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War
Memorials Elsewhere, - Seaton Carew (Hartlepool) |
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The Seaton Carew War Memorial
Photo : Ray Wilkins (<e2ray3636@ntlworld.com>)
The front of the Seaton Carew War Memorial is inscribed;-
TO OUR
GLORIOUS DEAD
1914-1918
1939-1945
SEATON CAREW
The names on the panels, - North (facing), South, and West are;-
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VICTOR ED E BENTLEY CLARENCE BIRKENSHAW GEORGE H BIRKENSHAW RALPH PERCIVAL BOOTH FRANCIS CECIL BOOTH BERT CARNALL LOUIS CHARLTON JAMES CRILLY |
J A NORMAN HESSLER (*) JACK K M HESSLER (*) PERCY MURRAY WILLIAM McLAREN JAMES FRANK PEET SAMUEL SMITH CHARLES W TILLY (*) JOHN TILLY (*) |
HARRY WHITE HARRY CASS CHARLES DAVIES ARTHUR FORSTER THOS PERCIVAL GUTHE (*) CECIL RUDOLPH GUTHE (*) ERNEST M HARRISON LUKE PATCHCOTT |
Photos of the panels are shown below.
(*) The Hesslers (both Captains serving with the DLI), the Guthes and the
Tillys were brothers.
1 soldier served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
Captain John Tilly, M C. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of
Tobias Harry and Onora Tilly, of Seaton Carew, West Hartlepool, Durham. Killed
8 June 1918. Aged 31.
Buried BARENTHAL MILITARY CEMETERY.
(Brother of Lt Col Charles W Tilly, of the DLI. - named on the same memorial)
From the book "Marjorie's War" by Reginald and Charles Fair, the
following biographical information is provided on Captain Tilly;-
"John Tilly was born at Seaton Carew, Co. Durham, in 1886. In 1905 he
entered Pembroke College, Cambridge, to study law and was admitted to the
bar in October 1911. He enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers on 15 September 1914
but was discharged a week later on taking a commission in the 8th Yorkshires
on 22 September 1915. He was promoted to Captain on 19 June 1916. He was wounded
by a German shell splinter in Munster Alley on 5 August 1916. Captain Tilly's
award of the MC was gazetted on 19 November 1917. He died of wounds received
during a trench raid in Italy on 8 June 1918."
The Dedication on the Seaton Carew War Memorial
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The North Commemorative Panel on the Seaton Carew War Memorial
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The South Commemorative Panel on the Seaton Carew War Memorial
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The West Commemorative Panel on the Seaton Carew War Memorial
Photo : Ray Wilkins (<e2ray3636@ntlworld.com>)
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