Cotehill

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Reference WMO/177030

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St John the Evangelist Church

Main Street

Cotehill

CA4 0BT

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Latin cross
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Latin Granite Cross on top of a base and a shaft. Notes (1) There is an additional WW1 casualty, a Herbert Howe buried in a war grave in the Churchyard. (2) From family gravestones we know that Thomas Atkinson died on 28 September 1917 aged 19, Robert A Richardson died of wounds on 21 May 1918 and Joseph W Richardson (serving with the New Zealand Forces) died on 22 September 1918. (3) James Wallace (WW1) and Christopher Shields Sanderson (WW2) are buried in the Churchyard. Note- Helen Armstrong was killed on 2 March 1944 when she was studying for a BSc in Horticulture at Swanley Horticultural College, Kent. She lived at Warathwaite Head, Cotehill and was brought home to be buried- her gravestone was paid for by the College, where she was Head Student. The pupils (around 40 of them) were sheltering in the Common Room because the air raid shelters were outside. The Common Room took a direct hit, but Helen was the only one killed. She is buried in the 4th row west of the east end of the Church, south side, next to the south boundary wall. It is outside the west wall of the Church. At a date unknown between 2017 and September 2022 the School tablet (WMO/272543) has been placed on the Church west wall adjacent to this Cross. George Bott (who was son of the Vicar) is also commemorated on the Carlisle Grammar School Memorials Their memorials also include a Thomas Edward Thomlinson of Englethwaite Hall, Cotehill- who does not apear to be otherwise commemorated anywhere locally.
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6 o’clock- PEACE/IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF/THE UNDERMENTIONED MEN OF/COTEHILL WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE/GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ [names]/“THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE”; 9 o’clock- WORLD WAR II/1939-1945/THESE ALSO GAVE THEIR LIVES/[names]

WW1-1915 THOMAS BULMAN/ 1916 JAMES WALLACE-ROBERT D RITCHIE/WILLIAM J BELL-THOMAS BELL/JOHN W RICHARDSON; 1917 THOMAS ATKINSON-GEORGE BOTT/EDWARD MARTIN-DAVID MILBURN/JONATHAN HOPE-FRANK WALLACE/ROBERT W BRAYTON; 1918 GEORGE H RITCHIE-ROBERT HILL/ROBERT A RICHARDSON-ADAM BELL/JOSEPH W RICHARDSON-THOMAS E LITTLE/EDMUND E JOHNSTONE-JOHN M BAINBRIDGE/JOSEPH MOORE; WW2-9 o’clock WORLD WAR II/1939-1945/THESE ALSO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ LT COL ID MACINNES/CPL CS SANDERSON/PTE AB GRAHAM/PTE J MILBURN/AB EC GLENDINNING/ LAC D WAITES/HELEN ARMSTRONG/KILLED BY ENEMY ACTION

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