The Parish Church
of the
Holy Trinity
Amblecote
After the Great War (1914 -
The
names of 62 people from the area who were killed were inscribed on two painted wooden
panels in alphabetical order.
In 1950 the wooden panels were replaced by panels cast
in bronze and the names of the 17 casualties from the Second World War were added.
The Great War (1914 -
Age 32, South Staffordshire
Regiment, Died of wounds, France, 10.10.1917 (CWG)
Private Cyril Attwood
Age 19, 2nd/5th
Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment, France, No known grave, 3.12.1917 (CWG)
Sapper George
William Attwood
Age 19, Inland Water Transport Royal Engineers, Iraq, 1.4.1917 (CWG)
Private
Percival Sydney Barker
Age 21, 2nd/6th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment, France,
10.12.1917 (CWG)
Private Norman Stanley Barnes
Age unknown, 1st/8th Royal Warwickshire
Regiment, France, No known grave, 1.7.1916 (CWG)
Private Charles Baxter
Age 19, 2nd
Btn. Worcestershire Regiment, France, 13.5.1916 (SD)
Private Joseph H. Bills
Age
20, 7th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment, Belgium, 16.8.1917
Private Alfred Breese
Age
26, 1st Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment, Belgium, No known grave, 7.11.1914 (CWG)
Private
William Breese
Age 22, 3rd Btn.Worcestershire Regiment, Belgium, 7.1.1915 (CWG)
Private
Colin John Penrice Brindley
Age 21, 2nd/6th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment, France,
Died of wounds, 10.4.1918 (SD)
Private George William Burrows
Age 19, 2nd Btn. Worcestershire
Regiment, Belgium, No known grave, 15.4.1918 (CWG)
Lance Corporal John Henry Capel
Age
28, 11th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps, France, No known grave, 30/11/1917 (CWG)
Private
John Henry Benjamin Cole
Age 21, 2nd/7th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment, France, 29/11/1917
(CWG)
Second Lieutenant James Roy Coombs
Age 22, Royal Field Artillery, France, No
known grave, 24.3.1918 (SD) (CWG)
Private Albert Darby
Age 24, 2nd Btn. South Staffordshire
Regiment, France, Died of wounds, 5.12.1917 (SD)
Private Charles Alfred Friday Davies
Age
30, Machine Gun Corps. (Infantry), France, Died of wounds, Holy Trinity, 6.11.1918
(SD)
Private William Davies
Age 27, 5th Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment, France, Died of
wounds, 21.10.1918 (CWG)
Sergeant Robert Warren Dean
Age 28, 16th Btn. Royal Warwickshire
Regiment, France, No known grave, 2.9.1916 (CWG)
Private Charles Conrad Dean
Age 20,
16th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment, France, Died of wounds, 15.9.1916 (CWG)
Private
George Alfred Dillworth
Age 26, 2nd Btn. Worcestershire Regiment, Belgium No known
grave, 21.10.1914 (CWG)
Second Lieutenant Howard Joseph Edwards
Age 20, 7th Btn. Worcestershire
Regiment, Belgium, No known grave, 9.10.1917 (CWG)
Private Sidney George Elcock
Age
21, 2nd Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment, Germany, Died of wounds, 17.05.1917 (CWG)
Signalman Charles Eric Goodman
Age 20, Royal Navy -
Age 30, 6th Btn. Kings (Liverpool
Regiment), France, No known grave, 31.7.1917 (SD)
Guardsman Thomas Griffin
Age 30,
1st Btn. Grenadier Guards, France, 27.9.1918 (SD)
Private Horace Edgar Guest
Age 41,
2nd/8th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment, France, 18.4.1918 (CWG)
Sergeant William Basil
Hale
Age 27or 28, Machine Gun Corps. (Inf), Buried at Holy Trinity, 25.6.1918 (CWG)
Private
Thomas Harris
Age unknown, 2nd Btn. Worcestershire Regiment, France, No known grave,
15.7.1916 (SD) Private Geoffrey W. Hingley
Age 20, 10th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment,
France, No known grave, 3.7.1916 (SD)
Private Charles Howell
Age 35, 4th Btn. Worcestershire
Regiment, Gallipoli, 30.11.1915 (CWG)
Private Harold A. Jones
Age unknown, 10th Btn.
