SIBTON
ROLL OF HONOUR
WORLD WAR 1 1914 - 1918
209395 Gunner Frederick Crickmer, 'A' Battery, 92nd. Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Frederick died on Wednesday 15th. August 1917. He is buried in Grave: A. 10 at Dragoon Camp Cemetery, Boezinge, West Flanders, Belgium.
215019 Serjeant Charles William Goddard, 24th. Battalion, Rifle Brigade. attached to Supply and Transport Corps, formally 39739 Hampshire Regiment.
Born in 1895 at Kingsclere, Hampshire, the son of George, a farm carter, and Sarah Ann Goddard, nee Foster, who married in 1886.
Brother of Sarah, born c. 1888 and Emily Louisa born 1896.
In 1901 the family were living at Common Farm, Ashford Hill Road, Kingsclere. In 1911 the family were resident in the Laundry Cottages, North Sydmonton, Hampshire.
Charles died on Friday 6th. June 1919. He is buried in Hangu Cemetery, Con Dao Island, Vung Tau, Vietnam. As the cemetery lies west of the Indus River and is liable to desecration, Charles is also commemorated on Face 23 of the Delhi Memorial (India Gate), New Delhi, India.
16117 Private Horace James Mayhew, 7th. Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
Born in July 1892 at Sibton.
Horace died, aged 23, on Friday 15th. October 1915. He is buried in Grave: IV. C. 51. at Lillers Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
8857 Private Arthur Daniel Shepherd, 1st. Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
Born in 1895, the son of Daniel and Sarah Ann Shepherd of Wood Farm, Sibton.
Arthur was killed in action, aged 20, at the Second Battle of Ypres on Tuesday 25th. May 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 21 of the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
11338 Private A.E. Springthorpe, 2nd. Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
Private Springthorpe died on Monday 21st. October 1918. He is buried in Grave: I. H. 4. at Delsaux Farm Cemetery, Beugny, Pas de Calais, France.
26637 Private Arthur Henry Teago, 1st. Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment.
Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the son of John and Flora Teago of The Hollies, Peasenhall, Suffolk.
Resident of Sibton.
Arthur was killed in action, aged 20, on the front line between High Wood and Delville Wood, pushing out fortified posts under shellfire during the Battle of the Somme on Sunday 23rd. July 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Pier and Face 2 C of the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
28089 Private Stanley Herbert Threadgale, 3rd. Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
Stanley died on Wednesday 25th. September 1918. He was buried in a marked grave at map reference 57c.K.7.B.2.7. and was later reburied in Grave: III. B. 23. at Hermies Hill British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
306014 Petty Officer Stoker Charles Henry Walker, Beagle-class destroyer HMS Scourge, Royal Navy.
Born on 12th. June 1881 at Saxmundham Suffolk
Enlisted on 17th. February 1904 and posted to HMS Nelson, a Nelson-class armoured cruiser, launched in 1876. She became a training ship in 1902. and she was sold as scrap in 1910.
HMS Scourge spent most of the year 1915 in operations relating to the Gallipoli landings at Anzac Cove.
On 19th. November 1915 Charles was severely injured and burnt as result on a boiler explosion on Scourge. He died from multiple burns at the Royal Naval Hospital, Bighi, Malta on Thursday 9th. December 1915.
He is buried in Protestant Men's Plot 290 at Capuccini Naval Cemetery, Malta. His wife, Mildred, was informed of his death on 10th. December 1915, c/o J. Seaman Walpole of Halesworth, Suffolk.
1864 Private Charles Weavers, 1st/4th. Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
The son of Harry Weavers of Low Farm, Peasenhall, Suffolk.
Charles died, aged 21, on Sunday 9th. May 1915. He was buried in a marked grave in Edgware Road Military Cemetery at map reference 36.S4.B6.4, and was later reburied, possible in February 1920, in Grave: II. E. 52. at Rue-Des-Berceaux Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L'Avoue, Pas de Calais, France.
