Home Front

Today the townships of Aysgarth, Bishopdale, Burton-cum-Walden, Carperby-cum-Thoresby, Newbiggin, Thoralby and Thornton Rust make up the Parish of Aysgarth. For details of the ancient and much larger parish follow the link to Aysgarth Parish Church.

Below is a brief description of each township transcribed from Kelly's Trade Directory, 1913, with images of the villages. The population of each village is highlighted in bold. The total population for Aysgarth Parish in 1911 was 1,229 and it would have been a similar figure in 1914, when war broke out. The descriptions provide a glimpse of what each village was like at the outbreak of war and several of the names that appear in The Roll of Honour can be found in their civilian occupations. The large number of shopkeepers, especially in the villages of Aysgarth and West Burton, is a reminder of a time when each village was virtually self-sufficient. Postcards showing what the villages looked like c.1914 and extracts from The Upper Wensleydale Parish Magazine are also included to illustrate the activities taking place within the villages for the war effort. Images of the war memorials to the dead from each village have also been included.

So far 212 men and women have been identified as serving during the conflict, for more details see Roll of Honour, this number is constantly being added to.

Aysgarth

KELLY'S DIRECTORY, OF THE NORTH AND EAST RIDINGS OF YORKSHIRE, 1913

"AYSGARTH is a parish, township, village and the head of a [poor law] union, pleasantly situated on the south of the river Ure, or Yore, in Wensleydale, with a station 1 mile north-east on the Northallerton and Hawes Branch of the North Eastern Railway, 8¼ miles west-south-west from Leyburn, 9 east from Hawes and 4 south-east from Askrigg; it is in the Richmond division of the Riding, wapentake and petty sessional division of Hang West, county court district of Leyburn, rural deanery of West Catterick, archdeaconry of Richmond and diocese of Ripon. Electric lighting is supplied by a private company, from power derived from the old water mill. The church of St. Andrew is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, and later styles, consisting of chancel with aisles, nave, aisles, south porch, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing a clock, presented by J.C. Winn esq. in 1904, and 6 bells cast in 1829...The church was restored, and to a considerable extent rebuilt in 1866 a cost of about £6,000, and affords 620 sittings...The living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly value £180, including 38 acres of glebe ad residence, in the gift of Trinity College Cambridge, and held since 1913 by the Rev. William Kitley Wyley M.A. of that college...The Wesleyan Methodist chapel here was erected in 1901. A fair for sheep and cattle is held here on October 30th. A new foot bridge was erected in 1906 at Harper-Wath by the Rural District Council, in place of the old stepping stones. In the same year a water supply was provided at a cost of £600, the spring being presented by Mr. John Chapman, of Thornton Rust. The Literary Institute, containing reading and billiards rooms, with a large room above for public meetings, was opened in September, 1907; it was erected on the site of the old reading room at a cost of £600. [In 1925, electric lighting is supplied by a private company, from power derived from the old water mill.] Palmer Flatt, within 100 yards of the church, and a quarter of a mile from the Force, affords a most extensive view of the delightful scenery of the district, with Bolton Castle in the distance. William Robinson Burrill-Robinson esq. who is lord of the manor, William Bell esq. and James Clarkson Winn esq. J.P. of West Burton are the principal landowners. The soil is very good; subsoil, limestone. The land is chiefly in pasture. The parish of Aysgarth is very extensive...The area of the township is 1,199 acres of land and 15 of water; rateable value, £2,052; the population in 1911 was 279; ecclesiastical parish in 1911, 1,229.

Parish Clerk, Robert Tunstill.

Post, M. O. & T. Office Aysgarth (letters should have

Yorks added). - Miss Alice E. Wray, sub-postmistress.

Letters arrive at 6 a.m.: sundays, 6 a.m.; despatched

at 10.45 a.m. & 6.10 p.m., sundays at 5.10 p.m.

