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Post by shred on Oct 8, 2016 17:40:15 GMT
St Johns Pendlebury WW2 Robert William Horrocks Flying Officer RAF 18 Squadron 171021 died 22/2/45 CWG Panel 18 Column 1 Malta Memorial Age 23 son of William and Alice Horrocks of Salford Wendy  |
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Post by shred on Nov 5, 2016 18:22:58 GMT
St Johns Pendlebury WW2 John Goring Gunner Royal Artillery 2043413 1st Battery Searchlight died 2/12/44 CWG 5.A.10 Krakow Rakowichi Cemetery Son of Joseph and Ada Goring of I-O-H Wendy  |
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Post by oldsalfordian on Apr 1, 2020 15:35:22 GMT
St Johns Pendlebury "H Kenyon possibly Hubert Born Manchestr resident Salford Cheshire Regiment 2/5th Battalion 5378 died 18/11/16 CWG D.2610 Cambridge city cemetery" I think it's likely that this is the Lance Corporal Harry Kenyon on the Old Salfordians' memorial. His employer Charles Mackintosh & Co. had sent him down to Leicester, and he was killed on 13th October 1915 serving with the 4th Leicester Regiment. His parental home was on Doveleys Road, Pendleton, and although Holy Angels was closer, it was not dedicated until a month after Harry was killed, and I think it's entirely reasonable to picture St. John's, further along The Height, as the family church. He was 26 and unmarried, and he is buried in the Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez. (I believe the 1915 Holy Angels was a temporary building, established on the initiative of the wealthy banking Heywood family after disagreements with the Vicar of St. John's. The names of their demolished mansions Light Oaks, Claremont, Acresfield & Chaseley live on today as nearby street names. When the Heywoods sold off their estates they seem to have retained naming rights for the streets that were then built, because Doveleys Road where the Kenyons lived takes it's name from yet another Heywood location, as do a a dozen or more other local streets, like Moorfield, Caldy and Elleray. The permanent Holy Angels building, consecrated in 1928, proved to be anything but permanent; the mortar had degenerated to little more than sand and it had to be demolished in 1997.) Old Salfordian |
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Post by oldsalfordian on Apr 1, 2020 16:41:08 GMT
St Johns Pendlebury WW2 Gordon Ewart Holland Flight Sergeant Pilot 1473829 RAFVR 65th Squadron died 29/7/44 CWG Row A Grave 17 Conches En Ouche Communal Cemetery Age 21 son OF Ralph and Susannah Holland of Cheadle Cheshire Gordon was a former pupil of Salford Grammar School, whose WW2 memorial plaque regrettably had no names on it. He was flying a North American Mustang III from one of the temporary landing strips in Normandy when he failed to return from a mission. Online hobbyists examine aerial combat in the closest detail, matching Luftwaffe records with RAF records, but I found a website where they were still puzzling over the circumstances of Gordon’s death. The Mustang was a brilliant aircraft and very reliable, but they were more vulnerable to ground fire at low level than air-cooled fighters. Then again, he may have been shot down in aerial combat, and, if he was, it was likely to have been by the equally impressive Focke-Wulf Fw 190, which the Squadron was encountering at the time. I think it is more than likely that his peacetime employer had been the Manchester Ship Canal Company, because there is a G.E. Holland on their WW2 war memorial. Old Salfordian |
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Post by oldsalfordian on May 10, 2020 14:03:32 GMT
St Johns Pendlebury WW2 Ronald Cash Ronald Walker Cash Second Engineer Merchant Navy M.V Essex died 16/1/41 CWG Panel 48 Tower Hill Memorial Age 32 husband of Gladys Maude Cash of Notting Hill 1911 born 1908 , 16 Brookland St Salford Ronald Walker Cash was the brother of Ernest Alfred Cash, whose name is on this church’s WW1 memorial. There was 15 years between them, and one was a younger victim of WW1 and the other an older victim of WW2, killed when his ship was bombed in the siege of Malta. Their 79-year-old father John was one of thankfully few parents who lived to see a son killed in each war. Both brothers attended Salford Grammar School. |
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Post by oldsalfordian on May 10, 2020 14:05:35 GMT
St Johns Pendlebury Ernest Alfred 2nd Lieutenant Durham Light Infantry 14th Regiment died 17/6/17 CWG Nouex les mines Communal Cemetery Age 23 son of John and Elizabeth Cash of 30 Penelope Rd Irlams of the height Probate Ernest Alfred Cash of 30 Penelope Rd who died at number 7 clearing station France to John Cash bricklayer effects £63 15s 6d
Ernest Alfred Cash was the brother of Ronald Walker Cash, whose name is on this Church’s WW2 memorial. There was 15 years between them. One was a younger victim of WW1 and the other an older victim of WW2, killed when his ship was bombed in the Siege of Malta. Their 79-year-old father John was one of thankfully few parents who lived to see a son killed in each war. Both brothers attended Salford Grammar School. Ernest’s name if also on the Old Salfordians’ memorial, the Town Hall memorial that used to be in Bexley Square and the memorial in the Chapel at Chester University. |
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