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Debt of Honour

 

 April 2017 - The first part of the new revised expanded edition of A DEBT OF HONOUR 534pp is now available from High Street Books and New Mills Heritage Centre. i would still be very grateful for copies of photographs and stories of local men who served in WWI and WWII to use in Volume 2. I can be contacted at stevenewmills@aol.com
 

 
 
 
 

A DEBT OF HONOUR

   THEIR BRIGHT SPIRIT STILL TENANTS 

           THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO LOVED THEM. 

         THEY PASSED OUT OF THE SIGHT OF MEN
 
               BY THE PATH OF GLORY AND SELF SACRIFICE.



THE ROLL OF HONOUR

     Members of the New Mills Parish who lost their lives                  

in the Great War

       

1914

 

JAMES WALKER. KILLED 19TH OCTOBER 1914. AGED 36.

J. H. MARSH. KILLED 20TH OCTOBER 1914. Aged 36

GEORGE RAYNER. KILLED 12TH NOVEMBER 1914. AGED 33.

 

1915

 

EDWIN ARNFIELD WRIGHT. KILLED 1ST MARCH 1915. AGED 21.

FRANK LOMAS. KILLED. 9TH MAY 1915.

CHARLES COOPER. DoW. 9TH JUNE 1915. AGED 29

WILLIAM. ISAAC BARDSLEY REDFERN. KILLED 24TH JUNE 1915.

SQUIRE BUCKLEY LIDDIARD. DoW. 29TH JUNE 1915. AGED 19.

JOHN OGDEN ADSHEAD. KILLED 19TH JULY 1915.

JOHN BARBER. KILLED 4TH AUGUST 1915. AGED 18.

CHARLES EDWARD FLEXNEY. KILLED 9TH AUGUST 1915. AGED 40.

HARRY BERRISFORD, KILLED 9TH AUGUST 1915, AGED 21.

GEORGE FREDERICK SHARP. KILLED 9TH AUGUST 1915. AGED 29.

JOHN HOWARD. KILLED 21ST AUGUST 1915, AGED 31.

T. BENNETT, PRIVATE aka John Buckley, DoD, 17TH SEPTEMBER 1915

HARRY GRIFFIN. KILLED 27TH SEPTEMBER 1915. AGED 29.

WALTER FLINT. DoW. 18TH OCTOBER 1915. AGE 25.

FREDERICK HODDER. KILLED 25TH OCTOBER 1915. AGED 28.

HARRY CONWAY. KILLED 26TH OCTOBER 1915.

JOHN JENNISON. DoW.  NOVEMBER 1915. AGE 34.

NORMAN JONES. DoD 22ND DECEMBER 1915. AGED 22.

 

1916

 

WILLIAM H. WORRALL. KILLED 21ST JANUARY 1916. AGED 56.

THOMAS MIDDLETON. KILLED 1ST FEBRUARY 1916. AGED 19.

JOHN STAFFORD. KILLED 12TH FEBRUARY 1916. AGED 23.

FREDERICK ARNFIELD. KILLED 14TH FEBRUARY 1916. AGED 32.

EDWARD CROSSLAND. KILLED 19TH FEBRUARY 1916. AGED 37.

HENRY SERPELL. KILLED MARCH 1916. AGED 34.

DANIEL NORMAN. KILLED 6TH APRIL 1916. AGED 39.

ARTHUR MARSH. DoW, 7TH APRIL 1916. AGED 19.

HARRY FIELDING. KILLED 31ST MAY 1916. AGED 21.

JOSEPH KIERNAN WARING. KILLED JUNE 1916. AGED 24

JOHN NIVEN. DoW 4TH JUNE 1916. AGED 22.

FRED S. CHATTERTON. KILLED 10TH JUNE 1916. AGED 27.

CHARLES FORMBY. KILLED 1ST JULY 1916. AGED 21.

WILLIAM WRIGHT. KILLED 1ST JULY 1916. AGED 24.

GEORGE WILLIAM COCKER. KILLED 1ST JULY 1916. AGED 20.

THOMAS HAMPSON. KILLED 1ST JULY 1916. AGED 24.

HARRY GOODWIN. KILLED 1ST JULY 1916. AGED 22.

