War Memorials Elsewhere, - Gainsborough (Lincs)

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The War Memorial for Gainsborough (Lincs)
Photo : Google Earth

The Gainsborough War Memorial is located at the corner nof Gladstone Street and Parnell Street in Gainsborough, - opposite Gainsborough Old Hall. The memorial is a small Cenotaph, but bears no names.
The dedication reads;-

The names of those commemorated can, however, be found in the Gainsborough WW1 Roll of Honour.

This Roll of Honour is a booklet of town soldiers who died during the Great War and is based on names published in the Gainsborough News. The Roll was first compiled by Mr R H Johnson in the mid 1980s. Peter Bradshaw, Assistant headteacher at Middlefield and then Trent Valley Academy and some of his Secondary School pupils have also added around 100 names through their own research from asking their families, and researching the Common wealth War Graves website and Soldiers Died in the Great War and through battlefiield visits. They have also compared all the other smaller war memorials in churches and schools across the town.

There is also now a printed physical memorial at Gainsborough Heritage Centre, incorporating a scene with a WW1 Tommy, using the Roll compiled by Peter Bradshaw. This was unveiled in 2018.

There are 510 names in this Roll of Honour.

Of these 510 names, 6 men served with the Yorkshire Regiment.

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Private William Bayes. 30017. 13th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 32885 Notts & Derby Regt. Killed 9 October 1916.
Born Gainsborough (Lincs), Enlisted Gainsborough.
Buried PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY.
(William Bayes was the son of Edward and Annie Bayes. On 3 June 1916 he married Esther Daniels, a widow aged 30, in Christ Church, Woking. At the time he was stationed at Inkerman Barracks in Woking, with the 13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.)

Private Luke Challinor. 65369. 18th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly in D L I. Stepson of Thomas Smith, of 3I9, Ropery Rd., Gainsborough. Died at home 30 October 1918.
Born Lincoln, Enlisted Lincoln, Resided Gainsborough.
Buried GAINSBOUROUGH (NORTH WARREN) CEMETERY.

Private Robert Edmund Dannatt. TR/5/13684. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, attached to Training Battalion. Died at home 26 February 1917.
Born Kirmington, Enlisted Scunthorpe, Resided Gainsborough.
Buried GAINSBOUROUGH (NORTH WARREN) CEMETERY.

Serjeant Laurence Philip Harrison, 18708. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William Northedge Harrison and Eleanor Catherine Harrison. of 86, Church St., Gainsborough; husband of Winifred Harrison, of 12, Lord St., Gainsborough. Educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, and Sheffield College. Head Master of W. Butterwick's School. Killed 27 September 1916. Aged 28.
Born Gainsborough (Lincs), Enlisted Darlington, Resided Gainsborough.
Buried REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT.

Private Harold Strickson Landin. 41044. 1st Battalion the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), formerly 4286 the Yorkshire Regiment. Brother of Miss Rosamond Landin, of "Lulworth", Upton Rd., Watford, Herts. Killed 21 March 1918. Aged 26.
Born Gainsborough (Lincs), Enlisted Gainsborough.
Commemorated Bay 4, ARRAS MEMORIAL.

Private Frank Marshall. 47981. 8th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 5/37789 10th T R Battn. Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Marshall, of 4, Trent Street, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. Killed 15 June 1918. Aged 20.
Born Holy Trinity (Lincs), Enlisted Gainsborough.
Buried BARENTHAL MILITARY CEMETERY.

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