911535 Driver Albert George Whincop, 'B' Battery, 168th. Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, formally 68850 Driver, RFA.
Born in 1899 at Sibton or Yoxford, Suffolk, the son of George and Luthtia Whincop.
Brother of Robinson, b. 1893, Mildred May, b. 1897, and Leonard John, b. 1902.
Albert died, aged 19, in Lower Normandy on Thursday 14th. November 1918. He is buried in Grave: S. III. EE. 16. at St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.
77015 Gunner Stanley John Lambert Woodward, 3rd. Battery, 1st. Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Born at Sibton.
Stanley died, aged 20, from injuries received by being accidentally knocked down by a tram car in High Street, Gosforth, Northumberland. He was found to be dead on arrival at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle at 10 pm on Thursday 10th. September 1914. He is buried in Grave: E. C. 431. at St. Andrew's and Jesmond Cemetery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
*Not mentioned on the memorial*
17722 Private Charles Eades, 9th. Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
Charles died on Monday 15th. May 1916. He is buried in Grave: I. W. 14. at La Brique Military Cemetery No.2
Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium.
*Note: CWGC lists the name as Eaves.
25194 Private William Harry Smith, 11th. Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
The son of James William and Annie Smith of Minnow Cottage, Walberswick, Suffolk.
William died, aged 24, between Tuesday 9th. April and Friday 19th. April 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 3 of the Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium.
30599 Private George Jesse Threadgale, 7th. (West and Cumbria Yeomanry) Battalion, Border Regiment, formally 25984, East Yorkshire Regiment and 47264 Private, West Yorkshire Regiment.
Born in 1888
Father of Miss G.J. Threadgale, of 70 Regent Avenue, Harrogate, Yorkshire.
George died, aged 30, on Wednesday 17th. April 1918. He is buried in Grave: B. 13 at Englebelmer Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France.
George's memorial plaque and Victory medal were auctioned in Carlisle, Cumbria on 2nd. October 2020.
089021 Acting Staff Serjeant John Ford Whincop, Army Service Corps (Canteens).
The son of George and Emma Whincop of Sibton.
Husband of Marion J. Whincop, of 10 Smith Street, Bainsford, Falkirk, Scotland.
John died, aged 33, on Thursday 8th. February 1917. He was buried in Grave: 5.A.4. at the Anglo-French Cemetery (now Lembet Road), Larissa Stavros and was later reburied in Grave: 1822 at Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece.
WORLD WAR II 1939 - 1945
1898571 Sergeant George Earnest Emerson, Air Gunner, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 102 (Ceylon) Squadron, RAF.
George was flying as mid-upper gunner aboard Handley Page Halifax Mk. VII, serial number PP179, coded DY-A, that took off from RAF Pocklington, Yorkshire at 00:51 hr. on Monday 19th. March 1945 for a mission to Witten, Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The raid, which was carried out by 324 aircraft that dropped 1,081 tons of bombs, was considered a success.
Eight aircraft were lost, one of them being PP179, which crashed en route at Dortmund-Brechten, killing the crew of seven. The cause of the loss was never established.
George and his crew are buried together in Collective Grave: 19. A. 5-7 at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve Reichswald, Germany with the personal inscription,
'PEACE AT THE LAST'
5834842 Private Stanley Earnest Woodard, 2nd. Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment, formally with the Suffolk Regiment.
Born on 3rd. October 1914 at Heavingham, Suffolk, the son of Fred and Maud Woodard.
Stanley died, aged 29, on Thursday 9th. December 1943 as a Japanese prisoner of war forced to work on the Thailand - Burma railway. He is buried in Grave: 3. N. 2. at Chungkai War Cemetery, Sudjai Bridge, Kanchanaburi, Thailand
LEAST WE FORGET
This memorial in St. Peter's church, Sibton, was unveiled on the 11th. November 1999.