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About 4 miles east of St Helens in South Lancashire (and in the administrative county of Merseyside) is Newton in Makerfield but it's now known as the adjoining towns of Earlestown and Newton-le-Willows. As best as I can understand it, Newton in Makerfield was the name for the parish or borough, rather than being a town name.

The ABW memorial is sited in front of Earlestown Town Hall (which is also, confusingly, sometimes referred to as Newton-le-Willows Town Hall!). Unusual in that the ABW memorial has become the centrepiece of the Newton-le-Willows and Earlestown war memorial with the names of the WW1 and WW2 Fallen being added to the sides.













Lieutenant Hugh Stewart McCorquodale, Thorneycroft's Horse.
Sergeant S Swann, Lancashire Hussars Imperial Yeomanry.
Sergeant S Oubridge, Lancashire Hussars Imperial Yeomanry.
Private R Collinge, Lancashire Hussars Imperial Yeomanry.
Private W A Frost, Lancashire Hussars Imperial Yeomanry.





1st Volunteer Battalion South Lancashire Regiment

Lance Corporal A. Dean
Lance Corporal T. Green
Lance Corporal S.F. Moss
Private E. Bevan
Private C. Booth
Private A. Houghton
Private T. Moore
Private E.T. Pimblott
Private T. Shallcross
Private G. Singleton

The King's Liverpool Regiment

Private C. Horrocks, 3rd Volunteer Battalion
Private W. Owen, 6th Volunteer Battalion

Volunteers serving in other regiments

Lance Corporal A. De Courcy Carson - Ceylon Mounted Infantry.
Private T. Bartley - 2nd V.B. Welsh Fusiliers.
Private Sydney Smith - 1st V.B. Suffolk Regiment.
Private C.J. Thorp - Kimberley Vounteer Corps.
Private H. Oubridge - 77th Company Imperial Yeomanry (Manchester).
Private John Walton - Royal Army Medical Corps.
Private W.J. Atkinson Kimberley Town Guard.



Lancashire Hussars Imperial Yeomanry

1st Detachment 1900.

Corporal W. Warren
Private R. Ball
Private R. Boardman
Private A.E. Jones

2nd Detachment 1901.

Private H. Burgess
Private P. Cameron
Private H. Hutchings
Private J. Kynaston.
Private R.W. McTigue
Private S. Pickup
Private W. Pilling

3rd Detachment - 1902.

Private F. Ball
Private J. Baxter
Private G. Charnley
Private D. Davies
Private J.E. Davies
Private P. Hart
Private C. Jackson
Private E. Jones
Private W.A. Jones
Private A.P. Kenny
Private F.T. Kenny
Private T. Kirkham
Private P. Lloyd
Private J. McDermott
Private W.H. Mills
Private F. Morley
Private J. Richardson







Trivia note - The Beatles played a show at the Town Hall on 30th November 1962. www.beatlesbible.com/1962/11/30/live-tow...l-newton-le-willows/

Berenice
Impressive Memorial. References show Lt. Hugh Stewart McCorquodale of Thorneycroft's as Killed in Action on Spion Kop, 24/01/1900 and buried where he fell. He had joined TMI the day before. A keen sportsman, with a BA from Cambridge. QSA with one clasp "Relief of Ladysmith). The Palmer roll shows that Winston Churchill heard Hugh Stewart McCorquodale's name called and recognised his face of a boy he had known at Harrow. WSC wrote; "Joined in the evening, killed at dawn. Gallant fellow ..... the Great Sacrifice had been required of the Queen's latest recruit".
Regards
IL.

Very nice Berenice.

Interesting to note that a number of the IY who went out in 1902 arrived after the end of war. They did not therefore serve in the war as such and did not get a medal, but their patriotism was still remembered.

