For

King, Country & Humanity

Roll of Honour

for the brave men who have gone forth at the call of duty

From Primitive Methodist Church Middleton

To the Great War 1914 -

 

Rank & Name	Branch of Service	Date of Joining	Record
Lc.Cpl. Joseph R Goodall	1/6th Duke of Wellington West Riding	Aug 4th 1914	Three times wounded once gassed
Pte William Hallows	1/6th Notts & Derbys (Territorial's)	Aug 4th 1914	Killed in Action Aug 30th 1916
Pte Francis Gratton	12th Batt Sherwood Foresters	Aug 20th 1914	Killed in Action Jun 17th 1916
Pte Arthur Goodall	12th Batt Sherwood Foresters	Sept 7th 1914	Once wounded, Killed in Action June 17th 1916
Lieut John Walker	Loyal North Lancasters	Nov 24th 1914	Gassed
Sapper Robert Adams	A.P. 6 S 100	Feb 1st 1915	Italian Expeditionary Force
Pte Laurence Brace	3rd Batt Sherwood Foresters	Feb 15th 1915
Pte Thomas Beeston	Machine Gun Cavalry Corps	Apr 29th 1915	Allenbys Exped. Force Palestine
Pte Fredrick Pearson	2nd Batt Lancs Fusilliers	June 21st 1915	Reported missing May 1916 Presumed killed March 1917
Pte Joseph W. Spencer	3rd/6th Sherwood Foresters	July 26th 1915	Twice wounded & once gassed
Pte William S.B. Else MM	2nd/6th Sherwood Foresters	Nov 16th 1915	9 months Prisoner of war
Cpl Frank Boden	3rd Batt Lincolns	Nov 19th 1915	Wounded in offensive March 1918
Pte John Brooks	11th Batt Manchesters	Aug 26th 1914	Killed of wounds received in the Dardanelles Expedition
Pte Edward Brooks	1st Lincolns	Feb 15th 1915	Wounded 3 times
Trooper Alec Spencer	Derbyshire Yeomanry	Dec 6th 1915	Salonic Exped Force
Pte Arthur Harrison	16th Batt Machine Gun Corps	Feb 1st 1916	Twice wounded once gassed
Pte Samuel Doxey	2nd South Lancashire	July 20th 1916	France
Pte Harry Goodhall	8th Batt Sherwood Foresters	July 26th 1916	Once wounded Killed in Action Sept 15th 1917
Sapper George Holmes	169 Co. RE	Oct 11th 1916	France
Pte John A Hall	9th Royal Scots	Oct 20th 1916	Died in France from intestinal obstruction July 20th 1917
Pte Ernest Bunting	Highland Light Infantry	Nov 23rd 1916	9 months prisoner of war
Pte Alec Walker	Lancashire Fusiliers	Jan 23rd 1917	Killed in Action May 31st 1918
Sapper Arthur Milner	Railway Section RE	Feb 5th 1917	France
Pte William Slack	Northumberland Fusiliers	Feb 26th 1917	France
Sapper John W Spencer	Railway Section RE	Aug 2nd 1917	Egyptian Expd Force
Pte Alfred Harrison	3rd Batt Essex	Oct 16th 1917	Gassed
Pte Ernest Spencer	1st/4th Leicesters	May 12th 1918	France
Pte Leslie Spencer	51[7?]st Grade Notts & Derbys	June 16th 1918
Pte Benjamin Staton	A.S.C. Motor Transport	July 15th 1918	France
Sapper Walter Wright	No 4 Section 180Co RE		British Expeditionary Force France

 

Not once or twice in our rough islands history

the path of duty was the path to glory

  Tennyson

 

This document is now at Derbyshire Records Office in Matlock Reference D6793 2/1

 

The Scroll as framed and found in the Primitive Methodist Church Middleton by Wirksworth

The War Memorial inside the church

The church interior

The exterior front of the church

 

John Palmer has linked these men to the Middleton by Wirksworth census here.

 

If you have any further information on the men listed above please contact me and I will be pleased to link the details to your website or add them to this one - photographs would be a particularly exciting addition.

 

You can read the story of Jacob Brooks MM of Wirksworth here.