War Memorial - Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, England

They whom this scroll commemorates were numbered among those who, at the call of King and Country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger, and finally passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice, giving up their own lives that others might live in freedom.

Let those who come after see to it
that their names be not forgotten.

Grange-over-Sands War Memorial

1914 - 1918

3328 Corporal Arnold Ainsworth.
Age 40. 46^th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Inf.). Killed 15^th September 1916. Commemorated on panel 12C Thiepval Memorial, Somme. Son of John and Sarah Ann Ainsworth, Grange Fell Post Office and South View, Grange Fell, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. Husband of Ada Ainsworth, of 129 St. Heliers Road, South Shore, Blackpool, Lancashire.

B/19444 Pte. Herbert Cowell Ainsworth.
26^th Batt. Royal Fusiliers. Killed 4^th October 1916. Buried plot 8, row G, grave 1, A. I. F. Burial Ground, Flers, Somme. Son of John and Sarah Ann Ainsworth, Grange Fell Post Office and South View, Grange Fell, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

14285 Private Percy Airey.
8^th Batt. The Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Killed 20^th July 1916. Believed buried plot 3, row B, grave 8, Quarry Cemetery, Montauban, Somme. Son of Mrs. C. Johnson (formerly Airey) of 2, Ashmount Road, Grange-over-Sands.

1975 Private Arthur Atkinson.
Age 22. "B". Coy. 1/4^th Batt. The Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Died of wounds 30^th August 1916. Buried plot 3, row BB, grave 28, St. Souplet British Military Cemetery, nr. Le Cateau, Nord, France. Son of Robert and Jane Ann Atkinson of 2, Berridale Terrace, Lindale Road, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

235358 Cpl. Albert Edward Atkinson.
15^th Batt. The Lancashire Fusiliers (Enlisted 1^st/4^th Batt. The Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.). Killed 10^th September 1918. Commemorated on panel 5 and 6, The Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Pas-de-Calais (Between Arras and Cambrai). Husband of Mrs. Gertrude Elzabeth Atkinson, Greenbank House, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

5946 Rifleman James Bland.
Age 28 years. 2^nd Batt. Royal Irish Rifles (Enlisted 16^th Lancers). K. I. A. 25^th September 1915, Hooge, Flanders. Commemorated on panel 40 of the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres. Son of Joseph and Margaret Bland of Front Row, Grange Fell Road, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

20447 Private Thomas Burrow.
Age 21. 10^th Batt. Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment). K. I. A. 21^th March 1915, Neuve Chapelle, France. Buried plot 2, row K, grave 3, Merville Communal Cemetery (Nord), France. Son of the late James and Agnes Burrow of Cart Lane, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

Second Lieutenant Frank Wood Chadwick.
Age 26. Cold Stream Guards and 58 Squadron Royal Air Force. K. I. A. France 29^th September 1918. Buried plot 5, row C, grave 8, Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villier-Plouich, Nord, France. Son of the late John and Mrs. Chadwick of Kentsford Terrace, Kents Bank, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

288884 Pte. Claude Edward Lane Cox.
Age 24. 78^th Batt. Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment). K. I. A. 30^th October 1917, Passchendaele, Flanders. Commemorated on panel 30 of the Menein Gate Memorial, Ypres. Son of Dr. A. E. Cox MB and the late Rosa Matilda Cox, of Inglewood, Kents Bank Road, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

21671 Private George Curwen.
Age 18. 8^th (Service) Batt. The Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. K. I. A. 3^rd April 1916 at St. Eloi. Buried plot 1, row B, grave 6, Birr Cross Road Cemetery, Ypres. Son of James and Elizabeth Curwen, Spring Bank Farm, Grange-over-Sands.

