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Military Records information for Sandiacre and places above it in the hierarchy

Sandiacre

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has 9 graves recorded in Sandiacre Cemetery.

These are the WWI Casualties buried at St. Giles cemetery:

  1. Driver E. W. MARRIOTT. 315 Bde. RFA, , died 10 June 1919.
  2. Srgt. Edgar Cecil BAKER. Army Pay Corps, age 32, died 19 June 1918, son of Joseph Henry and Annie BAKER.
  3. Private Horace MERRIMAN, Sherwood Foresters, 53rd Btln., age 20, died 23 Aug. 1919, son of William and Agnes MERRIMAN.
  4. Private H. J. PAYNE. 7th Btln. Leics Regt., died 1 Jan. 1919.

World War II:

  1. Private Albert Ernest EATON. Sherwood Foresters Regt., 14th Btln., died 09 July 1941.
  2. Srgt. Eric Charles HOSKIN. 10 Sqdn. RAF Vol. Rsrv, age 25, died 12 Dec 1941, husband of Nancy F. HOSKIN of Sandiacre.
  3. Lance Corp. Harry ROLLEY. 2nd. Btln. North Staffs, age 24, died 29 Oct 1940, son of Mrs. A. FERN of Matlock.
  4. Gunner Harry Eton STONE. 4th. HAA Regt. Royal Artillery, died 1 Dec 1940, son of Henry Eton and Florrie STONE.
  5. Driver Cecil Ronald TAYLOR. RASC, age 25, died 21 Apr 1942, Son of Lizzie TAYLOR of Sandiacre.

The following men have memorials in the churchyard:

  1. John Arthur HARRISON, NZEF
  2. John Edward KNOWLES, died in Normandy, 1944
  3. Edgar LOWATER, died March, 1944
  4. Bert Gwinnett PHILLIPS, died 1918
  5. Ernesty Thomas RIGBY, died March, 1918
  6. Harry SIMPSON, RAF, died 29 May 1943

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.

UK and Ireland