Banstead War Memorial WW2 Casualties


Banstead War Memorial. If you have more information about a name or would like to correct or remove any of the information please mail the Webmaster. All photographs or electronic scans remain the copyright Š of the Banstead History Research Group or the specific contributors and cannot be reproduced by either digital, electronic, electrostatic or lithographic or by any other means without expressed permission from the originator of the web site or its contributors.	WWI W
WALLIS, William Albert Private 24704 Grenadier Guards 3rd Bn. Died 31-July-1917 aged 36 Son of Francis and Eliza Wallis. Memorial Reference: Panel 9 and 11. YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. This panel is extremely high and difficult to photograph well. The photo shows the panel for the Grenadier Guards. The inscription for Private W A Wallis is the 3rd one down on the left. Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission. IDENTIFICATION ISSUES - Link to Banstead area not yet established. .................................................................................................................................................................................................. back to Top Panel 4	Wood panel All Saints Church Banstead
WATERS, Albert ......(Probably) Corporal 42301 Royal Fusiliers Died 22-September-1917 aged 33 (All Saints Memorial shows 20-September-1917) Memorial Reference: Panel 28 to 30 and 162 to 162A and 163A. TYNE COT MEMORIAL Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission.(2 day discrepancy on Date of Death.) All Saints Church Memorial, Banstead, Surrey. IDENTIFICATION ISSUES - Age? Link to Banstead area not yet established. .................................................................................................................................................................................................. back to Top Panel 6	Wood panel All Saints Church Banstead

WELLER, Edwin Albert

Gunner 78808

Royal Field Artillery "A" Bty. 73rd Bde.

Died 31-October-1916 aged 24

Son of Edwin and Elizabeth Weller, of Sutton, Surrey;

Husband of Jessie Minnie Weller, of 9, Firtree Cottages, Pound Rd., Banstead, Surrey.

Grave Reference: IV. B. 38.

DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Somme, France

Edwin Albert Weller,Herbert Westlake Garton, All Saints Church Memorial, Banstead, Surrey.

Edwin Albert Weller,Herbert Westlake Garton, All Saints Church Memorial, Banstead, Surrey.

Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
All Saints Church Memorial, Banstead, Surrey.
Headstone at DERNANCOURT photofraphed by Clive Gilbert in May 2008.
.................................................................................................................................................................................................. back to Top Panel 3

Last updated 6 June 2008 - Headstone photo added

Gill Montague Wigglesworth, All Saints Church Memorial, Banstead, Surrey.

WINGROVE, George Stephenson

Midshipman H.M.S. "Formidable."

Royal Navy

Died 1-January-1915 aged 16

Son of Stephen and Eleanor Sarah Wingrove, of Buff House, Banstead, Surrey.
Born at Banstead.

Chatham Naval Memorial

Wood panel
All Saints Church Banstead

HMS Formidable was built at Portsmouth Dockyard, laid down March 1898, completed September 1901, and cost Ł1,097,245.

It was sunk by the Germans in the English Channel on 1 January 1915.

The battleship was with the 5th Battle Squadron serving with the Channel Fleet. She left Sheerness on 30 December 1914 to take part in a firing exercise off Portland.

HMS Formidable was struck by a torpedo on the starboard side abreast of her foremost funnel and sank with the loss of 547 lives.

For the full report, visit HMS Formidable - Lyme Regis Philpot Museum

A short extract from the report follows:

The first torpedo hit the number one boiler port side; a second explosion caused the ship to list heavily to starboard. Huge waves thirty feet high lashed the stricken ship, with strong winds, rain and hail, sinking it in less than two hours.

Captain Loxley, his second-in-command, Commander Ballard, and the signaller stayed at their posts throughout, sending flares and rockets off at regular intervals. There was no panic, the men waiting calmly for the lifeboats to be lowered. Someone played ragtime on the piano, others sang. The Chaplain, (Revd. G Brooke Robinson who was formerly Curate of Burton Bradstock) went down with the ship by risking his life going below to find cigarettes. Suddenly the ship gave a tremendous lurch, the Captain shouted 'Lads, this is the last, all hands for themselves, and may God bless you and guide you to safety'. He then walked to the forebridge, lit a cigarette and, with his terrier Bruce on duty at his side, waited for the end, in true Royal Naval tradition.

A special plaque and inscription dedicated to George Wingrove
can be found in All Saints Church, Banstead

GS Wingrove - Special plaque in All Saints church Banstead. Photo courtesy of Veronica Lansdale

Memorial Reference: 8.

CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Burton and Bradstock village web site.
Chatham Naval Memorial photos by Mike Shackel.
All Saints plaque photo by Veronica Lansdale.
................................................ back to Top Panel 2

WISCOMBE, Frank Private 29623 Wiltshire Regiment 2nd Bn. Died 8-May-1918 aged 41 Husband of Elizabeth Wiscombe, of 13, Shrubland Rd., Banstead, Surrey. Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. G. 18. KLEIN-VIERSTRAAT BRITISH CEMETERY Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission. .................................................................................................................................................................................................. back to Top Panel 8	Wood panel All Saints Church Banstead
WRIGHT, Albert Jesse Gunner 70867 Royal Field Artillery 112th Bty. Died 4-March-1915 aged 20 Son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Wright, of "The Pound," Banstead, Surrey. The small wooden cross pictured on the right was laid at the All Saints Memorial in November 2006. Grave Reference: VI. M. 2. RATION FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, LA CHAPELLE-D'ARMENTIERES Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission. .................................................................................................................................................................................................. back to Top Panel 2	Gnr A J Wright 70867 R.F.A. We Will Remember. November 2006 Wood panel All Saints Church Banstead.