
SOUTHPORT
POST OFFICE WAR MEMORIAL
World War 1 - Detailed
information
Compiled and copyright © Paul Radford 2010
The
memorial is in the form of a wooden plaque sited in Southport Main Post
Office, Lord Street, Southport.
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Photograph
copyright © Paul Radford 2010 |
Greater
Love Hath No Man Than This
Erected by the Southport Postal Staff
in Ever Loving Memory of their Brave
Comrades Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice
in The Great War 1914 - 1919
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BOOTH |
William
Thomas |
Lance
Corporal 307837, 19th Battalion, King's (Liverpool Regiment). Killed
in action 30th March 1918. Aged 32. Born Darwen, enlisted and resident
Southport. Son of Richard James and Ann Stott Booth, of Darwen;
husband of Ellen Louise Booth, of 10, Norfolk Rd., Birkdale, Southport.
Buried in SAVY BRITISH CEMETERY, Aisne, France. Unidentified grave
- Listed on Roupy Road German Cemetery Memorial 65.
Note:
There are now over 850, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this
site. Of these, more than half are unidentified. Memorials are erected
in the cemetery to 68 soldiers (chiefly of the 19th King's Liverpools
and the 17th Manchesters), buried by the Germans in their cemetery
on the St. Quentin-Roupy road, whose graves were destroyed by shell
fire. |
DALTON |
Norman
James |
Private
47186, 19th Battalion, King's (Liverpool Regiment). Killed in action
30th March 1918. Aged 20. Born, resident and enlisted Southport.
Son of Mrs. S. A. Dalton, of 20, Pine Grove, Southport, and the
late Thomas Dalton. Born at Southport. Buried in SAVY BRITISH CEMETERY,
Aisne, France. Unidentified grave - Listed on Roupy Road German
Cemetery Memorial 54.
Note:
There are now over 850, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this
site. Of these, more than half are unidentified. Memorials are erected
in the cemetery to 68 soldiers (chiefly of the 19th King's Liverpools
and the 17th Manchesters), buried by the Germans in their cemetery
on the St. Quentin-Roupy road, whose graves were destroyed by shell
fire. |
HALSALL |
Peter |
In
the 1911 census he is married, aged 29, to Ethel May; his occupation
Postman, born Southport, resident at 128 Newton Street, Southport.
Probably Peter Halsall,
Private 55049, 19th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Died of wounds
24th November 1917. Born and enlisted Southport. No known grave.
Commemorated on CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL, Nord, France. Panel
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HODSON |
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JOHNSON |
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LAWRENSON |
Edward |
Sapper
78478, No. 1 Wireless Observation Group, Royal Engineers. Died 8th
Nobember 1918. Aged 26. Enlisted Liverpool, resident Southport.
Son of Martin Luther Lawrenson and Mary Elizabeth Lawrenson, of
43, Tithebarn Rd., Southport. Buried in DOUAI BRITISH CEMETERY,
CUINCY, Nord, France. Plot/Row/Section B. Grave 3. |
MARSDEN |
Thomas
[Arthur] |
Private
40941, 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Killed in action
3rd October 1917. Born Dewsbury, Yorkshire, enlisted Southport.
Husband of Mrs. Elizabeth Churchill Marsden, of 16, Bold St., Southport.
In 1911 he was a Letter Carrier Postman, married, aged 32, born
Dewsbury, resident 9 Byrom Street, Southport. Formerly T4/141825,
Royal Army Service Corps. No known grave. Commemorated on TYNE COT
MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 90 to 92 and
162 to 162A. |
Last
updated
15 December, 2010
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