War Memorial, Staveley, Cumbria
N 54° 22.794 W 002° 49.051
30U E 511852 N 6025806
The war memorial in Staveley takes the form of a simple cross, at the junction of Brow Lane and Kentmere Road. Very close to the church. Like most memorial crosses, this memorial remembers both World Wars.
Waymark Code: WMTBMG
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/29/2016
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The names of the fallen in both Great Wars are carved on the base.
The Inscription reads TO THE GRATEFUL AND LASTING MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM STAVELEY WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918
1939 - 1945
The walls are local slate capped with red sandstone slabs. The cross itself looks to be sandstone.
First World War names:
JOHN EDWARD HOPE
CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON
STANLEY JUMP
FREDERICK LANGHORN
EDWIN F. MARTINDALE
JERRY C. MARTINDALE
THOMAS W. MARTINDALE
BERTIE R. NICHOLSON
SAMUEL RAVEN
THOMAS RAVEN
JAS. HY. RUTHERFORD
GEORGE G. ATKINSON
GEORGE BOWNESS
W. HENRY CHALLINER
WALTER E. CHATHAM
G.R. MURRAY CROFTS
THOMAS DAWSON
L. SYDNEY DOBSON
KENNETH H. GLOVER
THOMAS W. GREENHOW
WALTER HARRISON
ANDREW HILL
JOHN SHAW
FREDERICK G. STOREY
ROBERT STOREY
GEORGE H. SUART
J. HAROLD SWAINSON
RICHARD THISTLETHWAITE
FRED THRELFELL
TOM THRELFELL
ROBERT K. WHITTAM
EDWARD WILSON
Their service record is summarised by David Shackleton.
"Unveiled on July 2, 1921, by Colonel Weston, it bears the names of 36 men of Staveley and Ings. The first casualty was Private Andrew Hill, the rural postman for Kentmere.
Called up as a reservist on outbreak of the war, his battalion, the 1st West Yorkshire Regiment, landed at St Nazaire on September 10.
He was almost immediately in action on the Chemin des Dames and was among their 630 casualties on September 20.
He is buried in the French civilian cemetery at Villers en Prayers in the Aisne.
Fred Threlfall served with 1st Battalion King’s Own RL Regiment. He died of heart failure in May 1917, and is buried in a small, isolated cemetery, at Haute Avesnes.
The Westmorland Gazette of November 1914 printed a letter from Fred to his parents: “You will be wondering what became of me. I rejoined my old regiment as soon as the war broke out and have been under sealed orders since then. I was wounded at the Battle of Mons, and have just got back to England, and so can write to you. I was in hospital at Antwerp.”
Not all men died on the Western Front. Commemorated on the Memorial at Basra is a 4th Btn Border Regiment man, George Bowness, of School Lane.
He was taken prisoner by the Turks at the end of the 147-day-long Siege of Kut el Amara.
We know that the survivors were very harshly treated, and in April, 1918, George’s parents were informed that he had died ‘between Samarah and Baghdad on some date between the beginning of July 1916, and the end of August 1916’.
Recently, I gave a talk to Shap History Society about that village’s war memorial."
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