West Hartlepool, Musgrave Street

Roll of Honour

The Guild Secretary at Musgrave Street appears to have listed the fifty-six men from the chapel who served during the war. It has been possible to correlate some names with the records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, those on the West Hartlepool war memorial, and with the baptismal register for the chapel. In the following list the names of those known to have been baptised in the chapel are in bold; further details are given of the four men certain to have died; and a note is made of possible other deaths.

Harry Howarth

Arthur Adsom

Harold Atkinson       2935629 Driver, Royal Field Artillery died 30 Nov 1917 aged 20

John J. Atkinson

Arthur Baker

Herbert Baker

Edward Binning

Ernest S. Cass

John Clark

Charles Dye

Joseph T. Davison    255391 Lance-Corporal, 2^nd Dragoon Guards died 12 March 1918                                                    aged 27
Albert Edmunds

William Flanders

T.W. Feathersone

John Flintoft              This name is on the West Hartlepool war memorial. This man may                                                    have been a sailor in the Merchant Navy

Joseph H. Hammond

John Howarth

William Inglesant

Harry G. Moore

Thomas Stoddart

Arthur Symons         This name is on the West Hartlepool war memorial. This man may                                                    have served with Nelson Bn. Royal Naval Division and died on 22                                                      January 1917
Ernest J. West

Robert A. Watt

Edward A. Stackles

Ralph Smurthwaite  This name is on the West Hartlepool war memorial. This man may                                                    have been a Private in the 2nd Bn, York and Lancaster Regt, and                                                      died on 8 August 1915
Harry Smurthwaite

Harold Jeffries

Geo. H. Haystead

Arthur Hickson

Harry Kitching

John W. Laking            A John Laking is named on the West Hartlepool war memorial, but                                                 no other details have come to light
Oswald Legge

Robert Legge

Laurence Metcalfe    This name is on the West Hartlepool war memorial. He appears to                                                    have been a Lieutenant in the 16th Bn, West Yorkshire Regt, and to                                                have died on 25 December 1917 aged 23
Herbert Middlemiss

Will Miller                         355059 Private, Royal Army Service Corps died 16 February 1919                                                   aged 32
William Nicholson

Bertie Power

William Shepherd

Herbert Shepherd

George Shepherd        3032658 OS, S.S. “Barrowmore” died 19 February 1918 aged 15

Edward Symons

C.E. Thompson

William Tucker

Ernest Yuill

James Yuill

Thomas Shepherd

J.D. Tomlinson

Jonathan Watson

William Watson

William Whittaker

Andrew Williamson

Thomas Yuill

William Yuill

Alfred E. Jeffreys

Additional sources: Commonwealth War Graves Commission and North East War Memorials Project.