SUTTON
upon HULL
THE
14 CWGC WAR GRAVES
&
5 FAMILY GRAVES and MEMORIALS
of war dead within our churchyard
Roll
of Honour
"LEST
WE FORGET"
WORLD
WAR 1
J
W DOWNES
Private 11418
East Yorkshire Regiment
12 May 1915
grave number 279
Family Grave
CYRIL
& CLEMENT FRANKISH
Cyrill B - Private 22513
East Yorkshire Regiment
12 Sept 1916 aged 27
Remembered at Loos
Clement Roland - Driver 44601
Royal Field Artillery
11 Oct 1917 aged 24
buried in Salonika
grave number 215
Lower Inscription Reads:
Also two dear sons,
CYRILL aged 27 years
and
CLEMENT aged 24 years
killed in action 1914 - 1918
Ever in thought
F LILLEY
Private 184495
Machine Gun Corps
1 Feb 1919
grave number 193
W
MERIFIELD
Private 19218
East Yorkshire Regiment
7 April 1916
grave number 308
Family Grave
STANLEY
PARROTT
Gunner 755574
Royal Field Artillery
23 Nov 1917 aged 20
buried in Wimereux, France
grave number 910
Family Grave
THOMAS
SELBY
Private 755574 and 302718
2/7 Btn Durham Light Infantry
29 Oct 1918 aged 34
buried in Archangel, Russia
click image for enlargement
grave number 361
S
ROGERS
Private 4566
Lancashire Fusiliers
8 December 1915
aged 50
grave number 306
Family Grave
CHARLES
WESTABY
Private 242384
Sherwood Foresters
(Notts and Derby Regiment)
6 Dec 1917 aged 28
Remembered at Cambrai
(incorrectly remembered as Westoby)
grave number 928
W
WIGGLESWORTH
Private 23733
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
15 June 1915
grave number 261
R
WRIGHT
Private 143318
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
17 June 1918
aged 22
grave number 951
The six photos above are all fresh
images,
taken on the evening of 4 August 2014.
Full-sized digital copies are available
to their families.
To Those Who Died In
WORLD
WAR II
K
AUSTIN
Staff Sergeant S/78305
Royal Army Service Corps
30 August 1945
aged 35
grave number 1163
A
CONSTABLE
Corporal 104898
Royal Air Force
26 January 1946
aged 46
grave number 1297
P C HUGHES
DFC
Flight Lieutenant (pilot)
Royal Air Force
7 September 1940
aged 23
grave number 1170
S
JOHNSON
Corporal T/10665802
Royal Army Service Corps
7 September 1945
aged 40
grave number 1117
R
H KITCHING
Sapper 2123916
Royal Engineers
12 July 1941
aged 34
grave number 1140
Family Memorial
KENNETH
& HAROLD ROWNTREE
KENNETH - Merchant Navy Cadet
23 April 1941 aged 16 lost at sea
&
HAROLD - Flying Officer RAFVR
30 Oct 1941 aged 21
grave number 196
(three graves down from Pte F LILLEY,
above)
very faded Inscription Reads:
Sacred to the memory of
KENNETH WM. ROWNTREE
Merchant Navy Cadet lost at sea
April 23 1941 aged 16 years
Also brother
HAROLD RAYMOND ROWNTREE, F.O. R.A.F.V.R.
Missing from operational flight
October 30 1941 aged 21 years
Greater love hath no man than this.
R
N SHEPPARD
Gunner 1605260
Royal Artillery
21 May 1942
aged 31
grave number 1207
T
TIERNEY
Corporal 618756
Royal Air Force
18 December 1943
aged 28
grave number 1145
H
WILSON
Private 4348645
East Yorkshire Regiment
10 April 1942
aged 28
grave number 1132
The Family Grave and Memorial photos are
courtesy of Bernard Sharp,
and can be found on his St James'
Churchyard DVD.
Each of the other photos above are our
own, smaller thumbnails of the originals,
which are too big to post here as the site
is nearly full and, sadly, space forbids.
But if anyone would like a full-sized
original of a grave, of course we will
gladly email them a copy. Most of them are
just over 4Mb, and would fill
slightly more than an A4 sheet, or would
scale down to A4.
Just send us
an email with the name of the photo
required.
Web Manager
The grave numbers are those that appear in
the
Monumental Inscription booklets for St
James'
as published by the East Yorkshire Family
History Society
The Sutton & Wawne Museum pays just
tribute and thanks here
to Jamie
and Ivor, our previous gardeners for
St James', and Peter and Angela
more recently, for their hard work
over the years in maintaining
accessibility
to the war graves, as much as could be
practicable.
Especially so in recent years, against a
backdrop of ever-decreasing funds and the
more recent trials and tribulations of
covid. As the older parts of the
churchyard get ever more mature, the trees
get ever higher, and the grass grows ever
more lush every summer, they really were
up against it. Not least up against
the current conservation and wildlife
legislation which actually forbids
undergrowth clearance in certain areas.
Angela & Peter are both the church,
the hall and our Old School caretakers,
who have taken on the mantle of trying to
keep as much of the churchyard as
accessible as possible - again, especially
to the war graves. It is obvious,
that mother nature is gradually winning,
particularly over in the 'older section'
where the brambles and shrubs are in full
glory in summer, and a tangle of thorns in
winter. Both need more help, if
anyone wants to lend a hand.
They have the kit, we just need the bodies
(forgive the pun). Neither of them
are young, neither are 'fully well', and
they do a fantastic job with the limited
time they have, considering all their
other roles.
Talk about dedication!
It was only back in 2014 that it came to
my attention that when the British Legion
crosses mysteriously appeared each
November, it was Jamie and Ivor
who previously saw to it, and made sure
all was well. And it was Jamie who pointed
out the extra family graves and memorials
of war casualties to me, so long and
erroneously missed from this list, and now
correctly in place since the 2014
Armistice Service. Better late than never,
and well done you guys, and thanks for all
you did.
Now of course, Angela and Peter do that
too, thankfully,
making sure each war grave is suitably
honoured every year.
Rob H
Sutton Churchyard, clearly showing the
white headstone of the war-grave of
Flight Lieutenant Pat Hughes DFC
killed during the Battle of Britain,
who came from Cooma,
New South Wales, Australia .
(click picture for larger image)
Pat was credited with shooting down the
Luftwaffe ace, von Werra, notorious as
the only
German to escape British custody and
make it back to Germany.
More details about where Pat was from,
his life and family, etc, are now
available
on a page dedicated to the memory of
Flight Lieutenant Pat
Hughes DFC
( opens in new window for more images
)
. . and the good news is, as of 3 July
2002
Until recently, we were in contact with
both Pat's family,
and the local couple, now deceased, who
for years
had tended Pat's grave, laying flowers
every year.
The wonder of the World Wide Web . . .
For more general information on the
Battle of Britain, click Here
For those of you looking for any
details on any service personnel
killed during either World War, wherever
in the world they
are buried, with or without a known
grave, including those lost or
buried at sea, in the Merchant Service
as well as the Royal Navy and
the navies of Commonwealth nations, you
really must look at . .
The
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
website
(opens
in a new window)
"Their
names liveth for evermore . . ."
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