Lieutenant Cedric Guy Deakin.
Age 22. 14^th (Kings) Hussars. K. I. A. 20^th May 1916, river Tigris. Commemorate on panel 2 of Basra Memorial Mesopotania (now Iraq). Younger son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Deakin, of "Blawith" (now Netherwood Hotel), Lindale Road, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

2524 Private Joseph Gibson.
Age 28. "B" Coy. 1^st/4^th The Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. K. I. A. 18^th October 1916, Hooge, Ypres. Buried plot 4, row H, grave 14, Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Flanders. Son of William and Martha Gibson of Hillside Cottage, off Hemsfell Road, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

5029 Cpl. Daniel Hadwin.
Age 24. 2^nd Batt. Royal Irish Rifles (Enlisted 16^th Lancers). K. I. A. 18^th May 1917. Commemorated on panel 40 of the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres. Son of John and Mary Alice Hadwin of Bardsea. Husband of Beatrice Annie Hadwin (nee Bennett) of Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

14520 Cpl. William Robert Hallam.
Age 35. 110^th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Died of wounds 3^rd November 1919. Buried plot R, grave 755, Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, Cheriton, Nr. Folkstone. Son of Frank and Jane Hallam of Mount Eden, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

157772 Gunner James Haycock.
Age 28. 352 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Killed 12^th September 1917. Buried at plot 5, row F, grave 3, Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, Flanders. Son of Thomas and Martha Haycock, 15, Grange View, Carnforth, Lancashire.

13459 Private Walter Joseph Hill.
Age 27. 9^th Batt. Royal Welsh Fusiliers. K. I. A. 25^th September 1915. Commemorated panel 51, Loos Memorial, Dud Corner Cemetery, Loos, Pas de Calais, France. Son of Mr. and the late Mrs. Hill, Fernleigh Road, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. Husband of Sarah Jane Hill, 10 Longton Grove Road, Weston-super-Mare.

2627 Private Christopher Johnson.
Age 26. "B" Company 1^st/4^th The Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. K. I. A. 15^th June 1915 at Festubert. Commemorated on panel 5, Le Touret Memorial, near La Bassee, Pas de Calais. Son of Mr. T. B. Johnson, Scarview, Staveley, Kendal, Westmorland.

81586 Lieutenant Richard Gibson Michaelson (see also next panel).
Age 24. Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment) and Royal Air Force. Died 9^th February 1919. Buried grave no. 154 at Grange-over-Sands Cemetery, Lancashire. Son of Mrs. S. Michaelson and the late Major G. H. Michaelson of Yewbarrow, Grange-over-Sands.

380326 C. Q. M. S. Tom Midgley.
Age 27. "A" Coy. 25^th Batt. The King's Liverpool Regiment (Enlisted 4^th Batt. The Border Regiment). Killed 13^th June 1917. Buried in grave 742, Grange-over-Sands Cemetery, Lancashire. Son of Harry and Hannah Midgley of "Woodhead", Fell Road, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

Capt. Ralph D'Albini Morrell.
Age 35. "B" Company 1^st/4^th The Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Killed 8^th August 1916. Commemorated on panel 5D, The Thiepval Memorial, Somme. Second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. S. Conyers Morrell of the The Beeches, Eden Mount, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. Scholar of St Edwards School, Oxford.

14864 Private Robert Murphy.
Age 25. 1^st/8^th Batt. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Enlisted 1^st/4^th The Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment). Died of wounds 26^th March 1918. Buried in plot 5, row E, grtave 1B, Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, Seine. Son of Mr. Christopher and the late Mrs. M. A. Murphy of Grange Fell, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

2522 Private Richard Hudson Nelson.
Age 23. "B" Company 1^st/4^th The Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. K. I. A. 19^th July 1916. Buried row D9, Agny Military Cemetery, nr. Arras, Pas de Calais. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Nelson, East Bank, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

Lieutenant Colonel Hubert Podmore, D. S. O., 3 times mentioned in dispatches (6^th Northants).
Age 30. Commanding 12^th Batt. The Middlesex Regiment. Killed 31^st December 1917. Buried plot 1, row C, grave 7, Haringhe (Bandaghem) Military Cemetery, nr. Poperinge, Flanders. Son of George and Matilda Podmore of Charney Hall, Eden Mount, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. Scholar of Rugby and Trinity College, Oxford.

