WHEATLEY LANE

INGHAMITE  CHURCHYARD

 

                                                               © Susan Eldridge  2002

 

 

The church and new cemetery

 

 

 

Location: Wheatley Lane Road     

 

OS ref: 103  SD839384

 

 

This is the cemetery for Wheatley Lane Inghamite Church, it is very large with over 24,000 burials. It tends to be used by non-conformists from the surrounding towns of Burnley, Brierfield, Nelson and Barrowford. Most of the WW1 burials below are in the old part of the burial ground which becomes rather overgrown during the summer months.

The cwg site states there are 53 war casualties buried here from both wars.

 

 

Click names for further details

 

 

ALLISON W H HILL  Charles Henry
ASHWORTH  Denis HORSFALL  Walter
BATTRUM R HUNT Thomas
BINNS A JACKSON  Robert
BROUGHTON  B JONES Henry
BULLOCK Richard KEMP  John Thomas
DEAN  William MEANOCK  J W
ELSBY John ROOM  John Thomas
GIBSON  Rowland SPURR  Thomas
GLEDHILL Edmund STANWORTH  Joseph
GRAVE James STEPHENSON  W
HARDY  William TATTERSALL J
HARGREAVES N THOMPSON  A
HARRISON Henry THORBURN  John
HARRISON Richard THORNTON CT
WALTON Gladstone

 

World War 2 Burials

Cpl George BEVERIDGE of Burnley, Home Guard

Pte H COCKINGS of Burnley, Border Rgt

Sick Berth Attendant Henry S DARCY of Brierfield, RN

Pte John FERGUSON of Burnley, Welch Rgt

Pte Leo FLEMING of Burnley, General Service Corps

Pte Gertrude M GREENALL of Burnley, ATS

Pte Clarice HARGREAVES of Burnley, ATS

Segt Douglas O HARGREAVES of Burnley, RAF

Segt Walter HARVEY of Burnley, RAF

Leading Aircraftman Ronald HEAP, RAF

Pte Arthur HELLIWELL of Burnley, East Lancs Rgt

Sub-Lieut James HIRST of Burnley, RNVR

Segt Harold HOOLEY of Burnley, RAF

Leading Aircraftman James R. KNOWLES of Nelson, RAF

Sick Berth Attendant Jack  LEEMING, RN

Dvr Albert  LORD of Wheatley Lane, RASC

Cpl Joseph McCULLOUGH of Nelson, Royal Engineers

Pte William S MOSS, RASC

Aircraftman Harold PHILLIPS of Burnley, RAF

Leading Aircraftman Gilbert RILEY of Brierfield, RAF

Leading Aircraftman Alan H SCHOFIELD of Burnley, RAF

Aircraftman Allen WAITE of Bingley, Yorks, RAF

 

 

Other graves in the cemetery

Also buried here is Pte Thomas Whitham VC from Worsthorne, Burnley who died in 1924.

Photo to follow (as I've mislaid the one I took earlier)

Many others who died overseas are remembered on family graves.

 

 

 

18693 LCpl

W. CLAYTON

EAST LANCS RGT

8th JULY 1916

Age 24

 

Buried Heilly Station Cemetery

Mericourt-L'Abbe

 

 

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Willie Clayton

son of John T & Mary Elizabeth

28 Wilton St, Burnley

kia France

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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