BRACKENFIELD
WAR MEMORIAL
World
War 1 & 2 - Detailed Information
Compiled & Copyright © Trevor Rickard 2010
Large memorial in the grounds of Holy Trinity Church at Ogston New Road,
Brackenfield, North East Derbyshire. The memorial takes the form of
a limestone, ashlar, monument comprising a freestanding tablet with
near vertical faces, battered sides and rounded top, on two plinths
and a base. The 6 o'clock face of the tablet has a recessed panel containing
a variety of emblems in relief. At the head is a crown superimposed
on a Latin cross on a two-stepped base; below this is a fleur-de-lys
above wavy lines, representing France over the water, where the fallen
lie; below that the inscription and names are incised, in a variety
of lettering styles, in an oblong panel. The other three faces of the
tablet are plain. The top plinth has a moulded top, an unbound wreath
in relief on the 6 o'clock face and an inscription incised in upright
capital Roman lettering on the 12 o'clock face. The lower plinth has
a moulded top and a bowed front, but is otherwise plain. The base has
a moulded top and its plan outline reflects the bowed front.The inscription
lists those who lost their lives in the Great War. The top name is 'Lt
Gladwyn M. R. Turbutt', who was the eldest son of William Gladwin Turbutt,
squire of Ogston Hall. Gladwyn Maurice Revell Turbutt of the Oxfordshire
and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, died on the first day of the Battle
of St. Julien, Flanders, October 21st, 1914, aged 31. The middle name
'Revell' refers to the family name of the previous owners of Ogston
Hall. The memorial was dedicated and unveiled by the Bishop of Southwell
7 March 1921.
SONS
of BRACKENFIELD
Who fell
in THE GREAT WAR
COWLISHAW |
Henry |
Private
23384, 9th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire &
Derbyshire Regiment). Killed in action at St. Julien Thursday
4 October 1917. Born Woolley, Derbyshire, enlisted Chesterfield,
resident Matlock, Derbyshire. No known grave. Commemorated on
Commemorated at TYNE COT MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel
99 to 102 and 162 to 162A. |
HASLAM |
George |
Lance
Corporal 71564, 17th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire
& Derbyshire Regiment). Killed in action at St. Julien Monday
31 December 1917. Aged 22. Born and resident Alfreton, Derbyshire,
enlisted Ripley, Derbyshire. Son of Alfred and Emma Haslam, of
Higham, Alfreton, Derbyshire. No known grave. Commemorated on
Commemorated at TYNE COT MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel
99 to 102 and 162 to 162A. |
RIMMINGTON |
Joseph |
Private
21605, 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Killed in action at Loos
Monday 27 September 1915. Aged 20. Born Alfreton, Derby, enlisted
Derby. Son of Joseph and Sarah Arm Rimmington, of Lindway Lane,
Wessington, Derbyshire. No known grave. Commemorated on Commemorated
at LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 5 to 7. |
TURBUTT |
Gladwyn
Maurice Revell |
Lieutenant,
3rd Battalion attached 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire
Light Infantry. Killed in action at St. Julien Wednesday 21
October 1914. Aged 31. Son of William Gladwin Turbutt and Edith
Sophia Turbutt, of Ogston Hall, Alfreton, Derbyshire. B.A. (Oxford).
An Architect. Buried in POELCAPELLE BRITISH CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium. Special memorial 1.
Extract
from Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1916
Volume 1, page 409-410:
LIEUTENANT
GLADWYN MAURICE REVELL TURBUTT, 3rd (attd. 2nd) BATTN. OXFORDSHIRE
AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY (SPECIAL RESERVE),
was the elder son of William Gladwyn Turbutt and Mrs. Turbutt
(née Edith S. Hall), of Ogston Hall, Derbyshire, and
was born there on the 17th May, 1883. He was a great-grandson
of General Henry Gladwyn, of Stubbin Court, Derbyshire, the
famous defender of Fort Detroit, Canada, in the war of 1763,
against the Indians.
"The
Guardian" gave the following account of his career :-
"Lieutenant
Turbutt was educated at Harrow and Magdalen College, Oxford,
where he took his degree in 1904. A love of all that was ancient
and beautiful marked his undergraduate days, and was the cause
of an episode which will perpetuate his name in that venerable
building which of all in Oxford was, after his own college,
dearest to him, the Bodleian Library. For among other volumes
which he brought up from time to time from the old and most
interesting library of his home to compare with books in Oxford
was the Turbutt Shakespeare,' a fine folio, which was quickly
identified as the original copy of Shakespeare presented by
Stationers' Hall to the Bodleian, and afterwards sold. In consequence
of this discovery the book was subsequently purchased and restored
to the library.
"Mr.
Turbutt, after taking his degree, studied architecture for some
years in London under the direction of Mr. E. P. Warren. Among
his Magdalen friends was the present Principal of Wells, who
in 1906 was one of the little band of graduate students whom
Dr. Armitage Robinson used to gather together to live with him
in the Deanery at Westminster. Mr. Turbutt was in this year
invited to join the group, and quickly became an intimate sharer
of the Dean's architectural and archaeological interests. He
was one of his companions on several excursions into France,
made about this time, with a view to studying the origins and
early growth of Norman architecture, with special reference
to Edward the Confessor's Church at Westminster ; and when in
1911 the Dean removed to Wells it was to him that he entrusted
the task of restoring the Deanery there to something of its
original form and beauty. The work was done with characteristic
care and good sense, its most notable result being the opening
out of that noble chamber in Gunthorpe's building which now
serves as a private chapel. " For the past seven years
Mr. Turbutt has lived mostly at home in Derbyshire, busying
himself. not only as an architect, but as a justice of the peace,
an officer in the Special Reserve, a Commissioner of Boy Scouts,
and as a supporter of many useful causes. He was a loyal and
religious son of the Church, of which his family for generations
have been benefactors. A gentleness, gaiety, and goodness all
his own won for him everywhere affectionate regard. For his
friends the early loss of a life of such fair promise will prove
not the least precious of the sacrifices they are called to
share in offering on the altar of their country's duty in its
day of need."
He became
Lieutenant in his battalion in March, 1910, and during the retirement
from Mons joined the 2nd Battalion of his regiment. He was killed
on the 21st October, 1914, during the early part of the Battle
of Ypres, together with many other officers of the battalion
which suffered severely both in killed and wounded.
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THEIR
REWARD IS ALSO
WITH THE LORD
AND THE CARE OF THEM
IS WITH THE MOST HIGH
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