War Memorials and Rolls of Honour

Totley War Memorial
ATKIN, Stephen P/O [Samuel Stephen Atkin]
DAVIDSON, Malcolm W/O, (Malcolm Stuart Davidson P/O?)
FOULSTON, William Sgt [William Arthur Foulstone]
GARNETT, J.D. W/O  [John Douglas Garnett]
GLOSSOP, Victor P/O [Victor Thomas Glossop]
HOPPERTON, Sidney AB (also Dore)

JACQUES, Ernest Sgt [Ernest Henry Jacques]
JOHNSON, Fred Sgt
SEALS, Kenneth Sgt [Frederick Kenneth Arthur Seals]
SHARP, S.P. Sgt  [Sidney Richard Sharp]
WEBSTER, Kenneth W/O
WEBSTER, Vincent Sgt
WILKIN, Edna Mary L/Cpl

Holmesfield War Memorial

BEECROFT, R.G. Sgt Flt/Eng, R.A.F.
CROOKES F, L/Sgt, R.A.
SHEPLEY, Douglas Clayton P/O, R.A.F.
SHEPLEY George Rex Flt/Lt, R.A.F.
SHEPLEY Jeanne, F.A.N.Y.
WILSON W. Flt/Lt, R.A.F.

Dronfield War Memorial (and Church of St. John the Baptist plaque)

BENFORD, William T.
BENNETT, Alec F.
BETHEL, Charles
BROWN, Cyril
DAINS, J. Kenneth
FARMER, Charlie
GAMBLEN, Douglas R.
GODFREY, William D.
GOLDTHORPE, Thomas J.
GOODALL, William
GRANGER, Peter C.
GREGORY, Muriel E.
HALL, Albert
HALL, Frank
HANDLEY, John W.
HAWCROFT, Derek
HAWDIN, Harry
LOCKETT, Richard
LOWCOCK, C. Harry
MARGERISSON, George R.
MILLER, Fred
MOORE, Arthur
MOORE, Francis
MORRIS, Edward E.
OWENS, Kenneth
PARRY, Noel
RHODES, John
ROBINSON, Arthur
ROE, J. Cecil
SHARPE, William E.
SHELDON, William
SLACK, Newman A.
SLATER, Walter
STANIFORTH, Herbert
STENTON, Charles R.
UNWIN, Arthur
WATERALL, Charles
WATSON, J. Cyril
WHITE, Tom
WILSON, Leslie
WOOD, W. Leslie



Other Totley service men and women who died in WW2

DAYKIN, Thomas Bernard Frederick, Pte.

GEBHARD, Nanele, Pte.

IN REMEMBRANCE

PO Stephen Atkin (29 Aldam Road [1936], 62 Busheywood Road [1939])
WO Malcolm Davidson (Marstone Crescent)
Sgt William Foulston (22 Main Avenue)
WO J.D. Garnett (Bank View Farm, Totley Bents)
PO Victor Thomas Glossop (13 Grove Road)
AB Sidney Hopperton (359 Baslow Road)
Sgt Earnest Jacques (48 Glover Road)
Sgt Fred Johnson (12 Laverdene Avenue)
Sgt Kenneth Seals (21 Mickley Lane)
Sgt S.P. Sharp (12 Laverdene Road)
WO Kenneth Webster (56 The Grove)
Sgt Vincent Webster (56 The Grove)
L/Cpl Edna Mary Wilkin (32 Aldam Road)

1939-1945

Returning to Totley on a nostalgic visit, I stopped off at the War Memorial to pay my respects to my childhood friends who never returned. The name of a particular very dear friend was there, Steve Atkin, but alas no indication of his service branch. He was a Pilot Officer, flying a Lancaster bomber and brought down over Le Havre in May 1944. It set me wondering if anything could be done to rectify this matter.

Looking at the aerial photograph on the front of the November [1997] issue of Totley Independent brought back fond memories of when we first arrived in Totley in 1933, we being my parents and my brother and sister. Our house was 44 Aldam Road and it stood at the cross road of Aldam Road and Greenoak Road, which is not yet completed in the photograph.

As I recall only four more houses were built either side and Greenoak Road was a footpath through fields, leading to the bottom of Main Avenue, where Mr & Mrs, Parker's dairy was the last house in the avenue. Mr. Parker was our milkman and used to deliver the milk with his horse and buggy. At some time he had lost one of his hands replaced by a hook, with which he deftly used to handle the cans and churns, no bottles in those days. I often wondered how he coped, when I served milk the same way when in the Land Army. 

I too went to Totley C of E school, which in my day was a small village school ruled by a real Victorian headmaster called Johnny Wood, who terrified us all, I remember we used to watch for him marching down the school yard on a Friday morning and if the Gladstone bag he always carried was missing, we knew we had Friday afternoon holiday, this happened quite frequently. 

Since losing my two dearest friends Raymond and Joan Peace, I have little cause to visit Totley and read the Independent which they used to pass to me, so it gave me great pleasure to pick up the latest issue from Avenue Stores and read it eagerly, especially the letter from 'Bobbie' Carr, an old friend of my brother, it brought back many happy memories. Keep up-the good work, and good luck with the Community Centre.

Elsie Winstanley (nee Abbott)

Wollaton Park
Nottingham

December 1998