LITCHBOROUGH WAR MEMORIAL
World War 1 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © Chris Coade 2016
The
War Memorial is on the Village Green and is overlooked by the Parish
Church of Saint Martin’s, Litchborough. The memorial was dedicated
on 1st January 1920, and is a Cross of Weldon Stone on an octagonal-tiered
base of Yorkshire Limestone. The names of 8 men from the village who
were killed in the First World War are recorded - 3 of those men have
'No known grave'. A Church Service is held at the War Memorial at 11
a.m. on Remembrance Sunday in November, and the names of the 8 men of
Litchborough are read out. In World War 2 there were 28 men and women
from Litchborough who served in the Armed Forces - they all returned
safely to the village.
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TO
KEEP IN MIND
THOSE WHO FROM THIS PLACE
GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR
COUNTRY AND FOR THE RIGHT
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 – 1919
ARNOLD |
Ebenezer
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Private
25122, 6th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Killed in action
17th February 1917. Aged 28. Born Litchborough, enlisted Moulton.
He was the son of John Arnold (Cattle Drover) and Elizabeth Arnold,
and he was born in Litchborough in 1889. He was a Gardener. Buried
in Regina Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt, Somme, France. Plot VI. Row
G. Grave 2. |
ARNOLD |
Richard
Varney |
[Listed
as Richard Varner Arnold on SDGW] Private 28222, 7th Battalion,
Northamptonshire Regiment. Died of wounds 10th June 1917. Aged 25.
Born Litchborough, enlisted Northampton. He was the son of Alfred
Arnold (Farm Labourer) and Eleanor Arnold, and born in Litchborough
in 1891. He was a Farm Labourer. Buried in Brandhoek Military Cemetery,
Ypres, Belgium. Plot I. Row K. Grave 26. |
BILLINGHAM |
William
Walter |
Private
13170, 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment. Killed in action
16th November 1915. Aged 23. He was the son of George Billingham
(Farm Labourer) and Susan Billingham. He was born in Litchborough
in 1893, and in 1901 his family lived at Wrighton’s farmhouse
on the Towcester Road in Litchborough. He was a Horse Man on a farm.
Buried in Point 110 Old Military Cemetery, Fricourt, Somme, France.
Plot/Row/Section H. Grave 2. |
DARKER |
William
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Private
13075, 2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Killed in action
9th May 1915. Aged 31. Born Holloway, Middlesex, enlisted Northampton.
He was born in London in 1884. By 1901 he had moved to Litchborough
and was living with his widowed Grandmother Eliza Stanton, nee Thorneycroft
(born Litchborough 1836). He was a Farm Labourer. No known grave.
Commemorated on Ploegsteert Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. Panel 7. |
HURLEY |
Frank
William |
Private
58967, 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Died 23rd October
1918. Aged 19. Born Litchborough, enlisted Northampton. He was the
son of Thomas Hurley (Farmer) and Mary C. Hurley, and was born in
Litchborough in 1899. His name is shown on his Parents’ gravestone
in Litchborough churchyard. He was killed 19 days before the Armistice
was signed on 11th November 1918. Buried in Mazinghien Communal
Cemetery, Cambrai, France. |
LESTER |
Edward
Gabriel |
Lieutenant,
102nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment). Died
25th June 1917. Aged 29. He was born in Ayr, Scotland 11th March
1887, and he was the son of the Rector of Litchborough Reverend
John Moore Lester, and Grandson of General Frederick Lester, Bombay
Artillery. Edward Gabriel Lester was educated at Rugby School and
University College Oxford. At the outbreak of the War he was the
Headmaster of the General Brock Elementary School in Vancouver,
Canada and was married with a young daughter. His father died on
Christmas Eve 1919 whilst visiting his parishioners in Litchborough
and he is buried in Litchborough churchyard; the Rector’s
6 sons all enlisted in the Army in World War One. Edward Gabriel
Lester’s widow died in 1920 in California, and their orphaned
daughter Katherine (born 1911) was adopted by the Hollywood film
director Cecil B DeMille and his wife. Katherine later became a
Hollywood actress and married the actor Anthony Quinn with whom
she had 5 children. He was Church of England. Served in the Oxford
University O.T.C 1908-1909. Buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery,
France. Plot VII. Row A. Grave 21. National Archives of Canada Accession
Reference: RG
150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 5598 - 3 |
NORRIS |
Arthur
Henry |
Private
200605, 7th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Died 31st July
1917. Aged 27. Enlisted Northampton. He was the son of Stephen Norris
(Farm Labourer) and Fanny Norris (widowed by 1901). He was born
in Litchborough in 1890, and he was the Great-Uncle of Rodney Hutchings
(born Litchborough 1939) of Tystie Cottage, Litchborough. He was
a Farm Waggoner. In 1916 he married Eliza Jane Alice Lantsbery at
the Princess Street Baptist Chapel in Northampton. Eliza Jane Alice
later remarried (George Wilkinson) and they had a child. No known
grave. Commemorated on Ypres (Menin Gate), memorial, Ypres, Belgium.
Panels 43 and 45 |
WESTON |
George
James |
Rifleman
R/8301, 18th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Killed in
action 21 May 1917. Aged 17. Born Litchborough, enlisted Northampton,
resident Salford, Manchester. He was the son of George Weston (Tunnel
Labourer, born Fosters Booth) and Sarah Weston (born Litchborough).
In 1911 he and his sister Phyllis Annie (born 1906) were living
in Litchborough with their grandparents James and Ann Rickards.
No known grave. Commemorated on Ypres (Menin Gate), memorial, Ypres,
Belgium. Panels 51 and 53. |
Last updated
30 January, 2016
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