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NORTHOP CHURCH WAR MEMORIAL FLINTSHIRE WALES The memorial is situated in St Eurgain & St Peter’s Church

Compiled with additional information by kind permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

This tablet was placed here by the parishioners of Northop as a permanent memorial to and in grateful recognition of the sacrifice made by 40 Officers, Non Commissioned Officers and Men from the parish whose names are recorded below who gave their lives for their King and Country in the Great War 1914-1919

ATKINSON Henry Noel, (D.S.O.)Lieutenant, 1st Cheshire regiment ASTBURY Neville Ayrton, Lieutenant, 49th Canadian Infantry BATEMAN Cecil Henry, Private 8th Warwickshire Regiment BROOKES Walter, Private, 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers CHAMBERS Walter, Private, 10th Royal Welsh Fusiliers DAVEY Walter Benedictus, Corporal, 10th Royal Welsh Fusiliers DAVIES Will, Private, 15th Welsh DODD Joseph Edward, Private, Royal West Surrey Regiment DRIVER William Bromwell, Private, 9th Royal Welsh Fusiliers HEWITT Thomas George, Private, 5th King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry HODGKINSON William Thomas, Private, 2nd South Wales Borderers HODKINSON Frank, Private 1st Scots Guards HOWELL Joseph Leigh, Sergeant, 1st South African Infantry HUGHES William, Lance Corporal, 24th Royal Welsh Fusiliers HUGHES Joseph, Private, 4th Royal Welsh Fusiliers JONES Benjamin, Lance Corporal, 9th Royal Welsh Fusiliers JONES Walter, Private, Royal Army Service Corps JONES Edward Lennox Petch, Lance Corporal, Welsh Yeomanry LATHAM Thomas, Lance Corporal, 9th Royal Welsh Fusiliers LOVELOCK Thomas John, Private, 4th Royal Welsh Fusiliers MARSH Edwin Arthur, Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery MARSH John Herbert, Private, 7th Manchester Regiment MESSHAM Edgar, Private, 14th Royal Welsh Fusiliers OLDCORN Roy James, Private, 9th Royal Irish Rifles PIERCY Griffith. Private, 9th Royal Welsh Fusiliers PIERCY William, Private, 9th Welsh PINNINGTON Frank William, Private, 16th Royal Welsh Fusiliers POWELL Fred, Private, 5th Royal Welsh Fusiliers ROBERTS Isaac, Private, 3rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers ROBERTS Jonathan, Private, 5th Royal Welsh Fusiliers ROCK Herbert Taylor, Corporal, 45th Australian Imperial Force SMITH Tegid Eli Gad , Sergeant, 5th Royal Welsh Fusiliers STEPHENSON Edgar Molyneux, Private, 10th Suffolk Regiment THELWELL Joseph, Gunner, 9th Tank Corps WATKINSON John, (M.C.) Lieutenant, 11th Warwickshire Regiment WILCOCK Thomas, Private, 5th Royal Welsh Fusiliers WILLIAMS Charles, Gunner, Machine gun Corps WILLIAMS Samuel Verdi, Private, 4th Cheshire Regiment WILLIAMS Thomas John, Private Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends

And this tablet in grateful recognition of the sacrifice made by fourteen Men from the parish who gave their lives for King and Country in the World War of 1939-1945

ACTON Stanley James, Sergeant, Royal Engineers BANKS Geoffrey, Able seaman, Royal Navy BATEMAN James, Signalman, Royal Corps of Signals CHARLTON John Roger Owen, (M.C.)Major, Royal Horse Artillery DANIEL Henry, Corporal, Royal Air Force DAVIES Thomas Glynne, Private, South Lancashire Regiment GRIFFITHS John Edward, Driver, Royal Army Service Corps HOOSON Joseph Raymond, Private, Welsh Guards JONES George Edwin, Flight Sergeant, Royal Air Force JONES Glynn, Guardsman, Welsh Guards JONES Willie, Private, Royal Welsh Fusiliers NOLAN John, Sergeant, Royal Artillery SAINT John Owen, Private, King’s Regiment WILSON Alan Lloyd, Sergeant, Royal Artillery

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them

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