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Military Records information for South Wingfield and places above it in the hierarchy

South Wingfield

Lewis BOOTH is recorded as enlisting in 1917 in the South Staffordshire Regt. The BOOTH surname occurs often in old records of this place.

In All Saints Churchyard stands the Commonwealth War Grave of William BRIDDON, RAFVR, Flight Sergeant, RAF 214 Sqdn. died 4 March 1945. Son of William and Ellen BRIDDON, of South Wingfield.

The Names on the War Memorial Plaque are as follows (details added as found):

  1. Rflmn Irvine BENSON, KRRC, son of John and Hannah BENSON.
  2. Pte. William Meek BINNIE, Sherwood Foresters.
  3. Pte. Harold A. BOWLER, 11th Bn. Sherwood Foresters, buried in So. Wingfield Baptist Churchyard, son of Mrs. Matilda BOWLER.
  4. Pte. William BRADWELL, KRRC.
  5. Pte. Joseph BUTLER
  6. Pte. W. G. CHRISTIAN, 6th Bn. Wiltshire Regt., husband of Isabel Florence CHRISTIAN.
  7. Pte. J. W. CLAYTON
  8. Pte. H. COOPER
  9. Pte. Samuel FOX, 10th Bn. Sherwood Foresters, son of John and Selina FOX.
  10. Pte. W. D. GILKS, 1st Lincs. Regt., husband of Ethel Mary GILKS, of 125 Brushfield St., Hyson Green, Nottingham.
  11. Pte. Elisha Horn HARRIMAN, 18th Bn. West Yorkshire Regt., son of William and Ily Horn HARRIMAN.
  12. Pte. R. HARRISON
  13. Pte. Arthur Cecil HINTON, 2nd, Bn. Sherwood Foresters, son of Joseph and Elizabeth HINTON, Staveley, Chesterfield.
  14. Cpl. S. R. JONES
  15. Captain B. R. W. SMITH
  16. Gdsn. R. W. STEVENSON
  17. Pte. B. C. TROWN
  18. Pte. F. WHITE
  19. Pte. S. WHITE

    1939 - 1945
  20. Gdsn. M. H. BOWLER
  21. Flt. srgt. William BRIDDON, RAFVR 214 Sqdn.
  22. Pte. Sidney COWLISHAW, died on HMS Lancastria during Dunkirk
  23. Pte. James Peter HAYES, 1st. Bn. Essex Regt., husband of Joan Lovaine HAYES, of South Wingfield, Derbyshire.
  24. Flt. Off. William LYNAM, RAFVR, RAAF Sqdn. 460, husband of Lilian Edith LYNAM.
  25. Pte. C. W. MARTIN
  26. Pte. William Benjamin MURFIN, 1t Bn, Northamptonshire Regt., son of William and Sarah Jane MURFIN.
  27. Srgt. Arthur PRINCE, RAFVR, 107 Sqdn. RAF, son of Joseph Rodgers and Caroline PRINCE, South Wingfield.
  28. Pilot Off. N. A. ROWELL
  29. Air Mech. H. W. SIMMS
  30. Pte. O. A. THOMPSON

Derbyshire

Derbyshire Militia: Enlistments into the Regular Army at Dover, 1813 - a record of the names from this list was also published in the Derby Mercury, 1814.

Names from Musters of the Derbyshire Militia 1781-82 are available for purchase on floppy disk or microfiche through Family History Indexes (the link to Militia Musters is part way down the page).

There is an online website for looking up Prisoners of War from World War One at the Int'l Comm. of the Red Cross Archives.

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