TISSINGTON WAR MEMORIAL DERBYSHIRE
Compiled with additional information by kind permission of the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
This memorial can be seen in the parish church, and includes their Service, where died and when
In grateful memory of those who from this parish gave their
lives for King and Country in the
Great War 1914-18
1914-1918
BERRISFORD Leonard This memorial states Private 11th Royal Sussex Regiment Killed at Ypres 1st March 1917. [The CWGC and SDGW both have the same death date which is different to the one stated on the memorial] Private G15151, 11th Royal Sussex Regiment killed in action 28 February 1917. Buried at Railway Dugouts Burial Ground, Belgium. Born at Ashover, Derbyshire Son of Isaac and Louisa of Holestone Moor, Ashover, Derbyshire CWGC surname spelt Beresford. UK Soldiers the died surnames spelt as Berresford
STALEY James Stirland Pte 17637, 11th Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) killed in action 05/10/1918, age 30. Son of William and Annie Staley, of Tissington, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Buried at Guizancourt Farm Cemetery, Gouy, France
also of
WESTHORPE Stanley Private 52567, 1st Lincolnshire Regiment died 4 September 1920 age 21. Son of George and Mary Westhorpe, of Bostern Grange, Thorpe, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Born, and is buried at Tissington, in St Mary Churchyard
