Hi and thanks

Hi and thanks for allowing me to join, I am interested in research of members who are on my local war memorial here in Withernsea on the east coast of England. Found some very interesting information so far.

Visit Europe a couple times a year and do battlefield tours and visit CWGC sites.

Also interested in local WW2 history and structures and there are loads around here.

 

If you use the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, then "Find War Dead" then scroll through to "Additional Information" and just insert Withernsea, it produces a List of 142 Names which you can then download into an Excel worksheet to work on against the Names on the War Memorial
It shows 980 for WW1 and the balance of 62 for WW2.
Obviously this will capture also house names, family names or street addresses that contain Withernsea, but it's something to use as a cross reference for you. I have attached the file for you.
Many WW1 casualties didn't have home addresses, and if you can access Ancestry, then you can sometimes use the same search word that produces casualties in the World Wars.
Hope that helps

 

Welcome aboard. Good luck with the research.

 

Welcome.

 

Thank you all for the above
Kevin Battle thank you for the spreadsheet appreciated

 

Gunner400.

I am a battlefield guide for Salerno, Cassino and Anzio. I see that for chaps on Kevin B's list are buried in Italy - two at Anzio, one at Salerno and one at Minturno. If you would like photos of the headstones, please say and I will get them for you next time I am out there.

Regards

Frank

 

Welcome to the forum, good luck with your research. Presumably you are aware of these?
Roll of Honour - Yorkshire - Withernsea
WITHERNSEA NEW WAR MEMORIAL - War Memorials Online
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/35489

 

Welcome!

 

Hello and welcome to the forum.

Lesley

 

Thanks everybody
Toby 56 yes I am thanks and a great source of info they have been.
I have researched 50 of the fallen so far which I have addresses for and had funding for blue plaques. These have been placed on their houses with permission of the owner. I am now in the process of having a small book printed with information on each plaque. There is a map so you can walk through town and stop at each one.

 

I wonder why young Alfred Huteson is commemorated?
HUTESON, ALFRED. Civilian. Died 19/05/1946. Aged 10
of Wayside Bungalow, Withernsea Road, Holmpton. Son of Alfred Tomlinson Huteson. Died on cliff top at The Runnell.

There must be some newspaper article, a year after the end of the War in Europe?
Unexploded ordnance, grenade, mine, bomb?

 

Interesting will have a look into that. We had a civilian war dead memorial erected a couple of years ago so will see if his name is on that.

 

Alfred Huteson:


Burial at Holmpton:


This I find strange, a probate record?

 

Great thank you

 

Thanks, just curious, as was he - too accurate a throw, waste of what may have been a crack darts player, if a little black humour tolerated....

 

Makes you wonder how close he was and the other two as they survived and he died