cat631 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 While recording and photographing a few memorials for Dean, I have been pleasantly surprised to find some of them have been given a good clean. This one is tucked away in a corner of the playground in Tinsley Junior and Infants School and could do with a scrub. Havlng said that, when I asked permission to take a few pics, the lady in the school office informed me that recently, someone had been to examine the moss. Apparently, it's quite rare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DUFFEMS Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Dean, With reference to your project, I have one great uncle who was a WW1 casualty: Harold Norton (Details to follow if you require them) Walter Wildgoose (Ditto) not a direct relative but, husband of a relative. I'll not post details in case you already have them. I'll post them to you or pm them to you if you require. Regards, Duffem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granma Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church ( Hanover Way) Dean, have sent 2 emails on this. Granma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suesmith Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 Hi Dean Do you know where the memorial that once stood in Holy Trinity Church Darnall went to when it was demolished? We know that it was last seen mid 80's by quite a few people, including me, at the vicarage on Mather Road but was moved to somewhere, not sure where. We have had confirmation from Nat Inventry War Memorials, Kelham Island and Weston Park Museum that it is not in there possesion but where did it go to? If anyone has any suggestions of where to look next please PM me. Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean1 Posted October 9, 2007 Author Share Posted October 9, 2007 Hi all, apologies for the lack of responce to your post's, but i have been snowed under at that place they call work!! Duffem's, please post Harold and Walter's detail's if you will. Sue, im afraid i have no knowledge of where the memorial from Holy Trinity is now located. hope some one can help out here to try and locate it. regard's Dean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DUFFEMS Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 Do you want me to post them on the board or pm them please? Duffem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean1 Posted October 9, 2007 Author Share Posted October 9, 2007 Do you want me to post them on the board or pm them please? Duffem Hi Duffem please PM me please regards Dean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopT Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 Hi Dean ! I was searching for a family grave in Burngreave Cemetery the other day and came across a WW1 soldier's grave who had died in France Here is the inscription if you haven't got his details carved on this military white gravestone¬ 4278 C. Sergeant Major GS Warneford Machine Gun Corps (Int) 11th August 1916 Aged 25 'GREATER LOVE THAN THIS HATH NO MAN' How poignant are those few words. There must be a story behind this tragic death as very few bodies were returned to be buried in the UK. Does anyone know of this man's life? Unhappy Days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insidestory Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 Hi Dean I know you've got the Gen Cem down as being complete. Would you mind getting in touch though. We have a list of soldiers that we rely on when we get enquiries. It ranges from veterans of the Napoleonic wars and the Crimea to a number of soldiers who died at the Battle of the Somme. It would be good to double check this with you to see if we have anything missing, and vice versa. I assume you've not including blitz victims in your survey of war dead ? We have several. PM me, or you can ring us on 268 3486 weekdays Regards Sheffield General Cemetery Trust Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hennypenny Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 Hi Dean ! I was searching for a family grave in Burngreave Cemetery the other day and came across a WW1 soldier's grave who had died in France Here is the inscription if you haven't got his details carved on this military white gravestone¬ 4278 C. Sergeant Major GS Warneford Machine Gun Corps (Int) 11th August 1916 Aged 25 'GREATER LOVE THAN THIS HATH NO MAN' How poignant are those few words. There must be a story behind this tragic death as very few bodies were returned to be buried in the UK. Does anyone know of this man's life? Unhappy Days! This is what is on the war graves commission website:- Name: WARNEFORD, GEORGE IREDALE Initials: G I Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Company Serjeant Major Regiment/Service: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Unit Text: 56th Coy. Age: 27 Date of Death: 11/08/1916 Service No: 4278 Additional information: Husband of Elsie Warneford, of 8, Argyle St., Mexborough, Rotherham. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: T4. "C." 41. Cemetery: SHEFFIELD (BURNGREAVE) CEMETERY During the First World War there were two substantial war hospitals in Sheffield, the Wharncliffe, in the Wadsley Asylum, and the 3rd Northern General, housed in 15 separate buildings. The city, a centre for war industry during the Second World War, suffered heavy enemy air-raids during the Blitz with 600 people killed in a single raid in December 1940. Sheffield (Burngreave) Cemetery contains scattered war graves of both wars. Behind the Cross of Sacrifice in plot JJ is a Screen Wall commemorating those First World War casualties whose graves could not be marked by headstones, most of them buried in the plot of ground immediately in front of it. In front of the Screen Wall are a number of Special Memorial headstones for Second World War casualties buried elsewhere in the cemetery whose graves could not be marked. In all, the cemetery contains 235 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 57 from the Second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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