17207 Sergeant Fred Pratt.
Age 30. 15^th Batt. Royal Scots. Killed 28^th May 1917. Commemorated on panel F9, special memorial in Roeux British Cemetery, Pas de Calais. Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Pratt of Eastwood Terrace, Highfield Road, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

Lieutenant William Gray Rawlinson.
Age 24. "A" Coy. 2^nd Batt. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. K. I. A. 14^th March 1915, St Eloy, Ypres. Commemorated on panel 20 of the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres. Son of the late Wm. Millers Rawlinson of Duddon Hall, Broughton-in-Furness and Mrs. Rosetta Rathbone (formerly Rawlinson) of Aynsome House, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

30115 Lance/Corporal George Sedgewick (see also next panel).
Age 24. 8^th Service Batt. The King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. K. I. A. 18^th June 1917. Commemorated on bay 2, The Arras Memorial, in Faubourg-Amiens Cemetery, Pas de Calais. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. and Hannah Sedgewick of Yew Tree Farm, Cart Lane, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. Husband of the late Mrs. E. E. Sedgewick.

82007 Air Mechanic John William Shepherd.
Age 39. Royal Flying Corps. Drowned 30^th December 1917, torpedoed on H. T. "Aragon" off Egypt. Commemorated on the Chatby Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Shepherd of Arnside, Westmorland. Husband of Mrs. Beatrice Shepherd, Imperial Café, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

15921 Private James Stephenson.
Age 34. 2^nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment. K. I. A. 23^rd April 1917. Commemorated on bay 6 of the Arras Memorial in Faubourg-Amiens Cemetery, Arras, Pas de Calais. Son of the late Mr. James and Mrs. Stephenson, Eden Mount, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. Brother of Mrs. E. J. Pearson of 2, Norfolk Street, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire.

Second Lieutenant Fawcett Storey.
Age 27, of Netherwood Poultry Farm, Grange-over-Sands. 5^th Batt. Border Regt (Enlisted in ranks: 1^st/4^th Batt. The King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment). K. I. A. 23^th April 1917. Buried plot 3, row E, grave 18, London Cemetery, Neuville-Vitasse, Pas de Calais. Son of the late George and Emma Storey of Old Hutton, Westmorland.

15807 Private Harry Alfred Taylor.
Age 49. 1^st Batt. (The Buffs) East Kent Regiment. Died of wounds 7^th May 1917. Buried plot D, row 4, grave 17, Calais Southern Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais. Son of Frank and Elizabeth Fisher Taylor of Newlands, Church Hill, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

70897 Private John William Terry.
Age 35. 41^st Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Inf.). Killed 11^th April 1918. Buried plot V1, row A, grave 11, Duhallow A. D. S. Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders. Son of David and Amelia Terry. Husband of Florrie Terry of 4 Woodhead Terrace, Fell Road, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

241215 Private John Thompson.
Age 33. 1^st/5^th Batt. The King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Killed 30^th November 1917. Commemorated on panel 3 of the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval. Son of the late Mr. George Thompson of 3 Beach Row, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

1988 Lance/Corporal Thomas Ward, "B" Coy. 4^th Batt. The King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Accidentally shot and killed 31^st April 1914. Buried in an unmarked grave on the south side of St Cuthberts Churchyard, Cliburn, Westmorland, and commemorated on a brass plaque inside the church. Gardner to Dr. Lowther, "Fernleigh", Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. Son of William and Sarah Ward of Temple Sowerby.