Wall Letter Box, Palmer Flatt, cleared at 10.30 a.m. & sundays 5 p.m (p.29) ...

Public Elementary School, erected for 127 children; average attendance, 32, Miss Mary Dawson, mistress

Railway Station, Thomas Henry Walls, station master (p.30)

AYSGARTH.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

Bell William, Flattlands

Bradley William Timothy, Hillside

Brittain Richard, Newlands

Clark John, Yore house

Cowper Mrs. Cornlee

Dunbar Dean M.B

Graham Francis Sayer, Heath cot

Hime Edward Maurice M.B.

King Arthur William

Wyley Rev. William Kiteley M.A.

(vicar), Vicarage

COMMERCIAL.

Aysgarth Elictric Lighting Co. (Bell

& Doughill, proprietors)

Baynes John, farmer

Blades Ralph, farmer & sanitary in-spector to the Aysgarth Rural Dis-trict Council

Brewster Jane (Miss), apartments

Cockburn Thomas, farmer

Doughill Geo. & Sons. bldrs. & contractors

Fawcett, Roland, farmer, Old mill

Gill John, grocer

Graham Francis Sayer, game dealer

Hime Edward Maurice M.B., Ch.B.

Vict. surgeon, & medical officer &

public vacinator Askrigg district,

medical officer to workhouse, Ays-

garth union, & medical officer of

health to Aysgarth Rural District

Council; & at Askrigg

Lambert Joseph, farmer

Literary Institute (John Baynes &

Charles Brunskill, hon. secs)

Mason John, farmer

Metcalfe Christopher, farmer

North Charles, joiner & apartments

Percival Wm. George & Dragon P.H.

Riggs Jemima (Miss), apartments

Simpson Timothy, farmer

Strong Thomas, farmer

Thompson Ellen (Miss), dress maker

Thompson George William, apart-

ments, Rose cottage

Thompson James, shoe maker & frmr

Thompson John, butcher

Thompson Martha (Mrs.), apartments

Trotter John, Palmer Flatt hotel

Watson Christopher, farmer, West

Holme

Watson Lily (Miss), shopkeeper

Wensleydale Sanatorium (Joseph

William Green Smith, sec.; Mrs

Elizabeth Ann Barnes, matron)

Whitehead George, joiner

Willis Matthew H. & Sons, registered

shoeing smiths

Wilson Bumphrey, farmer

Wray Alice C. (Miss), apartments,

Post office

Yore Mills Roller Flour Co. (Richard

Brittain, manager), corn & flour

millers (water) & cake merchants"

(p.31)

Aysgarth Middle Falls, Yore Mills & Aysgarth Church.

Aysgarth village, newly built Institute on the left (1907). The War Memorial was built on the green in the middle of the road c.1924, see memorial below.

Coronation of George V Celebrations at Aysgarth in June1911 (courtesy of Denny Gibson).

Aysgarth village celebrating the Coronation of George V in June 1911 (courtesy of Jane Ritchie).

Articles below, transcribed from the 'Upper Wensleydale Parish Magazine', show some of the activities taking place on the Home Front towards the war effort in all of the villages.

FEBRUARY, 1915

No. AYSGARTH. One Penny.

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A couple of paragraphs in the February 1915 report stand out:

"In all cases efforts have been made to send the articles to regiments actually at the front, and not to depots to be stored."

"Warm underwear has been distributed amongst the young men of Aysgarth Township who have volunteered."

DECEMBER, 1915

No.96 AYSGARTH. One Penny.

"MY DEAR FRIENDS, -

Things concerning the war must still engage our attention and the space occupied by reports must curtail my letter this month: but I cannot omit words of thankful congratulations to Aysgarth and Newbiggin for their response to Lord Derby's appeal for men. I am sure those who have answered the call of duty will not regret having taken the nobler course than "waiting to be fetched," and I hope that before that day of fetching others will have followed their patriotic example. ...

