The author of this beautifully written roll neglected to include the Circuit, Church, or indeed their own name, but the information contained allows us to discover that it is for Nafferton, in the Driffield Circuit.
The church now contains a brass memorial which may be seen here. It appears to be the village war memorial, and shows that one in five of the Nafferton war dead were Wesleyans.
The five names are:
Pte. R.F. Moody 240684 5th Bn. Yorkshire Regt.
Pte. J.R. Moody 55034 1st Bn. East Yorkshire Regt.
Pte. H. Reed 2278 5th Bn. Yorkshire Regt.
Pte. S.F. Sellers 39864 1st Bn. East Yorkshire
Pte. J. Reed 2279 East Yorkshire Regt.
The Moodys were brothers, the Reeds were not.
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Thank you, Richard Moody, for providing that information, which is a reminder that all the Rolls of Honour were written ten years after the Armistice, and that unintentional errors could be made. I understand that John Thomas Moody was only 19 when he died, a week after the fighting stopped.
The Moody brothers were my great uncles. Their names were Richard Francis and John Thomas so John’s initials were “J.T.” Not “J.R.”
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