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War Graves Week in Tamworth

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Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
War Graves Week

This week we come together to discover out World War heritage for War Graves Week, 21-28 May – an initiative from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (GWGC).

This is a fantastic opportunity to reconnect with our local history and learn about the courageous people in the Tamworth constituency, who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. Every name, every story is important and I have listed all of those in the Tamworth constituency who perished in WW1 and WW2:

 

Tamworth Cemetery

Sgt Thomas Brittain

Cpl Enid Brown

Pvt James Cartlidge

Cpt Mervyn Darling

Pvt Victor Delanois

Cdt Leslie Ingram

Gnr Harold Cooke

Pvt Geoffrey Hodgett

LAC Horace Palmer

Gnr James Smith

Dvr G Arnold

Sgt A Lakin

Pvt Herbert Redfern

Cpl Joseph Redfern

Sgt Harry Bird

Spr Herbert Hollyoake

LCpl Thomas Lucas

LCpl Albert Wood

Pvt James Neill

Dvr F Richards

BSM G Mattison

Pvt A Chetwynd

Pvt Walter Farley

Dvr C Newbury

Pvt G Smedley

Pvt Charles Smith

LCpl George Wainwright

LBdr Wilfred Wood

Pvt J Sewell

Pvt A Ashwood

LCpl William Chapman

 

Tamworth Glascote Cemetery

LAC James Day

Gnr Victor Arnold

Pvt Charles Cooper

Wheeler Arthur Baxter

Cptr George Brain

Pvt Herbert Chiles

RFN T Finney

 

Wilnecote Cemetery

Pvt Percy Passey

Pvt Leonard Wallbank

Pvt Frederick Allsopp

RFN Walter Craddock

 

St Paul’s, Fazeley

Gnr Eric Kinson

WO2 Reginald Sandall

OS George Watts

Cpl E Thomas

LCpl E Wilkinson

2AM S Barker

 

St Peter’s, Little Aston

Sgt John Allen

Sgt John Hicken

Pvt Douglas Morgan

Wg Cdr Ronald Neville-Clarke

Pvt E Kyte

LSgt Alfred Newbold

Pvt W Kingzett

 

St John the Baptist’s, Shenstone

Plt David Huddleston

Gnr John Oliver

Pvt W Godwin

Pvt Eileen Spencer

Pvt A Berridge

 

St John’s, Wall

Sgt Frederick Bower

Pvt Bert Elson

Pvt A Craddock

 

St Paul’s, Dosthill

Sgt Timothy Bishop

Pvt J Coton

 

Holy Trinity, Edingale

Sgt Alfred Sutton

 

St Bartholomew’s, Hints

Pvt Edward Keeling

 

St Peter’s, Stonnall

Pvt J Glover

 

Amington Cemetery

LCpl Alfred Wilson

AB Cyril Gorton

 

St Peter’s, Elford

SIG Kenneth Stevens

 

SS Michael and James, Haunton

AC2 Edward Taft

 

Wilnecote New Cemetery

Cpl Marjorie Rollason

Fg Off Kenneth Nixon

FSgt Ronald Bagley

LCpl Benjamin Cotterill

If you look at the Commonwealth War Graves Website, you can learn more about each of them, from Scots Guards and Navy seamen to RAF, REME, gunners and even Marmion Cadets.  So many lost their lives in the war.  It is right we remember them.  

Many of us today have never known war and don't even have grandparents and parents who tell the stories of how life was.  The Commonwealth War Graves Site has tried to bring some of the histories to life for young people or for anyone with an interest.  They have an interactive app running this week featuring men and women who all had roles in the war, from many different backgrounds and share their stories and histories. 

www.cwgc.org

Take a look, learn more and browse some of our local heroes. 

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