Edgerton Cemetery

Situated at the bottom entrance to the cemetery on Blacker Road, approximately one mile from Huddersfield town centre and near the Spinks Nest public house.

A three-tiered six-sided monument with a tall cross and seven plaques set into a wall behind.

The periods commemorated are 1914-1918 and 1939-1945.

Inscriptions

The inscription on the main monument reads:

This cross of sacrifice is one in design
and intention with those which have
been set up in France and Belgium and
other places throughout the World
where our dead of the
Great War are laid to rest

Their name liveth for evermore

The inscription on the centre plaque in the wall reads:

To the
honoured memory of
one hundred and
three members of
His Majesty’s Forces
who gave
their lives for
their country
in the Great War
1914 - 1918
Sixteen lie buried in
Lockwood Cemetery
and eighty seven in
this cemetery
but the graves of
these twenty nine
are not marked by
separate headstones

Plaques and names

1914-1918 and 1939-1945

Small left hand side plaque. These soldiers and this airman lie buried in Emmanuel churchyard, Lockwood.

RankFirst NameLast NameSuffixDied
PrivateHaroldHaigh West Yorkshire Regiment30.12.1918
Air Mechanic 2nd ClassH.B.Lee Royal Air Force23.6.1918
SergeantA.H.H.Bamford Pioneer Corps7.1.1941

1914-1918

Large plaque 1.

Service NumberRankFirst NameLast NameSuffixDied
143880Staff SergeantP.Arnold Royal Engineers29.6.1919
12677PrivateJ.E.Banbury Duke of Wellington's Regiment23.6.1917
267713PrivateF.Barraclough Duke of Wellington's Regiment28.10.1917
52008PrivateB.Birrell King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry22.12.1918
3024Lance CorporalJ.T.Bower Duke of Wellington's Regiment27.4.1918
L/32570GunnerS.Burke Royal Field Artillery5.6.1916
45400SergeantC.H.Callaghan Royal Field Artillery30.12.1917, Age 30
R/21684RiflemanJ.L.Cockayne King's Royal Rifle Corps3.9.1916

1914-1918

Large plaque 2.

Service NumberRankFirst NameLast NameSuffixDied
100109DriverP.Daly Royal Field Artillery25.3.1916
24866PrivateT.H.Dobson East Yorkshire Regiment7.1.1919, Age 34
8035PrivateW.E.Fowle Norfolk Regiment5.3.1919, Age 41
15/11PrivateB.G.Gopsill Royal Warwickshire Regiment16.12.1916, Age 22
C/6135RiflemanP.Hepworth King's Royal Rifle Corps22.12.1916
10425PrivateF.Hunt Duke of Wellington's Regiment5.1.1917
1765PrivateL.L.Kenneally Royal Army Medical Corps4.3.1919, Age 36

1914-1918

Large plaque 4.

Service NumberRankFirst NameLast NameSuffixDied
11939PrivateA.Kenny Duke of Wellington's Regiment13.12.1915
91734DriverW.Le Vasseur Royal Field Artillery2.11.1917
35929PrivateR.A.Muirhead Highland Light Infantry3.1.1919
234150PrivateR.L.Murray 2nd Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)16.12.1917, Age 20
1572PrivateF.Parkinson Duke of Wellington's Regiment15.5.1916
242189PrivateT.Payton Highland Light Infantry5.1.1920
44074PrivateJ.Revell Lincolnshire Regiment12.6.1918, Age 27

1914-1918

Large plaque 5.

Service NumberRankFirst NameLast NameSuffixDied
2066CorporalD.Shaw Duke of Wellington's Regiment20.12.1915, Age 20
490PrivateW.Shaw 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)6.12.1915
129768PrivateT.Stanley Royal Army Medical Corps28.6.1918
6570DriverJ.Stephenson Royal Field Artillery29.5.1921
268180PrivateW.Thompson Duke of Wellington's Regiment18.9.1919
140495GunnerB.Wilson Royal Field Artillery23.10.1916
12416PrivateR.Wright King's Regiment (Liverpool)5.5.1915
203657PrivateJ.Eccles Duke of Wellington's Regiment14.3.1918

1914-1918

Small right hand side plaque. These soldiers lie buried in Zion Methodist burial ground, Lindley.

RankFirst NameLast NameSuffixDied
PrivateW.Bray Duke of Wellington's Regiment31.5.1916
PrivateB.Brook Royal Army Service Corps6.12.1919
CorporalN.Dyson Royal Field Artillery9.12.1918
PrivateH.Milnes Duke of Wellington's Regiment12.9 1920
PrivateG.H.Moore Duke of Wellington's Regiment28.6.1916