World War Two Commemoration - Revision history

KevinMurrell at 08:39, 5 February 2026

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KevinMurrell at 16:20, 24 January 2026

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	[[File:WW2 cenotaph.jpg\|500px\|left]]<br><br><br>		[[File:WW2 cenotaph.jpg\|500px\|left]]<br><br><br>
	The names of eighteen World War Two Servicemen are listed on the Midgley and Luddenden War Memorial.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>'''A Brief history of each of these men follows:<br>'''		The names of eighteen World War Two Servicemen are listed on the Midgley and Luddenden War Memorial.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

			'''A Brief history of each of these men follows:<br>'''
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KevinMurrell at 16:01, 24 January 2026

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	[[File:WW2 cenotaph.jpg\|500px\|left]]<br><br><br>		[[File:WW2 cenotaph.jpg\|500px\|left]]<br><br><br>
	The names of eighteen World War Two Servicemen are listed on the Midgley and Luddenden War Memorial.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>		The names of eighteen World War Two Servicemen are listed on the Midgley and Luddenden War Memorial.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>'''A Brief history of each of these men follows:<br>'''


	A Brief history of each of these men follows:<br>

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	\| [[Gordon Baume]] \|\| [[Donald Clay]]		\| [[Gordon Baume]]\|\| [[Donald Clay]]
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	\| [[James Trevor Cotterell]] \|\| [[Albert Cowan]]		\| [[James Trevor Cotterell]]\|\| [[Albert Cowan]]
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	\|[[John Crilley]] \|\| [[Ernest Dransfield]]		\|[[John Crilley]]\|\| [[Ernest Dransfield]]
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	\| [[Jack Fletcher]] \|\| [[Thomas Gill]]		\| [[Jack Fletcher]]\|\| [[Thomas Gill]]
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	\| [[George Greenwood]] \|\| [[Philip Joseph Gorman]]		\| [[George Greenwood]]\|\| [[Philip Joseph Gorman]]
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	\| [[John Foster Haigh]] \|\| [[Daniel Maguire]]		\| [[John Foster Haigh]]\|\| [[Daniel Maguire]]
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	\| [[Thomas Lister]] \|\| [[Samuel Longbottom]]		\| [[Thomas Lister]]\|\| [[Samuel Longbottom]]
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	\| [[Harry Noble]] \|\| [[Ronald Royston]]		\| [[Harry Noble]]\|\| [[Ronald Royston]]
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	\| [[Cecil Tisson]] \|\| ~~[[Clifford Uttley]]~~		\| [[Cecil Tisson]]\|\|
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KevinMurrell at 16:00, 24 January 2026

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	A Brief history of each of these men follows:<br>		A Brief history of each of these men follows:<br>

	[[Gordon Baume]]		{\|
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	[[Donald Clay]]		\|-
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	[[James Trevor Cotterell]]		\| [[Gordon Baume]] \|\| [[Donald Clay]]
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	[[Albert Cowan]]		\| [[James Trevor Cotterell]] \|\| [[Albert Cowan]]
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	[[John Crilley]]		\|[[John Crilley]] \|\| [[Ernest Dransfield]]
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	[[Ernest Dransfield]]		\| [[Jack Fletcher]] \|\| [[Thomas Gill]]
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	[[Jack Fletcher]]		\| [[George Greenwood]] \|\| [[Philip Joseph Gorman]]
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	[[Thomas Gill]]		\| [[John Foster Haigh]] \|\| [[Daniel Maguire]]
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	[[George Greenwood]]		\| [[Thomas Lister]] \|\| [[Samuel Longbottom]]
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	[[Philip Joseph Gorman]]		\| [[Harry Noble]] \|\| [[Ronald Royston]]
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	[[John Foster Haigh]]		\| [[Cecil Tisson]] \|\| [[Clifford Uttley]]
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	[[Daniel Maguire]]

	[[Thomas Lister]]

	[[Samuel Longbottom]]

	[[Harry Noble]]

	[[Ronald Royston]]

	[[Cecil Tisson]]

	[[Clifford Uttley]]

KevinMurrell at 15:38, 24 January 2026

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	[[Jack Fletcher]]		[[Jack Fletcher]]

			[[Thomas Gill]]

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KevinMurrell at 15:36, 24 January 2026

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	[[Cecil Tisson]]		[[Cecil Tisson]]

	~~===GUNNER CLIFFORD UTTLEY<br> d. 3 June 1944 AGED 34===~~		[[Clifford Uttley]]

	[[~~File:~~Clifford Uttley~~.png\|left\|200px~~]]
	Clifford was the second son of Fred and Minnie Uttley. Fred was born at 4 Upperfoot on 12th May 1909 Christened St Michael's Mythomroyd 27 April 1910). In 1911, the family is listed as parents Fred (25 years old, Dyer’s Labourer), Minnie (30 years old) and sons James William (aged 5) and Clifford (aged 1). <br>
	By the time of the 1921 census , the family had moved up the road to Paradise on Ellen Royd Lane. Three more children had arrived Ada Mary and the twins Fred and Marjorie. Their father was working as a motor transport assistant (drayman) for a local brewery, Richard Whitaker in Halifax.

