Sankey War Memorials at St. Leonards Bilston

 
The memorials from the demolished works and offices of Joseph Sankeys and Sons of Bilston were moved to St Leonards. There are four memorials two each for Bankfield Works and Manor Works,remembering the workers of both wars.

The memorials from the demolished works and offices of Joseph Sankeys and Sons of Bilston were moved to St Leonards. There are four memorials two each for Bankfield Works and Manor Works,remembering the workers of both wars.

 Roll of Honour World War 1 Bankfield Works.
    
ALLEN HENRY OLIVER Private 240458
1st/6th Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Died of Wounds 04/05/1918 Age:26
Son of Henry and Sarah Allen of Upper Ettingshall Bilston.
Grave/Memorial Reference: LXVIII. A. 24.
Cemetery: ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

BAKER JOHN ROLAND Private 235123
13th Bn The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Killed in Action 27th September 1917 Age: 31
Son of Mrs. Mary Ann Baker of 8 Bank St. Bradley Bilston Staffs. His brother William Edward Norman also fell.
TYNE COT MEMORIAL - ZonnebekeWest-Vlaanderen Panel 31 to 34 and 162 and 162A and 163A

BLACKBURN GEORGE Private 15786
1st Bn Leicestershire Regiment
Killed in Action 15/09/1916
Grave/Memorial Reference:Pier and Face 2 C and 3 A.
Cemetery: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

BROMLEY JABEZ Private 9765
2nd Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Killed in Action 10/03/1915
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 21 and 22.
Cemetery: LE TOURET MEMORIAL

BROMLEY JOHN (aka Jack)Private 9232
1st Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Died of Wounds at Home 18/06/1917
Grave/Memorial Reference: FA. 2848. 3.
Cemetery: BILSTON CEMETERY

J.Clee

DARBY LEVI JOSEPH Serjeant 240839
2nd/6th Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Killed in Action 21/03/1918
Grave/Memorial Reference:Bay 6.
Cemetery: ARRAS MEMORIAL

DEAN HARRY Private 36336
3rd Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Died at Home 07/05/1917
Grave/Memorial Reference: A. 238. 7.
Cemetery: BILSTON CEMETERY

EDGE HORACE CHARLES Private M/321336
1st Base Mechanical Transport Depot Royal Army Service Corps
Died 25/02/1919 Age: 22
Son of Charles Oliver Edge and Mary Elizabeth Edgeof 57 Broad St. Bilston.
Grave/Memorial Reference: X. B. 46.
Cemetery:MONS COMMUNAL CEMETERY

ELKS WILLIAM Private 240273
6th Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Killed in Action 01/07/1916
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. H. 16.
Cemetery:GOMMECOURT WOOD NEW CEMETERY, FONCQUEVILLERS

G.Elsdon

EVANS ERNEST Gunner 33055
88th Bde Royal Field Artillery
Formerly 19822 South Staffordshire Regiment
Died of Wounds 02/06/1918
Grave/Memorial Reference: VII. D. 8.
Cemetery: MARFAUX BRITISH CEMETERY

G.Grainger

HAMMONDS HAROLD Private 260027
"C" Coy 2nd/5th BnLeicestershire Regiment
Killed in Action 28th September 1917 Age:19
Son of Rowland and Fanny Elizabeth Hammonds, of 46 Field St.Bradley Bilston Staffs.
TYNE COT MEMORIAL-Zonnebeke West-Vlaanderen Panel 50 to 51

HARPIN JOHN Company Quartermaster Serjeant 240040
1st/6th Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Died of Wounds 07/05/1918
Grave/Memorial Reference: LXVI. B. 25.
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

HARRIS ALBERT Driver T1/1419
114th Coy Army Service Corps
Died of Wounds 18/06/1915
Husband of B. Harris, of 47, Salop St., Bradley, Bilston.
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. A. 160.
Cemetery: LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY

HARRIS SIDNEY THOMAS Private 18267
7th Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Killed in Action 08/06/1917 Age:20
Son of the late Henry and Ellen Harris of 29 Cross St.Wednesbury, Staffs.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 35 and 37.
Cemetery: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

