South Staffordshire War Memorials

Dedicated to the memory of all the men and women of the South Staffordshire area who died during the two World Wars.

War Memorials of the South Staffordshire Area.

Alphabetical List

MEMORIALS
A = War Memorial in SS Mary & Chad Churchyard, Brewood.
B = War Memorial in St Mary's Catholic Church, Brewood.
C = War Memorial in St Paul's Church, Coven.
D = War Memorial outside Coven Memorial Hall, Coven.
I = War Memorial in St John's Church, Bishopswood.
L = Lapley War Memorial.
O = War Memorials at Codsall.
W = Weston-under-Lizard War Memorials.
Y = St Mary's, Blymhill War Memorial.
blank = Men with connections to the area - not on any local memorial.

Rank Name Unit Date of Death Memorial
Private William Richard Allman North Staffordshire 7 1918-08-26 W
Lieutenant B Asprey P of Wales's Own (West Yorks) 1915-02-24 AB
H Barnes 0000-00-00 A
Private John Beamond S Staffs 7 1917-10-04 L
Private G Beech S Staffs 8 1916-07-06 A
Flying Officer Ernest George Bell RAF 516 Sqdn 1945-06-19 A
John Bell 1918-00-00 B
Private James Richard Bennett KSLI 1 1914-10-23
Private P Bentley Royal Sussex 11 1918-10-21 A
Sapper Charles Henry Bickley Canadian Railway Troops 13 1918-03-28 CD
Private E E Bickley Duke of Well (West Riding) 2 1918-02-02 AO
Private J Bill S Staffs Depot 1917-09-24 A
Private William Bird South Staffs 1 1916-08-31 O
Lance Bombardier Daniel James Bishton RGA 38 Heavy 1918-12-27 L
Sergeant Edward Henry Bishton S Staffs 1/6 1915-10-13 O
Able Seaman H Bradbury Royal Naval Division 1920-00-00 A
Private P Bradley S Staffs 1/6 att 172 RE 1915-06-06 AB
Pioneer Edwin Brereton Royal Engineers 1st Res 1918-11-07 L
Commander Richard Orlando Beaconsfield Bridgeman RN 1917-01-09 W
Private G H Bridgwater S Staffs 1 1915-09-13 A
Private Ernald Cecil Brown 5th Dragoon Guards (P. Charlot 1915-05-17 L
John Brown 1918-00-00 B
Private Sidney Brown KSLI 6 1916-09-04 L
Private Harry Bullock South Staffs 1 1916-10-31
E Cadwallader 1939-00-00 A
Private George Henry Caswell S Staffs 1 1916-08-31 O
Lance Serjeant Jack Reading Caswell Royal Warwickshire 10 1918-05-15 O
2nd Lieutenant R L Caunter Gloucestershire 7 1916-12-18 A
Private William Clarke Notts & Derby 1/6 1918-09-23
Private E T Cluett RAMC 1917-04-30 A
Corporal John T Colley KSLI 6 1918-04-01 Y
E A Cooke 1944-09-00 C
Serjeant Arthur Cooper S Staffs 2 1916-07-27 L
Private G H Davies S Staffs 7 1917-11-14 A
Bert Davis 1917-09-23 CD
Lance Bombardier George Davis RGA 231 1918-10-15 CD
Gunner Joseph Deans RFA 82 1917-09-30 CD
Private E J Donlan S Staffs 1 1915-05-17 AB
Private George Edwards Grenadier Guards 3 1918-04-15 Y
Private James Egan Staffs Mounted Infantry 1901-04-09 B
Charles Edward Evans 0000-00-00 I
Gunner Charles Edward Evans RHA 1917-10-08 I
Private John Evans Lincolnshire 10 1917-04-28
John James Evans 0000-00-00 I
Private Frank Everall Notts & Derby (S Foresters) 1 1915-03-12
Private A Farmer Norfolk 7 1917-04-28 A
Serjeant H W Foster South Staffs 2 1916-09-17
Lieutenant Kevin Robert Furniss Royal Flying Corps 1917-04-19 O
Private John Gibney Lancaster 6 1917-02-12
L H Green 1939-00-00 A
Private W H Green Worcestershire 10 1917-09-20 AB
Private Daniel Griffiths Worcestershire 3 1916-08-23 O
Private George Griffiths 0000-00-00 L
Private Pryce Henry Griffiths Royal Welsh Fus 4 1918-03-21 L
Serjeant Harold Grimley Royal Sussex 11 1916-10-21 O
Lieutenant Thomas Grosvenor Royal Flying Corps 1917-09-17 O
