The War Memorials, Names on Scarthin's Memorial

Photo © Charles Beresford 2006		ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF SCARTHIN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR 1914 - 1919
		JOSEPH TOMLINSON WILLIAM SHERRATT ARTHUR BIDDULPH THOMAS KEIGHTLY THOMAS WORTHY WILLIAM H. ALLEN JOHN J. ALLEN GEORGE KIRK JOHN A. PIDCOCK MAY THEIR REWARD BE AS GREAT AS THEIR SACRIFICE
		1939 - 1945
		HARRY KNIVETON GEORGE A. PIDCOCK ARTHUR H. RUSSELL

Abbreviations

DoW - Died of Wounds
KiA - Killed in Action
ToW - Theatre of War
F & F - France and Flanders

M Bank - Matlock Bank
M Bath - Matlock Bath
M Dale - Matlock Dale

Mar - Married
NoK - Next of Kin
s/o - son of
Unm - Unmarried
WO - War Office

Those who died in WW1, 1914 - 1919 : further information

ALLEN, William H (William Hoades)
Born Matlock Bath 1888 and baptised at Holy Trinity
KiA 21 Mar 1918
Private 2nd/6th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Service No: 241587
ToW: F & F
s/o John and Ann Allen. Living with parents in Matlock Bath in the 1891 census and the family were in Scarthin in the 1901 census (half brother of John Joseph A below). He was already working as a packer in the cotton mill in 1901. He was later employed as a Knotter. Enlisted Matlock.
Memorial: Arras Memorial. There is a photograph of the Arras memorial elsewhere on this web site
Memorial Reference: Bay 7.

ALLEN, John J (John Joseph)
Born Matlock Bath (Scarthin) 1898 and baptised at Holy Trinity
Baptised 4 Jun 1899 Matlock Bath Holy Trinity
KiA 29 Jun 1918, aged 21
ToW: F & F
Private 2nd Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Service No: 202673
s/o John and Kate (nee Holmes) Allen. Living at Scarthin in the 1901 census (half brother of William Hoades A above)
Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial, is NE of Ieper and one of four Memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders
Memorial Reference: Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.

BIDDULPH, Arthur
Born Matlock 1891
KiA 23 Apr 1917
Corporal 8th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment
Service No: 43037
ToW: F & F
s/o Frederick and Jane Biddulph. Frederick was a miller. Later lived at 1 Scarthin Terrace with his widowed mother and worked as a Colour Works Clerk.
Enlisted Matlock. Formerly 23033, Notts & Derbys Regt
Cemetery: Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery, Wancourt (a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais)
Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. E. 16.

KEIGHTLY [KEIGHTLEY], Thomas
Born M Bath
KiA 23 Apr 1917
Private 8th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment
Service No: 43145
ToW: F & F
s/o Everard and Grace Keightley of Scarthin. Living Scarthin in the 1901 census. He later worked as A Limestone Quarry Man.
Enlisted Chesterfield. Formerly 211013, Notts & Derbys Regt
Memorial: Arras Memorial
Memorial Reference: Bay 6.

KIRK, George
Born 1891 Scarthin [Soldiers Died says b. Whittington, but this conflicts with other information]
Baptised 18 Mar 1891 Matlock Bath Holy Trinity
KiA 14 Feb 1916
Private 10th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Service No: 15170
ToW: F & F
s/o Walter and Elizabeth Kirk of Scarthin. Living Scarthin in the 1891 census and the 1901 census. George later worked for a Hosiery Company. Enlisted Chesterfield.
Memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient
Memorial Reference: Panel 39 and 41.

PIDCOCK, John A (John Arthur)
Born 1900
Died 27 Nov 1918, aged 18 at Mansfield.
Private "D" Coy. 53rd Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Service No: 6/53557
s/o the late Isiah and Martha Pidcock, of Cromford. He was living at Whatstandwell, Crich in 1901 but the family later returned to live at Scarthin.
Cemetery: Cromford (St. Mark) Churchyard
Grave/Memorial Reference: 4. 16. 21.

SHERRATT, William
Born 1891 at Ashbourne
KiA 9 May 1915, aged 24
Private 1st Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment).
Service No: 11390. Formerly 1170, Manchester Regt.
ToW: F & F
s/o George and Jane Sherratt, of 55, Thoresby Rd., Mansfield Woodhouse, NTT. Lived at Mansfield Woodhouse when enlisted. Enlisted at Ashton under Lyne, Lancs.
Memorial: Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium. The Ploegsteert Memorial commemorates more than 11,000 servicemen of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in this sector during the First World War and have no known grave.
Memorial Reference: Panel 7.

TOMLINSON, Joseph
Born M Bath 1891
KiA 12 Mar 1915, aged 24
Private 1st Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Service No: 14148
ToW: F & F
s/o Joseph and Sarah Tomlinson, of Chapel Hill, Cromford, Matlock. The family were living at Mount Pleasant in the 1891 census and in Scarthin in the 1901 census. Worked as a Stationary Engine Driver at the Paint Works. Enlisted Derby.
Memorial: Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L'Avoue, Pas de Calais (between Bethune and Armentieres)
Memorial Reference: Panel 26 and 27.

WORTHY, Thomas
Born Cromford (Scarthin?) 1887
DoW 4 Oct 1917, aged 30
Private 1st Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
Service No: 204551
ToW: F & F
s/o Peter and Mary Worthy, of Scarthin, Matlock Bath. Living Scarthin in the 1891 census and the 1901 census. Thomas worked as a Brewer's labourer pre-war. Enlisted Matlock.
Cemetery: Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. E. 9.

Those who died in WW2, 1939-45 : further information

KNIVETON, Harry
Died 26 Dec 1944, aged 19
Stoker 1st Class H.M.S. Capel, Royal Navy
Service No: P/KX 601704
H.M.S. Capel sunk by German submarine U-486 in the English Channel, 26 Dec 1944. 76 members of the crew went down with the ship.
s/o James Harry and Hilda Annie Kniveton, of Cromford.
Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Memorial Reference: Panel 86, Column 1.

PIDCOCK, George A[lbert]
Died 6 Jun 1942
Lance Corporal Royal Army Service Corps
Service No: 193007
Cemetery: El Alamein War Cemetery
Grave/Memorial Reference: XXXII. C. 22.

RUSSELL, Arthur H[enson]
Died: 23 Oct 1944, aged 29
Trooper 17th/21st Lancers Royal Armoured Corps
Service No: 5053521
s/o Charles Henry and Lucy Alice Russell; married Jessie Hannah Lorraine Heathcote at Ashbourne Register Office in 1938.
Cemetery: Forli War Cemetery, Italy. Many of those buried there lost their lives in the heavy fighting between Rimini and Ravenna which took place in appalling weather in October-December 1944
Grave/Memorial Reference: II, C, 4.

With very grateful thanks to Mr. Charles Beresford for help and additional material. Background research from "The High Peak News", GRO BMD indexes and FreeBMD, from returns for the 1891 census and 1901 census (click link to go to on-site transcripts), parish registers and family members. Names also compared with information provided on "Soldiers Died in the Great War" CD.

If you know any more about the above men, we would very much like to hear from you. Please email and in the subject line write Scarthin War Memorial. Thank you.