JAMES WHARMBY. KILLED 1ST JULY 1916. AGED 28.

EVERETT WILD. KILLED 1ST JULY 1916. AGED 25.

HAROLD ECHELLS. KILLED 3RD JULY 1916. AGED 25.

FRED WATERHOUSE. KILLED 7TH JULY 1916.

SAMUEL BOWETT. KILLED 13TH JULY 1916. AGED 30.

JOHN BAGSHAW. KILLED 14TH JULY 1916. AGED 22.

FRED BRADLEY. KILLED 15TH JULY 1916. AGED 19.                               .

JOHN HAMPSON. DoW ON THE 15TH JULY 1916. AGED 28.

GEORGE W. C. BAILEY. KILLED 15TH JULY 1916. AGED 37.

JOHN JOSEPH CYRIL NIELD. KILLED 20TH JULY 1916. AGED 20.

CHARLES WOODWARD. KILLED FRIDAY 28TH JULY 1916. AGED 22.

WALTER THORPE. KILLED 8TH AUGUST 1916.AGED 30

FRED WHARMBY. KILLED 5TH AUGUST 1916. AGE 20.

PETER WORTHINGTON. KILLED 11TH AUGUST 1916. AGED 19.

WILLIAM MELLOR. KILLED 3RD OF SEPTEMBER 1916. AGED 23.

WALTER SMITH. KILLED 3RD SEPTEMBER 1916. AGED 20.

CHARLES BRYAN. KILLED 16TH SEPTEMBER 1916.

GEORGE HAMMOND. KILLED 16TH SEPTEMBER 1916. AGED 22.

ARTHUR WHITEFORD. DoW. OCTOBER 1916. AGED 25

GEORGE JACKSON. KILLED 1ST OCTOBER 1916. AGED 29.

EDMUND THORNLEY. DoD 3RD OCTOBER 1916. AGED 25.

HAROLD DAWSON. KILLED IN ACTION 5TH OCTOBER 1916

JOHN DEARNALEY. KILLED 6TH OCTOBER 1916. AGED 21.

HERBERT SMITH.  KILLED 9TH OCTOBER 1916. AGED 31.

WILLIAM HADFIELD. KILLED 18TH OCTOBER 1916. AGED 28.

GEORGE W. WOODWARD, KILLED, 26TH OCTOBER 1916. AGED 26.

JOHN BRANSON. DoW 27TH OCTOBER 1916.

FRED ASHWORTH. KILLED 31ST OCTOBER 1916. AGED 23.

JAMES F. SHAW. KILLED 13TH NOVEMBER 1916. AGED 26.

WILLIAM THOMPSON. DoW. 4TH NOVEMBER 1916. AGED 23.

WILLIAM BOTTOMLEY. DoW 7TH NOVEMBER 1916. AGE 21.

GILBERT POLLARD. 14TH NOVEMBER 1916. AGED 20.

SETH SWIFT. DoW.  17TH NOVEMBER 1916.

JACK LITTLER. KILLED 23RD NOVEMBER 1916.

HAROLD R. MORTON. KILLED 29TH NOVEMBER 1916. AGED 21

WALTER DRAPER. PRIVATE, KILLED DECEMBER 1916.

FRED POTTS. KILLED 21ST DECEMBER 1916. AGED 26.

 

1917

 

CHARLES E. PREECE. KILLED 4TH JANUARY 1917. AGED 20.

JOHN M. FROGGATT. KILLED 25TH FEBRUARY 1917. AGED 22

HUBERT HIBBERT. KILLED 27TH FEBRUARY 1917. AGED 20.

STANLEY LIDDELL. KILLED 4TH MARCH 1917. AGED 26

LUKE LOMAS. KILLED 12TH MARCH 1917. AGED 20.

WILLIAM THOMPSON. KILLED 13TH MARCH 1917. AGED 23.

FRED ALLEN. PRIVATE, KILLED, 23RD MARCH 1917. AGE 20.

GEORGE CHARLES CLAPHAM. KILLED 10TH APRIL 1917. AGED 18.

THOMAS CAREY. LOST AT SEA ON THE 15TH APRIL 1917. AGED 34.

