Inside St.Paul's church Witherslack is a wooden cross mounted on a panel with individual brass name plaques mounted on it.
3RD OFFICER
GORDON HUGHES
ROYAL MERCHANT NAVY
13.6.1941
PTE THOMAS H HUDSON
ROYAL ARTILLERY
17.1.1942
2ND RADIO OFFICER
LAWRENCE D LONG
ROYAL MERCHANT NAVY
29.10.1942
PTE HENRY ATKINSON
49 EDMONTON REGT
CANADIAN AST
20.7.1943
PTE MICHAEL JACKSON
2 KO ROY LANCS REGT
21 APRIL 1915
GEO W SCOTT
PTE KO YORKS LI
JULY 1 1916
SERGT E D ASKEW
7 DCO CANADIANS
JUNE 3 1916
PTE WALT HODGSON
8 BORDER REGT
5 JULY 1916
PTE JOSEPH SHIELDS
PIONEER CORPS
17.9.1943
PTE R A BARBER
11 LN LANC REGT
25 DEC 1916
PTE W BRENNAND
11TH BORDER
30TH SEP 1917
PTE GEO PARK
9TH BORDER
1ST JUNE 1917
PTE RD PHILIPSON
24TH BN MANCR REGT
22ND JAN 1919
SERGT HAROLD MILLIGAN
ROYAL ENGINEERS
19.1.1944
LCPL JOSEPH A SUART
DORSET REGIMENT
29.9.1944
CQM SERGT JOHN HUTTON
BORDER REGIMENT
2.5.1945
GUARDSMAN
ALBERT J NEWTON
GRENADIER GUARDS
15.7.1945
GUARDSMAN
HERBERT PARK
1ST BN GRENADIER GUARDS
17.6.1917
Also in the church are two private brass memorial plaques commemorating a family of soldiers.
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
CHARLES JAMES FOX STANLEY
LT COL GRENADIER GUARDS
3RD SON OF 13TH EARL OF DERBY
BORN APRIL 25TH 1808, DIED OCTOBER 13TH 1884
ALSO OF HIS WIFE
FANNY AUGUSTA STANLEY
BORN JULY 30TH 1810, DIED MAY 29TH 1878
BOTH LAID IN THIS CHURCHYARD
ALSO OF THEIR SECOND SON
DOUGLAS JAMES GEORGE STANLEY
LIEUT ROYAL ARTILLERY
BORN MARCH 8TH 1847, DIED JULY 10TH 1877
BURIED AT LLANSTADWELL, PEMBROKE DOCK
ALSO OF THEIR THIRD SON
ROBERT HAMILTON STANLEY
CAPT 1ST DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY
BORN JULY 9TH 1849, DIED JANUARY 3RD 1900
BURIED AT EGTON-CUM-NEWLAND, LANCASHIRE
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF
CHARLES EDWARD HENRY STANLEY
LIEUTENANT COLONEL GRENADIER GUARDS
ELDEST SON OF COLONEL HON CHARLES JAMES FOX STANLEY
BORN APRIL 28TH 1843, DIED DECEMBER 6TH 1909
ALSO OF
JOHN WILLIAM STANLEY
2ND LIEUTENANT LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS
YOUNGEST SON OF THE ABOVE CHARLES EDWARD HENRY STANLEY
BORN MARCH 10TH 1886
KILLED IN ACTION AT MESSINES RIDGE, FLANDERS JUNE 7TH 1917
The churchyard has two Commonwealth War Graves only on was located.
CQMS 3599490 John Addison HUTTON
Border Regiment 4 Btn.
Died 2 May 1945 aged 26
Son of John Dawson Hutton and Mary Hutton
Husband of Jane Emma Hutton, of Whitbarrow.
and
Private 51781 Richard Dewhurst PHILIPSON
Manchester Regiment 24th Bn.
Died 22 Jan 1919 aged 20
Son of James and Mary Philipson of Witherslack, Westmorland.
All photographs by Chris Gleave.