Cockermouth War Memorial & List of Names - We Remember Them
World War 1 1914 - 1919
World War 2 1939 - 1945
First World War 1914 - 1919
Names on Cockermouth War Memorial
Our community remembers the sacrifice of those who died defending us, in the World Wars and other conflicts, on the nearest Sunday to November 11th. In recent years Cockermouth’s Remembrance Sunday has been the biggest public attendance of a significant event in Cockermouth’s history with a service held at a local church and a procession of all ages, from small children in their uniform to ex forces and other representatives of public bodies, with the public attending in very large numbers to pay their respects and support those who are affected by their loss.
To commemorate the sacrifice of those who gave their lives in the First World War, Cockermouth War Memorial was erected on land that had been donated by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). The land had been the entrance to the Cockermouth railway station where there were railway sidings for cattle and coke trains for the West Coast steel works, and the adjacent area now has a housing development called The Sidings.
The Memorial was unveiled 24th September 1922, attended by Lt Colonel F H Ballantyne Dykes DSO and was dedicated by Canon W H Parker, the Minister of All Saints. The cost involved were: nil for the site because it was gifted by the railway company; the memorial itself cost £1,500. Subscriptions had been raised totalling £2,189 and the balance was handed over for future maintenance. The World War 2 names were added later by Walker Bros, building contractors.
By 1931 the stonework was severely deteriorating. After much discussion (including rebuilding in Granite or attaching bronze tablets- both of which were refused funding by Central government) it was decided in September 1932 to treat with Szerelmey stone liquid preservative, to rake out all joints and point in blue lias lime and repaint the existing lettering. The preservative was meant to have been re-applied every year in perpetuity but there is no evidence of any but the one treatment. This work cost approx £105.; November 2018 to March 2019- Statue restored at a cost of over £17,000 partly funded by a War Memorials Trust grant, as well as local fundraising c. November 2012: the memorial was cleaned and power washed by the Town Council. The Rotary Club also purchased four new flower containers. A local shop (Lakes Home Centre) was going to seasonally provide bulbs for these containers, to be planted by the Rotary Club. The new stone containers were unveiled on 2nd November 2012 and replaced the wooden half barrels from Jennings brewery.
Information from: www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/4026
James Allan
Henry Herbert Allison
Walter Atkinson
Myles George Barker
John Barnes
George Henry Bartle
Walter Bartle
E Barton
John Baxter
George William Bell
Jonathan Bigrigg
Joseph Bigrigg
William John Bigrigg
Stanley Black
George Stanley Blackburn
Edmund Brash
Isaac W Bryne
Wedgewood Bunting
J Campbell
J Cape (possibly John)
Arthur Edward Carruthers
Joseph Carruthers
William Percy Chicken
George H Clark
James Johnstone Clark
Samuel Clulow
Joseph W Cockbain
John Conway
Alfred Cooper Holmes
Frederick William Cooper
Rowland Perkes Cooper
R Dalton (possibly Rowland)
Alfred Dawes
Joseph Dempster
Tom Denwood
James Ernest Dixon
Edward Hughes Dodgson
George Donnelly
P Donoghue
Joseph Rayson Drummond
Skelton Eland
Henry Elliott
Thomas Holliday Ellwood
Howard Iveson Fearon-Brown
Walter (BelI) Fletcher
James Vivian Gandy
Thomas W Graham
H W Green (Military Cross on memorial but unable to identify further)
Joseph Edward Green
Thomas Grisedale
James Harrison
John Harrison
Dixon Hetherington
Joseph Hetherington