SAMUEL J. L. WYATT. KILLED 23RD APRIL 1917. AGED 20.

FRANK JACKSON. KILLED 30TH APRIL 1917. AGED 23.

WILLIAM WHITLEY AITKEN. KILLED 3RD MAY 1917. AGE 18.

WALTER ROWLAND. DIED OF INJURIES 9TH OF MAY 1917. AGED 24.

WILLIAM HIGGINBOTTOM. KILLED 19TH APRIL 1917. AGED 39.

GEORGE McNEE. DoW. 25TH APRIL 1917. AGED 19.

GEORGE MIDDLETON. KILLED WHIT MONDAY 1917. AGED 24.

HERBERT HIGGINBOTTOM. DoW. 1ST MAY 1917. HIS 26TH BIRTHDAY

WILLIAM HENRY HIGGINBOTTOM. KILLED 1ST MAY 1917. AGE 26.

FRANK MARCHINGTON. KILLED 7TH MAY 1917. AGED 19.

HERBERT BOWDEN. KILLED. 3RD OF JUNE 1917. AGED 21.

GEORGE MILLS. KILLED. 5TH JUNE 1917. AGED 23.

ROBERT WATERWORTH ROXBY. KILLED. 7TH JUNE 1917. AGED 36.

GEORGE WILSON. KILLED. 25TH JUNE 1917.

COLIN FIDLER. KILLED. 26TH JUNE 1917. AGED 23.

ALBERT FLETCHER. KILLED. 1ST JULY 1917. AGED 22.

JAMES W. MASON. KILLED. 1ST JULY 1917. AGED 41.

JOSEPH CHATTERTON. DoW. 11TH JULY 1917. AGED 20. 

WILLIAM MOORCROFT. KILLED. 21ST JULY 1917. AGED 21.

JOHN EDGE BELFIELD. KILLED. 31ST JULY 1917. AGE 36.

GEORGE WOODLAND BELL. DIED 1ST AUGUST 1917. AGED 37.

WALTER BATES. KILLED. 1ST AUGUST 1917 AGE 34.

FRANK NELSON. KILLED. 3RD AUGUST 1917. AGED 21.

THOMAS HILL. KILLED. 4TH AUGUST 1917. AGED 27.

WALTER PHILLIPS. KILLED. 4TH AUGUST 1917. AGED 23.

JOSEPH DYSON. KILLED. 9TH AUGUST 1917. AGED 36.

JOSEPH BENNETT. KILLED. 10TH AUGUST 1917. AGED 26.

JAMES ALFRED BOWERS. KILLED 14TH AUGUST 1917. AGED 22.

JAMES ANDREW HARRISON. KILLED 16TH AUGUST 1917. AGED 29

JOHN EDWARD HAWKYARD. KILLED, 16TH AUGUST 1917. AGE 43

RICHARD BARTON. DoW. 19TH AUGUST 1917. AGED 38.

ALBERT THOMAS OLDHAM. KILLED 19TH AUGUST 1917. AGED 30.

WILFRED WALKER. DoW. 7TH SEPTEMBER 1917. AGED 26.

EDMUND VINCENT CROFT. DoW. 16TH SEPTEMBER 1917. AGED 20.

BERTRAM CUNLIFFE. KILLED 24TH SEPTEMBER 1917. AGED 23.

JOHN HALL. KILLED 24TH SEPTEMBER 1917. AGED 22.

ALBERT. W. CRITCHLOW. KILLED 26TH SEPTEMBER 1917. AGED 38.

ALBERT SWINDELLS. KILLED 26TH SEPTEMBER 1917. AGED 20

ERIC OAKES. KILLED 26TH SEPTEMBER 1917. AGED 20.

SAMUEL WOOD. KILLED 26TH SEPTEMBER 1917. AGED 40.

TOM PRESTWICH. KILLED 4TH OCTOBER 1917. AGED 23.

RICHARD HEWSON. KILLED 6TH OCTOBER 1917. AGED 24.

WILLIAM M. LIDDIARD. KILLED 6TH OCTOBER 1917. AGED 26.

VINCENT BALL. DoW. 11TH OCTOBER 1917. AGED 33.