The appeal for the Red Cross on "Our Day" (Saturday, October 30) gained a very warm response in the Aysgarth district, the total sum raised amounting to £58 0s. 6d.: and Mrs. Archer desires to thank her helpers for their willing and most successful efforts. Collections were made in the villages of Aysgarth, Carperby, Newbiggin, Thoralby, Thornton Rust, West Burton and West Witton, and Bishopdale by the following members of Yorks. 56, West Hang Detachment of the Red Cross Society:- Miss Hugill (hon. sec.), Mrs. Sedgewick, Mr. Dinsdale, Mrs. Espiner, Mrs. G. Johnson, the Misses Wray, Bell B. Bell, North, Walker, Blades, Peacock, Smorthwaite, Lambert, Raw, Osborn, James, Smithson, Bushby, Johnson, Armitage, and Bell (Askrigg), assisted by Mrs. Peake, Mrs. Gruning, Mr. E. Wyatt Gibson and Mr. Bell." ...

JUNE, 1917

No. 114. AYSGARTH. One Penny.

"MY DEAR FRIENDS, -

The importance of exercising the strictest economy in the use of flour and other grain food has been brought to the country by the King's Proclamation in terms which can scarcely be misunderstood. We told that the clever devices, by which enemy submarines can now fire torpedoes accurately without coming to the surface, has intensified and may prolong our danger of scarcity, and we must not be misled to think that the shorter lists of sunken shipping of the last fortnight gives us ground to disregard the appeal example of the King or to think lightly to this new duty of self-denial to which we at home are called for the time being. Thousands of people are pledging themselves to a loyal res ponce to the proclamation and there are cards issued which may be obtained through the War Savings Committees and which I hope will be extensively taken and signed, promising to effect every economy possible in the use of wheaten and other grain food. ...

W.K. WYLEY, Vicar.

Our very hearty congratulations Dr. Pickles and his bride and the good wishes of all the district for their happiness. ...

The call for more men has deprived me of the valued help of Mr. Auton. I hope to keep up as much of the work of the Parish as possible, and I am sure I shall have your generous consideration where I cannot fulfil all I could wish to do.

Parish Register.

MARRIAGES.

. ... May 5. William Norman Pickles, R.N.V.R. and Gertrude Adelaide Tunstiill, Thornton Lodge. ...

BURIALS.

. ... Apl. 8. Killed in action, George Sydney Gould, aged 26."

No. 117 SEPTEMBER, 1917 One Penny.

AYSGARTH

MY DEAR FRIENDS,

Surely, we feel touched, all in some degree, many deeply so, by the unexpected swiftness with which the hand of death has taken from us one whose family was so well known and whose own kindly spirit had won so wide a circle of friends. While we cannot but be thankful that when the end was inevitable he had not the trial of long waiting, and especially since we know the swiftness of death is nothing to be feared or lamented for those who look to the drawing of that light in which the full purpose and love of God is seen with endless joy, yet I am sure I may express on behalf of the whole Parish our deep sympathy with Mrs. Liddon and Miss Lodge in their bereavement. .. .[the death of their brother Col. John William Lodge].

I have been told that horse chestnuts have a value in connection with the making of munitions. I am afraid those that grow in the North are but small and few in number, but if the Schoolboys will wait till they fall of themselves, fully ripe, and then pick up all they can, I will forward them to the nearest depot.

Clean Waste Paper has also a value in these days, and Mr. Hiscock, of Hawes, will gladly receive any that may be available. ..

No. NOVEMBER, 1917 One Penny.

... Many thanks to the School Children who have collected chestnuts to the amount to the amount of about half-a-cwt. Also to those who have sent waste paper, - about 2cwt. has been sent to Hawes, and there is yet demand for more.

No. APRIL, 1918 One Penny.

... "A second consignment of wast paper to the amount of 2 cwt. has been sent away and the sacks are now awaiting fresh contributions. It is hoped that all who have any time to spare at Spring cleaning time will send it in large or small quantities to the Vicarage. The need is more urgent as time goes on. "

No. JUNE, 1918 One Penny.

