Hightown's fallen Service men
Hightown’s War Memorial is located on The Green, Highway Roundabout. Listed upon the memorial are the names of 10 heroic Service men, who gave their lives in The Great War.
Some of the men have additional information about their lives and where they were born or lived before the war.
Surname | First Name | Rank | Service No. | Regiment/Ship/ Squadron | Last known address | Died | Age at death | Burial Place | Biography | Medals |
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Bradshaw | George | Private | 36709 | 10th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment | 1 Cleaver Cottages, Hightown. | 10/07/1917 | 20 | Tyne Cot Memorial, West Vlaanderen, Belgium | George was killed in action during an advance on the German defences at Tower Hill/ Larchwood Tunnels, near Passchendaele, Belgium. | |
Bullen | John | Private | 42864 | 6th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment | Haycut Cottages, St George's Road, Hightown. | 18/09/1918 | 18 | Villers Hill British Cemetery, Villers Guislain, France (Allegedly) | John was killed in action in an advance to take the village of Villers-Guislain. The village was abandoned by the Germans on 30 September 1918, after heavy fighting. (There is a question as to the identity of the man buried in this grave) | |
Crompton | Harold | Pioneer | 49916 | 154th Field Company, Royal Engineers | 5 Bungalow, Hightown. | 01/07/1916 | 21 | Bienvillers Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France | Harold enlisted into the army on September 1914 and, after training, was assigned to the newly formed 154th Company. The following year, the troops spent many weeks preparing for the Battle of the Somme. Harold was killed on the first day when the trench he was in was hit by artillery shells. 14 of his comrades were also killed. | |
Hampson | James | Private | 7679 | Prince of Wales Volunteers, D Company, 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment | Woodford, Hightown. | 24/08/1914 | 27 | La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, Seine-et-Marne, France | James was the son of Edmund and Annie Hampson of 62 Shaftesbury Avenue, Roundhay, Leeds. He was born in Sunderland in 1887. James was killed in action, during an enemy attack. He was in the trenches, in the Frameries area of Belgium during the Battle of Mons. | |
Kenny | James Lawrence | Captain | SS "Asturian" | The Homestead, Hightown. | 21/08/1918 | 41 | Murmansk New British Cemetery, Russia | James was serving as Master of the S.S. Asturian when he died of pneumonia aboard H.M.S. Glory, the Flagship of the British North Russia Squadron, at Murmansk, Russia on 21st August 1918. | ||
Lancaster | Percy | Second Lieutenant | 122 Company, Machine Gun Corps. Formerly 17th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment | 15 Lingdale Road, West Kirby, Wirral. | 15/09/1016 | 24 | Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France | Percy joined up at the outbreak of war and acted for some time as bombing officer of the reserve battalion of the Liverpool "Pals," but being particularly anxious to get to the front he transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, with whom he was serving when he met his death, on the first day of the Battle of Flers-Courcelette (The last phase of the Battle of the Somme). | ||
Owen | Percival Frederick | Gunner | 681463 | D Battery, 180th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery | Lynton, School Road, Hightown. | 19/04/1918 | 24 | Vieille-Chapelle New Military Cemetery, Lacouture, France | Percival was killed in action. His battalion were fighting on the Somme, with the whole division suffering heavy casualties. | |
Rainford | Joseph | Private | 54265 | 2nd/5th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers | Wood Farm, Hightown. | 25/10/1918 | 21 | Tournai Communal Cemetery Allied Extension, Hainaut, Belgium | Joseph enlisted in Seaforth and was sent to the front line in early 1916. He was killed in action, alongside 5 other men in heavy fighting in the Artres area of Belgium. | |
Riding | James Stanley | Private | 15470 | 17th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment (1st City Pals)' | Innisfallen, School Road, Hightown. | 01/07/1916 | 20 | La Neuville Communal Cemetery, Corbie, France | James died of his wounds at No.21 Casualty Clearing Station, La Neuville on the Somme battlefields. He was wounded near the village of Maricourt. | |
Scott | Arthur John | Private | 2577 | 10th Battalion, (Liverpool Scottish) King's Liverpool Regiment | 1 School Road, Hightown. | 17/03/1915 | 21 | Perth Cemetery, (China Wall), West-Vlaanderen, Belgium | In 1911 Arthur was living with his parents at 9 Lomond Road, Liverpool and working as a junior clerk. He was killed in action on 17/03/1915, in the Zillebeke are, south east of Ypres and later his body was exhumed and re-buried at Perth Cemetery (China Wall), Plot 1 H 44, after an identification disc was found. . He was the son of William Robert and Ada Maud Scott. | |
Wills | John Godfrey | Second Lieutenant | 63689 | A Battery, 93rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery | Buff House,1 Blundell Road, Hightown. | 27/09/1918 | 25 | Louverval Military Cemetery, Doignies, Nord, France | John signed up four days after war was declared, and he crossed to France in 1915. He fell while gallantly doing his duty on the first day of the great attack on the Canal du Nord. He was shot through the head and was killed instantly. |