gunshot wound to the thigh.
He was a under gardener at Derwent Hill before the war, buried at Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No1, north of Amiens on the road to Arras.
THOMAS ALEXANDER WATSON age
29 Gnr 136198 Royal Garrison Artillery 14th November
1918
Son of Willam Alexander Watson and Mary Jane ( Dixon ), of
The Grange, Threlkeld, buried at Threlkeld
WILLIAM HENRY
WATT 25th Btn Australian
Infantry 4th October 1917
Son of John and Mary Watt,
born at 22 Rose Terrace, Keswick. he was living at Springsure,
Queensland when he enlisted at Rockhampton in 1916, killed in the
attack on Broodsiende Ridge, Ypres.
See separate page W. H.
Watt
JAMES
WELSH age 24 Pte 23814 A/Coy 1 platoon 11th Border Rgt 18th November
1916
ARTHUR EDWIN WILSON age 25 Pte 6th Btn King's Own
(Royal Lancaster Regiment) 30th April 1917
Son of Thomas and Jane Wilson , living at Castle
Crag Cottage, Borrowdale in 1901, worked on farms before the war, enlisted 7th September 1914, killed in
action, no known grave
commemorated on the Basrah Memorial.
FRED WILSON age 19 15th Btn Cheshire Rgt 16th August 1916
Buried at Bronfay Militery Cemetery, Bray-Sur-Somme.Penrith Herald Saturday 2nd September 1916
Great sympathy is felt for Mr and Mrs T. Wilson and family, Stuart Terrace, Threlkeld, in the loss of their youngest son Private Fred Wilson, 19 years of age, who was killed in France on 16th August. Prior to the war he was working at Shap, but in November 1914 he enlisted under Lord Derby`s scheme in the Cheshire Regiment. After a period of training he proceeded to France in the transport section during the first week of January of the present year. All went well until a few days ago when his parents recieved a letter from Private D Bostock, stating that his pal Private Wilson was slightly wounded. This naturally led his parents to hope there was nothing serious, but hopes were speedily dashed to the ground by the news recieved on Wednesday from the War Office that he was dead. The return of a parcel sent him a few days ago was certainly ominous. Private Wilson was most anxious to do his bit, but owing to smallness of his stature had to make repeated attempts at enlistment before he was accepted, and then only in a Bantam regiment.
JOSEPH WILSON age 36 Pte 201694 Loyal North Lancashire Rgt 9th September 1916
Son of Alfred and Mary Ann ( Stanley ), living on
Tithebarn St, Keswick in 1881, killed in
action, commemerated on the Thiepval Memorial.
GEORGE BANKS WIVELL
age 30 Pte PS/5949
20th Royal Fusiliers 25th April 1916
Second son of Joseph Banks
and Mary Wivell, Station Hotel, Keswick
Word has been received from George`s brother Alec who was with
him when he died, he was shot by a German sniper and carried to a
dressing station behind the lines but the wound proved fatal. The
brothers had joined up together in Sept 1915 and went to France 14th Nov 1915, George was buried in a small cemetery just behind
the lines. Before the war he had worked for many years as an
electrical engineer for the British Westinghouse
Company. Buried at Cambrin Churchyard Extension, east of Bethune, on the road to La Bassee, at one time the village of Cambrin housed brigade headquarters but
until the end of the First World War, it was only about 800 metres from
the front line trenches.
THIS ADDITION OF THE FITZ PARK WAS GIVEN SEPTEMBER 1923 BY NR AND MRS J B WIVELL OF KESWICK HOTEL AS A MEMORIAL TO THEIR SON GEORGE BANKS WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT GIVENCHY APRIL 25TH 1916 AND THEIR DAUGHTER MARY WHO DIED DECEMBER 4TH 1918
HERBERT
WHITE Pte 406795 11th Kings Liverpool Rgt
21st March 1918
Son of William and Annie White, living on Lake Rd , Keswick in 1901. Formerly 290832, North Lancashire Regiment, killed in action, commemerated on the Pozieres Memorial which has over 14,000 casualties of the United Kingdom and 300 of the South African Forces who have no known grave and who died on the Somme from 21st March to 7th August 1918.
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMSON age 30 Pte 4580 1st Honourable Artillery ( infantry ) 11th Feb 1917
Son of Daniel and Sarah Ann
Williamson, of Keswick, Cumberland, died of wounds, buried at Varennes military cemetery which was laid out by the 39th Casualty Clearing Station in August
1916, during the Battle of the Somme, but the first burials were made
during August and September by more mobile divisional field ambulances.
The 4th and 11th Casualty Clearing Stations then used the cemetery from
October 1916, joined by the 47th from December 1916, but by May 1917 Varennes was deserted and remained so until the Germans launched their
offensive in this quarter in April 1918.
THWAITE
WILLIAMSON age 40 2/10th Btn Kings Liverpool Rgt 23rd April 1917
Son of John Thwaite Williamson and Isabella Williamson, of Ullock farm, Keswick, Cumberland; husband of Alice Maude Williamson, of 23, Fleming Square, Maryport, Cumberland, killed in action by a rifle grenade, buried at Erquinghem-Lys Churchyard Extension, west of Armentieres.
EDWARD WOOD age 27 Pte 1158 Northumberland Fusiliers 8th November 1914
Son of Edward and Annie of
Staffordshire, Edward was the only child born in
Keswick, entered France 19th September 1914, commemerated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres.
JOHN
YOUDALE age
29 Cpl 201612 2nd Border Rgt 26th October
1917
Son of Richard and Sarah Jane Youdale, of 14, Southey
St., Keswick ( formerly No 6 Borrowdale Rd ). John was a clerk at
Keswick Railway Station before the war, enlisted 12th April 1915, entered France 26th July 1917, killed in action, commemerated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.