... "On the Saturday following (June 29) there is to be a Sale and War Tea in the Institute, [see photograph below] organized by Mrs. Archer on behalf of the Hospitals under the auspices of Queen Alexandra, whose roses will be sold on the previous day. An American principle is being adopted by which everyone coming to the sale will bring something in a parcel to be sold for the good cause, s furnishing at least one stall of articles of every kind; no limit is placed upon the value of the parcel, whether maximum or minimum, but it is hoped the articles brought will be as far as possible of a useful nature."

Aysgarth Institute built 1907, where some of the activities for the war effort took place.

Aysgarth Preparatory School (courtesy of Jane Ritchie).

Aysgarth Preparatory School was founded in 1877 and housed in the above premises near Aysgarth Falls. New school premises were built at Newton-le-Willows, near Bedale, in 1890, but the Aysgarth premises remained open until at least 1901, when a headmaster, two other teachers, 18 pupils between the ages of 9 and 14 and a domestic staff of six were recorded at Aysgarth. Harold Carey Matthews (1879-1915) was a scholar there. By 1905, the Aysgarth part of the school had closed and the staff and pupils had been transferred to Newton-le-Willows. The Aysgarth premises then became a sanatorium (see further details below).

Aysgarth National School, 1896. The boys and girls underlined in red are all on the Aysgarth Parish Roll of Honour. Some names are also on the Aysgarth Methodist Chapel Roll of Honour shown below (courtesy of the DCM, Hawes).

All eleven children underlined in red survived the Great War, many remaining in Aysgarth throughout their lives.

Aysgarth National School, built by subscription in 1837, was endowed with the rent of a field left by Christopher Tomlinson. The school was rebuilt in 1894-96, having 2 classrooms, 2 cloakrooms and 2 outside toilets. At one time it catered for 50 pupils (32 in the above photograph). The building was also used as a Sunday School and for annual Parish Teas to raise money for the church. Aysgarth National School closed in 1946. The school building later became a Scout Hall and is now the Aysgarth Medical Centre.

Fifteen nurses at Aysgarth Bazaar, 1905 (courtesy of Jane Ritchie).

Names of Nurses:-

1. Annie Sayer b. 1878 at Carperby, m. Johnny Thompson in 1906

2. Alice Scott b. 1888 at Barker, Thoralby, m. Nat. Mason in 1914

3. Mary Alice Milner b. 1884 at Thornton Rust, m. Wm. Percival of the George & Dragon, Aysgarth in 1906

4. May Gould b. 1887 at Masham (living at Warnford, Thoralby) m. John W. Cornforth in 1911, died in 1948

5. Jack Hammond ?

6. Annie V. Stockdale, b. 1880 at Tunstall, lived in W. Burton, emigrated to USA in 1911 m. Thos. H. Brown in 1912, died in 1959

7. Barbara Ann Raw b. 1886 at Carperby-cum-Thoresby, m. John Ewbank in 1919, died in 1974

8. Jane Ellen Thompson b. at Aysgarth in 1883 (Sarah’s sister).

9. Miss/Mrs. Mason or Thompson ?

10. Margaret Mattison b.1865 at Thoralby, died in 1940

11. Ruth Dougill b. 1889 at Aysgarth, died in 1970

12. Sarah Thompson b. 1880 at Aysgarth, m. John/Jack Doughill in 1916

13. Georgina Maud Winn b. 1876 at West Burton, m. Alfred J. Ritchie in 1908, died in 1955

14. Mrs. Mary Jane Clark, lived at Yore Mills, b. 1841

15. Dot Mason b.1885 at Aysgarth, m. Herbert Gunson in 1921

The names with the hyperlinks are on the Aysgarth Parish Roll of Honour and some are on the image further below of Dr. Will Pickles with the Voluntary Aid Detachment.

