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

Norwell

For another photograph of the War Memorial and the list of names on the plaques, see the Southwell Churches History Project site.

According to the Commonwealth War Grave Commission website, there are no C.W. Graves for WWI in Norwell churchyard.

These are the names listed on War Memorial cross:

  1. private Herbert BAINES, 102nd Bn Canadian Infantry
  2. private Samuel BALDWIN, 1st Bn Sherwood Foresters
  3. private Ernest CHILVERS, 1/8th Bn Sherwood Foresters
  4. rifleman Christopher John ETCHES, 1st Bn King's Royal Rifle Corps
  5. Bert FAULKNER, unknown
  6. stoker 1st class Alfred HEATON, HMS Invincible
  7. private John HENTON, 2nd Bn Royal Scots
  8. corporal Robert Wilson JACKSON, 1/5th Bn KOY Light Infantry
  9. private Harry MARSTON, 2/4th Lincs Regt.
  10. private Arthur PARR, 1st Bn City of London Regt.
  11. private Henry WILSON, 20th Bn Sherwood Foresters

Alfred HEATON's death on HMS Invincible was at the Battle of Jutland when his ship was sunk on 31 May 1916.

Robert ("Bert") JACKSON's death is noted in the Newark Great War Bulletin of 19 July, 1915.

Ernest CHILVERS's death is noted in the Newark Great War Bulletin of 8 November, 1915.

The War Memorial inscriptions read as follows:

North side:

1914 - 1919
ERECTED BY PUBLIC
SUBSCRIPTION
IN MEMORY OF

HERBERT BAINES
SAM BALDWIN
ERNEST CHILVERS
CHRISTOPHER ETCHES
BERT FAULKNER
JOHN HENTON
ALFRED HEATON
ROBERT WILSON JACKSON
HARRY MARSTON
ARTHUR PARR
HENRY WILSON

WHO COUNTED NOT THEIR LIVES DEAR
UNTO THEMSELVES, BUT DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, TRUTH AND PEACE.

South side:

IN HONOURED MEMORY OF
JAMES ADAMSON
WILFRED ALAN CARY
FRANK FRECKNALL GREASLEY
WHO FELL IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
1939 - 1945

O VALIANT HEARTS WHO TO YOUR GLORY CAME

JAMES F. BRITNELL
1952
MALAYA

The wooden Roll of Honour board to east of the south door in the church commemorates the First World War.

  1. ASH.F
  2. BAINES. HERBT (FALLEN)
  3. BAINES. H.
  4. BALDWIN.S. (FALLEN)
  5. BENNETT. J.W.
  6. BROWN. H.
  7. CHILVERS. E. (FALLEN)
  8. COBB. A.
  9. DOBBS. H.
  10. DODD. A.L.
  11. DODD. C.T.
  12. ELKINGTON. E.
  13. ETCHES. C. (FALLEN)
  14. FAULKNER. B. (FALLEN)
  15. FRECKNALL. H.
  16. FRECKNALL. W.
  17. HAZZARD. A.
  18. HEATON. ALFD. (FALLEN)
  19. HEATON. A.
  20. HEATON. B.J.
  21. HEATON. H.
  22. HEATON. T.
  23. HEMPSALL. A.H.
  24. HEMPSALL. F.A.
  25. HEMPSALL. J.W.
  26. HEMPSALL. L.W.
  27. HENTON. J. (FALLEN)
  28. HOMER. J.T.A.
  29. JACKSON. R.W. (FALLEN)
  30. JACKSON. P.J.
  31. JACKSON. B.N.
  32. KIRKHAM. G.
  33. LEESON. G.H.
  34. MARSHALL. B.
  35. MARSHALL. E.
  36. MARSHALL. G.
  37. MARSTON. H. (FALLEN)
  38. MARSTON. R.
  39. NORMAN. W.
  40. PARKIN. JOS.
  41. PARKIN. J.H.
  42. PARR. A. (FALLEN)
  43. PARR. R.
  44. REYNOLDS. H.
  45. ROBB. H.S.
  46. SHELDON. T.
  47. TEMPLEMAN. F.
  48. TURNER. A.
  49. TURNER. G.
  50. TURNER. J.W.
  51. WARD. F.
  52. WILLOWS. H.
  53. WILLOWS. S.
  54. WILSON. H. (FALLEN)
  55. WILSON. J.

The wooden board to the west of the south door in the church commemorates those who served in the Second World War:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
and in honour of the men &
women from NORWELL and
NORWELL WOODHOUSE
who served their King and
Country in the Second World War
1939 - 1945

  1. ADAMSON, James - Fallen
  2. ADAMSON, Maurice
  3. ANDERSON, John
  4. BAINES, Elsie
  5. BROOKS, Leslie
  6. BROWN, Charles H.
  7. CARY, G. Francis
  8. CARY, Wilfred A. - Fallen
  9. CLARKE, E. Margaret
  10. DOBBS, Harold
  11. DODD, G. William
  12. DOUGHTY, Robert B.
  13. FARMER, Boyd D.
  14. GREASLEY, Frank F. - Fallen
  15. HEMPSALL, George A.
  16. HEMPSALL, Mark E.
  17. HINDE, G. Ernest
  18. HOUGH, Leonard
  19. HOWARD, Denis
  20. KEMP, Albert E.
  21. NEEDHAM, Betty H.
  22. PASK, Eustace
  23. SHELDON, Benjamin
  24. SHELDON, Henry
  25. SHELDON, Walter
  26. SMITH, Henry
  27. SMITH, J. Thomas
  28. SMITH, William H.
  29. TEMPLEMAN, John
  30. WILLOWS, Barbara J.

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