Site St John the Baptist Church, Church Lane, Mamble DY14 9JY
Latitude 52.341565
Longitude -2.458116
Date Erected Not known
Framed Scroll
Names of the Fallen
Surname | Forename | Rank | Number | Regiment | Date of Death | Age | Country | Notes Place of Death or Remembrance | Ref |
Humphries | George Clement | Private | 9096 | 3rd Worcestershire | 12 Mar 1915 | 26 | Belgium | Menin Gate Memorial, Panel 34 | MAM3 |
Parry | Edward | Private | 14426 | 9th Worcestershire | 10 Aug 1915 | 30 | Turkey | Helles Memorial, Panel 104-113 | MAM3 |
Wiggan | Charles Frederick | Private | 2925 | 1/9th London | 25 Sep 1915 | 23 | France | Loos Memorial, Panel 103-109 | MAM3 |
Parry | William | Sapper | 147554 | 176th Royal Engineers (Tunnelling) | 03 Jun 1916 | 23 | France | Loos memorial, Panel 4 & 5 | MAM3 |
Aston | Edwin | Private | 16608 | 1st Royal Fusiliers | 01 July 1916 | 19 | France | Connaught Cemetery Thiepval Grave E. 9 | MAM3 |
Roberts | Wilfred | L/Corporal | 14644 | 1st Worcestershire | 12 Aug 1916 | 20 | France | Vermelles British Cemetery, Grave 111.N.1 | MAM3 |
Milward (Millward) | Joseph | Private | 39694 | 4th Worcestershire | 18 Oct 1916 | France | Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 5A & 6C | MAM3 | |
Davies | Harry | Private | 26896 | 6th Kings Shropshire Light Infantry | 12 Sept 1917 | Belgium | Talana Farm Cemetery, Grave 111. J. 22 | MAM3 | |
Pead | Ernest | Private | 31931 | 12th Hampshire | 25 Apr 1917 | 27 | Greece | Doian Military Ceremony, Grave V. C 6 | MAM3 |
Wiggan | Harry Edward (Edgar) | Private | 203744 | 1/7th Worcestershire | 25 April 1917 | 31 | France | Thiepval Memorial, Pier & face 5A & 6C | MAM3 |
Humphries | Frederick John | Private | 23103 | 3rd Worcestershire | 22 Oct 1917 | 19 | France | Browns Rd Military Cemetery, Festubert, Grave 111. B. 12 | MAM3 |
Jones | Edwin | 2nd Lieutenant | E02 | 1st Royal Garrison Artillery | 14 Apr 1918 | 24 | Belgium | Locre Hospice Memorial, Grave A6 | MAM3 |
Bradley | Peter James | Private | 17865 | 3rd Worcestershire | 06 Nov 1918 | France | Awoingt British Cemetery, Grave 111.E.8 | MAM3 | |
Thomas | William | Sapper | WR 267224 | 44th Royal Engineers (Railway) | 17 Nov 1918 | France | Military Medal, Died of wounds Deslaux Farm Cem, Beungny Grave 11.A.24 | MAM3 |
Details about the 9 Casualties listed below : also found on BAYTON records.
Peter BRADLEY – Colliery Engine Driver, Died of Wounds 2 days after injury at Casualty Clearing Station, 5 days before Armistice.
George Clement – HUMPHRIES, Stonebreaker, son of Arthur and Emma Humphries.
Frederick John HUMPHRIES – son of John and Eliza, attended Bayton School.
Joseph MILLWARD – Coalminer, son of widow May, attended Bayton School.
William PARRY – Coal hewer, son of Widow Eliza Parry
Edward PARRY – Edwards nephew, coal miner had attended Bayton School
Wilfred ROBERTS – son of George and Millie Roberts, Clows Top, served in Dardenelles before Killed in Action France.William THOMAS, Military Medal announced 25th June 1918 – Earlier service history found on Manitoba Medal and Award Card before
The History of St John the Baptist Church Mamble War Memorial
Roll of Honour for the Dead
The Roll of Honour for the Dead which is a Plain White Scroll, with Black lettering, mounted in black frame, is sited on a wall by door, at rear of St John’s Church.
Heading reads:
“ROLL OF HONOUR FOR THE DEAD
GRANT THEM O LORD ETERNAL REST AND
LET LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE UPON THEM”
1914 – 1918
MAMBLE cum BAYTON”
The names 14 Casualties are in chronological order of death (but dates not given).
“Mamble cum Bayton” list refers to the common links of between both Parishes.
Bayton Church was a Chapel at ease to the Mamble Church.
Sources
Rememberthefall.co.uk, Find my Past, British Legion Everyone Remembered, Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), IWM Memorial Register, Worcestershire Regiment,
Compilers Name Stephanie Higgs Photos by Stephanie Higgs Date 26 Oct 2018