The names of the nurses with red numbers next to them are not known. If you recognise someone, or have further information please contact me.

The Sanatorium, Aysgarth (courtesy of Denny Gibson).

Aysgarth Preparatory School, moved to newly built and larger premises in 1890 at Newton-le-Willows, Bedale. The building then became Aysgarth Sanatorium. In 1911, the staff of the sanatorium comprised the proprietor, a matron, two hospital nurses, thirty-one male and female patients aged from 9 to 50 and six domestic staff. The establishment was then named the Wensleydale Sanatorium.

Shelters at Wensleydale Sanatorium, Aysgarth

(courtesy of Denny Gibson).

In 1909, the Sheffield Daily Telegraph was advertising the Sanatorium at a rate of £2 2s. per week. The following year, the Consumption Committee decided to pay for two beds at Aysgarth Sanatorium at a cost of £90 per bed per annum.

By 1913, the number of beds for the treatment of consumption had risen from 25 to 30 and the weekly rate had been reduced to 30s. In an era well before the creation of the National Health Service, patients or their families had to pay for their accommodation and treatment from their own funds or from insurance policies.

A newspaper article published in 1914 attested to the lasting value of the treatment, as four men from Aysgarth with tuberculosis had offered themselves for service in H.M. Forces and had been passed physically fit.

Below is Aysgarth Methodist Chapel Roll of Honour, listing the 36 men and women, who were members of Aysgarth Methodist Chapel and served in World War One.

Aysgarth Methodist Chapel Roll of Honour - 36 Names

Below is a transcription of all the above names:

"FOR KING AND COUNTRY

OUR ROLL OF HONOUR

PLEASE REMEMBER IN PRAYER THE FOLLOWING

WHO ARE ON ACTIVE SERVICE.

NAME SERVICE REMARKS

Dr. Pickles

Nurse Ruth Dougill

Gunner William Horner

Sapper Wesley Dougill

Pioneer William Sayer

Pte Lawrence Dougill

Pte Leonard Horner

Pte John Percival

Pte Cecil Riggs

Gunner William Cockburn

A.B. Bryan Cockburn

Pte William Helmsley

Driver Matthew Webster

Pte Thomas H. Dougill

Pte Thomas Dinsdale

Pte Earnest C. North

Pte Thomas Percival

Pte George Johnson

Pte James P. Bell

Gunner J. Richardson

Pte William Mason

Pte John Dickinson

Pte John Thompson

Pte William Percival

Pte George W. Thompson

Pte Nathaniel Mason

Pte Thomas Furnish

Pte William Robinson

Pte Henry Cockburn

Pte William James

Sapper William Dougill

Pte John Stainsby

Pte William Stainsby

Pte Frank Johnson

Pte John Mason

Pte Frank Thompson

Royal Naval Dr.

Queen Mary's Military Hospital

R.G.A.

R.E.

R.A.M.C.

Green Howards

3rd Yorks.

R.G.A.

R.N.R.

10th West Yorks.

A.S.C.

A.V.C.

Yorks and Lancaster

3/4 Yorks.

A.V.C.

43rd Canadians

R.F.A.

4th Yorks.

5th Yorks.

A.S.C.

R.E.

R.F.A.

R.G.A.

H.L.I.

R.G.A.

C.L.I.

R.E.

A. & S.A.

C.F.A.

R.E.

G.A.M.C.

Aysgarth medical practice's G.P., Doctor Will Pickles, was one of the names listed above and as well as serving as a naval surgeon throughout the war. Whilst home on leave recovering from an injury, he set up his Voluntary Aid Detachment of 20 local nurses, see image below.

Dr. Will Pickles with his Voluntary Aid Detachment c.1914, Aysgarth (courtesy of Frank & Martha E. Snaith).

