SUTTON AND WAWNE
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The vast majority of
men on our war memorials served in one - or more - of the 13
battalions of the East Yorkshire Regiment. Prior to the
1880s, when most numbered regiments gained their county
names, they were the 15th Regiment of Foot, or 15th Foot in
shortened parlance, that number being the order of
precedence on the march in major parades and national events
such as coronations and victory parades. The Buckinghamshire
Regiment (14th Foot) had precedence, marching in front, and
the Bedfordshire Regiment (16th Foot) marched behind.
The East Yorkshire Regiment ceased to exist in April 1958 on
Amalgamation with the West Yorkshire Regiment to form the
Prince Of Wales's Own Regiment Of Yorkshire (PWO). PWO
amalgamated with the Green Howards & Duke Of
Wellington's Regiment in 2006 to become the Yorkshire
Regiment. The Company that recently moved from the barracks
at Mona House in Sutton village is Alma Company, 4th
Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, and it is that battalion
that is regarded as the direct 'heirs' to the historic East
Yorkshires.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES
... an additional page of information
about some of the men
that appear on these pages
2nd Lt. John "Jack" Harrison
VC MC
Hull's renowned sportsman, who still holds the record for the
most tries
in one season, has no known grave, for his body was never
found.
The War Memorial garden here in Sutton on Hull is now also
'home'
to the Victoria Cross paver placed here in 2017 to honour the
memory of
this remarkable rugby league player who fell leading his men
at
Oppy Wood on 3 May 1917. Click for more information.
Flight Lieutenant Pat
Hughes DFC,
an RAAF pilot from Cooma, NSW, Australia,
was killed in action flying over Sussex during the Battle of
Britain.
Pat had married a local Sutton girl just a few weeks
previously, and so was buried in our churchyard.
He had previously lodged in James Reckitt Avenue
when he had been stationed at RAF Leconfield.
A selection of photos from the
2022 Remembrance Service
A
selection of photos from the
2014 Remembrance Service
More about the 19 War
Graves inside the churchyard
More churchyard photos
Visitors to this war memorial
are always welcome, though if you visit on a Friday, then do be sure to pop into our little museum inside the Old School, just a little further along Church St, going west away from the church. We help with Family History research, including war graves, and general history of the local area. Unfortunately, we can only open on a Friday, but if you are in need of a cuppa, tea or coffee, we serve refreshments in our little tearoom, £1.50 per person. On other days, we do recommend "The Beeches", a tearoom further up Church St, going east, just round the bend, about 100yds past the Duke of York. This Map May Help |
The Civilian War Dead Index for WW II
(also opens in a new window)
Whilst this page is mostly dedicated to Service Personnel
killed during the two World Wars,
the above link takes you to pages that list all the
civilian wartime casualties of enemy action
in Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire.
You'll have no difficulty in spotting the Hull ones . . .
sadly, they are easily the more numerous.
More information on the Hull Blitz,
including some maps of Hull plotting the fall of bombs,
is available on my other website at Hull Blitz Maps,
or Hull Bomb Maps as Google appears to be calling them.
A Short Explanation of
How
these War Memorial Pages
came about
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A
LIST OF SOLDIERS' NAMES Stationed in Sutton 1914 - 1920s taken from the pages of a Wartime Autograph Album compiled by a Sutton/Stoneferry girl, Elise Carrick, from 1914 to 1926. Of
the 70 or so pages of witty lines, drawings and cartoons,
some 35 are signed by soldiers, stationed here in Sutton, or
passing through via a local war hospital. Most were not
local to the village, many being from Northumberland and
Co.Durham. This is an extracted list, giving as much
information as the page gives; some of the men appear more
than once. Some men give almost full details, including a
regimental number, others almost nothing, just initials and
a rank that indicates they were soldiers. At least one was
killed in action on later service, and one was awarded a
Victoria Cross. Several are very artistic and/or poetic, and
their style or traits may be recognisable to their families.
The atmosphere of the book is of gentle humour, sometimes
even romantic in style, and reminiscent of an England now
long gone, an era that has almost vanished from living
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