Worcestershire Regiment, No known grave, 3.7.1916 (SD)
Private William Jones
Age 24,
4th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment, Gallipoli, No known grave, 6.8.1915 (CWG)
Private
H. E. Kny
Age 30, Army 30, Army Cyclist Corps, Greece, 19.11.1917 (CWG)
Private
George H. Leighton
Age unknown, Royal Army Medical Corps. Buried at Holy Trinity, 09.04.1919
(CWG)
Edward Lowe
Age 22, London Scottish/Gordon Highlanders, Gassed in France, Chorister
at Holy Trinity,
Buried in Holy Trinity Churchyard, 04.09.1921
Private Percival Lowe
Age
33, 7/8 Btn. King's Own Scottish Borderers, France, No known grave, 17.9.1918 (SD)
Private Alfred Mason
Age 18, 9th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment, Iraq, 6.8.1916 (CWG)
Trooper
Harry Benjamin Molineux
Age 24, Household Cavalry. Royal Horse Guards (The Blues),
France, 30.10.1914 (SD)
Private Albert John Morris
Age 26, 8th Btn. South Staffordshire
Regiment, Belgium, No known grave, 16.2.1916 (SD) Lieutenant Samuel Thomas Newton
Age
23, 1st/5th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment, Died of wounds received 1916,
Buried
in Stourbridge Cemetery, 13.12.1919 (SD)
Lance Corporal George Frederick Onions
Age
24, 1st Btn. Princess Charlotte of Wales (Royal Berkshire Regiment), France,
No known
grave, 21.8.1918 (SD)
Private Frank Parrish
Age 22, 7th Btn. Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry),
France, No known grave, 30.11.1917 (SD)
Private James Partridge
Age 22, 14th Btn. Worcestershire
Regiment, France, Died of wounds, 26.10.1917 (SD)
Private Claude Arthur Pitt
Age 24,
2nd/5th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment, France, 20/12/1917 (CWG)
Private Thomas
Rides
Age 37, 2nd Btn, South Staffordshire Regiment, France, 27.6.1915 (CWG)
Captain D'Arcy
St. Clare Roberts MC
Age 27 or 28, 4th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment, France, 26.4.1918
(CWG)
Corporal Herbert Roberts
Age 24, 2nd Btn. Worcestershire Regiment, Died of wounds,
Holy Trinity Churchyard, 1.2.1917 (SD) (CWG)
Private Ernest William Rogers
Age 20
'C' Cpy 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry, France, No known grave, 20.9.1918 (CWG)
Private
Herbert Scott
Age 22, 1st/5th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment, France, 12.10.1918
(CWG)
Acting Bombardier Horace Victor Sheriff
Age 28, Territorial Force Royal Field
Artillery, France, 2.5.1917 (SD) (CWG)
Private Wilfred Shotton M.M.
Age unknown, 13th
Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, France, No known grave, 22.4.1918 (SD)
Gunner Edward
Charles Smith
Age 20, 256 Siege Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery, Belgium, No known grave,
4.10.1917 (CWG)
Private Frederick Sparkes
Age 31, 4th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment,
Gallipoli, No known grave, 6.8.1915 (SD)
Captain Reginald Alfred Squires O.B.E.
Age
27, 16th Btn. King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry), France, 25.4.1919 (SD) (CWG)
Private
Clarence Ranford Starling
Age 19, 1st/14th Btn. London Regiment (London Scottish),
France, No known grave, 16.4.1917 (CWG)
Private George Herbert Taylor
Age 22, 5th Btn.