Private J Gwilt Worcestershire 1918-11-13
Lieutenant Cyril Gwyer Grenadier Guards 2 1918-08-27 S
Lieutenant Richard William Haybittle Machine Gun Corps 185 1918-01-08 O
Private W Haycock S Staffs 1 1916-07-14 A
Private G Haynes Essex 10 1918-09-21 A
Private Charles Hayward RAMC 1916-07-14 CD
Private Robert Ernest Herd Royal Welsh Fusiliers 2 1917-09-26 S
Private Frank Highway Essex 2 1918-04-18 CD
Private John Hitchcott S Staffs 3 1901-03-04 B
Private William Frederick Hodgkiss Leicestershire R 2/5 1943-10-12 Y
Lance Corporal John Holding Northumberland Fus 9 1916-07-07
Private William Holt South Staffs 7 1916-11-23
Lance Corporal Andrew Homer KSLI 6 1918-04-01
Private Henry Huffadine KSLI 5 1916-08-24
Pioneer Charles W Hughes Royal Engineers N Special Coy 1917-08-14 O
Private Philip Jackson RAVC 1915-12-15 I
Leading Aircraftman Allen George Jell RAF Volunteer Reserve 1946-03-28 A
Driver John Jervis ASC 1916-08-22 W
Private William Oliver Jones Suffolk 7 1917-08-09 CD
Private A Kerry Leicestershire 1/4 1918-06-22 A
Private Frank Kingston 96th Canadian Highlanders 1917-08-15 S
Corporal Philip Arnold Knights Smith Bedfordshire Yeomanry 1918-04-12
Lieutenant Michael Armitage Langley RN H.M.Submarine Swordfish 1940-11-16 A
Corporal Moses Lawrence E Yorkshire 11 1918-04-12
Rifleman Ernest Edward Leadbeater London 12 1916-10-07 O
Private A Lewis Machine Gun Corps 164 1916-10-05 A
Private E A Lewis S Staffs 1/6 1915-10-13 AB
Private James Marshall South Staffs 1 1916-07-14 O
Private John Edward Meagher Canadian Inf 2 1917-04-04 B
Private William Meagher Warwickshire 1/5 1916-08-18 B
Private Frederick G Medlicott West Riding 3 1920-06-00 Y
A 2nd Corporal Thomas Medlicott Royal Engineers 67 Field Coy 1917-10-24 O
Sapper William Meredith Royal Engineers 115 Rly Coy 1915-08-26 O
Private Ernest Merrick MGC (Inf) 57 1916-11-18 L
Private Sidney Chamberlain Millward South Staffs 1/6 1915-10-13
Private Thomas Millward South Staffs 1/6 1915-10-13 O
Lance Corporal David Milton Northumberland Fus 8 1916-09-26 O
Lieutenant Christopher Monckton Royal Flying Corps 1916-07-01 S
Lieutenant Francis Algernon Monckton Scots Guards 1 1914-11-08 S
Lieutenant Geoffrey Valentine Francis Monckton Scots Guards 1 1915-01-25 S
Guardsman Thomas Moore Grenadier Guards 3 1917-07-31
Lance Corporal A Moorhouse S Staffs 1 1914-11-07 A
Private C Moorhouse S Staffs 2 1914-10-25 A
L/Cpl Ernest Whitfield Moreton N Staffs 2/6 1918-03-21 Y
Gunner Alfred Morris RGA 71 1918-11-21 CD
Private Leonard Morris Leicestershire R 2/5 1943-12-04 Y
David Muir 1945-05-00 C
R C Nash 1939-00-00 A
Sapper G Newman RE 12 Div Signal Coy 1917-11-30 A
Private W Nichols E Yorkshire 2 1915-09-29 A
Private H Nightingale Canadian Inf 133 1921-07-25
Private Percy Oliver Worcestershire 10 1917-09-20
Private Charles Onion S Staffs 2/6 1917-12-01 B
Corporal Fred Onion Grenadier Guards 1 1914-10-29 I
Private James Onion South Staffs 7 1916-10-04 I
Private George Owen South Staffs 2 1915-05-18
2 Lieutenant Raymond Charles Page South Staffs 8 1918-09-24 O
Driver G Parkes RFA D 112 1917-05-31 A
Trooper Ralph Payne Queen's Own Hussars 7 1940-08-27 Y
Private Robert Thomas Peake Liverpool R 4 1915-04-27 Y
Rifleman G W Pearce London (Finsbury Rifles) 11 1918-11-22 A
Private R G Perkin N Staffs 2/6 1917-04-14 A
Shoeing Smith J W Picken RFA D 108 1918-12-07 O
Private William Poston Lincolnshire 2 1918-10-23 L
Sergeant James Powell North Lancashire 8 1916-05-11
