SUTTON AND
WAWNE
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SUTTON WAR MEMORIAL
Remembrance Sunday13 November 2022
Since the 2018 Centenary, there are four additional
scrolls holding the marble plaques on which
are inscribed the names of nearly 500 men of
Sutton, Stoneferry, Wilmington and St Mark's in The Groves
who fell in the Great War.
The second picture is of the new WWII Memorial Stone
unveiled on 11 November 2022
Other photos are here and here.
[ last year's photo is right at the bottom of this page ]
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WAWNE WAR MEMORIAL
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THE 19 WAR GRAVES in our CHURCHYARD
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Links to full lists of all the men on
the Sutton Memorial, as well as
Memorials to the men of
Stoneferry, Wilmington & St Mark's in The Groves
are all further below
SUTTON on
HULL
WAR MEMORIAL
Roll of Honour
"LEST WE FORGET"
To
the undying
memory of the
Men of Sutton
who laid down
their lives for
their Country
in the Great War
1914-1918
To
the Glory of God and in
grateful remembrance of the men
of The Groves and of St Marks'
congregation who laid down
their lives in the Great War
1914-1919.
This memorial was errected
by Public Subscription.
Also
of those who died in the
Second World War 1939-1945,
now individually named on
the new memorial stone just to
the right of the memorial cross.
The names now recorded on these pages
are a great many more than the 36 men of WWI
who appear on the Sutton War Memorial itself.
Thus we now show details of men from
the congregations of St Mark's in the Groves,
Stoneferry, and Wilmington,
all were men lost or wounded in World War I.
These are all former Sutton Parish areas, up to
the 1880s when their new churches were built, and
the medieval 1349 parish of Sutton was divided up.
In the 1950-80s, those 'new' areas then saw large scale
house clearances, and their churches were also demolished.
We in Sutton therefore 'inherited' their war memorials,
and are happy to host them and remember them here,
in the parish where many of their own parents
and grandparents were christened, married or buried.
In addition, the original lists for
Stoneferry and St Mark's seem to also include those
who served and were wounded, as well as those lost.
But only those men who actually lost their lives
have had their names added to the new plaques.
A rolling 4-year programme of research by Terry Keal
has now been completed, and so enabled us to
add 236 names to these lists on this website,
men that were previously missed from their original
Rolls of Honour.
THESE LISTS WERE GREATLY UPDATED:
in time for the 2018 Armistice Day Centenary Commemoration
Unbeknown to us, there were so many more names missing
than we ever thought could be possible.
Names were missed 100 years ago for a variety of reasons,
very often because of cost when local memorials were paid
for by public subscription. For some families, they
simply couldn't find the money. Others never accepted,
at least for some years, the reality of their great loss,
especially if there was no known grave.
We, with the help of Terry, aimed to right those omissions
as best we can, within these lists on this website.
It is a sobering thought, and indication of just how huge the First War losses were, that to take the Harrison name as an example because it is also a local name, there are 76 men named Harrison from the general Hull area listed on Hull's War Dead Memorial inside Paragon Station. We have just one of those Harrisons remembered in our museum, because he was awarded the highest military honour for bravery. 76 men, of just one surname, just from Hull. Mostly not all related to each other, true, but it still gives an indication of the tremendous losses in all branches of our armed services overall.
The full list of the 7,000+ Hull names on
Paragon Station Memorial can be seen here
It is very likely that at least one of those very early Harrisons was connected to our donor Sophia Broadley's family, when they later intermarried to become the Broadly-Harrisons of the later UK farming estates. Several were from Stoneferry and The Groves, formerly within Sutton ancient parish and so we count as our own and thus appear in these lists. We like to think they would all have approved of the use of the old school they donated land for as our museum and de-facto community centre for Sutton as it is today.
"Their names liveth for evermore . . ."
Full lists of names are on these links:
Sutton on Hull : Wawne
Why do we have memorials here for these other places?
Each link is to a page for another War Memorial in
our former historic parish.
St James' in Sutton inherited three other memorials for the districts below
when their own churches were closed and demolished in the 1970s-80s.
The historic parish of Sutton in Holderness extended right down to Witham
until c.1887, after which the new parish churches of
St Mark's and St Saviour's were consecrated.
Most of the men listed here had parents and grandparents who were
originally Sutton parishioners, and so in that sense alone, we are more than
happy to have their names here on our war memorial and next to the church where many of them or their parents were baptised or married.
Their own churches have long gone, so we will take care of their memory.
Click the links to go to each memorial.
Stoneferry : St Mark's in The Groves : Wilmington
The details of most names, on the original plaques as well as the new ones, can be seen in high quality photos of the original memorials inside
the museum on Fridays. These include the addition of the list of 236 men
from those areas above previously never shown on any public memorial
for this past century, but now added to ours here in Sutton, along with
their 146 comrades who were always known about.
