Roll of Honour - Derbyshire - Mapperley Colliery

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MAPPERLEY COLLIERY WAR MEMORIAL

World War 1 - Detailed Information
Compiled & Copyright © Martin Edwards 2005
additional information Grant Shaw

This unusual tiled design shows the 66 names of those workers from the former Mapperley Collieries who died in the Great War. The memorial was formerly attached to the Silver Jubilee Club on Station Road, West Hallam which was once a Miners’ Welfare Club. The club was recently demolished (2005) and the Parish Council insisted on its preservation; it has now been re-erected in West Hallam village beside the main memorial.

Extract from Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal - Friday 30 July 1920:

"WEST HALLAM. Opening of a Memorial Hall.-On Saturday (sic) Saturday afternoon. Mr. W. H. Quarrell (chairman the Mapperley Colliery Co.) formally opened memorial hall at West Hallam. The directors of the Mapperley Colliery Company have presented the ground on which the memorial hall stands, about two acres in area, and have laid out a large portion as tennis courts and a howling green. The workmen and officials of the company have erected and furnished the building at a cost of £2,000."

MAPPERLEY COLLIERIES

ROLL OF HONOUR OF THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN
THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN
THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919

ADCOCK	James	Private 18764, 1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment). Killed in action 12th April 1917. Born and enlisted Ilkeston. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.
ANTCLIFFE	Alfred	Private 18240, 9th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment). Killed in action 26th September 1916. Aged 20. Born and resident Heanor, enlisted Ilkeston. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Antcliffe, of 126, Derby Rd., Heanor, Nottingham. Buried in REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT, Somme, France. Plot IX. Row F. Grave 18.
ATHORN	George	No further information currently available
ATTENBOROUGH	Arthur	No further information currently available
ATTENBOROUGH	Frederick	Private 52391, 7th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Killed in action 19th September 1918. Born Smalley Common, enlisted Ilkeston, reisdent Horsley Woodhouse. Formerly 116146, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). No known grave. Commemorated on VIS-En-ARTOIS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 4.
ATTENBOROUGH	Thomas	Sergeant 201586, 1st/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Killed in action 17 June 1917. Aged 20. Born Smalley, Derbyshire, enlisted Derby. Son of Isaac and Martha Ann Attenborough, of 36, Spencer St., Smalley Common, West Hallam, Derby. In the 1911 census he was aged 145, born Smalley Commn, Derbyshire, a Colliery Pony Driver Below Ground, son of Isaac and MArtha Ann Attenborough, resident 36, Spencer Street, Smalley Common, Smalley, Derbyshire. Attested 7 June 1915 in Derby, 5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, resident 36, Spencer Street, Smalley Common, Derby, aged 19, height 5 feet 4 inches, weight 138 lbs, chest 33½-36½ inches. appointed Corporal 26 July 1916, Sergeant 24 May 1917. Buried in MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY, GRENAY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot II. Row C. Grave 19.
ARAM	James	Private 16767, 2nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Died 26th May 1915. Aged 26. Born and enlisted Newcastle-on-Tyne. Son of James and Mary Aram, of 24, East St., Ilkeston, Derbyshire. No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 8 and 12.
BLUNT	Duncan Hamilton	Major Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Killed in action 3 October 1917. Aged 39. Born 1 May 1878. Baptised 4 September 1878 in Leicester, St Martin's. Son of George Henry and 152 Blunt, of Blaby Hill, Blaby, Leicester. Awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.), Twice Mentioned in Despatches. In the 1881 census he was aged 2, born Leicester, Leicesterhire, son of George H and Isabella Blunt, resident 122, New Walk, Leicester St Margaret, Leicester, Leicestershire. In the 1891 census he was aged 12, born Leicester, Leicesterhire, a scholar, son of George H and Isabella Blunt, resident New Walk, Leicester, Leicestershire. In the 1911 census he was aged 32, unmarried, born Leicester, a Captain, serving with 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, billeted at Saint Georges Barracks, Malta. No known grave. