Witherslack St.Paul

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.