WAR GRAVESThe following is a list of servicemen’s graves in St Georges, Stalybridge graveyard, with cemetery map locations. Official war graves |
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R5 G1 |
795076 GUNNER J MADDOCK ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY 12th APRIL 1919 (R.F.A. LOGO)
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R9 G16 |
EMBLEM - SANS CHANGER 51711 PRIVATE G. ASHTON 20th Bn. King’s Liverpool Rgt 21st March 1918, age 22. Remembrance not for a day, but for ever. |
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R12 G27 |
Royal Engineers Badge and motto. 83398 Driver A. FISH Royal Engineers 2nd July 1917 |
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R15 G18 |
Concilio et Labore emblem 270057 Private A CROPPER Manchester regiment 12th August 1920
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RB4 G7 |
RAF insignia - Per Ardua Ad Astra 1132602 Flight Sergeant J. HOLLINGWORTH Wireless operator/Air Gunner Royal Air Force 16th January 1945
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There are also several headstones containing references to forces personnel who died in conflict: |
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R2 G9 |
Also of their Son SERGEANT TOM SAXON of the 3rd King's Own Hussars killed in action in France on August 10th 1918 aged 29 years. |
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R7 G11 |
HAROLD BURGESS, 6th BATT. Loyal North Lancs. Regt., who died at hospital Amor Mesopotamia. Oct 11th 1916, in his 30th year. |
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R9 G11 |
Also DOUGLAS (DAWSON) their Son, killed in action August 1916 aged 18 years. |
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R9 G31 |
Also of GEORGE HARRY (HALL) their Son who fell in action in France October 7th 1916 aged 34 years. |
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R14 G41 |
also BORIS BRAMLEY BUCKLEY, son of the above killed in action July 6th 1918 aged 19 years. Buried at PERRES, France. |
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R15 G28 |
Private JAMES CHRISTIAN B.D.S.M. Killed in action 1914 – 1944 Sargent FRANK HARRIS Killed in action 1918 – 1943 |
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R16 G8 |
Pt. JOHN HENRY STEVENS, 1st, 7th The Kings Liverpool Regt. killed in action in Belgium 2nd Aug. 1917 aged 27 years. |
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R22 G42 |
also their beloved son P.T.E. GEORGE NEVILLE 1st Batt. South Lancs. Reg. killed in action in Normandy 1911-1944 |
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R24 G42 |
Also JONATHAN (RATCLIFFE) their son killed in France November 20th 1917 aged 27 years |
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RB9 G4 |
And WILFRED (WARDLE) who died in action in France January 8th 1940 aged 32 years |
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RB9 G10 |
Cpl. JOHN MURREY, 1st Batn. Irish Guards, killed in Action Feb.4th 1944 aged 23 years and interred ANZIO, Italy. |
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RB16 G10 |
Capt. W.H.HARROP, who was killed in action in France Oct. 9th 1917 aged 36 years |
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RB24 G6 |
Also their son THOMAS FLANAGAN, killed in action May 3rd 1944 aged 24 years |
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There is also the grave of a Napoleonic War veteran in one of our earliest graves, buried 13/4/1848 under a flat slab now sunk deep and covered over for safety: |
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R20 G28 |
James Dukes Sacred to the memory of JAMES DUKES ESQ. Quartermaster, H.M.89 Regiment Died Ashton under Lyne 8th April 1848 aged 65 years 5 months |
A hard-copy description of our war graves, including many background details of the individual, is available for inspection on request. This information, together with details about other men from Stalybridge, is also available in the research notes of FRANK HARROP in Tameside Local Studies Library.
There are also three War memorials inside St. George's church which include both wars
