HUTTONS AMBO WAR MEMORIAL
Remembrance Sunday 11th November 2018
The men below were from our village and they
died in either the First or Second World War. Many more from the village all
served in these conflicts and they should be remembered too.
Please
remember those who died, either at the Remembrance Day service at Welburn Church
at 10. 45am on the 11th November 2018, or at our WAR
MEMORIAL AT 12.30 PM ON SUNDAY 11th November 2018, or in your
own way, but do remember them.
There
will be a short service of commemoration at the War Memorial. Afterwards there will be coffee at the
Village Hall.
VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED
It is proposed to place 100 crosses close the
War Memorial on the Low Village Green. 89 crosses will be put in place on the
Saturday morning at 9.00am.
The final 11 crosses, representing the individuals listed
below, will be put in place at 12:30 pm on Sunday 11th.
If anyone is prepared to volunteer to assist
on the Saturday and/or Sunday, then please contact Andy Dorman in the High
Village or Simon Jackson in the Low Village, as soon as possible.
It would
be particularly apt if anyone of the same or similar age as those set out
below, would be prepared to place a cross on their behalf on the Sunday. Their ages range from 17 to 40.
Similarly, if anyone has any links of any sort
to the individuals and/or, for example, near where they lived this would also
be of poignant reminder of those who died and did not return.
LANCE
CORPORAL BENJAMIN WATERWORTH
Born
1893- Killed in action-10/10/1918 [Aged 25]
Born in the
village to William and Mary. In 1913 he joined the Army Reserve at Sledmere and
at that time worked on a farm at Tibthorpe.
He died in one of the final advances of the war in France. His body was
never recovered and he is commemorated at the Vis en Artois Memorial. Vis-en-Artois is a village on the straight main road from Arras to
Cambrai, about 10 kilometres south-east of Arras. The Memorial is the back drop
to the Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, which is to the west of Haucourt.
CORPORAL
WALTER DARLEY
Born
5th July 1881- Died of wounds 27/10/14 [Aged 33]
Born in the village, the family lived at
Quarry Cottages [where “The Reddings” now is] and latterly near the Old Post Office
[now “West Croft”]. He was a “horseman” and enlisted at the outbreak of war. He
was wounded in the first Battle of Ypres. He died of his wounds and is buried
in Boulogne, his grave records him as being from Huttons Ambo.
PRIVATE
JOHN WILLIAM KELSEY
Born
1880- Died 20/9/18 whilst a Prisoner of War [Aged 38]
Born in the village. Originally he was a ‘quarryman’, [probably at the Sand Quarry in the
village], and latterly a gardener. He
was transferred to a Pioneer Battalion in 1918 [their work involved digging
trenches and tunneling] Captured in one of the largest German offensives of the
war. He was a POW and he died whilst captive of what was recorded as “cardiac
weakness” A newspaper report of the time recorded that he had “virtually died
of starvation” He left a widow and a son, George, aged 6
PRIVATE
FRANK GILL
Born
1898- Died 4/3/15 [Aged 17]
Born in Huttons Ambo, his father was the ‘woodman’ on Huttons Ambo Estate, and they lived at
Wood House. He worked as a railway porter, but he died prior to embarkation. He
died, aged 17, in Newcastle, of malignant measles and broncho-pneumonia. His
father was with him when he died and they are buried together in Huttons Ambo
churchyard
PRIVATE
ALFRED HARRISON
Born
1877- Killed in action 20/9/17 [Aged 40]
Born at Leavening but he was brought up at Roughborough
Farm where his father Frederick farmed.
He was a joiner working on his own account in High Hutton and married to
Gertrude who was also from Huttons Ambo. He died at Passchendaele, his body was
never recovered and he is commemorated at the ‘Tyne Cot Memorial
to the Missing’ in Belgium. At the time of his death his widow, Gertrude Harrison
was living at Netherby House in the Low Village
DRIVER
GEORGE BROWN [Aged 18]
Born
1897-Died 12/1/15
Originally from
near Kirbymoorside, it would appear that he was working at Huttons Ambo as a ‘carter”
when he enlisted in the Reserve at Westow. He served as a ‘Waggoner’ and he died in France of pneumonia. He is buried at Longuenesse [St Omer] Cemetery. [St. Omer was the General Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force
from October 1914 to March 1916.]
PRIVATE
THOMAS FRANCIS BOWES
Born
April 1894 Died of wounds 18/10/18 [Aged 24]
[NB
the war memorial records “George” however there are no records of a George
Bowes and it is clear this is an error.]
Born in Huttons Ambo, his family lived in
Quarry Cottages [now “The Reddings”] but he moved to Water Lane, and then later
to High Hutton. He served with the Machine Gun Corps and died during the
Advance in Flanders in the latter stages of the war. Thomas Bowes, Benjamin
Waterworth and John Kelsey all died within one month of each other. He is
buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery near Ypres, but he is commemorated on
his mother’s gravestone in Huttons Ambo churchyard
PRIVATE
GEORGE ARUNDALE
Born
1900-Died accidentally 26/5/19 [Aged 19]
Employed as a “Horseman” in Huttons Ambo he
enlisted in June 1918 [aged 18] and was sent to France in November 1918. He
then served with the Army of Occupation in Germany and was killed in May 1919.
He had been driving a wagon and horses when one of them was startled, fell and he
was thrown onto a railway line running parallel to the road, where he was killed.
DRIVER
WILFRED EVERETT
Born
1893 – Killed in Action 21/10/16 [23]
Born in Wakefield
he was a footman at Huttons Ambo Hall. He enlisted in Malton and was a ‘driver’ with the Royal Field Artillery. He was killed, along with 5 of his
comrades during the Battle of the Somme in October 1916. All 6 are buried, side
by side, at the Guards Cemetery Lesboeufs. [Lesboeufs (Somme region) was
attacked by the Guards Division on 15 September 1916 and it was captured by
them on the 25th. It was lost on 24 March 1918 during the great German
offensive, after a stubborn resistance by part of the 63rd Bn. Machine Gun
Corps, and it was recaptured on 29 August 1918 by the 10th Bn. South Wales
Borderers.
SECOND
WORLD WAR
OFFICER
CADET DAVID JOHN WILSON KILLED SANDHURST 29TH JANUARY 1941
Son of Colonel Wilson DSO, and of Diane
Wilson, of Musley Bank. He was at Sandhurst when it was bombed on the 29/1/1941.
He and four others were killed
He is buried, with his parents, in the rear
churchyard in Huttons Ambo.
PRIVATE
RICHARD RAYMOND FOX.
Born
1919- Died 28th May 1940 [Aged 21]
Son of Richard and Ada Fox of Huttons Ambo
[possibly from Slip Inn cottages] Served with the Green Howards as part of the
British Expeditionary Force, killed during the retreat to Dunkirk. Buried at
Bus House Cemetery Belgium
A number of people have provided helpful
information in relation to the research above. In particular, Peter Lealman, to
whom I am very grateful.
Sharon Jackson
