Monday, 28 December 2015

Bakewell's First World War dead


 


My wife and I had a weekend in the Peak District last month and used Bakewell as our base. The town memorial is now in the middle of a small roundabout in the centre of the town and I took these pictures of it whilst we were there.




The first panel of names lists the following men:

Geoffrey William Pepperall Abraham
 John Francis Aitken
John Andrews
W Barber
Frederick William Barnett
Bertie Birley
George William Blagden
Samule Standige Boden
Peter Bond
Henry Byron
Robert Carr
John Thomas Carroll
George William Chadwick
John Arthur Chadwick
Robert Henry Chadwick
Cecil Clark
James Cooper
George William Daffern
Lawrence Douglas
Thomas D'Arcy
John Boulton



The second name panel lists:

Alfred Elliott
James Elliott
Hubert Holmes Fewkes
Walter Harry Edward Fewkes
William Fielding Finney
Alfred Foster
William Frost
Walter G Hamilton
Charles Edward Hamilton
George Thomas Hayto
William H Hill
Geoffrey Morgan Hoyle
John Baldwin Hoyle
Alec B Jones
Benjamin Kay
William Kennedy
Edgar James Mellon
Joseph Mellor
Victor Mitchell
Albert Mountney
Joseph Reginald Mountney
Walter Mountney
John Stephen Hope


The third and final name panel lists:

Leonard Needham
Joseph Nelson
John William Newton
H O'Neal
Joseph Radford
John William Rowland
John H Sharratt
William Arthur C Sims
George Skidmore
Clement Alfred Stevens
Thomas Swann
Arthur Cuthbert Brooke Taylor
Ernest Mosley Taylor
Herbert R Thompson
Malcolm Elias Tomlinson
Thomas Ed Turner
Ernest Drabble Twyford
Frank Webster
Oswald William Whittaker
Frank G Wilson
Edward Wood
William Wright



For more information on many of these men, visit the Bakewell Memorial page on the Roll of Honour website.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.





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