HAYWARD ARTHUR Private 1922
1st/6th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment.
Killed in Action 13/10/1915 Age 21. Son of Arthur and Rose Hayward of 55 High St. Bilston.
Panel 73 to 76 LOOS MEMORIAL

HODSON WILLIAM Private 39083
4th Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Killed in Action 10/04/1918 Age:25
Son of Samuel and Fanny Hodson.
Grave/Memorial Reference: VII. Q. 3.
Cemetery:STRAND MILITARY CEMETERY

HORSEMAN ERNEST GILES Lance Corporal 10124
7th Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Died at Home of Wounds 05/12/1915 Age:23
Son of John and Pauline Elizabeth Horseman of 8 Stafford St.Bilston.
Grave/Memorial Reference: A. 2349. 7.
Cemetery: BILSTON CEMETERY

JOHNSON SAMUEL Private 10090
7th Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Killed in Action 14/07/1916
Grave/Memorial Reference:Bay 6.
Cemetery:ARRAS MEMORIAL

T.Morgan

ORGAN JAMES BERT Private 2623
6th Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Died of Wounds 15/10/1915
Brother of Mr. F. G. Organ of 55 Shand St. Wishaw.
Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. C. 56.
Cemetery: LILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY

PARKER THOMAS Gunner 84204
81st Bty Royal Field Artillery
Died of Wounds 19/06/1916 Age:29
Son-in-law of Mrs. Julia Flynn, of 107, Temple St. Bilston.
Grave/Memorial Reference: VIII. A. 41.
Cemetery: LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

PITT JOHN Private 37033
7th Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Killed in Action 14/12/1917 Age:21
Son of John and Ann Pitt of 2 Court 12 Wolverhampton St. Bilston.
Grave Reference: XX. D. 2.
LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY.

ROGERS JOHN WISEDALE Private 308098
2nd/7th Bn Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Killed in Action 03/05/1917 Age:22
Son of Henry Arthur and Martha Rogers of 5 Thompson St. Bilston.
Memorial Reference: Bay 6.
ARRAS MEMORIAL.
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SANKEY SYDNEY JOHN (Director) Captain
6th Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Killed 25/09/1915 age:25
Son of Elizabeth Sankey of Hunley Lodge Penn Fields Wolverhampton and the late John William Sankey.
Grave Reference: I. L. 3.
LARCH WOOD (RAILWAY CUTTING) CEMETERY.

T.Stokes

TAYLOR ALFRED Private 10306
8th Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Killed in Action 15/02/1916 Age:22
Son of Enoch and Annie Taylor of 2 Court 5 House, Temple St. Bilston.
Grave Reference: Panel 35 and 37.
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.

TAYLOR JOHN Private 6817
2nd Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Killed in Action 10/03/1915
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 21 and 22.
Cemetery:LE TOURET MEMORIAL

J.Vails.
      
Roll of Honour World War 2 Bankfield Works.
    

Ashford Herbert Lance Corporal 5044455
6th Bn. North Staffordshire Regiment.
Attached to 13th (2/4th Bn. The South Lancashire Regt.) Bn. The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.
Herbert was born in 1910 in Coseley son of John Thomas and Susan Ashford. In 1911 they were living at 43 Horace St Hurst Hill Near Bilston, Coseley along with Herbert's older siblings Sarah, Phoebe and John and younger siblings William and Susan.
In 1921 he and his siblings John and Beatrice were living with their cousin William and Williams wife Elizbeth at 64, Ward Street Mount Pleasant, Coseley. Herbert was employed by George Mason Ltd as a errand boy for a general grocer.
Herbert married Annie Elizabeth Young June 1934 in Bilston.
Killed in action 19 August 1944 aged 34.
Row C.Grave 9. Putot-en-auge Churchyard, France.

