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The War Memorial outside St. Mary's Church, Masham
Photo : Martin Briscoe of the Imperial
War Museum War Memorials Register
The War Memorial for Masham is a cross outside St. Mary's Church,
with an octagonal base on which are carved the names of those who died in both
the First and Second World Wars. Included in the names are two people who were
killed in enemy bombing of Masham in the Second World War.
The panels on the base carry the following dedication for those who died in
the First World War;-
IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918.
"THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"
The names of those recorded on the memorial for the First World War are;-
1915 GEORGE BANKS HAROLD CODLBECK GEORGE DUFFIELD JAMES HOLLAND 1916 DIGBY BESWICK HERBERT F BRUCE GEORGE A COLDBECK JAMES COLE CHARLES R E EDMUNDSON THOMAS W FALSHAW |
FRED JACKSON MARK ROPER FRED TUCKER BERTRAM WOODWARD 1917 RUPERT H ASTWOOD JOHN B BRADFORTH GEORGE H BROWN EMERSON B CLARKSON GEORGE CLARKSON JOSEPH R W COLDBECK |
GEORGE FURBY WILLIE FURBY PETER F MALLABY PERCIVAL MOOD GEORGE SPENCE JOSEPH W SPENCE CHARLES G STEEL ARTHUR L TIMMS ROBERT WINTERSGILL ALFRED WINTERSGILL |
1918 EDWARD W COLEMAN JOHN K HANDLEY GORDON HANDLEY THOMAS HESLOP RAYMOND MOOD HERBERT W MOOD FREDERICK RUDDICK THOMAS A WILSON 1919 GEORGE W BANKS 1920 JOHN H BOLTON 1921 ALFRED E DALE 1923 JOHN DEIGHTON |
Private George Banks, 3/8540. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 15 June 1915.
Born Masham (Yorks), Enlisted Masham (Yorks).
Commemorated Panel 12, LE TOURET MEMORIAL.
Private George Digby Beswick, 3940. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 14 February 1916.
Enlisted Masham (Yorks).
Buried RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND.
(Shown in SDGW as "George Digby Beswick")
Lance Corporal George Hick Brown, 40495. 8th Battalion North Staffordshire
Regiment, formerly 3021 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mr. R. L. and Mrs.
J. Brown, of Park St., Masham, Ripon, Yorks. Killed 6 August 1917. Aged 19.
Born Hackness (Yorks), Enlisted Northallerton (Yorks), Resided Masham (Yorks).
Buried BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION (NORD).
Private Herbert Foster Bruce, 5445. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Charles Fenwick Bruce and Elizabeth Bruce, of "Silverdale",
Masham, Ripon, Yorks. Killed 17 September 1916. Aged 19.
Born Masham (Yorks), Enlisted South Shields.
Commemorated Pier and Face 3 A and 3 D, THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.
Private Harold Ralph Coldbeck, 12786. 7th Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of Alfred Burton Coldbeck and Phillis Hariet Colbeck, of Cross
Hill, Masham, Ripon, Yorks. Killed 4 August 1915. Aged 21.
Born Stainsley (Ripon), Enlisted Masham.
Buried VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURE No.3.
Private James Cole, 12824. 7th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed
1 July 1916.
Born Croydon (Surrey), Enlisted Masham, Resided Croydon.
Buried FRICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY.
Sergeant George Duffield, 12791. 7th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of John and Emmeline Duffield, of Masham, Yorks. Killed 31 December 1915.
Aged 21.
Born Masham (Yorks), Enlisted Masham.
Buried BRANDHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY.
(Number = 12791 in SDGW and also Green Howards Gazette database. CWGC register
= 12793).
(*) Private Herbert William Mood, 5274. Yorkshire Regiment, transferred
to the Labour Corps. Step-son of Mrs. Minna Mood, of Market Place, Masham.
Died 28 November 1918. Aged 32.
Buried MASHAM (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD.
(Not listed in SDGW)
(*) Private Raymond Mood, 39027. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Thomas and Mirlna (sic) Mood, of The Square, Masham, Yorks. Died 31
August 1918. Aged 23.
Born Masham (Yorks), Enlisted Leyburn, Resided Masham (Yorks).
Buried DURY CRUCIFIX CEMETERY.
Private George Spence, 28235. 7th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 17 October 1917.
Born Timble (Yorks), Enlisted Masham (Yorks).
Buried DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY.
Private Arthur Leslie Timms, 242713. 9th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of George Timms, of Cross Hill, Masham, Yorks. Killed 20 September 1917.
Aged 21.
Born Ellington (Yorks), Enlisted Masham.
Buried YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY.
Private Timms is also commemorated on a family headstone
in St. Mary's Churchyard, Masham.
Private Robert Wintersgill, 12823. 7th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 22 December 1917.
Born Masham (Yorks), Enlisted Msham, Resided Snape (Bedale)
Buried NEUVILLE-BOURJONVAL BRITISH CEMETERY.
Private Bertram Woodward, 4555. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Mrs. C. Miller, of "Sunnyside," 58, Borobridge Rd., Knaresborough,
Yorks. Killed 17 September 1916. Aged 38.
Enlisted Northallerton, Resided Masham.
Commemorated Pier and Face 3 A and 3 D, THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.
Martin Briscoe, of Fort William (<mbriscoe@zetnet.co.uk>) has written supplying information on the Mood family. Martin is related to Thomas Mood's first wife (Thomas Mood was the father of Raymond Mood, above).
Thomas Mood had 5 sons and 5 daughters, two of the sons by his first wife, Margaret, and three by his second wife Minna. Of these sons, Herbert William, Raymond were killed in the First World War. Percival Mood (1917, see above) son of William and Minna, was a Lance Corporal in the Royal Berkshire Regiment and was killed on 11 November 1917, aged 23.
1917
(part) and 1918 Commemorations on the Masham War Memorial
Photo : Martin Briscoe of the Imperial
War Museum War Memorials Register
1918 Commemorations on the Masham War Memorial
Photo : Martin Briscoe of the Imperial
War Museum War Memorials Register
The
Dedication on the Masham War Memorial
Photo : Martin Briscoe of the Imperial
War Museum War Memorials Register
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One Yorkshire Regiment soldier is commemorated on a family headstone in St. Mary's Churchyard, Masham.
The Timms Family headstone in St. Mary's Churchyard, Masham
Photo : Dimitrios Corcodilos of the Find
a Grave website
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