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War
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The War Memorial for Wistaston and Rope
Photo : Unknown on the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials website
The War Memorial for Wistaston and Rope is situated outside St Marys Church, Church Lane, Wistaston Green.
The memorial is a rough hewn Celtic Cross on a tappered rectangular plinth.
16 names are commemorated as having lost their lives in the First World War.
One soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on the memorial for Wistaston and Rope.
2nd Lieutenant Stanley Fell Hutton. 12th Battalion
Yorkshire Regiment. Son of James and Agnes Hutton, of Hunts Bank Cottage,
Wistaston, Nantwich, Cheshire. Died 11 April 1918. Aged 24.
Commemorated on Panel 4, PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL.
The following additional biographical information is taken from Roberts Coulson's
Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"Stanley Hutton was born at Willaston in Cheshire in 1894.
He first served in the ranks of the Notts and Derby regiment and after his
commission joined the 12th Battalion, Teeside Pioneers, at Moislains in early
November 1917. Later that same month this pioneer battalion were called into
front line action during bitter fighting at the Battle of Bourlon Wood.
In January and February of 1918 2nd Lt Hutton and the battalion were engaged
mainly with roadworks in the Mory area but when the German Spring Offensive
opened on March 21st they were pushed into the line at Hamlincourt.
The battalion fought on the retreat for ten days and when the onslaught was
finally halted they were at Rue de Bois.
In early April they were in action again as the Battle of the Lys opened and
on April 11th 1918 2nd Lt Stanley Fell Hutton was killed in action aged 24
in trenches close to Bac St Maur."
The
War Memorial for Wistaston and Rope outside St. Mary's Church, Wistaston Green
Photo : Google Earth
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