Ripley Derbyshire

Compiled with additional information by kind permission of the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

There are several memorials which are located at All Saints, the parish church
The Town Memorial [Cenotaph] is in the grounds of the church and there are
several inside.

[Cenotaph]
Our Glorious Dead
1914-1919
ABEL Harold
ALLEN John
ALLSOP Arthur
ALLSOP Charles
ALLSOP Joseph
ALLSOP Tom
ANTHONY Ernest
ARGYLE W
ASKIN Archie
ATKINSON W A
BAILEY Len
BAINES C
BALL J R
BAMFORD H
BAMFORD John
BARKER C E
BATES S
BATTY Bernard
BATTY F
BEASTALL Basil F
BEASTALL Tom H
BEMBRIDGE F R
BIRKIN F R S [MM. DCM] may be wrong try George who is on the wooden framed memorial
BIRKS J A
BLACKWELL George
BOOTH J H
BRADLEY P
BREARLEY P [not commemorated on the memorials in the church]
BRIDGE Archie
BRIDGEWATER Jack W
BROCKWAY F E
BROUGHTON Leslie
BROWN J Maurice
BROWN Percy
BURGOYNE J
BURLEY E
BURNS E
BUTLER C [not commemorated on the memorials in the church]
CAVE Leslie
CHESHAM H
CLARK J W
CLAY Alfred
CLEARY William
CLOWER Arthur
CLOWER Willie
CORBY Jack
CRESSWELL Benjamin
CRESSWELL George B
CUTTS Lewis
DAVENPORT Tom
DAVIS Harry D
DEAKIN Alec
DEMPSTER A
DENT Benjamin
DENT George
DIXON Charles M
DOWNING John
EDWARDS E
ELLIOTT Leslie B
EVERTON B
EYRE Fred
FELSTEAD W H [not commemorated on the memorials in the church]
FLETCHER Fred G
FLINT Bertie
GAUNT Alfred
GAUNT W
GIBSON J Thomas
GILL Harry
GILLOTT Oswald
GRATION G F
GRATION J
GRAY Norman
GREEN Charles William [not commemorated on the memorials in the church]
GREEN Harry
GREEN J H
GREEN T H
GREGORY R
GREGORY S
GRUMMETT W
GUNBY E A
HAINES George
HALL Harry
HALL Percy
HARMSON W H
HARPER G
HARRISON J J
HAWKINS Thomas E
HAY T G
HEAD Charles H
HEAPS John
HODGKINSON A
HOLLIS James
HOLLOWAY J L
HOLMES J M [not commemorated on the memorials in the church]
HOLMES T F
HOWITT Joseph
HUNT Frederick
HUNT J R
HUNT Samuel
JACKSON H
JACKSON James
JEFFREYS H
JOYNES James
KENNELL J
KNAPP William
KNOTT J
KNOWLES J
LAMB Jack
LAMBERT George
LANCASHIRE Chris O
LANE J W
LIGHTOLLER H
LLOYD C Douglas
LOMAS Arthur
LYNAM Walter
MARCHANT C
MASKERY I
MASON Charles
MATTHEWS Horace W
MEE JH
MELLORS J H
MELLUISH E
MILLS Frederick
MOORE John
MORLEY Herbert
MORRELL James
MURFIN A
MURFIN W H
MYCOCK Rupert
NOBLE Harry
PAINTER Horace
PALFREYMAN J
PARKER Harry
PARKER John Henry
PARKIN Edward
PERKINS Wilfred
PLOWRIGHT Harry
POLLARD J J
PRICE Samuel
PYMM Claud
QUARRY F G [not commemorated on the memorials in the church]
RADAGE T
RAINE Harry
RANSOME Arthur
REDGATE W
REVILL R H
SEARANCKE Arthur
SHARDLOW Harry
SHARPE Harry
SHAW Chris
SHAWCROFT F
SHAWCROFT George
SHIPLEY F A
SHOEBRIDGE W J
SHORT Thomas
SLATER A Charlie
SLATER Herbert
SLATER John
SMITH F H
SMITH G H
SMITH Harry
SMITH Herbert
SMITH Reg
SPALDING A
STALEY George
STAPLETON G A
STATHAM Ernest
STATHAM J
STEVENS Harry
STONE Alf Ernest
STRETTON Harry
SUNDERLAND W A
SUTTON John J
TAYLOR Arthur L
TAYLOR E L
TAYLOR George Alfred
THROSSELL W
TOPHAM Bernard [not commemorated on the memorials in the church]
TRUELOVE Cecil Roy
TURNER Harry
TURNER Herbert
VALLANCE Arthur
VICKERS Percy
WALKER Charles
WALKER W H
WALTERS J H
WEBSTER J E
WEBSTER Norman
WEBSTER T
WEBSTER Thomas Wesley
WHAWELL Raymond
WILLIAMSON J E
WINCHCOMBE Albert E [not commemorated on the memorials in the church]
WINCHCOMBE John T
WINCHCOMBE William T
WOOLLINS W
WRAGG G B
WRIGHT Leslie
WRIGHT Tom
WYLD George