Corporal Charles Henry Preston South Staffs 1/6 1916-07-01 O
Kenneth W Pringle 1944-01-00 C
Private George Pryce KSLI 1 1917-06-16 W
Lieutenant Richard Standeford Pullen South Staffs 1 1917-10-26 CD
Private Albert Henry Renshaw Staffordshire Yeomanry 1/1 1918-10-21 O
Private Cecil Charles Rhodes S Staffs 7 1946-10-27
W Rhodes 1939-00-00 A
Private William Riley Cheshire 6 1918-03-28 W
Driver William Salter RHA/RFA 1916-11-05 L
Private S Sargeant Notts & Derby (S Foresters) 13 1917-02-11 A
R T F Saunders 1939-00-00 A
James H Sayfritz 1944-07-00 C
Lance Corporal C Slaney S Staffs 7 1915-09-01 A
Private E C Smith Worcestershire 4 1915-08-06 A
AB Frederick William Smith RN HMS Hamilcar 1943-07-27 Y
Private Harry Smith R Welsh Fus 2 1918-06-28 Y
Flight Sergeant John Simmons Smith RAFVR 248 1943-09-03 L
Thomas E Smith 1941-11-00 C
Boy 1st Class James Snead HMS Invincible 1916-05-31 CD
Private John Southall Lincolnshire 9 Lab Corp 48 1917-08-18 B
Lance Corporal John Squire West Yorkshire 12 1917-05-03 S
Serjeant George Starkey N Staffs 1 1915-08-26 L
Private Frederick Stevenson KSLI 2 1916-12-31 W
Private J J Stones S Staffs 1 1917-11-13 A
Lance Corporal Harold Storer Yorkshire Hussars 9 1917-06-23
John Strawbridge 1918-00-00 B
Sapper Charles Albert Taylor RE 16 Fortress 1941-05-03 L
L/Cpl Harry Taylor Black Watch 2 1942-08-26 Y
Private John Taylor Lincolnshire 2 1918-10-23 L
Gunner T Till RFA D 155 1919-01-06 A
Private Alfred Titley East Yorkshire 7 1918-04-01 B
Surgeon Albert Joseph Tonkinson HMS Monmouth 1914-11-01 O
Lance Serjeant Arthur George Tonkinson South Staffs 1/5 1915-10-13 O
Private Frank Townsend Monmouthshire 1 1918-05-07
CSM Reginald George Tresise South Staffs 7 1915-08-09 O
Private Thomas Tudor South Staffs 2 1916-07-29 O
Private Arthur Victor Upperdine South Staffs 2/5 1917-09-27 CD
Major G E Vaughan Coldstream Guards 3 1916-09-15 BL
John D Vincent 1944-06-00 C
Private C Wakelam Royal Tank Corps 14 Bn 1918-08-11 A
Private L B O Wakelam Canadian Inf 17 1915-02-15
Lance Corporal T Wall Coldstream Guards 1 1915-01-25 AB
George H Ward 1941-03-00 C
Driver W H Ward RFA B 102 1919-03-10 A
Private Francis Warrender Durham LI 13 1917-06-12 Y
William Watkins 1918-00-00 B
Private Edwin Wellings Warwickshire 2 1914-12-19 CD
Lieutenant Henry William Wellings KSLI 1918-06-20 CD
Private Ishmael John Whittingham N Staffs 2 1940-05-27 L
Private Alfred Williams 11th Sherwood Foresters 1917-06-07 O
Private William George Williams Queen's (R W Surrey) 7 1918-08-23 O
Private Walter Francis Willock Grenadier Guards 2 1916-09-15 O
Private Ernest Wynn South Staffs 1/6 1917-03-14 W
Private Thomas Wynn KSLI 2 1916-08-15 W
Captain Francis William Yates KOYLI 1915-04-25 I

MEMORIALS
A = War Memorial in SS Mary & Chad Churchyard, Brewood.
B = War Memorial in St Mary's Catholic Church, Brewood.
C = War Memorial in St Paul's Church, Coven.
D = War Memorial outside Coven Memorial Hall, Coven.
I = War Memorial in St John's Church, Bishopswood.
L = Lapley War Memorial.
O = War Memorials at Codsall.
W = Weston-under-Lizard War Memorials.
Y = St Mary's, Blymhill War Memorial.
blank = Men with connections to the area - not on any local memorial.

This memorial has mostly been compiled from official sources. It would be good to be able to expand it with more personal material - memories, stories, photos, etc. If you have any suitable material or any corrections please contact Greg.