Updated 30 Jan 2014
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WIRKSWORTH Parish Records 1600-1900
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Photos of these Memorials from the 1st World War were
sent by Keith Brooks, thanks Keith.
An attempt has been made to locate as many names as possible
in the 1901 Census, to discover their age and background.
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To the Glory of God
And in Memory of the following Parishioners
Who gave their lives for their Country in the
Great War
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"Their names shall be held in everlasting remembrance"
1914-1919
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These links to the CWGC casualty details
were supplied by David Wardman, who writes:
"When I started searching for the links,
only about a dozen or so were obvious. However
on examining the fallen dates for that dozen,
they were in date order. So whoever organised
the memorial must have had full details of when
all the men fell, and duly designed the memorial
around fallen date order, as opposed to the
Wirksworth Memorial which is in surname alphabetical
order. Hence on doing a subsequent search armed with
the knowledge of the narrow window (possibly only a
few days) when a man had fallen, things clarified.
The memorial lists men who went to war from Middleton
not having been born there but had presumably married
into a Middleton family and were living there, and
also men who were born in Middleton but had emigrated
and went to war from Australia and Canada.
The date of 17/06/1916 must be remembered as a grim one
for Middleton, comparable to 01/07/1916 for Wirksworth,
when in both cases 3 men fell".
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For King, Country & Humanity
Roll of Honour
For the Brave Men who have gone forth at the Call of Duty
To the Great War of 1914
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Rank & Name - Branch of Service - Date of joining - Record
1. Lc.Cpl. Joseph R Goodall
- 1/6th Duke of Wellington West Riding - Aug 4th 1914 - Three times wounded once gassed
2. Pte William Hallows
- 1/6th Notts & Derbys (Territorial's) - Aug 4th 1914 - Killed in Action Aug 30th 1916
3. Pte Francis Gratton
- 12th Batt Sherwood Foresters - Aug 20th 1914 - Killed in Action Jun 17th 1916
4. Pte Arthur Goodall
- 12th Batt Sherwood Foresters - Sept 7th 1914 - Once wounded, Killed in Action June 17th 1916
5. Lieut John Walker
- Loyal North Lancasters - Nov 24th 1914 - Gassed
6. Sapper Robert Adams
- A.P. 6 S 100 - Feb 1st 1915 - Italian Expeditionary Force
7. Pte Laurence Brace
- 3rd Batt Sherwood Foresters - Feb 15th 1915
8. Pte Thomas Beeston
- Machine Gun Cavalry Corps - Apr 29th 1915 - Allenbys Exped. Force Palestine
9. Pte Fredrick Pearson
- 2nd Batt Lancs Fusilliers - June 21st 1915 - Reported missing May 1916
Presumed killed March 1917
10. Pte Joseph W. Spencer
- 3rd/6th Sherwood Foresters - July 26th 1915 - Twice wounded & once gassed
11. Pte William S.B. Else MM
- 2nd/6th Sherwood Foresters - Nov 16th 1915 - 9 months Prisoner of war
12. Cpl Frank Boden
- 3rd Batt Lincolns - Nov 19th 1915 - Wounded in offensive March 1918
13. Pte John Brooks
- 11th Batt Manchesters - Aug 26th 1914 - Killed of wounds received in the Dardanelles Expedition
14. Pte Edward Brooks
- 1st Lincolns - Feb 15th 1915 - Wounded 3 times
15. Trooper Alec Spencer
- Derbyshire Yeomanry - Dec 6th 1915 - Salonic Exped Force
16. Pte Arthur Harrison
- 16th Batt Machine Gun Corps - Feb 1st 1916 - Twice wounded once gassed
17. Pte Samuel Doxey
- 2nd South Lancashire - July 20th 1916 - France
18. Pte Harry Goodhall
- 8th Batt Sherwood Foresters - July 26th 1916 - Once wounded
Killed in Action Sept 15th 1917
19. Sapper George Holmes
- 169 Co. RE - Oct 11th 1916 - France
20. Pte John A Hall
- 9th Royal Scots - Oct 20th 1916 - Died in France from intestinal obstruction July 20th 1917
21. Pte Ernest Bunting
- Highland Light Infantry - Nov 23rd 1916 - 9 months prisoner of war
(X553).
22. Pte Alec Walker
- Lancashire Fusiliers - Jan 23rd 1917 - Killed in Action May 31st 1918
23. Sapper Arthur Milner
- Railway Section RE - Feb 5th 1917 - France
24. Pte William Slack
- Northumberland Fusiliers - Feb 26th 1917 - France
25. Pte Samuel R Hall
26. Sapper John W Spencer
- Railway Section RE - Aug 2nd 1917 - Egyptian Expd Force
27. Pte Alfred Harrison
- 3rd Batt Essex - Oct 16th 1917 - Gassed
28. Pte Ernest Spencer
- 1st/4th Leicesters - May 12th 1918 - France
29. Pte Leslie Spencer
- 51[7?]st Grade Notts & Derbys - June 16th 1918
30. Pte Benjamin Staton
- A.S.C. Motor Transport - July 15th 1918 - France
31. Sapper Walter Wright
- No 4 Section 180Co RE British Expeditionary Force France
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Not once or twice in our rough island-story
The Path of Duty was the Path to Glory
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This scroll was originally in the
Primitive Methodist Church at Middleton,
and is now at Derbyshire Record Office,
Matlock, reference D6793 2/1.
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Deciphered, transcribed, compiled, indexed,
formatted and copyright © 2007,
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All Rights Reserved.
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