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 38 to 40. See also Charterhouse School, Surrey From the Charterhouse Register Vol 2, Long Quarter 1893: Blunt, Duncan Hamilton. b. 1 May, 1878: 4 s. of G H Blunt, of Leicester; (Hodgsonsites); Winner of Public Schools fencing, 1896; Left C.Q. 1896. - Joined Devon Regt., 1899; served in S. African War, 1899-1902; Officer Commanding Rest Camps, Machadadorp and Helvetia; Capt., 1903; Adjutant, 3 Batt., Devon Regt., 1906; of 2nd Batt., 1909. Capt. DH. Blunt, Messrs. Cox & co,, 16, charing Cross, S.W. Extract from Leicester Daily Post - Saturday 13 October 1917, page 3: DEATH OF LIEUT.-COLONEL D. H. BLUNT. Our obituary column contains the announcement of the death of Lieut. Colonel Duncan Hamilton Blunt, D.S.O., of the Devonshire Regiment. This gallant officer, who died of wounds received on October 3rd, was the youngest son of the late Mr. G. H. Blunt, of Leicester (a member of the firm of Freer, Blunt, Rowlatt, and Winterton, solicitors) and Mrs. Blunt, of Woodlands, Kirby Muxloe. He was in the army for a considerable time previous to the war. His brother, colonel Bruce Blunt, of the Lancashire Regt., was killed in the South African war.
CHAPMAN	Albert	Private 17126, 7th Battalion, Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment). Killed in action in Mesopotamia 29th April 1916. Born and enlisted Ilkeston. No known grave. Commemorated on BASRA MEMORIAL, Iraq. Panel 34.
BEAUMONT-CHECKLAND	Montmorency	Lieutenant, 2nd/1st Battalion, West Somerset Yeomanry attached 7th Battalion, Someset Light Infantry. Killed in action 16th August 1917. Aged 33. Son of William and Amy de Beaumont Beaumont-Checkland, and grandson of the Comte de Beaumont. Enlisted 1914; volunteered for Infantry 1916. B.A., Barrister-at-Law, Inner Temple. Led up a small reinforcement to hold the line against a strong counter-attack, and fell within four miles of the Memorial. No known grave. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 3.
CLARE	George	No further information currently available
CLARKE	Arthur	No further information currently available
CLARK	Daniel	No further information currently available
COPE	William	No further information currently available
DANIELL	Sydney	probably Sidney DANIELS, Sapper 112826, 172nd Tunnelling Coy., Royal Engineers. Killed in action 16th October 1915. Aged 29. Born Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire, enlisted Ilkeston, resident Holbrook. Husband of Miriam Daniels, of Brown's Lane, Holbrook, Derby. No known grave. Commemorated on LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 4 and 5.
DAVIS	Thomas	No further information currently available
DAWS	Frank	Private 585593, Eastern Counties Labour Centre, Labour Corps. Died in United Kingdom 6th August 1918. Aged 36. Born Morley, enlisted Ilkeston. Son of Charles and Julian Daws, of Morley; husband of Sarah Ann Trusswell (formerly Daws), of 80, Wade Avenue, Larklands, Ilkeston. Formerly 9120, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Buried in PARK CEMETERY, ILKESTON, Derbyshire. Screen Wall. 212. Note: Five servicemen commemorated by name on a Screen Wall in this cemetery but who are buried at Ilkeston (Stanton Road) Cemetery where their graves could no longer be maintained. Those whose graves in this cemetery are not marked by headstones are also named on the Screen Wall.
ECCLESHARE	Charles	Private 3904, 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment). Killed in action 15th September 1916. Aged 21. Born and enlisted Derby. Son of the late George and Mary Eccleshare. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.
ELLIOTT	Richard	No further information currently available
EVANS	William Lewis	No further information currently available
FAKE	Edward	Company Quartermaster Sergeant 18444, 7th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Killed in action 5th November 1918. Aged 31. Born and resident Coxbench, enlisted Ilkeston. Son of John and Alice Fake, of Horsley Lane, Coxbench, Derbyshire. Buried in SEBOURG BRITISH CEMETERY, Nord, France. Plot/Row B. Grave 16.
FLETCHER	Arthur	No further information currently available
FOULKS	Jospeh	No further information currently available
FROGGATT	Robert	No further information currently available
FOWERS	Harry	Private 41402, 2nd/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Killed in action 16th March 1918. Aged 19. Born and enlisted Derby. Son of Mr. J. H. and Mrs. A. Fowers, of 120, Bridge St., Derby. Formerly 22873, Leicestershire Regiment. Buried in MORY ABBEY MILITARY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot III. Row H. Grave 5.
