Rearsby War Memorial

A Guide to the Rearsby War Memorial is available at £3 incl p&p by application from the Web Master or via the Post Office. 40 pages with illustrations.

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List of the Fallen 1914 to 1918

Albert Benskin........Cambrai Memorial
William Benskin.......Tyne Cot Memorial, Passchendaele near Ypres
Charles Coleman .....Arras Memorial
Wilfrid Crowden ......Arras Memorial
Walter Dewick ........Buried at Cambrin, Bethune
Gerald Ellis ............Tyne Cot Memorial, Passchendaele nr Ypres
Robert Hassall ........Buried at Beaurains Road, Arras
George Hill ............Buried at Loos
Thomas Sharp .........Buried at Bethune
John Tyers .............Soissons Memorial
Thomas Tyers ........Buried at Wimereux, Boulogne
Harry Williams ........Buried at Woolwich, London
Arthur Wright ........Buried at Arras, Faubourg d’Amiens

1939 to 1945

Edward Neal ........Singapore Memorial
Frederick Woodcock..Buried at Reichwald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve

Representative photographs

First World War

Grave of Gunner Harry Williams RHA

Harry Williams was a groom living in Rearsby, who volunteered in 1914 and died of illness at Woolworth on 18th December the same year. Not typical of the mostly young conscripts, he was 54 at the time of his death. His son was born posthumously in September 1915.

Second World War

Frederich George Woodcock 2nd Bn. The Monmouthshire Regiment aged 35 years old. Killed in the Reichswald, near Kleve on 11th February 1945.