Huthwaite War Memorial Project

Introducing this Project Online

The Commonwealth War Memorial in Huthwaite Cemetery

Opening this worthy Huthwaite project was proposed by reader Mr Paul Bradshaw. He shares keen historic local interests, firstly suggesting needs to begin offering prouder remembrance to our World War casualties.

Publishing updated results of his research upon Huthwaite Online since 2004, these pages have attracted contributing material and thanks from related family members. But this work continues attempts identifying every lost individual, better recognising their roles of bravest duty called for in national service demanded by two World Wars.

Our own village war memorial still openly stands inside Huthwaite cemetery grounds. One of thousands erected across a British Commonwealth in tribute to those horrific losses from The Great War. Listed upon our epitaphs north face are all the names. The south face is shown bearing this verse, before unfortunately adding WWII victims.

 THEY  NOBLY  PLAYED THEIR PART
 THEY HEARD THEIR COUNTRYS CALL
 FOR GOD  AND  KING  AND  RIGHT
THEY   GAVE   THEIR   ALL

Lest they be forgotten ?

Acknowledgements must first be extended too Helen Wilson whose initial research began raising local interest for starting memorial projects. Heather Faulkes continues her marvellous research producing more Ashfield War Memorial Projects. That quickly revealed close ties held inside district borders by sharing relations between some named Huthwaite families.

Paul voluntarily set personal goal working on this Huthwaite War Memorial Project aimed at identifying and fully presenting with greater future honour all those local service personal we should recall for having given their life among two world wars. The first years 1914 - 1918 stretch beyond best living memory, although difficulty enough does appear tracing all those later named between memorable years of 1939 - 1945.

It seems there are actually several forgotten Huthwaite heroes still to be uncovered here. Deeper and wider research can only trust to eventually trace any further knowledge of those without living relatives. Record sources prove numerous, especially where families relocated to present Huthwaite residents named upon other memorials. We hope you can help confirm and preserve their memories by adding any information.