There are 14 CWGC War Graves within St James' churchyard
most of which are graves of men
who were stationed near here and
therefore not neccessarily from
Sutton, which explains why none
of them appear on any of our own
War Memorials. Each man is
presumably, and hopefully,
remembered on the memorial in
his home town or village.
Additionally, there are another
5 family graves and memorials in
the churchyard, all details of
which are now present, with
their photos, on the War Graves
page.THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT - a brief history
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
12th November 2018, takes you to the page where
you can load some more full screen.
The detail of all the names on all the plaques
can be clearly read in the enlarged photos.
St James' churchyard, and the War Memorial garden,
11:30 Monday morning : 12 November 2018
Given that Sutton War Memorial is now home to
his VC paver, it is appropriate that we should now
create a permanent new page dedicated to
Jack Harrison & The Hull PALS
There are links to the Rolls of Honour for
Wawne, Stoneferry, Wilmington & The Groves,
as well as Sutton itself, further below.
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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 |
Photos of the 2018 Centenary Wreaths,
taken the next morning, when there was more sun.
An image of the memorial, taken 12 May 2015,
with the bluebells nicely showing their splendour.
Click the image for
a larger aerial view of St James'
and most of the churchyard. The
War Memorial is in that
group of trees, in the top left of
the churchyard,
at the end of that broad gravel
path from the church tower,
and where they meet the churchyard
wall.
A tiny part of the white stone
cross can
just be seen in the middle of the
trees.
The Old School, and museum within,
is further up
the picture, marked by another
yellow square.
Taken from, and credits to,
GoogleEarth.
There is a similar view of St
Peter's ..
click the link on the Wawne
Memorial page.
updated : Nov 12 ~ 2018
Since first posting this honour page some eighteen years ago, we became more and more aware that it was neither complete, nor totally accurate.
We have no record, for instance, of the Second World War dead of Stoneferry, Wilmington and St Mark's. It has also been noted that the list of Second War dead for Sutton itself is not complete. Indeed, the vast majority of names shown here are of First War dead. If anyone has knowledge of such extra records, do please get in touch with us. Clicking the link above will take you to the list, which now stands at 236, being the total now inscribed on the new plaque for the First World War.
We originally said, back in 2014, that it would not be possible to alter the engraving on the actual stonework of the war memorial, but we could only set the record straight on these pages, or at best in a digital database kept within the Old School. Contrary to our expectations, it has been possible to 'add' more spaces to the memorial, in the shape of the four polished granite plaques which are now in place on the steps. These have now been inscribed with all the names that were previously only seen in the stone plaques that came from the walls of their former churches. Those plaques had formerly been sunk into the earth, at the base of the memorial steps here in Sutton for several years. The new granite plaques now include the names of all the 238 additional men (previously thought to be 224) of Stoneferry, Wilmington and The Groves who were missed off of their own memorials for various reasons and thus have never been honoured or remembered in the same way, at an annual Remembrance Service, as their fallen neighbours and comrades have been for this past 100 years.
In 2014, marking the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War, we embarked upon compiling that planned database of all the 182 names we then had on our memorials, having no idea there would be so many missing. The task was huge, but taken on by Terry Keal, back then a city ward councillor for Sutton, but now retired. The database is now complete, with every man of a total of 420 men from all four parishes now listed, and which is available to family and researchers to view within The Old School Museum. We are researching each and every name now, and a good many - well over half - have already been completed. We intend to publish every known detail and fact about each man, eg; his local family where known, his regiment or ship, where and when he died, and links to his medal card and service records where they exist. This database is open to view inside the Old School on Fridays, and of course, researchers from afar who seek family information can email us and we will do our utmost to supply whatever we can. They truly will not be forgotten.
In the meantime, if you can help with the above project, add any family information, please feel free to email me and I will take the details ... ...
Rob, the Webmanager
If you are researching a family member,
and are new to the Internet, you may find useful
the several Military Links,
to the RAF and the other armed services,
the Merchant Marine, Commonwealth War Graves Commission,
and others.
on our Other Links Page
or click the button in the left-hand menu at any time.
There you will find help on how to access
service records and where they are kept.
In addition, for the time being until this can be hosted elsewhere,
we have a link to a page showing the
War Dead of the GPO in Hull.
Again, it opens in a new window, just close when finished with.
Details of all of the men lost can be viewed on the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website
(opens in a new window)
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 Sutton Lad in 1917 by: author unknown � 2014
2014
Copyright remains with the
Sutton & Wawne Museum |
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 memory.
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Sutton & Wawne Museum, but
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