NORMAN CHADWICK. KILLED 12TH OCTOBER 1917. AGED 30,

SAMUEL SHIRT. KILLED 12TH OCTOBER 1917. AGED 21.

JOHN F. SIMISTER. KILLED 12TH OCTOBER 1917. AGED 23.

JOSEPH WILSON. KILLED 12TH OCTOBER 1917. AGED 30.

JAMES STANLEY WOOLLEY. KILLED 22ND OCTOBER 1917.

HARRY FROST. DoW. 5TH NOVEMBER 1917. AGED 33.

ELIJA GARLICK. KILLED 23RD OF NOVEMBER 1917. AGED 27.

GEORGE ARDEN.  KILLED 27TH NOVEMBER 1917.

GEORGE ASHWORTH. MPD 30TH NOVEMBER 1917.

WILLIAM HUGH JEFFS. KILLED DECEMBER 1917. AGED 24

WILFRED. S. SMITH. KILLED 6TH DECEMBER 1917.

 

1918

 

GEORGE FIELDING. KILLED 17TH FEBRUARY 1918.

ARTHUR VINCENT BOWDEN. KILLED 6TH MARCH 1918. AGED 21.

THOMAS A. CHATTERTON. KILLED 12TH MARCH 1918. AGED 22.

JAMES POWELL. KILLED 21ST MARCH 1918. AGED 26.

JAMES. T. RIGBY. KILLED 21ST MARCH 1918. AGE 20.

JOSEPH SMITH. KILLED 21ST MARCH 1918.

CHARLES WATERHOUSE. KILLED 21ST MARCH 1918. AGED 27.

ARTHUR WILD. KILLED 21ST MARCH 1918.

WILLIAM LOMAS. KILLED 21ST MARCH 1918 .AGE 26.

WILLIAM HARTLE. KILLED 22ND MARCH 1918. AGED 23. 

FRANK WESTALL . KILLED 27TH MARCH 1918. AGED 20.

FRED WILD. KILLED WEDNESDAY 27TH MARCH 1918

WILLIAM HILL. KILLED 30TH MARCH 1918. AGED 26.

JACK LIDDELL. KILLED 30TH MARCH 1918. AGED 35.

T. BENNETT, DIED OF INJURIES APRIL 1918.

ROBERT SIMISTER. KILLED APRIL 1918. AGE 32.

JOHN STANTON. KILLED 2ND OF APRIL 1918.

WALTER TURNER, DoW. 5TH APRIL 1918. AGED 19.

WILLIAM SIDEBOTTOM. KILLED 9TH APRIL 1918. AGED 19.

ROBERT BUCHANAN. KILLED 10TH APRIL 1918.

ERNEST BOYLE. DoW. 11TH APRIL 1918. AGED 30.

ERNEST HAYTHORN. KILLED 14TH APRIL 1918. AGE 24.

CLIFFORD WATERHOUSE.  KILLED APRIL 15TH 1918. AGED 21.

JOHN SECOMBE, KILLED 21ST APRIL 1918. AGE 28.

WILLIAM GREENWOOD. DoW 5TH MAY 1918. AGE 37.

HENRY SMITH. KILLED 21ST MAY 1918.

JOHN WILLIAM HARROP. KILLED. 27TH MAY 1918. AGE 19.

WILLIAM WILD. KILLED. 27TH MAY 1918.

REGINALD THOMAS NIELD. KILLED. 27TH MAY 1918. AGED 18.

RICHARD FALLOWFIELD. KILLED 28TH MAY 1918. AGED 31.

GEORGE FREDERICK WILSON. DoW. 3RD JUNE 1918. AGED 29.

PERCY HALLAM. DoW. 3RD JUNE 1918. AGED 26.

ALEC CLARKE. KILLED 11TH JUNE 1918

ARTHUR HENRY CLARKE. KILLED 15TH JUNE 1918. AGED 27.

W. GRAHAM. DIED ON SUNDAY, 30TH JUNE 1918

FRANK BENNETT, MPD. DATE NOT ESTABLISHED.

JAMES W. SWIFT.  KILLED 16TH JULY 1918. AGE 27.

