Great War Roll of Honour

Listed below are the names of all known Yorkshire ringers who fell in the Great War. For each one, the date they died, their home tower and a link to the Central Council website is given. The Central Council website gives further information about each one including the details of the cemetery where they are buried and a link with the CWGC (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) site.

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Local bands are asked to ring on the centenary to commemorate the life of each one, particularly as ringing would not have been carried out at the time for many of them.

The Central Council of Church Bell Ringers (CCCBR) has gathered together information about all ringers who fell in the Great War 1914-1918 and the 1939-1945 War and commissioned a handwritten Memorial Book for each war. Further information about these and all the work that has been carried out can be found at https://cccbr.org.uk/rolls-of-honour/

1915
29th April 1915	John Hare	Beverley	Hare, J	Commemoratve ringing 1; 2
24th May 1915	George Payne Hill	Whitby	Hill, GP	Commemorative ringing
7th June 1915	Cecil Oversby Sayer	Headingley	Sayer, CO	Commemorative rnging 1; 2; 3
12th June 1915	Mark Melia	Holbeck	Melia, M	Commemorative ringing
10th July 1915	Frederick William Jones	Pudsey	Jones, FW	Commemorative ringing
26th September 1915	Tom Eustace Binns	Calverley	Binns, TE	Commemorative ringing
27th September 1915	Ernest Robert Stokell	Felixkirk	Stokell, ER	Commemorative ringing
1916
3rd January 1916	Thomas Edwin Raper	Thirsk	Raper, TE	Commemorative ringing
14th March 1916	William Moorhouse	Kirkburton	Moorhouse, W	Commemorative ringing
9th June 1916	John William Garbutt	Tadcaster	Garbutt, JW	Commemorative ringing
26th June 1916	Frank Poole	Tadcaster	Poole, F	Commemorative ringing
27th June 1916	Harry Champion	Doncaster	Champion, H	Commemorative ringing 1; 2
1st July 1916	Harry Wheatley	Calverley	Wheatley, H	Commemorative ringing
4th July 1916	John Sarginson	Middleham	Sarginson, J	Commemorative ringing
27th July 1916	Albert Smith	Oxenhope	Smith, A	Commemorative ringing
4th September 1916	James Hollinrake	Heptonstall	Hollinrake, J	Commemorative ringing
18th September 1916	Charles Edward Swift	Penistone	Swift, CE	Commemorative ringing
14th October 1916	Arthur Hutton	Queensbury	Hutton, A
1917
17th February 1917	Edgar Bottomley	Northowram	Bottomley, E	Commemorative ringing
2nd April 1917	Alfred James Sample	Ormesby	Sample, AJ	Commemorative ringing
9th April 1917	Fred Dennison	Tadcaster	Dennison, F	Commemorative ringing
23rd April 1917	Tom Billingham	Beighton	Billingham, T	Commemorative ringing
24th April 1917	Herbert Gordon Gee	Ossett	Gee, HG	Commemorative ringing
24th April 1917	Frank Crossland Billows	Skipton	Billows, FC	Commemorative ringing
28th April 1917	Joseph Grimes	Snaith	Grimes, J	Commemorative ringing
1st May 1917	Leonard Garrison	Rotherham (All Saints)	Garrison, L	Commemorative ringing
3rd May 1917	Harold Brown	Drighlington	Brown, H
3rd May 1917	Robert Barker	Skipton	Barker, R	Commemorative ringing
4th May 1917	Morris Lees	Drighlington	Lees, M
14th May 1917	David Ivor Brearley	Bolsterstone	Brearley, DI	Commemorative ringing 1; 2
3rd June 1917	William Mosley	Kildwick	Mosley, W	Commemorative ringing
11th June 1917	Robert Simms	Howden	Simms, R	Commemorative ringing
25th June 1917	Richard Duck	Robin Hoods Bay	Duck, R	Commemorative ringing
1st July 1917	Arthur Ward	Ranmoor	Ward, A	Commemorative ringing 1; 2
23rd July 1917	Frederick Gordon Laverick	Middlesborough	Laverick, FG	Commemorative ringing 1; 2
22nd August 1917	William Leslie Hutton	Queensbury	Hutton, WL
26th August 1917	John Morley	Selby	Morley, J	Commemorative ringing
6th September 1917	William Harland	Whitby	Harland, W	Commemorative ringing
9th September 1917	Ernest Ruddlesden	Dewsbury	Ruddlesden, E	Commemorative ringing
13th September 1917	John Thomas Vaughan	Marske by the Sea	Vaughan, JT	Commemorative ringing
26th September 1917	Mark Ellis Hedges	Hull	Hedges, ME
28th September 1917	Frank Teece Humphries	Eckington	Humphries, FT	Commemorative ringing
7th October 1917	Bertie Robert Ayers	Oxenhope	Ayers, BR	Commemorative ringing
16th October 1917	John William Brown	Northallerton	Brown, JW	Commemorative ringing
26th October 1917	Harold Lindley Collinson	Middleham	Collinson, HL	Commemorative ringing
20th November 1917	John Camp	Howden	Camp, J	Commemorative ringing
1918
31st January 1918	Arthur Whelpton	Beighton	Whelpton, A	Commemorative ringing
27th March 1918	John Henry Watford	Burley	Watford, JH	Commemorative ringing
15th April 1918	John William Lowther	Robin Hoods Bay	Lowther, JW	Commemorative ringing 1; 2
15th April 1918	John Thomas Taylor	Dore	Taylor, JT	Commemorative ringing 1; 2
1st June 1918	Thomas Sarginson	Middleham	Sarginson, T	Commemorative ringing
18th July 1918	Arthur Norman Addison	Thornaby-on-Tees	Addison, AN	Commemorative ringing 1; 2
24th July 1918	John Bulmer Jackson	Guiseley	Jackson, JB	Commemorative ringing
28th July 1918	Robert Hornby	Thirsk	Hornby, R	Commemorative ringing
23rd August 1918	William Thorpe	Ripon	Thorpe, W	Commemorative ringing 1; 2
29th August 1918	Alfred Rayner	Scarborough	Rayner, A	Commemorative ringing
30th August 1918	James Metcalfe	Northallerton	Metcalfe, J	Commemorative ringing 1; 2 3
28th September 1918	William Dobinson Hansell	Ormesby	Hansell, WD	Commemorative ringing 1; 2
30th September 1918	Frank Robert Cundale	Holbeck	Cundale, FR	Commemorative ringing 1; 2
11th October 1918	John Stather Sherburn	Howden	Sherburn, JS
28th October 1918	Frank Brown	Ormesby	Brown, F	Commemorative ringing
3rd November 1918	Ernest McWilliam	Rothwell	McWilliam, E
13th November 1918	Stanley Spence Duffill	Kildwick	Duffill, SS	Commemorative ringing
1919
5th January 1919	Ernest Thornton	Bramley	Thornton, E	Commemorative ringing
4th February 1919	Lewis Harold Lumb	Dewsbury	Lumb, LH	Commemorative ringing

Date Unknown
	A Newton	Leeds	Newton, A	Commemorative ringing

With thanks to Christine Parsons and Peter McCoy for the research carried out on past ringers of the Yorkshire Association, and to Alan Regin for much of the information available on the CCCBR website.