GREEN	John George	No further information currently available
GREEN	Thomas	No further information currently available
HANSON	James	Private S/3516, "A" Company, 8th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (Rossshire Buffs, the Duke of LAbany's). Killed in action 25th September 1915. Aged 18. Born and enlisted Derby. Son of James Allen Hanson and Charlotte Hanson, of 160, Stockbrook St., Derby. No known grave. Commemorated on LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 112 to 115.
HALL	Walter	No further information currently available
HAZELL	Roland	No further information currently available
HAZLEWOOD	William	[Spelt HAZELWOOD on SDGW] Private 22977, 9th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshsire Regiment). Died of wounds at Gallipoli 23rd November 1915. Aged 27. Born Stanley Common, enlisted Derby, resident Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of the late Henry and Betsy Hazlewood, of Burton-on-Trent.; husband of Selina Whiten (formerly Hazlewood), of 15, Quarry Lane, Mansfield, Notts. Buried in HILL 10 CEMETERY, Turkey. PLot II. Row A. Grave 17.
HORSLEY	Harold	Private 7982, Royal Army Medical Corps. Died at sea 21st March 1917. Aged 36. Born and enlisted Derby. Husband of Alice Horsley, of Pit Lane, Smalley, Derbyshire. In the 1891 census he was aged 9, a scholar, resident with his parents, John and Amy, in Town Street, Horsley Woodhouse, Belper, Derbyshire. In the 1901 census he was aged 19, born Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire, a Joiner Apprentice, unmarried, resident with his widowed father, John, at Richardsons Row, Horsley Woodhouse, Belper, Derbyshire. On 2nd June 1902 he married Alice Harrison Walters at Horsley, Derbyshire. Buried near the South-West corner of HORSLEY (ST. CLEMENT) CHURCHYARD, Derbyshire. For further details see: Mapperly History - From Pit to Trenches
HARDWICK	John G	No further information currently available
HIORNS	William	Private 19728, 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshsire Regiment). Died of wounds 13th February 1916. Aged 44. Born West Bromwich, Satffordshire, enlisted Ilkeston. Husband of Mrs. R. A. M. Hiorns, of 59, Park Rd., Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Buried in WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot I. Row L. Grave 23A.
HODGKISS	Fred W	Private 21279, 9th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshsire Regiment). Killed in action at Gallipoli 6th September 1915. Born Ilkeston, enlisted Derbyshire. Buried in AZMAK CEMETERY, SUVLA, Turkey. Plot I. Row F. Grave 9.
KIRKHAM	Harry	No further information currently available
KEATES	Frederick	No further information currently available
KNIGHT	J	No further information currently available
MALES	David	No further information currently available
MARSHALL	Albert Edward	No further information currently available
MARSHALL	Thomas	No further information currently available
MEE	George Ridgard	Private 70149, 16th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshsire Regiment). Killed in action 8th October 1916. Aged 20. Born Smalley Common, enlisted Derby, resident West Hallam. Grandson of the late Jane Elizabeth Mee, of Mount Pleasant, Smalley Common, West Hallam, Derby. Buried in MILL ROAD CEMETERY, THIEPVAL, Somme, France. Plot XIII. Row G. Grave 1.
MEE	Mark	Driver 32197, 96th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action 25th April 1915. Born Heanor, enlisted Derbyshire. No known grave. Commemorated on PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium. Panel 1.
MARTIN	Britus	Rifleman R/10877, 7th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Killed in action 30th July 1915. Aged 25. Born Mapperley, enlisted Derby. Son of the late Henry and Fanny Martin. No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 51 and 53.
MARTIN	Luther	Driver L/8152, 34th Division Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery. Died 23rd March 1917. Aged 35. Enlisted Derby, resident Mapperley. Son of Mrs. F. Martin of Park Hall, Mapperley, Derby. Buried in ST. POL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Pas de Calais, France. Plot/Row E. Grave 25.