Erected to the memory of the men of this parish who made the great sacrifice
also in memory of the men from the urban district of Ripley who gave their lives in the war
1939 -1945
ABLETT W A
ALTON W
ARNOTT Jack
ASHER A H
BAINES A
BELFIELD A
BENNETT F W C
BERESFORD William Henry
BOND Philip
BOWMER P G
BRADLEY J
BREARLEY Norman
BROWN J
BROWN J T L
BURGIN Leslie
BURTON L E
BURTON William Henry
CAULTON George Arthur
CLARK Donald Musson
CLARKE B J
CLARKE J L
CLARKE L A
COOPER S A
COPE John Reginald
COX R
CRESSWELL Sidney George
CROSSLAND Beryl Ewart
CUTTELL Thomas
DEAN George Arthur
DOXEY George Arthur
DUFFY H
ELLIOTT K W
FORD Tom
FOWLER F W M V
FRETWELL Colin
GRACE J
GRATTON J
GREAVES J H
GUNN K G
HAGUE W
HALL D H
HARDY John
HERRETT D
HIBBERT C
HUGGINS G F [Frederick Gerald]
HUGGINS Thomas Oswald
JACK A M
JOWITT J
JOWITT R H
LIST H R P
LLOYD S J
LOCKTON F H
LUDLAM F
MARSHALL Albert Beresford
MATTHEWS Richard
MAYCOCK Charles Alfred
MELBOURNE Walter
MELLORS Robert
MERRY G
MURFIN F S
NEAL G E
NEEDHAM T W
PALFREE [palfrey] W A
PARDNER G H
PARKER N
PEARCE George Harvey
PEARSON M
PECKHAM T H
PETTS H T
POYSER J W
RADCLIFFE Norman Ernest
RICHARDSON Frederick
RILEY J
RUSSELL E E
SCHOLFIELD J W
SLACK Herbert
SMITH J R G
SMITH T
STAPLETON K
TANSLEY G
TAYLOR G W
TAYLOR John Henry
THURMAN V L
TODD A E
WAINWRIGHT Arthur
WALTERS E W
WALTERS H S
WALTERS T
WARDBY T E
WATERALL Charles J
WEEKLEY G B
WEIGHTMAN Arthur
WILSON G W
WOODWARD Douglas
WOOLIS Eric Benjamin
WRIGHT Robert Henry

Other Conflicts
Germany 1947
MOTTRAM George Arthur, Private 14150559, Royal Army Medical Corps died 29th March 1947 aged 19. Son of George Henry and Olive of Ripley, Derbyshire. Buried in Munster Heath War cemetery, Nordrhein Westfalen, Germany

Malya 1948
EDLAND Norman, Lance Corporal 19182994, Royal Army Service Corps, Born 14th March 1929 and died 1st October 1948 aged 19. Buried in Taiping Christian Cemetery, Perak

Germany 1970s
PICKERING Terence Ellis, Trooper 23721750, A Squadron 9th 12th Royal Lancers, Berlin Infantry Brigade (known as Berlin Brigade) Stationed at Spandau. Buried in Berlin War Cemetery, which is not to far from where he was stationed. (The author was stationed in Brooke Barracks opposite the Lancers)

Korea 1951
BURNHAM Eric, Private 22356516, Royal Leicestershire Regiment, born 1st December 1931 and died 5th November 1951. Commemorated on the United Nations Memorial Wall at Pusan Cemetery, Korea

AFGHANISTAN 2007
WRIGHT Thomas Michael , Drummer 25160800, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters. Born 28th November 1985 and was killed by a roadside bomb 24th June 2007 in the Qaleh-e-Gaz Sangin Valley, Helmand

Iraq 2007
BEARD Martin James Trevor, Leading Aircraftman, 30000258, RAF Regiment, 1st Squadron RAF Honington. Born 1st July 1987 and was killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated next to their patrol west of Basra, 7th August 2007

WAR MEMORIAL IN THE CHURCH

To the Glory of God and in memory of the men of this district who gave their lives
in the Great War 1914 - 1918
All the fallen on this memorial are also commemorated on the Cenotaph

Three separate memorials in wooden frames and commemorate both wars

WW1
To the Glory of God and in memory of the men of this
district who gave their lives in the Great War 1914 -1918

All the men listed on this memorial are commemorated on the
Cenotaph

WW2 Memorial in the church. [Wooden framed]
In remembrance of those who fell 1939 -45
All except the following names the remainder are commemorated on the cenotaph
GENT Ernest Cyril
VINCENT Robert William
WRIGHT George