(W) indicates that they are mentioned on the Weaverham Parish Memorial and (H) on the Hartford Parish Memorial. Numbers in brackets indicate grave numbers.
Army
Sapper Samuel Ashbrooke
Service Number 79162,
185th Coy, Royal Engineers
Died 13thFebruary 1919, age 45.
He died of pneumonia – this is likely to have been due either to influenza or the affects of gas. He is not mentioned on either of the local village memorials. He was the son of George and Ellen Ashbrooke who lived in Cheshire. His widow later remarried. Her married name was Annie Broadhurst. She lived with her new husband at 3 West Road, Weaverham. Samuel is buried in a Commonwealth War Grave in St Mary’s Churchyard, Weaverham. (2507)
Private Henry Sherlock Barlow
Service Number 77100,
Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry
Died 10th October 1918, age 42.
He was the husband of Mary Barlow of Maddock Lodge Sandiway and the son of Mr and Mrs James Barlow of Wayside Bungalow, Delamere. He is commemorated on the Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton, Hampshire. (W)
Private Arthur Shaw Burgess
Service Number 495575,
Labour Corps,
formerly Private 13679, 10thCheshire Regiment
Died 2ndNovember 1918, age 22.
He died of influenza in England, only a few days before the Armistice. He was the son of William and Elizabeth Burgess of Maldwyn Cottage, Beach Grove, Chester Road, Hartford. He is buried in a Commonwealth War Grave in St Mary’s Churchyard, Weaverham. (2471) (W)
He is also commemorated on the Brunner Mond War Memorial at Winnington.
Private Harry Chesterson
Service Number 51535,
74th Field Amb. Royal Army Medical Corps.
Died 11thOctober 1918, age 29.
The 29 year old died on Friday, 11th October 1918 and is Commemorated/Buried at St Aubert British Cemetery, France. (H)
Private Francis George Clare
Service Number M2/182360
706th M.T. Company. Royal Army Service Corps.
Died 30th October 1918.
Age 29.
Buried at Skopje British Cemetery, Republic of Macedonia
Died of influenza in hospital in Salonica on Wednesday, 30thOctober 1918 just a few days before the Armistice. He was born in St Helens. (H)
See http://www.sthelensrollsofhonour.co.uk/casualty-349-Francis_George_Clare.html
Lance Corporal John Albert Clark
Service Number 30136,
10th East Yorkshire Regiment.
Died 28thOctober 1918.
He died about two weeks before the Armistice. He was born in Barnton and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. (W)
Private/Corporal Albert Elsby
Service Number 34569,
1/4thKing’s Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 20thOctober 1918, age 32.
He was the son of J.T. Elsby of Green St, Sandbach. He died less than three weeks before the Armistice was signed. He is at rest in Erquelinnes Communal Cemetery, Hainaut, Belgium. He was a married man. His wife later remarried. Her married name was H. Burton and she lived at 50 Welles St, Sandbach. (W)
2nd. Corporal Charles Walter Heald,
Service Number MSM, 16797,
Royal Engineers
Died 5thJanuary 1921, age 36.
He was born at Castle, Northwich in 1885 and was the son of Alfred and Agnes. He married Edith Hignett at St Mary’s church, Weaverham on 6thMarch 1912. He first joined up at Chester age 22 years 8 months on 27thOctober 1907. His occupation was a surveyor and draughtsman. Charles was discharged from the army in September 1909 on the termination of his 5thperiod of engagement. He rejoined the army on 30thMay 1910 for a further period of 10 years and was transferred to the army reserve on 24thDecember 1912. Charles was mobilised on 6thAugust 1914 at Gosport and posted to the 42ndCompany Royal Engineers. He embarked to France on 5thDecember 1914. He was admitted to 51 Casualty Clearing Station, France on 5thDecember 1918 (no record can be found of the reason). 10thJuly 1919 he was demobilised at Chatham to his home with Edith at 6, West Road, Weaverham. He was 36 when he died on 5thJanuary 1921. Charles is buried in a Commonwealth War Grave in St Mary’s Churchyard, Weaverham but is not mentioned on either of the village war memorials.
