The Brave Few – C

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CHADBURN, JACK
Regiment:  York and Lancaster Regiment, 6th Battalion.
Rank:  Private.
Service No. 4751615.
Date of Death:  28 August 1943, age 27.
Son of Richard and Ruth Chadburn (née Mellor) of 2 Henshaws Cottages, Chapel Street, Woodhouse, Sheffield.   Worked at Henry Boots & Sons, Woodhouse Mill.
Husband of Jenny Chadburn of 11 Springwood Avenue, Aughton, Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Cemetery:   MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY, TUNISIA.
Grave No. V.I. E7.
Remembered in the Second World War Roll of Honour Book in All Saints Church, Aston.


CHADBURN, THEOPHILUS
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment:  York and Lancaster Regiment, 13th Battalion
Service No. 201768
Date of Death:  12 April 1918, age 29
Son of George and Priscilla Chadbum, of 5, Horsewood Rd.,
Woodhouse Mill, Sheffield; husband of Lily Chadburn, of 24/1, South St., Park, Sheffield
Cemetery:  PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM Link
Grave/Memorial Ref. Panel 8
Remembered on the Woodhouse Mill First World War Memorial


CLARKE, JOHN VICTOR
Regiment:  West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own), 2nd Batt.
Rank:  Private.
Service No. 4532741.
Date of Death:  21 March 1941, age 32.
Son of John Richard and Elizabeth Clarke of No. 11 Blocks, Cutthorpe, Chesterfield.
Husband of Phyllis Mary Clarke of 13 Springwood Avenue, Aughton,
Cemetery:  KEREN WAR CEMETERY, ERITREA, NORTH AFRICA. Link
Grave No. 4 B.8.
Remembered in the Second World War Roll of Honour Book in All Saints Church, Aston.


CLARKE, WILLIAM
Regiment:  Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Service No. 13781
Enlisted aged 18
Born about 1898
Who died in the First World War
Remembered on the First World War Memorial in
All Saints Church, Aston


CLARKE, SAMUEL ERNEST
Rank:  Private
Regiment:   Sherwood Foresters, Notts and Derbyshire Regiment, 2nd/8th Battalion.
Service No. 306174.
Date of Death:  02 April 1918, age 29.
Son of Samuel and Emma Clarke of 19 Forest Street, East Kirkby, Notts.
On the 1911 Census living at 1 Falconer Lane, Fence, Sheffield.
Cemetery:  PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM. Link
Grave/Memorial Ref.   Pier and Face 10C, 10C and 11A
Remembered on the Woodhouse Mill First World War Memorial


COLE, HAROLD
Rank:  Sergeant
Regiment:  York and Lancaster Regiment, 1st Battalion
Service No. 9500
Date of Death:  08 May 1915, age 26
Son of John and Ann Cole, of 22, Nursery Rd., Swallownest, Sheffield
Cemetery:  YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, BELGIUM Link
Grave/Memorial Ref. Panel 36 and 55.
Remembered on the First World War Memorial in All Saints Church, Aston


COOPER, ALBERT FREDERICK
Rank:  Second Lieutenant
Regiment:  Middlesex Regiment, 1st Battalion
Service No. ?
Date of Death:  09 May 1918, age 28
Son of Frederick and Mary E. Cooper, of 106, Lansdowne Rd., West Didsbury, Manchester
Cemetery:  ESQUELBECQ MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE Link
Grave/Memorial Ref. II. C. 14.
Remembered in Holy Trinity Church Ulley


COPLEY, JEAN
Regiment:  Auxiliary Territorial Service
Rank:  Private
Service No. W/152132
Date of Death:  11 May 1943. Age 21
Daughter of Alban Ernest and Kittie Copley (née Whysall), of Aston.
Cemetery:  ASTON-CUM-AUGHTON CEMETERY
Grave No. 678
Remembered in the Second World War Roll of Honour Book in All Saints Church, Aston.

Special note:- Killed when her billet in Great Yarmouth received a direct hit from a High Explosive Bomb during an air raid.   Jean was among the 28 ATS girls who lost their lives

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Photograph of Jean


COTTRELL, BERNARD
Service:  Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 149 Squadron.
Rank:  Flight Lieutenant.
Service No. 135402.
Date of Death:  06 September 1943, age 29.
Son of James Henry and Lily Adeline Cottrell of Ulley, Sheffield.
Husband of Daisy Cottrell of Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Cemetery:  DURNBACK WAR CEMETERY, BAYERN, GERMANY.Link
Grave Reference:  Coll. Grave 6. D.25-27
Not remembered on a local memorial.


COUNDLEY, EMMANUEL
Rank:  Private
Regiment:  York and Lancaster Regiment, 2nd/5th Battalion
Service No. 240863
Enlisted in Rotherham
Of 2 North View, Swallownest, Sheffield
Date of Death:  29 May 1917
Lived in Sheffield – remove
Cemetery:  ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
EXTENSION, FRANCE Link
Remembered on the First World War Memorial in All Saints Church, Aston


COX, HAROLD 
Rank:  Private
Regiment:  King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 2nd Battalion
Service No.12777
Date of Death:  2nd December 1917, age 24
Son of William and Sarah Cox, of 35, Coalbrook Crescent, Woodhouse Mill, Sheffield
TYNE COT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM Link
Grave/Memorial Ref. Panel 108 to 111
Remembered on the Woodhouse Mill First World War Memorial


CRAVEN, JOSEPH
Rank:  Lance Corporal
Regiment:  West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own)
2nd Battalion
Service No. 41016, Formerly 41310, Northumberland Fusiliers
Enlisted:  Rotherham
Date of Death:  24 April 1918
Born in Manchester, lived in Swallownest
Cemetery:  POZIERES MEMORIAL Link
Grave/Memorial Ref. Panel 26 and 27
Remembered on the First World War Memorial in All Saints Church, Aston


CREASEY, FREDERICK
Rank:  Private
Regiment:  York and Lancaster Regiment, 5th Battalion
Service No. 3693
Date of Death:  13 August 1916, age 21
Son of John and Annie Creasey of Swallownest, Sheffield, Yorks.
Cemetery:  PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY,
SOMME, FRANCE Link
Grave/Memorial Ref. Grave No. I. F. 80
Remembered on the First World War Memorial in All Saints Church, Aston