Names known are: No. 1: Miss Gertrude Adelaide Tunstill - later Mrs. Pickles, No. 2: Miss Elizabeth Ewbank, No. 4: Miss Barbara Alice Bell - later Mrs. Peacock, No. 6: Miss May/Mary Heseltine - later Mrs. Shepherd (USA), No. 7: Miss Ethel Johnson - later Mrs. Scott, No. 11: Mrs. Margaret Ann Dinsdale, No.13: Mrs. Annie Graham, No. 14: Mrs. Constance Emma Archer, No. 15: Miss Lily Wray, No.16: Miss Alice Scott - later Mrs. Mason, No. 17: Miss Nellie Smorthwaite, No.18: Miss Kathleen North - later Mrs. Sayer No. 19: Miss Alice Ecroyd Tunstill and No. 20: Miss Madge Blades.

The names of the nurses with red numbers next to them are not known, but some of their names, in alphabetical order, were: Miss Barbara Ethel Bell - later Mrs. Middleton, Miss Ruth Dougill (see earlier 1905 photo of nurses) and Miss Alice Ann Mason - later Mrs. Alderson. If you recognise any of them, please contact me.

When Dr.Pickles had completed his recuperation and returned to his naval service (see Roll of Honour and his biography), Mrs Archer took over command of the Aysgarth, V.A.D.s., Mrs Archer took over command of the Aysgarth, V.A.D.s., based at Sorrelsykes, West Burton (see Burton-cum-Walden, below).

Serving in the Women's Army Auxiliary were: Jessie Blades as a telegraphist serving overseas in France and Amy Braithwaite, as a cook - later Mrs. Waters (NZ). Amy married Lawrence David Waters of the New Zealand Army in London in 1918 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1918.

Below is the Roll of Honour in Aysgarth Institute, listing the names of the 50 locals, including 3 women who served in the Great War.

Above is a recently discovered Roll of Honour in Aysgarth Institute, the names are of those who served in the Great War from Aysgarth and Thornton Rust Townships who were also members of the Aysgarth Institute.

Below is a transcript of the 50 names of those on the Roll of Honour:

Names of Men Members of the Institute who went from Aysgarth

Township to serve in the Great War 1914 - 1918.

Lance-corporal William Airey R.E. Corporal William Alderson R.F.A.

Gunner Robert Bell, Gen. Guards, Gunner William Henry Cockburn R.G.A.

Sapper George Henry Cockburn R.E. M.S. Bryan Cockburn R.N.F.

Lieutenant Claud Cowper R.E. Private John Dickinson 4th Yorks.

Corporal Thomas Dinsdale A.V.C. Private Edward Dinsdale N.F.

Sapper William Doughill R.E. Lieutenant Wesley Doughill R.E.

Corporal Lawrence Victor Doughill R.A.M.C. Lance-corporal Thomas Haxby Doughill R.A.O.C.

Private Thomas Furnish H.L.I. Private Harold Hammond 4th Yorks.

Lieutenant Edward Maurice Hime R.A.M.C. Private William James Horner 4th Yorks.

Private Leonard Horner R.A.M.C. 3rd Air Mechanic James Iveson R.A.F.

Private William James C.R. Private Frank Johnson R.E.

Driver George Johnson R.A.S.C. Gunner Nathaniel Mason R.F.A.

Sapper John Mason R.E. Private William Mason West Yorks.

Private Lester North K.O.Y.L.I. Lance-corporal Alfred North M.G.C.

Private Ernest North Yorks. and Lancaster Driver William Percival R.E.

Private Joseph Percival 4th Yorks. Private Edward Percival D.L.I.

Lance-corporal Thomas Percival 4th Yorks. Lieutenant William Norman Pickles R.N.S.

Lieutenant John Jagger Pickles R.A.M.C. Gunner Jeremiah Richardson M.G.C.

Private Cecil Riggs W.R. Private William Robinson H.L.I. Sapper William Sayer R.E.

Private John Stainsby S.H. Driver John Thompson R.A.S.C. Private Frank Thompson A.C.

Driver Matthew Webster R.A.S.C.