	Clifford married Eveline Lawton in Grimethorpe in August 1932 and the couple had 2 children. They were living at Tillotson Buildings on Burnley Road, Luddendenfoot in 1939, Clifford was working as a warehouse man for H Helliwell's (worsted spinners). There are three names redacted on this document (probably their children), but we can look on the UK birth Register for children’s whose surname is Uttley and whose mother’s maiden name is Lawton. Two hits are George W Uttley born Q2 1934 in Hemsworth (near Grimethorpe) and Peter G born Q2 1935 also in Hemsworth.

	We are not sure when Clifford joined up as the WW2 Service records have not yet been released. He was a member of the 101st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment. The Regiment was formed in 1939 to defend the British Fleet at Scapa Flow from Air Attack.

	~~The Regiment was posted to India in 1943, firstly to Avadi in the city of Chennai (formerly Madras) and later to Mumbai (formerly Bombay).~~

	Clifford died of burns in hospital on 3 June 1944 aged 34 and is buried at the [https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2191221/clifford-uttley/ Kirkee War Cemetery] in Pune (formerly Puna).

	~~After his death, his wife Eveline moved back to Grimethorpe. She died in 1999 aged 88 in the Chester /Ellesmere Port area.~~

	~~'''References'''<br>~~

	~~''1911 Census, RG14/496/4/19/Schedule.No 18''<br>~~
	~~''1921 Census, RG15/496/4/22/Schedule No 206''<br>~~
	~~''1939 England and Wales Voters Register, Sowerby Bridge UD/496A-4/KOQR/Schedule No 29''<br>~~
	~~''Civil Marriage Registration, 1932/Q3/9c/402''<br>~~

KevinMurrell at 15:35, 24 January 2026

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-By 1915 the family was living in London, Cecil’s father is listed as a Trunk Maker, in WW1 he served in the Royal Army Service Corps as a Driver until he was demobbed in 1919.
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 ===GUNNER CLIFFORD UTTLEY<br> d. 3 June 1944 AGED 34===

KevinMurrell at 15:35, 24 January 2026

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	[[Harry Noble]]		[[Harry Noble]]
	~~===PRIVATE RONALD ROYSTON <br> d. 24th April 1944, aged 26===~~
	~~[[File:Ronald Royston.png\|left\|200px]]~~
	~~Ronald was born at Linthwaite on 1st October 1917, the eldest of four children parents Herbert Royston and Mary Cruddas.~~

	In 1921 the family has moved slightly closer to Huddersfield and is living in Milnsbridge, Ronald is the eldest child, he has a younger brother Jack and a sister Elsie. Brother Kenneth and sister Mary followed.

	~~By 1939 the family was living at 29-33 Chapel Street in Luddenden and Ronald was working as a weaver.~~

	~~Ronald joined the 5th Seaforth Highlanders but we are not sure of the date as the WW2 service records have not been released yet.~~

	But we know that Compulsory Conscription was introduced in September 1939 for all men aged between 18 to 41. Ronald would have been 21 at the time, so he would almost definitely have been conscripted early in the war.

	In which case he saw action with the 5th Seaforth Highlanders in North Africa (including El Alamein in October/November 1942 and the Battle of Wadi Akarit in April 1943) and later in 1943, he would have been fighting in Sicily, both campaigns under the control of Field Marshall Montgomery.

	~~After the surrender of Italy on 3rd September 1943, the Battalion returned to the UK (in October) for training in preparation for the Normandy landings.~~


	~~They were initially billeted at Gorhambury Park in Herfordshire and then moved to East Anglia in March 1944.<br><br>~~

	~~[[File:R Royston gravestone.jpg\|left\|100px]]~~
	Ronald was accidentally killed whilst on the second day of a two day training exercise in the UK on 24th April just a few weeks before the Battalion embarked for Normandy (The Regiment landed on Juno Beach near Ornemouth as the second wave of troops on the afternoon of D Day).

	~~His body was returned to the family and he is buried here in [https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2414018/ronald-royston/ the village Cemetery].<br><br>~~

	~~References<br>~~
	~~''1921 Census, RG15/495/9/16/53''<br>~~
	~~''1939 England and Wales Voters Register. Halifax CB/496/1/KEAD/schedule 41''<br>~~

			[[Ronald Royston]]
	===PRIVATE CECIL TISSON <br>d. 29th June 1944 aged 29===		===PRIVATE CECIL TISSON <br>d. 29th June 1944 aged 29===

KevinMurrell at 15:34, 24 January 2026

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-===DRIVER HARRY NOBLE<br> d. 29th January 1942 AGED 24===
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 ===PRIVATE RONALD ROYSTON <br> d. 24th April 1944, aged 26===
 [[File:Ronald Royston.png|left|200px]]

KevinMurrell at 15:33, 24 January 2026

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	[[Thomas Lister]]		[[Thomas Lister]]
	~~===PRIVATE SAMUEL LONGBOTTOM<br> d 22nd March 1941 aged 28===~~
	~~Information on Samuel is very limited and so far we have not found any documents connecting him to the village.~~

	~~We know that he served in the 2nd Battalion West Riding Regiment (The Prince of Wales Own) and died on 22nd March 1941.~~		[[Samuel Longbottom]]
	~~He is buried in the Keren War Cemetery.~~

	===DRIVER HARRY NOBLE<br> d. 29th January 1942 AGED 24===		===DRIVER HARRY NOBLE<br> d. 29th January 1942 AGED 24===