LEVI RICHARDSON. KILLED 17TH JULY 1918. AGED 28.

HORACE FROST. KILLED ON THE 10TH AUGUST 1918. AGED 22.

ERNEST HAWKYARD. KILLED 11TH AUGUST 1918. AGE 40.

ARNOLD BENNETT. KILLED 17TH AUGUST 1918*.

ARTHUR KIRK. KILLED SUNDAY 18TH AUGUST 1918.

RICHARD COLLINS. KILLED 21ST AUGUST 1918. AGE 18.

WILLIAM BENNETT. KILLED 30TH AUGUST 1918. AGED 35.

CHARLES BENNETT. KILLED 1ST SEPTEMBER 1918. AGED 20

ARCHIE GALBRAITH. KILLED 4TH SEPTEMBER 1918. AGE 28.

ALBERT HALL. KILLED 4TH SEPTEMBER 1918. AGED 20.

RALPH CLAYTON. KILLED 7TH SEPTEMBER 1918. AGED 18

BERNARD S. ROURKE. KILLED 10TH SEPTEMBER 1918. AGED 19.

GILBERT STAFFORD. KILLED 14TH SEPTEMBER 1918. AGE 30

ALBERT GARTSIDE. PRESUMED KILLED 18TH SEPTEMBER 1918.

STANLEY HOLROYD.  KILLED 19TH SEPTEMBER 1918. AGED 25.

JOHN LITTLEFORD. DoW. 24TH SEPTEMBER 1918.AGED 22.

ALEC SCHOFIELD.  KILLED 24TH SEPTEMBER 1918. AGED 19.

FRANK CONWAY. KILLED OCTOBER 1918. AGED 23

JOHN HENRY WOODWARD. KILLED 1ST OCTOBER 1918. AGED 20.

WALTER WOOD. KILLED 3RD OCTOBER 1918. AGED 19.

ALFRED SHAW. KILLED IN ACTION 4TH OCTOBER 1918. AGED 27

WILLIAM W. PATERSON. KILLED 11TH OCTOBER 1918. AGED 19.

JOHN WILLIAMSON. KILLED 11TH OCTOBER 1918.

SIDNEY RICHARDSON. KILLED 13TH OCTOBER 1918. AGED 25.

CHARLES A. EASTHORPE. KILLED 14TH OCTOBER 1918. AGED 27.

WILLIAM WILD. DIED WEDNESDAY 23RD OCTOBER 1918. AGED 25.

TOM DAWSON. KILLED 27TH OCTOBER 1918. AGED 21.

ERNEST GEORGE PIKE, DIED. 29TH OCTOBER 1918. AGED 24.

JOSEPH WILD. DIED 3RD NOVEMBER 1918. AGED 35.

ROBERT PEEL. KILLED 5TH NOVEMBER 1918. AGE 22.

JOSEPH STAFFORD. KILLED 8TH NOVEMBER 1918. AGED 19.

FRED WILD. DIED 6TH DECEMBER 1918. AGED 32.

 

1919

 

JOSEPH LOMAS. DIED JANUARY 1919. AGED 30.

JOHN CHARLES McQUAID. DIED 17TH FEBRUARY 1919. AGED 50.

FRANK ROXBY. DoW. 26TH MARCH 1919. AGED 32.

ALLAN WRIGHT. DIED MAY 1919. AGED 28

AMES BOWETT. DoD. 24TH MAY 1919. AGED 42

CHARLES WILLIAM LEVERINGTON. DoD. 20TH JULY 1919

ERNEST BROCKLEHURST. DoW. 12TH NOVEMBER 1919. AGED 32.

WILFRED L. FARRER. DIED 10TH MARCH 1920. AGED 19 Not on memorial

JAMES WHARTON. DIED SATURDAY, 8TH MAY 1920. AGED 35.

ERNEST THORPE. DIED 20TH OCTOBER 1920. AGED 38.

BERNARD HEATHCOTE. DoW(GAS). 16TH JANUARY 1921. AGED 27

WILLIAM WOODWARD. DATE NOT ESTABLISHED.

 

DoW – Died of Wounds

DoD – Died of Disease

MPD – Missing Presumed Dead

 

 

 

 


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