J C Hetherington
William Park Hetherington
B L Hinde (possibly Bertie)
Lancelot Hodgson
Richard Hogarth
Edward Holmes
Emmanuel Huddleston
John Hunter
Bruce Garnet Illingworth
John Irving
Joseph Irving
William Irving
H Jackson (possibly Henry or Hubert)
James Jackson
J J Jackson
L Jackson
N Jamieson
Isaac Gaitskell Jennings
Joseph William Kelly
Arthur James Kidd
Wilfred G Kirkbride
Joseph William Leck
Albert Lister
John MacKay
Thomas Marsden
Robert Marsh
Harold Martin
John McCue
Kenneth Smith McMaster
Norman McMaster
Alfred Miller
G Miller (possibly George)
Daniel Morris
Clark Moscrop
Robert Moscrop
Joseph William Mossop
Thomas Mullen
Sidney Nettleton
Ernest John Newton
G H Newton (possibly George Henry)
George William Nicholson
William James O’Hare
Wilfrid Robert Pagen
William Graham Pattinson
Daniel Pearson (Daniel Pearson-Parker)
HHorace Pearson (Horace Pearson-Parker)
Palmer Robinson
Joseph Lamb Routledge
Christopher Reuben Scott
W Serginson (possibly William Edward)
C H Sim (no trace of C H Sim, but possibly Charles Needham Sims)
William Simm
James Birchall Simpson
Gilbert Slater
Peter Sloan
Joseph Smith
Robert Smith
Thomas Stanley Smith
James McMillan Stamper
William Starkie
Thomas Ullock Strickland
Thomas Studholme
Thomas Suart
John James Swanston
Joseph Taylor
Benjamin Thompson
Joseph Thompson
Frank Hutchinson Thwaite
Joseph Tiffin
James Tracey
Daniel Boyes Waite
Stanley Walsh
Nicholas Welsh
Daniel Wilkinson
James Winthrope
James Wise
Edward Wordsworth
Robert James Wren
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XXX Please note the undermentioned are not on the War Memorial but are commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves site and are buried in Cockermouth Cemetery, with official War Grave headstone, or a personal one.
It may have been that with the sheer volume of deaths and the distressing times, they were overlooked. It is only right that they should be given the same respect and mentioned at any commemorative service.
Walter Banks
William Forster Berry
Thomas Bewley
Joseph Henry Ernest Bowes
Moses Clulow — enlisted in Cockermouth, his brother is on Memorial, but as Moses was born in Gilcrux and lived in Aspatria maybe he did not fit the criteria?
John Mitchinson Cockton
William Deacon
Henry Elliot Eelbeck
William Graham
Robert William Heslop
Joseph Huddart
W Johnson
William Arthur Long
John Wilson Millington
J W McGlasson
William Tolson McMaster
J Robley
XXX Please note the undermentioned are not on the War Memorial but are commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Site, and some are buried in Cockermouth Cemetery.
Cadet John Burns
Leslie Launder
Richard Newton Robinson
Second World War 1939 to 1945
Names on Cockermouth War Memorial
On 6th November 1949 in commemoration of lives sacrificed in the Second World War the following names were added to the War Memorial. The unveiling ceremony was attended by Major H P Senhouse, President of Cockermouth branch of the British Legion.
Adolphus Appleton
Jack Beattie
P Bell
John Bewley
Thomas Bigrigg
Thomas Bryne
James Ferguson Charlton
Kenneth Norman Collins
James William Cottier
James Coulthard
Kathleen Mary Dixon
Walter Forsyth
John Skelton Foster
R Garner (possibly Robert)
Vickers Graham
William Hannah
John Leonard Hind
Jonathan Hunter
James Johnston
H Jones
Frank Luchini
James Tracey Mavir
William McAvoy
Norman Tolson McMaster
James Moffatt
James Rydiard Morgan
Walter Norman
Donald Frank Palmer
Stanley Thompson Park
J Pearson (possibly John)
(J)George Reid
Alfred Riddle
Frank Sanderson
Matthew Skillen
G B Smith (possibly George Bartle)
J Starkie (possibly John)
L Tiffen (possibly Lawrence)
John Henry Turrell
Clement Reginald Weaver
John Hefford Whitham
L Wise (possibly Leslie)
William Cecil Wise
Eleanor J Young
Albert Zaninetti