162608 Chief Engine Room Artificer John James Watson.
Age 51. Royal Navy. Died 3^rd October 1915. Buried garve no. 40, Grange-over-Sands Cemetery, Lancashire. Husband of Ada Jane Watson of Convalescent Home, Lindale Road, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

1939 - 1945

T/7876081 Cpl. Frederick John Arnott.
Age 39. 42 Res. M. T. Coy. Royal Army Service Corps. Died 12^th September 1944. Commemorated on col. 98 of the Singapore Memorial, Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore. Husband of Dorothy Arnott of 7, Westcliffe Gardens, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

3602709 Cpl. Bernard Stainton Atkinson.
12 Platoon, "B" Coy., 1^st Batt. The Border Regiment. K. I. A. Rhenen near Arnhem, 25^th September 1944. Buried row 27, grave B1, Rhenen General Cemetery, Holland. Son of Cpl. Albert Edward Atkinson, K. I. A. 10^th September 1918 and Mrs. Gertrude Elizabeth Keith (formerly Atkinson), Cranford, Kents Bank Road, Grange-over-Sands.

1493160 Sergeant/Navigator Alan Hall Cleghorn.
75 (NZ) Bomber Squadron, Royal Air Force. Killed 23^rd/24^th September 1943. Buried Rheinberg Military Cemetery, Germany. Husband of Mrs. A. Cleghorn, "Hillcarr", Netherleigh Drive, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

170404 Flying Officer John Edmund Haywood.
Age 23. R. A. F. V. R. 1657 Conversion Unit, R. A. F. Stradishall. Killed 18^th March 1944. Buried grave 4, St Mary's Churchyard, Lower Allithwaite, Lancashire. Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Haywood, Kents Bank Post Office, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

1101306 Gunner James Higginson.
Age 33. 146 Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery. K. I. A. Caen, France, 25^th July 1944. Originally buried Caen Communal Cemetery. Reinterred 1952 in plot 25, row J, grave 24, Bayeux Military Cemetery. Husband of Mrs. Eveline Higginson of 3, Rowan Tree Cottage, Fernleigh Road, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

88981 Captain Michael Bertram Walter Hodgson. Mentioned in dispatches 1944.
Age 29. "A" Coy. 9^th Batt. The Border Regiment. Died of wounds 23^rd May 1944. Buried plot 2, row B, grave 15, Imphal War Cemetery, Burma. Elder son of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. L. Hodgson of South Bank, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. Husband of Mrs. Elizabeth Hodgson, Cranleigh, Fell Drive, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

1455345 Sergeant/Bomb Aimer John Asplin Lancaster.
Age 20. R. A. F. V. R. 11 OTU, R. A. F., Bassingbourn. Killed 14^th March 1944. Buried grave 208, Grange-over-Sands Cemetery. Son of Mr. Richard Gilbert and Beatrice Mary Lancaster of Sandhurst, Morecambe Bank, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

175561 Flying Officer/Air Gunner Bernard Mayers.
Age 32. 103 Squadron (Pathfinder Force) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Killed over Germany 11^th April 1945. Buried grave 907, Grange-over-Sands Cemetery. Husband of Mrs. Agnes Mayers, "Broadstones", Eden Mount, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

145513 Pilot Officer Kenneth McCulloch (see also next panel).
Age 31. 619 Squadron Royal Air Force (VR). Killed 15^th June 1943. Buried plot JJB, grave 88, Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery, Holland. Son of Mr. and Mrs. George and Elizabeth McCulloch of The Chalet, Kents Bank, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. Husband of Audrey McCulloch of Great Crosby, Liverpool, Lancashire.

1012206 Sergeant Ronald McCulloch.
Age 31. R. A. F. V. R., 302 M. U., R. A. F. Manauri. Date of death 6^th June 1945. Buried plot 7, row E., grave 10, Delhi War Cemetery, India. Son of Mr. and Mrs. George and Elizabeth McCullochof The Chalet, Kents Bank, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. Husband of Gwenda Elizabeth McCulloch.

