Remembrance

THIS MEMORIAL
WAS ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION
IN HONOURED MEMORY OF
THE UNDERMENTIONED MEN FROM THIS PARISH
WHO FELL IN THE
GREAT WAR A.D. 1914-1919

FRANK BROWN
GEORGE BURKILL
REGINALD JOHN DODDS
WILLIAM EARL
ELIAS WILLIAM FIELD
ALBERT GREEN
JOSEPH HERBERT GREEN
CHARLES HOWDEN
FREDERICK KIRKBY
CHARLES ALBERT OGG
JOHN ROBINSON


1939-1945
WILLIAM BURKILL
FREDERICK J COX
REGINALD HALL
BERNARD HUNSLEY

THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES
THAT WE MAY LIVE

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George Burkill, the son of Anna Burkill of High Burgage Winteringham, and the late Henry Burkill.  He died on 4th December, 1915, aged 28, serving as an able seaman on HMS Penelope. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.

Elias William Field, the husband of Mary Ellen Field, of the Ferry Boat Inn, Winteringham.  Date of death: 22nd December 1915, aged 53, buried at Le Petit Lac Cemetery.  He was a sergeant in the Lincolnshire Yeomanry.

William Earl, the son of Amos and Dinah Ellen Earl, died on 31st July 1917, aged 30. He was a private in the Lincolnshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.

Joseph Herbert Green, the son of John and Mary Ellen Green of Silver Street Winteringham, died on 26th March 1918, aged 28.  He was a private in the Lincolnshire Regiment, 1st Battalion. He is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial.

Albert Green, the son of John and Mary Ellen Green of Silver Street Winteringham, died on 17th August 1917, aged 34.  He was a private with the Manchester Regiment, 11th Battalion, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, Belgium.

Reginald John Cooke, was a rifleman in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, 9th Battalion, who died on 27th March 1918.  He is commemorated on Panel 61-64 of the Pozieres Memorial.

John Robinson, the son of Mr GH and Mrs SJ Robinson, of Towler Place, West End Winteringham, who died on 11th October 1918, aged 18.  He was a rifleman in the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) 1st/7th Battalion.  He is buried in the St Aubert British Cemetery, in France (13 km east of Cambrai).

Charles Albert Ogg, Sapper, Royal Engineers, Railway Operating Division, died 9th February 1919, and buried in Beaulencourt British Cemetery, Ligny-Thilloy, France.

William Burkill, the son of Mr and Mrs Albert Burkill of Winteringham, died on 25th May 1941, aged 21. He served as a private with the York and Lancaster Regiment, 2nd Battalion, and is commemorated on Face 7 of the Athens Memorial.

Frederick J Cox, Gunner in the Royal Artillery, 6/3 Maritime Regiment, died on 8th June, 1942, aged 32. Commemorated on Chatham Naval Memorial, 67,1. It is believed that he was one of four British gunners on the Norwegian vessel “South Africa”, which was torpedoed by a German submarine, and killed in the blast as the torpedo hit the ship, along with 5 others. See Warsailors website.

 

Our research has so far been unable to positively ascertain the details of the remaining men who served from Winteringham, but we believe the two below are the men on the village memorial.  Should anyone be able to offer further information, we would be most grateful.

 

Charles Howden, of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Died 24th April 1917, and commemorated on the Arras Memorial.

Bernard Hunsley, son of William and Elizabeth Mary Hunsley, who died on the 8th July 1944, aged 24. He was a private in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion, and is buried in La Delivrande War Cemetery, Douvres, Normandy.

 

If anyone could help us with further information on the men not listed here, or would like to offer additional details (and perhaps photographs) of any of the men, we would be most grateful.

Service of Remembrance 2004

Winteringham British Legion Group

Mrs Bateman Lays a Wreath

The British Legion and Flag

Children Lay Wreaths

The Last Post played by Alastair Dakers

Reverend Pledger and Veteran Mr Sills

Reverend Pledger Gives the Reading

The Village Group

Wreaths on the War Memorial

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