MILLER	Clifford	possibly either Clifford MILLER, Private 16380, 7th Battalion, Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment). Killed in action in Mesopotamia 25th February 1917. Aged 23. Born Church Gresley, enlisted Derby. Son of the late Thomas and Matilda Miller, of Castle Gresley; husband of Florence A. L. Miller, of Chapel St., Castle Gresley, Burton-on-Trent. No known grave. Commemorated on BASRA MEMORIAL, Iraq. Panel 34. or Clifford MILLER, Private 17988, 11th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Killed in action 12th July 1916. Born and resident Bottesford, Nottinghamshire, enlisted Ilkeston. Son of John and Mary Miller, of Bottesford, Nottingham. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.
MOORE	Archie	No further information currently available
MOSELY	Percy	No further information currently available
MOSS	Wilfred	No further information currently available
NEWTON	Henry	No further information currently available
PAGE	Archie	No further information currently available
PEACH	Samuel	Private 307080, 1st/8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Died of wounds 3rd June 1917. Aged 30. Born and resident Holbrook, enlisted Derby. Son of John and Mary Peach, of Holbrook, Derby. Buried in NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot I. Row T. Grave 10. Extract from Belper News - Friday 15 June 1917: "Mr. and Mrs. John Peach, Holbrook, have received information from the military chaplain that their son. Private Samuel Peach, Sherwoods, died of wounds the 3rd inst at the Casualty Clearing Station. France, and buried in the cemetery. A previous letter, dated May 26th. was received from the chaplain intimating that Private Peach had been severely wounded. Deceased enlisted August, 1914. voluntarily, and trained at Aldershot. He embarked for the Dardanelles, and was in the action at Suvla Bay. He was invalided home in September the following year, and on convalescence was sent to France in December. He participated in the fighting on the Somme front, where it is presumed he received his wounds. He was 31 years of age and single, and was employed before the war at the Mapperley Colliery. Two brothers of deceased are also serving their country, the younger being on the sea, and still in his teens. The elder, however, has been allowed temporary transfer to resume his former work at the Mapperley pits."
PLACE	William Arthur	Private 20677, 11th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Killed in action 1st July 1916. Aged 29. Born Kirby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, enlisted Ilkeston. Son of Mrs. Glenn (formerly Place), of Ebeneezer St., Langley Mill, Notts; husband of Salome Musson (formerly Place), of Altons Yard, Heanor, Derbys. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.
POTTER	Albert	No further information currently available
RADFORD	Charles Edmund	Private 19839, 8th (Service) Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Killed in action 19th November 1917. Aged 21. Born and enlisted Ilkeston. Son of Frederick and Sarah Radford, of 52, Graham St., Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Buried in SOLFERINO FARM CEMETERY, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot II. Row B. Grave 17.
ROBINSON	Thomas	No further information currently available
SANDS	George	No further information currently available
SMITH	Arthur	No further information currently available
SMITH	William	No further information currently available
TAYLOR	Fred	No further information currently available
TAYLOR	Wilfred	No further information currently available
THURMAN	John	Private 266928, 2nd/7th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Killed in action 21st March 1918. Aged 25. Born and enlisted Ilkeston. Husband of E. A. Thurman, of 25, Wesley St., Ilkeston, Derbyshire. No known grave. Commemorated on ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Clais, France. Bay 7.
TOPLIS	Cyril	No further information currently available
WESTON	James	Private 7776, "B" Company, 1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Killed in action 12th March 1915. Aged 33. Born and resident Heanor, enlisted Ilkeston. Husband of Mary Elizabeth Weston, of 53, John St., Heanor, Derbys. No known grave. Commemorated on LE TOURET MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 26 and 27.
WHITNEY	William Henry	Private 18785, 1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Killed in action 9th January 1916. Aged 18. Born Loscoe, enlisted Ilkeston, resident Heanor. Son of Fred and Bertha Whitney, of 45, Park St., Heanor, Derbyshire. Buried in RATION FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, LA CHAPELLE-D'ARMENTIERES, Nord, France. Plot I. Row D. Grave 1.
WILSON	George	No further information currently available

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