Another remarkable memorial, Berenice. Thank you for showing it. Also, thank you to IL for the McCorquodale anecdote. As soon as I read his name on the memorial, I knew it was familiar. Before it could tax my brain further, IL provided the answer!
Regards
Brett

LinneyI wrote: Berenice
Impressive Memorial. References show Lt. Hugh Stewart McCorquodale of Thorneycroft's as Killed in Action on Spion Kop, 24/01/1900 and buried where he fell. He had joined TMI the day before. A keen sportsman, with a BA from Cambridge. QSA with one clasp "Relief of Ladysmith). The Palmer roll shows that Winston Churchill heard Hugh Stewart McCorquodale's name called and recognised his face of a boy he had known at Harrow. WSC wrote; "Joined in the evening, killed at dawn. Gallant fellow ..... the Great Sacrifice had been required of the Queen's latest recruit".
Regards
IL.

Would he have joined Thorneycroft's direct from England or would he already have been in South Africa when he joined them?

He was born in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, on 18th August 1874; there's also an impressive memorial to Lieutenant McCorquodale in St Sadwrn's Churchyard, Llansadwrn, Anglesey. www.anglesey.info/llansadwrn-war-memorials.htm One of his nephews married Barbara Cartland!

Does anyone know what Lloyd's Patriotic Fund is? It's the Parent Charity of the Hugh Stewart McCorquodale Memorial Fund, which seems to be still in existence. opencharities.org/charities/210173-5

And, in 1902, an Entrance Scholarship to Harrow School was funded in memory of Hugh Stewart McCorquodale. This may be related to the Memorial Fund above. www.harrowassociation.com/netcommunity/document.doc?id=193

Have spoken to Harrow School - he went there in 1889, was a member of the Football XI in 1893, and left in 1894. After Cambridge University he became a printer. Will follow up with the school and I hope to be able to go down and photograph their ABW memorial chapel.

Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry was raised in the Colony of Natal on the 20th of October 1899 and was subsequently disbanded at Klerksdorp, in common with the bulk of the SAMIF, on the 30th of June 1902, a commission within would have been sort in Natal and not in Great Britain.
The Lloyd's Patriotic Fund has been and remains a charitable organisation that supports the very many forces charities that have existed down the years.
Harrow School is a remarkable place, be sure to look very carefully at their fourth form room, as and when you visit.

BereniceUK wrote:

LinneyI wrote: Berenice
Impressive Memorial. References show Lt. Hugh Stewart McCorquodale of Thorneycroft's as Killed in Action on Spion Kop, 24/01/1900 and buried where he fell. He had joined TMI the day before. A keen sportsman, with a BA from Cambridge. QSA with one clasp "Relief of Ladysmith). The Palmer roll shows that Winston Churchill heard Hugh Stewart McCorquodale's name called and recognised his face of a boy he had known at Harrow. WSC wrote; "Joined in the evening, killed at dawn. Gallant fellow ..... the Great Sacrifice had been required of the Queen's latest recruit".
Regards
IL.

Would he have joined Thorneycroft's direct from England or would he already have been in South Africa when he joined them?

He was born in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, on 18th August 1874; there's also an impressive memorial to Lieutenant McCorquodale in St Sadwrn's Churchyard, Llansadwrn, Anglesey. www.anglesey.info/llansadwrn-war-memorials.htm One of his nephews married Barbara Cartland!

Does anyone know what Lloyd's Patriotic Fund is? It's the Parent Charity of the Hugh Stewart McCorquodale Memorial Fund, which seems to be still in existence. opencharities.org/charities/210173-5

And, in 1902, an Entrance Scholarship to Harrow School was funded in memory of Hugh Stewart McCorquodale. This may be related to the Memorial Fund above. www.harrowassociation.com/netcommunity/document.doc?id=193

Have spoken to Harrow School - he went there in 1889, was a member of the Football XI in 1893, and left in 1894. After Cambridge University he became a printer. Will follow up with the school and I hope to be able to go down and photograph their ABW memorial.