Matterdale Matters

The Great War 1914 � 1918

Matterdale Roll of Honour

Below is the text contained inside one of the Matterdale parish registers kept at the County Record Office, Carlisle Castle (ref . PR 130/2).

Commonwealth Graves Commission (CWGC) and my own comments in brackets.

Pte John SYMES enlisted 2 Feb 1897 Border Regt. Died in India March 1915.

(CWGC states � died 29^th March 1915 Pte 879 1^st/4^th Btn. Border Regt)

Pte James HARRISON enlisted 2^nd November 1912 Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regt.

L. Corp. John DICKINSON enlisted 1914 2^nd Border Regt.

Pte John HARRISON enlisted 17^th August 1911 Border Regt.

Isaac Edward BROWNRIGG enlisted 24^th November 1914 R (no more text).

Pte Ernest Wm THOMPSON 1^st Border Regt enlisted 1914.

David HARRISON enlisted 1914, a boy, Australian Imperial Force, died at Mudros 29^th May 1915

(CWGC - died 21^st May 1915 in Turkey, son of John and Margaret HARRISON of Penrith)

WOOF (no other details)

Pte William Henry HALL enlisted 1915

Wallace Rayson SAWER Motor Transport Service died in hospital at Woolwich 1915.

(CWGC - M2/052180 M.T. Depot (Grove Park) Army Service Corps, son of Rayson & E.A. SAWER of Crookwath, Matterdale, Penrith, Cumberland, died 3^rd April 1915. Buried at Greenwich Cemetery Plot 3.�C�. A. 46)

Pte Thomas SEALBY enlisted 1915 Royal Fusiliers.

Pte James RIGG enlisted Feb 1916 Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders.

Pte David ELLIOTT enlisted 1915 Army Service Corps.

Pte Wilson ELLIOTT enlisted 1916 Army Ordnance Corps.

WOOF (no other details)

Corp John SEALBY enlisted 1915 Machine Gun Corps.

Pte Thomas WILKINSON enlisted 1^st December 1916.

Pte T. Sydney THOMPSON Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regt. Enlisted 1918. Killed in action April 1919

(CWGC - THOMAS SIDNEY THOMPSON Private 36510 1st/5th Bn., King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regt.) who died on Tuesday, 9th April 1919. Age 19. Additional Information: Son of Mrs. S. Raine (formerly Thompson), of Dockray, Matterdale, Penrith, Cumberland. Commemorative Information Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Grave Reference/ Panel Number: Panel 19 and 20)

Pte Thomas ELLIOTT enlisted 1918 Manchester Regt.

L. Corp. Benjamin MARTIN enlisted 1917 Royal Engineers.

Capt. M. R. HALL enlisted April 1915 2/5 Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regt.

Pte David WEIGHTMAN enlisted 1917 Royal Naval Air Service.

Pte Arthur Thomas POTTS enlisted 1917 3^rd Btn Border Regt.

Pte George Maurice WILKINSON enlisted 2^nd February 1917.

Pte John WEIGHTMAN enlisted 19^th April 1915 Royal Army Medical Corps.

Pte Ernest WEIGHTMAN enlisted 19^th February (year missing) "Leeds Pulls" West Yorkshire Regt. Won Military Medal.

Pte John WILKINSON enlisted 1917 Kings Liverpool Regt. Died of wounds 28^th September 1918.

(CWGC - Pte 87009 8 Btn Kings Liverpool Regt died 28^th September 1918, age 19yrs, son of Mrs Rebecca WILKINSON of Latterdale, Westmorland (sic), buried at Sunken Road cemetery, Boisleaux-St.Marc, Pas de Calais, France, grave III.A.II)