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The War Memorial inside St. Cuthbert's Church, Ormesby
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(Photo : Stan Grosvenor (<csstan@mametz.fsnet.co.uk>)
The First World War Roll of Honour inside St. Cuthbert's Church, Ormesby, commemorates 17 men who lost their lives in the war. These names were also originally on the War Memorial in St. Cuthbert's churchyard, though the names on the War memorial have become weathered and illegible.
The dedication on the Roll of Honour reads;-
" Ormesby Parish
In memory of Those Fallen in the Great War 1914-1918.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Rest Eternal, grant to them, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon them."
5 of those commemorated served in the Yorkshire Regiment. Aditionally, there are special memorials in the church (see below) to three of these men.
Private Robert Ainslie, 32859. 15th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Transf. to (237875) 407th Agricultural Coy. Died at home on 4 July
1918.
Buried ORMESBY (ST. CUTHBERT) CHURCHYARD.
2nd Lieutenant Cecil Hawdon. 4th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of Mr and Mrs. W. Hawdon, of Upsall Grange, Nunthorpe, Yorks.
Killed 27 June 1916.
Buried LOKER CHURCHYARD (Belgium).
Robert Coulson in his "Biographies
of Yorkshire Regiment Officers Killed in the First World War" writes;-
"Cecil Hawdon was a Middlesbrough man from the Ormesby area south of
the town.
He joined the 4th Battalion on May 26th 1916 at Locre and the following month
was in the front line close to Kemmel Shelters.
On June 27th a patrol went out and found the enemy wire uncut by the artillery.
They commenced cutting a passage through the wire and just before 1-30pm 2nd
Lt Hawdon and his men moved into position for a trench raid. At this point
the British artillery opened up a bombardment on the enemy lines causing casualties
to the raiding party and forcing it to be withdrawn.
2nd Lt Cecil Hawdon was killed in this action on June 27th 1916 aged just
20.
Three of his men were killed with him and all four are buried side by side
in Locre Churchyard situated in the centre of the village to the south of
Ypres.
Cecil Hawdon was the son of Mr and Mrs Hawdon of Upsall Grange, Nunthorpe
near Middlesbrough.
Mr and Mrs Hawdon lost two other sons in the Great War, - one served as an
army chaplain and a memorial plaque to the brothers can be found in St. Cuthberts
Church at Ormesby close to the family home.
All three brothers are also remembered on Middlesbrough War Memorial.
2nd Lieutenant Hugh Mosman. 4th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Died at home 12 February 1916.
Buried EDINBURGH (GRANGE)
CEMETERY.
(For further information on Lieutenant Mosman, select the link to Edinburgh
(Grange) Cemetery, above.)
Private Robert Oberon, 203174. 4th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of George and Ann Oberon, of 159, Westgate, Guisborough, Yorks.Killed
28 October 1917. Aged 19.
Born Nunthorpe (Yorks), Enlisted Stokesley, Resided Nunthorpe
Commemorated Panel 52 to 54 and 162A, TYNE COT MEMORIAL.
Private Alfred James Sample, 26614. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of Edward James Sample, of Ormesby, Yorks. Killed 2 April 1917.
Aged 29.
Born Ormesby, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Buried BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY, FICHEUX.
The three other memorials of interest inside the Church are shown below. Photos of these memorials were all taken by Stan Grosvenor (<csstan@mametz.fsnet.co.uk>)
The
brass plaque commemorating 2nd Lieutenant Hugh Mosman
The
plaque commemorating The Revd. Noel Elliot Hawdon, Captain Rupert Ayrton Hawdon,
and Lieutenant Cecil Hawdon, - three brothers who were all killed in the First
World War
A Board in the bell tower recording a peal of Grandsire Triples rung on March
11, 1910. The first name on the list of ringers is (26614 Pte) AJ (Alfred
James) Sample, KIA 2.4.1917.
St. Cuthbert's Church, Ormesby
Photo : Edward Nicholl
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