Private Henry (Harry) Chesworth Leadbeater
Service Number 132013,
36, Machine Gun Corps
Died 25th October 1918, aged 19.
He was only 19 when he died, approximately two weeks before the Armistice. He was a native of Barnton and the son of Thomas C. and Emma H. Chesworth of Beach Rd, Weaverham. Henry is buried in Ingoyghem Military Cemetery, West Vlaanderen, Belgium. (W)
He is also commemorated on the Brunner Mond War Memorial at Winnington.
Private John Nield
Service Number 18949,
12thCheshire Regiment
Died 18th September 1918
He was born in Weaverham. He died on 18th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Doiran Memorial, Greece. (W)
Private W. Shallcross,
Service Number 110474,
“E” Coy, 53rdBn. Manchester Regiment
Died 14thNovember 1918, age 18.
He is not mentioned on either of the local village memorials. He died, a few days after the signing of the Armistice, at Kinmel Park Hospital, Kinmel Camp, Near Abergele, Conwy, North Wales. He was the son of Hannah Shallcross of Hamletts Hollow, Norley, and the late Aaron Shallcross. His mother was granted a gratuity on 11thAugust 1919. He is buried in a Commonwealth War Grave in St Mary’s churchyard, Weaverham. (23490)
Private Gilbert Thornton
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Service Number 315247,
1/5thBn Cheshire Regiment
Died 12thNovember 1918, aged 22.
He died the day after the Armistice. He is commemorated/buried Etapes Military Cemetery, France. (H)
Private James A. Waterman
Service Number M2/ 194883,
6thMobile Ammunition Col. Mechanical Transport, Royal Army Service Corps
Died 26thNovember 1918, aged 30.
Died of influenza three weeks after the Armistice. The 30-year-old son of Henry and Sarah was married to Louisa of 38 Grange Rd, Weaverham. He is buried in Awoingt British Cemetery, Nord France. (W)
Private Harry Wilkinson
1st/4th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
Service number 14754
Died 14th October 1918
Age 24
Buried at Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Belgium
Fell in action in France 14thOctober 1918. He was the son of William and Martha Ann and is commemorated on their gravestone in St Mary’s Churchyard, Weaverham. (W)
He is also commemorated on the Brunner Mond War Memorial at Winnington.
Bombadier Edgar Price Woodward,
Service Number 24763,
149thBDE. Royal Field Artillary
Died on 4thMay 1919, age 26.
He was the son of John and Mary Woodward of 23 Church Street, Weaverham. He is not mentioned on either of the two village memorials. He is buried in a Commonwealth War Grave in St Mary’s Churchyard, Weaverham. (2660)
Royal Navy
Able Seaman Richard Heyes
Service Number S.S. 5058 (PO)
HMS Barham
Died 8th November 1918, age 22.
He died just a few days before the Armistice. He is buried in a Commonwealth War Grave in St John the Baptist Churchyard, Hartford. (H)
Able Seaman Arthur Whitley
Service Number 222393
Died 27thOctober 1918.
He died following an operation for a gastric ulcer , approximately two weeks before the signing of the Armistice. He served on a ship which had his own name: ‘HMS Whitley’. The ship was supposed to have been called ‘HMS Whitby’ but was named ‘HMS Whitley’ by mistake! Arthur was the son of George and Dora Whitley of 8 Church View, Weaverham. He is buried in a Commonweath War Grave in St Mary’s churchyard (2660). (W)
Mercentile Marine
Chief Cook Arthur Shallcross,
Mercentile Marine
S.S. “Reventazon” (Manchester)
Died 5th October 1918, age 28.
He was born in Winsford and was the son of Frederick and the late Annie Shallcross of Acton Bridge Station. He died at sea on 5th Ocotober 1918 when the Revantazon was sunk by torpedo fired by German Submarine UC-23 approximately 14 nautical miles West by South of Kassandra Point, Gulf of Salonica. She was en route from Salonica to Port Said in ballast. Arthur is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial, London. (W)
Reventazon was a 4,042 GRT steam cargo ship completed in 1906 by Workman, Clark & Co. Ltd. for Elders & Fyffes, Ltd.
