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Gosforth WW1

Gosforth WW1 - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 12 May 2012

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information board - Taken by Patricia Hughes 08 Sep 2019

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Location View - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 06 Aug 2022

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The Tablet - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 06 Aug 2022

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Page 1 of the information leaflet - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 06 Aug 2022

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Page 2 Columns 1 to 3 - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 06 Aug 2022

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Reference WMO/170088

Address:

St Mary's Church

Wasdale Road

Gosforth

CA20 1AZ

England

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Status: On original site

Type: Non freestanding

Location: Internal

Setting: Inside a building - public/private

Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet

Materials:

Stone Marble

Lettering: Incised

Conflicts:

First World War (1914-1918)

About the memorial: White Marble tablet with highly decorated top triangular pediment on Grey Marble Backboard. By 2019, a detailed information board headed "Gosforth Remembers" had been added freestanding to the side of the memorial plaque and showing information about each person listed. It is towards the east end of the north wall of the nave. One of the men listed is William Little, who was lost on the RMS Leinster.

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William Little was born in 1890 in Egremont, Cumberland to Robert Little and Mary Jane Cockbain, the third of their four children. Robert and Mary Jane’s marriage in 1886 caused a major sensation, published nationwide in newspapers, when the clergyman who performed the ceremony without a license, knowing that banns had not been read, was jailed for eighteen months. At the time Robert was a minor while Mary Jane was a few years older, and the marriage was opposed by Robert’s mother. In the 1891 census Robert gave his occupation as ‘Insurance Agent’. In 1892 the youngest child was born and in the 1901 census Mary Jane declared herself a Widow, though a death certificate for Robert has not been found. In that census she gave her occupation as ‘Shopkeeper, Grocer and Confectioner’ and the family was living in South Street, Egremont. By 1906 she had moved to Gosforth, on the edge of the Lake District, where she was the proprietor of the Globe Hotel. In 1911 only William and his younger sister Edith were with her. William gave his occupation as ‘Grocers Assistant’. He married Ada Taylor in 1917 and a daughter, Nora, was born in 1918. William Little enlisted at Seascale in the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry but unfortunately his original records are not available. The transcripts give him two Service Numbers, 2494 and 315399, and two Ranks, Acting Sergeant and Sergeant. There is no indication of when he enlisted or where he served. In October 1918 he was with 2/1st Battalion, a Training Reserve, which had moved to Ireland in May 1918. Presumably returning home on leave, he travelled on RMS Leinster on the 10th. He did not survive the sinking nor was his body recovered.
His name is recorded on the Hollybrook Memorial in Southampton

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Inscription:

IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH, WHO GAVE THEIR/LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/[names]/ “THESE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE”

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Column 1-LIEUT JOHN S. AINSWORTH 11TH HUSSARS/ PVT WM ASHBURNER RFA/ CAPT LEONARD BIRCH 7TH BORDER RGT/ PVT JAMES R BUNKER 2/4 YORK & LANC RGT/ CAPT ERNEST GAUL 6TH LEICESTER RGT/ PVT HENRY HAIL 1ST WEST YORK RGT/ PVT ROBERT HERBERT 1ST HLI/ PVT BENN HODGSON 2ND BORDER RGT/ L/CPL JOSEPH HIRD MM 8TH BORDER RGT; Column 2- PVT OSWALD REES KEENE 2ND D OF WELLINGTON RGT/ SERGT WILLIAM LITTLE WEST & CUMB YEO./ SERGT JOSEPH NOBLE RFA/ SERGT ALBERT E OVERINGTON 8TH BORDER RGT/ PVT JOSEPH PORTER 8TH BORDER RGT/ PVT WILLIAM H POSTLETHWAITE MGC/ PVT JOHN B RATCLIFFE 8TH BORDER RGT/ PVT PETER SMITH 10TH WEST YORK REGT/ PVT JOHN A STAINTON 7TH BORDER RGT/ PVT JOHN WILSON 2ND CAN MTD RIFLES/

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