{"id":3223,"date":"2021-07-20T07:29:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T06:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wainsgate.co.uk\/?page_id=3223"},"modified":"2022-04-07T17:56:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:56:53","slug":"wainsgates-war-dead","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wainsgate.co.uk\/wainsgates-war-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"WAINSGATE’S WAR DEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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See also: They Also Served<\/a> and Belgian Refugees<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Twenty-six men who died while serving in the two World Wars are commemorated in some form at Wainsgate. There is also one (Percy Brown Roe<\/strong>) who survived the war and died in the Oxenhope charabanc disaster in 1920 but whose grave has a CWGC headstone. Twenty-five died during WW 1, and only one (John Crabtree) was killed during WW2.<\/p>

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The three who died in this country (Vernon Harcourt Clay, Wilbert Jackson and Percy Brown Roe<\/strong>) are all buried at Wainsgate. Vernon Clay<\/strong> was seriously wounded in France, brought back to England, and died at Chelsea Hospital. Wilbert Jackson<\/strong> died of pneumonia while undergoing training in London, and is buried with his mother. His headstone also commemorates his brother, Sam who was killed in France in 1916. These three graves are maintained by the Commonwealth War graves Commission, and those of Vernon Clay<\/strong> and Percy Roe<\/strong> have standard CWGC headstones.<\/p>

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All of the others who died in WW1 are interred or commemorated in France or Belgium, apart from Ellis Sutcliffe<\/strong>, who was killed in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) and is commemorated at Basra Memorial, and Albert Barrett<\/strong> Harwood, who was lost at sea, and is commemorated at the Tower Hill Memorial in London. John Crabtree<\/strong> was killed in Egypt in 1942, and is interred at El Alamein War Cemetery. Those who are not buried at Wainsgate are commemorated on family headstones in the graveyard, with the exception of Thomas Roger Ashworth, Archibald Sunderland and Ellis Sutcliffe.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Eleven of the men who died in WW1 are commemorated on the Wainsgate War Memorial and photograph, both of which are located inside the chapel and are dedicated to men of Wainsgate Chapel and Sunday School who lost their lives in the \u2018Great War 1914-1918\u2019.<\/p>


Three men (Astin Jarvis, Fred Southwell and Albert Barrett Harwood<\/strong>) are commemorated on the memorial and photograph from Old Town (Wesleyan) Methodist Chapel, Walker Lane, which have both been relocated to Wainsgate following the closure of the Methodist Chapel. These both refer to the \u2018Great War 1914-1919\u2019. (The war formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28th June 1919 rather than the Armistice of 11th November 1918, and this date is considered by some to be the true date when the war ended. The UK Parliament officially declared the war ended on 31st August 1921).<\/p>

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