People are being asked for their help to share more information about dozens of war heroes buried in Churchtown and Crossens in Southport and in Banks in West Lancashire.
North Meols Family History Society is leading the project, titled the Commonwealth War Graves Project.
Lynns Trees from the Society said: “We have undertaken a project to document the lives and families of the 57 men and 1 woman who have Commonwealth War Graves in either:
St. Cuthbert’s Church (45)
St. John’s Church at Crossens (8)
St Stephen’s Church at Banks (5).
“Information is being gathered from online Birth, Marriage and Death Records, Parish Records, Census Returns, online Forces Records, the Southport Visiter and the Southport Guardian reels in The Atkinson and Crosby Library.
“However, if you are related to or know anyone who is related to any of the above people and could assist our research or would like to contribute your own memoirs of them please email alexroberts.nmfhs@gmail.com and your e-mail will be passed to the person researching them.”
The military personnel being researched served in the Royal Air Force, the British Army and the Royal Navy during either the Great War / First World War or the Second World War, or during the periods shortly afterwards.
Their names are:
World War One
Name Birth Year Date of Death Church
John Thomas Ball 1885 2 April 1921 St. Cuthbert’s
Peter Ball 1898 10 March 1919 St. Cuthbert’s
Elizabeth Blackburn 1894 17 December 1918 St. Cuthbert’s
Wilfred Blackburn 1891 14 February 1918 St. Cuthbert’s
Harold Cadwell 1888 29 August 1918 St. Cuthbert’s
Richard Clarkson 1888 18 February 1919 St. Cuthbert’s
George Sherrat Gwynne 1889 1 December 1918 St. Cuthbert’s
Albert Edward Hammond 1887 23 July 1916 St. Cuthbert’s
William Howard 1893 30 October 1918 St. Stephen’s
Harold Johnson 1891 4 November 1918 St. Cuthbert’s
Joseph William Jones 1897 23 May 1921 St. Cuthbert’s
Alfred Edward Law 1890 5 September 1918 St. Cuthbert’s
Silas Montague Linkletter 1893 27 August 1919 St. Cuthbert’s
William Herbert Longton 1896 14 May 1921 St. Cuthbert’s
William Kenyon McLachlan 1898 19 August 1917 St. Cuthbert’s
Edward Parker 1897 29 November 1918 St. Cuthbert’s
Robert Price 1893 23 April 1915 St. Cuthbert’s
James Rimmer 1887 17 April 1918 St. John’s
John Dickinson Rimmer 1882 9 December 1916 St. Cuthbert’s
William Edward Rothwell 1886 9 July 1915 St. Cuthbert’s
William Henry Ryding 1893 3 April 1919 St. Cuthbert’s
Arthur Herbert Smith 1896 3 April 1917 St. John’s
Thomas Henry Spencer 1881 12 July 1917 St. Cuthbert’s
Herbert Leslie Sutton 1898 22 April 1918 St. Cuthbert’s
Thomas Sutton 1891 23 November 1918 St. Cuthbert’s
John Taylor 1893 6 July 1918 St. Cuthbert’s
James Thomas Threlfall 1881 12 January 1918 St. Cuthbert’s
John Todd 1898 29 July 1918 St. Cuthbert’s
Percy James Wadsworth 1888 1 February 1919 St. Cuthbert’s
William Wright 1890 18 April 1921 St. Cuthbert’s
St Cuthbert’s Church in Churchtown in Southport. Photo by Andrew Brown Stand Up For Southport
World War Two
Name Birth Year Date of Death Church
Moses Aughton 1920 5 October 1947 St. Stephen’s
Albert Ball 1922 27 December 1945 St. Stephen’s
William Ball 1920 12 February 1943 St. John’s
Reginald Quayle Bate 1917 17 December 1944 St. John’s
William Bond 1909 30 December 1944 St. Stephen’s
Ernest Bull 1920 4 January 1940 St. Cuthbert’s
William Henry Chadwick 1920 11 May 1944 St. Cuthbert’s
Reginald Cowell 1925 23 May 1945 St. John’s
Ronald Culshaw 1924 15 September 1942 St. Cuthbert’s
Joseph Hart Downs 1912 19 October 1943 St. John’s
William Fairhurst 1916 17 November 1943 St. Cuthbert’s
Richard Eric Hargreaves 1901 4 January 1945 St. Cuthbert’s
William Iddon 1923 16 February 1944 St. Stephen’s
Ronald Jackson 1915 31 July 1943 St. Cuthbert’s
William Kelly 1925 3 August 1943 St. John’s
Norman Ainscough Kenyon 1924 25 November 1943 St. Cuthbert’s
Robert Marshall 1915 6 February 1942 St. Cuthbert’s
Robert Moss 1920 12 April 1943 St. Cuthbert’s
Frank Rimmer 1910 8 November 1939 St. Cuthbert’s
John Rymer 1903 1 February 1942 St. Cuthbert’s
William Sawyer 1915 23 June 1942 St. Cuthbert’s
Harry Seed 1923 18 July 1943 St. John’s
John Morris Slater 1922 11 May 1944 St. Cuthbert’s
William Storey 1921 29 August 1942 St. Cuthbert’s
George Sumner 1922 27 April 1942 St. Cuthbert’s
Kenneth William T Sutton 1918 6 January 1945 St. Cuthbert’s
Harry Ewart Ward 1900 4 March 1943 St. Cuthbert’s
Seth Watkinson 1918 31 August 1942 St. Cuthbert’s
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