Men who have given their lives for their Country

James Bell C.H.I. Killed October 8th, 1916 George Charlton 4th Yorks. Died in Hospital December 2 1918

William Hemsley 4th Yorks. Killed October 4th, 1917. John Percival R.A.S.C. Died from Gas April 8th, 1918.

Nurses

Madge Blades, Ruth Vincent Doughill Jessie Blades A.M.A.A.C.

God save the King.

Below is Aysgarth Village War Memorial, located in the centre of the village, close to the Methodist Chapel and Village Hall, erected in 1919.

Aysgarth Village War Memorial - Names

Aysgarth Village War Memorial Lamp, c. 1924.

Below is the an image of the Aysgarth Parish Church St Andrew’s, where the engraved brass memorial plaque, is situated inside the Church, listing 20 names of the men of this parish who laid down their lives during the Great War.

Aysgarth Parish Church, c.1912.

Brass Plaque War Memorial in Aysgarth Church, transcription below (courtesy of Pip Pointon).

WAR MEMORIAL. To the Honoured Memory of the men of this Parish who laid down their lives for King and Country in the Great War 1914 - 1918. Dulce et docorum est pro patri mori. This tablet was erected by James C. and Jane WINN, the Grange, West Burton.

Pte James BELL Cameron Highlanders

Pte Harold BINKS 13th Yorks

Pte William Edward BUSHBY 20th D.L.I.

Pte George CHARLTON R.A.S.C.

Pte James Bell FAWCETT 8th Yorks

Pte John Mills GOULD 17th North LD Fusrs

Pte George Sidney GOULD Canadian E.F.

Pte George Iveson HAMMOND 4th Yorks

Pte William HEMSLEY 10th W. Yorks

Pte Matthew HESELTINE Green Howards

Pte William Herbert KILBURN 3rd Yorks

Col. John William LODGE 3rd Yorks

Pte Arthur MAWER R.A.S.C.

Pte Robert Pickering METCALFE 8th K.R.R.C.

Pte John PERCIVAL 9th Yorks

Pte Timothy PERCIVAL R.F.A.

Cpl Joseph Dixon RAW M.M. 3rd Yorks

L/Cpl John SHANNON 10th Yorks

Pte Thomas SPENCE 4th Yorks

Below, at the entrance to Aysgarth Parish Church St Andrew’s, were erected the Church Gates, Memorial Pillars in 1923, listing the above 20 names.

Aysgarth Parish Church Memorial Gates, erected 1923 (courtesy of the DCM, Hawes).

The Memorial Gates were erected by Mr. George Dougill & Sons, builders and contractors of Aysgarth. Five of George's children served in the conflict, four sons: Laurence Victor, Thomas Haxby, Wesley and William and daughter Ruth Vincent and can be viewed in the Roll of Honour. A dedication service for the memorial gates took place in October 1923.

1914

1915

J.M. GOULD

1916

A.M. MAWER

J. SHANNON,

G.I. HAMMOND

W.H. KILBURN

M. HESELTINE,

M. HESELTINE

J.P. BELL

1917

J.B. FAWCETT

G.S. GOULD

Church Gate Pillar, left hand-side (courtesy of warmememorialsonline)

1918

1917

J.W. LODGE

R.P. METCALFE

W. HEMSLEY

1918

H. BINKS

J. PERCIVAL

W.E. BUSHBY

J.D. RAW

T. PERCIVAL

G. CHARLTON

1919

T. SPENCE

Church Gate Pillar, right hand-side (courtesy of warmememorialsonline)

Below are images from the Order of Service on Remembrance Sunday 2018 at Aysgarth Church, the following lists all those form Aysgarth (77) known to have served in the Great War. Additional information since the Festival of Remembrance in 2018 has been added to the site and is in green text, therefore individual village totals of those who served have altered.

- PENNY ELLIS -

THORALBY

THROUGH TIME

World War One

Aysgarth Parish

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