High Melton War Memorial
The memorial is situated on Doncaster Road, High Melton. It is right at the roadside placed in a gap in the hedge. The inscription is:
TO THE MEMORY OF
HIGH MELTON MEN WHO FELL IN
THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR AD 1914 - AD 1918
(8 NAMES)
R.I.P.
AD 1939 - AD 1945
(3 NAMES)
TO THE MEMORY OF
HIGH MELTON MEN WHO FELL IN
THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR AD 1914 - AD 1918
(8 NAMES)
R.I.P.
AD 1939 - AD 1945
(3 NAMES)
Additional Details
George Douglas Jones (4755659)
Private - Welch Regiment - 1st Bn.
19 September 1944, aged 31
Born in approx 1913
Son of George Leslie and Mary Roy Jones; Husband of May Jones, of High Melton, Yorkshire.
Lived at Albion Hotel 9/11 High St, Mexbrough / 10 Melton Hill, High Melton
Married in Don Valley - Q1 1939 - 1 son
Coriano Ridge War Cemetery
The gravestone carries the inscription - Loved in life Treasured in death His beautiful memory Is all we have left
Died during the Italian campaign, during the Battle for Rimini, part of the attack on the Gothic Line.
Private - Welch Regiment - 1st Bn.
19 September 1944, aged 31
Born in approx 1913
Son of George Leslie and Mary Roy Jones; Husband of May Jones, of High Melton, Yorkshire.
Lived at Albion Hotel 9/11 High St, Mexbrough / 10 Melton Hill, High Melton
Married in Don Valley - Q1 1939 - 1 son
Coriano Ridge War Cemetery
The gravestone carries the inscription - Loved in life Treasured in death His beautiful memory Is all we have left
Died during the Italian campaign, during the Battle for Rimini, part of the attack on the Gothic Line.
Richard Arthur Liversidge (2622343)
Guardsman - Grenadier Guards - 2nd Bn.
25 September 1944, aged 28
Born in Rotherham in Q3 1916
Son of Harold Arthur and Elizabeth Liversidge; Husband of Freda Liversidge, of High Melton, Yorkshire.
Lived at 26 Melton Hill, High Melton
Married in Don Valley - Q2 1939 - 1 daughter 1 son
Uden War Cemetery
The gravestone carries the inscription - Our memory of you Is a keepsake From which We will never part
Originally buried at Stoedenrode before being reburied in present location on 11 July 1946
Killed in action in Holland. The 2nd Grenadier Guards were part of XXX Corps the ground element of Operation Market Garden. He was killed on the ninth day between Eindhoven and Nijmegen.
Guardsman - Grenadier Guards - 2nd Bn.
25 September 1944, aged 28
Born in Rotherham in Q3 1916
Son of Harold Arthur and Elizabeth Liversidge; Husband of Freda Liversidge, of High Melton, Yorkshire.
Lived at 26 Melton Hill, High Melton
Married in Don Valley - Q2 1939 - 1 daughter 1 son
Uden War Cemetery
The gravestone carries the inscription - Our memory of you Is a keepsake From which We will never part
Originally buried at Stoedenrode before being reburied in present location on 11 July 1946
Killed in action in Holland. The 2nd Grenadier Guards were part of XXX Corps the ground element of Operation Market Garden. He was killed on the ninth day between Eindhoven and Nijmegen.