1324316 Flight-Sergeant Oswald Sidwell Millburn. BA Oxon.
Age 33. 410 (R. C. A. F.) Squadron Royal Air Force. Killed 19^th March 1943. Buried row 5, grave 39, Scopwick Church Burial Ground, Lincolnshire. Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Milburn of "Pengarth", Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

Captain Richard Whitaker Porritt, BA (Hons.) Cambridge. MP for Heywood and Radcliffe Div. of Lancashire 1935 - 1940.
Age 29. 1^st/5_th Batt. The Lancashire Fusiliers. K. I. A. Seclin 26^th May 1940. Buried grave 1, Seclin (De Bergault) Communal Cemetery, Nord (France). Son of Lt. Col. A. T. Porritt, T. D., D. L., J. P. and Mrs. Annie L. Porritt of Yewbarrow Estate, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

Lieutenant (A) Peter Favell Scott.
Age 22. Royal Navy, H. M. S. "Nile". Lost 15^th May 1941. Commemorated on addenda panel of the Lee-on-Solent Memorial, Hampshire. Son of Rear-Admiral George A. Scott, D. S. C., R. N., and Constance Mary Scott of Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

Sub-Lieutenant Waller Eden-Smith.
Age 38. R. N. V. R., H. M. S. "Vervain". Lost 20^th of February 1945. Commemorated on panel 90, column 2 of the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire. Son of Harold and Blanche Eden-Smith. Husband of Mrs. Marjorie Eden-Smith of The Priory, Kents Bank, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

1671845 Flight Sergeant-Navigator/Bomb Aimer Clifford Taylor.
Age 29. R. A. F. V. R., 29 OTU, R. A. F. North Luffenham. Killed on active service 8^th September 1944. Buried St Paul's Churchyard, Lindale, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. Son of Harold and Frances Taylor.

P/JX 137569 Leading Telegraphist Maurice William Walker.
Royal Navy, H. M. Submarine "Salmon". Lost 4^th July 1940. Commemorated on panel 40, column 3, The Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire. Son of Thomas William and Irene Walker of Rose Cottage Smithy, Windermere Road, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

3713245 Private Robert Wilson.
Age 22. 1^st Batt. The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster). Killed 22^nd May 1941. Commemorated on 5E9 of the Habbaniya War Cemetery (Iraq). Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Wilson, Stone Terrace, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.

Grange-over-Sands War Memorial

The memorial was unveiled on Armistice Day, 1921, by Lord Richard Cavendish, who paid a fitting tribute to the men - "Who died that we might live".

The monument, which is in the form of an early Anglian cross, is beautifully ornamented in the seventh century style. On one side of the base is the inscription "Praise God for this men of Grange who were faithful unto death. 1914 - 1918. Lest we forget." On the opposite side are the words "Pro Rege et Patria. MCMXIV - MCMXVIII" (For King and Country. 1914 - 1918.) The two sides of the shaft bear the thirty-four names of those who gave their lives in WW I.

The memorial is of Staintondale limestone, standing upon three square steps, and measuring sixteen feet six inches in height. The ornament used on both sides of the cross and shaft is symbolic, the spiral wheels in the centre typifying "Eternity" - a never ending circle; the pomegranate - "Glory", the pomegranate seed - "Resurrection". Upon the reverse side is the vine, representing "Life", the bird plucking the fruit signifying the human soul feeding on the eternal life. The monogram, formed of the first two Greek letters X and P of the name of Christ, is the celebrated "laburum", or standard of Constantine, the first Christian Emperor, carved upon his standard with the motto "In hoc signo vinces". (In this sign you will conquer.)

The memorial was designed by the prestigious architects Messrs. Austin and Paley of Lancaster, the work executed by Mr. A. O. Thoms of Lancaster, and the carving including the (1914 - 1918) names carried out by Mr. F. Birch of Lancaster and Lindale in Cartmel.

Sir Ian Fraser, M. P. for Lonsdale, unveiled the names of the seventeen fallen of the 1939 - 1945 war on Sunday, 12^th October, 1947.

This page is dedicated to the 10 million victims of World War I and 60 million victims of World War II.
We should always remember the immense grief and loss each war brought to the world.

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