War Memorial Chronology of Deaths

This is a timeline illustrating the chronology of St Mary of the Angels War Memorial deaths.

Spellings are as per the Memorial, which is not necessarily the same as on other records, including the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database. Where there is a substantial difference I have included in italics the names used by the men in their military, or other, records.

	Name	Date
1	Private Austin Nolan (Noland)	22 August 1914
2	Private Edmund Battye	19 February 1915
3	Private Thomas Foley	11 March 1915
4	Private Michael Flynn	12 April 1915
5	Private Moses Stubley	24 April 1915
6	Private Dominick Brannan (George Brannen)	19 May 1915
7	Private Michael Groark (Rourke)	16 June 1915
8	Captain Robert Randerson	7 August 1915
9	Private James Griffin	9 August 1915
10	Private Patrick Naifsey (Neafsy)	27 September 1915
11	Private Patrick Colleran	27 September 1915
12	Private Michael Brannan	2 October 1915
13	Private James Foley	3 November 1915
14	Private Thomas Donlan	9 November 1915
15	Private Martin Carney	11 November 1915
16	Private Thomas Gavaghan	28 December 1915
17	Sapper William Townsend (McManus)	2 March 1916
18	Private James Rush	6 April 1916
19	Private John Brooks (Brooke)	1 July 1916
20	Private John Lyons	1 July 1916
21	Lance Corporal Herbert Booth	1 July 1916
22	Private Michael Hopkins	1 July 1916
23	Private James Garner	1 July 1916
24	Private Edward Barber	1 July 1916
25	Rifleman Edward Leonard	2 July 1916
26	Private James Trainor	3 July 1916
27	Private Michael Horan	3 July 1916
28	Corporal Thomas W Chappell	5 July 1916
29	Private William Barber	23 July 1916
30	Private Patrick Cafferty	23 July 1916
31	Private Michael Cafferty	1 August 1916
32	Private Thomas Finneran	8 August 1916
33	Private James Gavaghan	10 August 1916
34	Lance Sergeant Joseph Gavaghan	25 August 1916
35	Private Michael J O’Hora (O’Hara)	3 September 1916
36	Private Martin Gallagher	15 September 1916
37	Private Thomas McNamara	20 September 1916
38	Private Lawrence Carney	28 September 1916
39	Private Patrick Hopkins	22 October 1916
40	Private Thomas Curley	28 October 1916
41	Private Peter Gavaghan	3 November 1916
42	Private Arthur B Woodhead	30 December 1916
43	Private Thomas Dolan	29 January 1917
44	Private Patrick Gallagher	3 April 1917
45	Sergeant John T Lynch	21 July 1917
46	Private Lawrence Judge	24 July 1917
47	Private Henry Groark (Groak)	19 September 1917
48	Private Horace Lee	1 October 1917
49	Private Mathew Farrer	3 October 1917
50	Private William Lynch	20 November 1917
51	Private Patrick Lyons	6 December 1917
52	Lance Corporal James Hughes	28 January 1918
53	Private Frederick Byrnes	22 March 1918
54	Able Seaman R Carroll Walsh	24 March 1918
55	Private James Groark	12 April 1918
56	Private John Leech1	13 April 1918
57	Private William Hargreaves	28 April 1918
58	Private John W Callaghan	20 July 1918
59	Private James Edwards	22 July 1918
60	Private Peter Gavaghan	23 July 19182
61	Private Clement Manning	22 August 1918
62	Private Michael Lydon	1 September 1918
63	Private Joseph Guider	9 September 1918
64	Private William Kelly	12 September 1918
65	Private Dominick Brannan	18 September 1918
66	Rifleman John W Enright (Enwright)	27 September 1918
67	Private John Commons	1 October 1918
68	Private Michael Cunningham	11 October 1918
69	Deck Hand Harold Gaunt	17 October 1918
70	Corporal Thomas Maloney	19 October 1918
71	Private Peter Doherty (Dougherty)	20 October 1918
72	Sapper John T Connolly	5 November 1918
73	Sapper William Colbeck	6 November 1918
74	Sergeant Walter Hughes	12 December 1918
75	Private James Collins	16 January 1919
76	Private Michael Hunt	17 April 19193

In addition, the following men have so far been identified as connected to parish community, but are not on the memorial:

• Private Reginald Roberts – 9 November 1914
• Lance Corporal Thomas Gannon – 18 April 1915
• Private Herbert Hardy – 7 May 1915
• Private John Collins – 31 July 1915
• Private James Healey – 9 August 1915
• Private Robert Hirst – 24 September 1915
• Private Sam Sykes – 28 January 1916
• Private Thomas Redgwick – 1 July 1916
• Private Samuel Gooder – 30 June 1917
• Sergeant Dominick Dan Jordan – 25 April 1918
• Able Seaman William Frederick Townsend – 6 November 1918
• Sergeant Joseph Edward Munns – 7 January 1921⁴

There is also Alexander Jessop. He was accepted for Batley War Memorial, but the family had no definitive service details and did not know his date of death.

Footnotes:
1. Some sources indicate rank of Lance Corporal
2. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records Peter Gavaghan’s death as 5 August 1918. Other records state 23 July 1918.
3. Some sources indicate 19 April 1919.
4. Some sources, newspaper death notices, indicate 8 January