Copson, Herbert Serjeant S/2216309
Royal Army Service Corps.
Born 25th July 1891 at 48 King Street Bilston son of Luke and Elizabeth Copson in 1901 they were living at 21 Chapel Street Bilston along with older brothers Luke and William. In 1911 the family remained living there and Herbert was employed as a clerk.
Herbert married Maud Smith 2nd March 1913 at St. Mary's Church Bilston, they had two sons William born in 1914 and George in 1916.
During the First World War Herbert attested into the Army 23rd February 1916 at the Drill Hall Bilston, he was employed as a commercial clerk at Sankeys and was living at 64 A Bank St, Bradley Bilston with Maud, and their children.
Herbert joined the Notts and Derby Regiment later being transferred to the Liverpool Regiment 26th January 1917. Herbert was promoted to Serjeant 12th May 1916 rising to the rank of Company Quarter Master Serjeant 23rd December 1918. Herbert was transferred 12th May 1917 to 305 Labour Corps under Category B3 - only suitable for sedentary work, he was demobilized 9th March 1919.
Herbert reenlisted into the Royal Engineers, Territorial Army 24th June 1925 leaving 25th April 1927. Herbert then again enlisted 3rd July 1931 into the Royal Army Service Corps Territorial Army.
Herbert died 2nd February 1940 aged 48 of pneumonia in Kettering Hospital, Northamptonshire, at the time of his death the family home was 'Belmar' Sutherland Road Bilston.
Buried in Sec. A. Old portion. Grave 1410.6. Bilston Cemetery.


MORGAN VICTOR Signalman 2346336
Royal Corps of Signals
Died 16/08/1943 Age:23
Son of Henry and Lily Morgan of Willenhall Staffordshire.
Grave/Memorial Reference: B3. D. 6.
Cemetery: THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY

WILTSHIRE JOSEPH WILLIAM Lance Corporal 4916982
1/6th Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Killed in Action 16/07/1944 Age:34
Son of Joseph and Phoebe Wiltshire who lived in Lane Street and owned the Wiltshire drapers in Bilston and Great Bridge.Husband of Beatrice May Wiltshire of 6 King Street Bradley Bilston. Joseph was a member of Wolverhampton Wheelers cycling club and was involved in local politics.
Grave/Memorial Reference: V. C. 11.
Cemetery: FONTENAY-LE-PESNEL WAR CEMETERY, TESSEL
      
Roll of Honour World War 1 Manor Works.

Hubert Austin

BULLOCK JOSEPH Private 15826
2nd Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Killed in Action 12/06/1917
Grave/Memorial Reference: Bay 6.
Cemetery: ARRAS MEMORIAL
 
COX JOHN W. Driver 71670
"A" Bty. 84th Bde Royal Field Artillery
Killed in Action 25/10/1917 Age:25
Husband of Florence Cox of 6 Morfital Lane Willenhall Native of Ettingshall Wolverhampton.
Grave/Memorial Reference: VIII. G. 11.
Cemetery: TYNE COT CEMETERY

William Green

JAMES JOHN Private 42257
10th Bn Worcestershire Regiment
Killed in Action 18/06/1918 Age:19
Son of Enoch James of 12 Woodcross St. Woodcross Bilston.
Cemetery: SOISSONS MEMORIAL

NICHOLLS JOHN Gunner 19440
"D" Bty., 76th Bde Royal Field Artillery
Killed in Action 23/04/1917 Age:24
Son of John and Sarah Nicholls of 23 Thompson St. Bilston.
Grave Reference: 2. D. 12.
CANADIAN CEMETERY No.2, NEUVILLE - ST. VAAST

PLANT ARTHUR ALFRED Private 2277
1st/6th Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Killed in Action 13/10/1915
Memorial Reference: Panel 73 to 76.
LOOS MEMORIAL
      
Roll of Honour World War 2 Manor Works.

A.S.Craig

DARBY WILLIAM ALBERT Guardsman 2664544
3rd Bn Coldstream Guards
Died 27/01/1944
Son of Albert and Edith Darby, of Coseley.
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI, C, 12.
Cemetery: MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY

MOULD SAMUEL Gunner 1142741
93 (6th Bn. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Anti-Tank Regt Royal Artillery
Died 08/11/1944 Age:24
Son of D. and Emily Mould of Bilston.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Coll. grave II, D, 12.
Cemetery: FORLI WAR CEMETERY

PORTER HAROLD Bombardier 802675
3 Medium Regt Royal Artillery
Died 13/06/1944 Age:32
Husband of Clarice Porter of Bilston.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Joint grave XIV.B.1-2.
Cemetery: CASSINO WAR CEMETERY