West Kirby St.Bridget's

The church of St.Bridget's is on Church Road in West Kirby.

The inscription on the centre panel reads.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN THANKFUL MEMORY

OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH

WHO, AT THE CALL OF DUTY,

SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR

1914 - 1919

AND LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES

FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN

THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM

AND RIGHT

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"Eternal Rest O Lord

grant unto them &

let light perpetual

shine upon them"

The men commemorated.

APSIMON Arthur Tryweryn

ALLEN George Wordsworth

ANDREWS William James

ATHERTON Francis Wright

AITKEN John

BARNES Samuel Frank

BARLOW Septimus

BELL Wilson

BLACKBURN Eric

BUCKNALL Thomas

BIRCHILL Vivian

BIGHOUSE John

BRATTAN Arthur Crosfield

BRADLEY Richard

BENYON Charles

CHASE Alfred Bayley

CROWDER Edward Smethurst

CASSON Alfred Abraham

CASE Francis Edward

COOPER Frederick Hylton

COLLINS Sydney

CHRISTIAN John Edward

COOKE William

CLARK Herbert

DAVIES Harry

DANGERFIELD James

DAVIES James Hatton

DREAPER Reginald Charles

DICKENSON John Henry

DAVIES Joshua

DAWSON Thomas

DAVIES William Henry

DODIMEAD Tom

EVANS James Collingwood

EVANS George

EMERSON Leonard George

FROST Evelyn Fairfax Meadows

FLETCHER Richard

GOODWIN Ernest Robert

GONNER Edward Dermot L

GRISDALE Edward

GREGG George Philip

HALL Walter

HERRON Alec Rowan

HENSHAW Albert

HENSHAW Arthur James

HATTON Alfred

HATTON William

HATTON Oliver

HATTON John

HARTNESS David

HILL Ernest

HAUGHTON Ernest

HAUGHTON Richard Edward

HARRIS George James

HOULDSWORTH George

HALLOWS Joseph

HALLOWS Robert

HINDE Kenneth

HEAL Reginald

HEAL Sidney

HIND William Spencer

HOLLOWELL Francis John

JOHNSTONE William Joseph

JOHNSTONE Walter

JOHNSTONE William Benjamin

KERSHAW Charles E

KELLY Ernest James

KNIVETON John Kenneth

KING Lionel Richard Thacker

KING Sydney Wm Thacker

LALLY Alfred Ernest

LALLY Arthur

LEWIS William Owen

LEECH Horrocks William

LANCASTER Reginald

LANCASTER Percy

LYON Thomas Henry

LUNT Thomas

MONTEATH Frank

McAFEE Lewis Alexander

MARPLES William Henry Noël

MOSS Maurice Edgar

MORRIS Harold

MAYHEW Frederick Edwin

NORMAN James Rainford

OWEN Arthur Luston

O'NIEL Arthur

OWEN Percy Reginald

OWEN Robert Rice

POSTON Percy James

PRYTHERCH Edwin

POORE Frederick Poyntz

PORTER Harold Morris

PORTER John Edward

POWNALL Arthur Thomas

POWNALL James

POWNALL John Alfred

PARKINSON John

PRITCHARD Thomas Harry

QUILLIAM John Henry

ROOKE Claude Eugene

ROOKE Henry Clive

RAILTON Edward

ROWLAND Harry Clyde

RUSSELL John

RILEY Walter

SCHOLEFIELD Arthur Hoyle

SHERRATT George Edward

SPENCER Herbert

SMITH John

SMITH Samuel

SIMISTER Reginald

SIMPELL William Mathias

STOTT Basil

THOMPSON Arthur

TEANBY Ernest

THOMAS George Sydney

VAN GRUISEN Nicholas Albert Rog

WALLWORTH Clement Robert C

WILKINSON Frederick

WHELAN Herbert James

WALKER Harry

WILLIAMS Herbert Litton

WALL Leonard Comer

WARING William

WEBSTER William

WEST Thomas Edwin

WATERS Richard

Two Commonwealth War Graves were recorded in the graveyard.

Worker Albert Edward SHEPHERD

Australian Munition Worker

Died 6 Dec 1918 aged 38

Buried grave 1129

Private 75223 John PARKINSON

Northumberland Fusiliers

Died 14 Apr 1919 aged 19

Buried grave 1360

Son of John Price Parkinson and Charlotte Ann Parkinson, of 3, Long Lane, West Kirby.

Photos by Kieran Gleave