King's Shropshire Light Infantry, Belgium, 16.10.1917 (CWG)
Lance Corporal Herbert
Percival Wallens
Age 29, Army Service Corps Motor Transport, France, 2.10.1918 (SD)
Private
Gilbert Wheelwright
Age 18, 22nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry, France, No known grave,
29.5.1918 (CWG)
Private John Ernest Whiteman
Age 24, 2nd/6th Btn, South Staffordshire
Regiment, France, 9.5.1917 (CWG)
Private Bernard Wood
Age 29, 3rd Btn. Worcestershire
Regiment, France, 22.5.1916 (SD)
William Charles Wyeth
Age 28, Army Service Corps.
Motor Transport Section, Discharged due to illness.
Stourbridge Cemetery, 21.7.1918
(WMA)
Private S. Joseph Yardley
Age 25, 4th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment, Gallipoli, No
known grave, 28.4.1915 (SD)
The Second World War 1939 -
Private Frederick Edward Bishop
Age 19, 1st Btn. Kings
Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Italy, 19.4.1944 (CWG)
Corporal Reginald Harry Cooper
Age
25, 7th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment, France. 8.8.1944 (CWG)
Leading Aircraftwoman
Mary Harriet Elwell
Age 30, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Runnymede Memorial, No known
grave, 18.2.1945 (CWG)
Signalman Charles Victor Wynne Gill
Age 34, Royal Navy -
Assistant Cub Master at Holy Trinity
and commemorated in South Side Window
Age 19, Royal
Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Flying Accident, Buried at Holy Trinity, 24.8.44 (CWG)
Private
George Percival Hand
Age 24, Worcester Regiment, Buried at Holy Trinity, 09.04.1941
(WMA)
Able Seaman Kenneth Ronald Jukes
Age 19, Royal Navy, Udine War Cemetery Italy,
5.5.1945 (CWG)
Private Kenneth Alfred Thomas Lane
Age 21, 4th Btn. Royal Dorsetshire
Regiment, Died of wounds, Buried at Holy Trinity, 13.7.1944 (CWG)
D. Meredith
Not
positively identified. Could be Leading Aircraftman Donald Meredith RAFVR Age 21,
25.9.1943
Rifleman Reginald John Meredith
Age 21, 2nd Btn. Rifle Brigade, Died of wounds,
Italy, 31.5.1945 (CWG)
Lance Corporal Edward Mills
Age 26, Corps. of Military Police,
Germany, 7.6.1945 (CWG)
Private Arthur William Murray
Age 20, 7th Btn. Worcestershire
Regiment, France, No known grave, 26.5.1940 (CWG)
Bombardier John Emmanuel Perry
Age
28, 140th Field Regiment Royal Artillery, Tunisia, 25.4.1943 (CWG) Rover Scout at
Holy Trinity and commemorated in South Side Window
Lance Corporal Albert Roberts
Age
27, 2nd (Airborne) Brigade Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, Germany, 24.3.1945 (CWG)
Wireless
Operator/Air Gunner Arthur Dexter Southall
Age 23, 214th Squadron Royal Air Force
Volunteer Reserve, buried in Stourbridge Cemetery, 29.11.1941 (CWG)
Sapper Cyril Victor
Sparrow
Age 26, 584 Army Field Company Royal Engineers, Germany, 25.3.1945 (CWG)
Flight
Sergeant Bruce Albert Stratton
Age 28, 12 Sqd. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve,
Runnymede Memorial, 20.2.1944 (CWG)
"The Soldier"
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of
a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer
dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers
to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,Washed by the
rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives
somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy
as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under
an English heaven.
Rupert Brooke (1887-
"Back"
They ask me where I've been,
And what I've done and seen.
But what can I reply
Who
know it wasn't I,
But someone just like me,
Who went across the sea
And with my head
and hands
Killed men in foreign lands...
Though I must bear the blame,
Because he bore
my name.
Wilfred Wilson Gibson (1878-
Special thanks to Mr. Ian Williams and several readers who have kindly helped to
fill in some of the missing details.
Sources of information
SD -
CWG -
WMA -
