 Accrington
Pals - Officers and Men
WESTWELL, L/Cpl. James Thomas, 17842; lived
at 230 Dill Hall Lane, Accrington.
"Accrington Pals" by William Turner, published by Pen &
Sword Books Ltd
Accrington Observer & Times, 23rd February 1915. Company assignment:
E (Reserve).
Absent Voters' List 1918, Parliamentary Borough of Accrington
WESTWELL, Pte. W.,
Accrington Observer & Times, 23rd February 1915. Company assignment:
E (Reserve).
Army number derived from order of appearance in "E" Company
roll-call
Absent
Voters
Accrington 1918 Absent Voters List West Ward Polling
District A
Number : 38
Forenames : John Jennings
Surname :Westwell
Number : 352735
Rank : unknown
Unit : Chatham A.S.C., 776 Co.
Address : 24 Hyndburn Street
Accrington 1918 Absent Voters List West Ward Polling
District A1
Number : 225
Forenames : Alfred
Surname :Westwell
Number : 100204
Rank : Sgt.
Unit : R.A.M.C.
Address : 98 Empress Street
Accrington 1918 Absent Voters List Central Ward
Polling District B
Number : 638
Forenames : Frederick
Surname :Westwell
Number : 71600
Rank : Private
Unit : King's Liv.
Address : 12 Hindle Street
Accrington 1918 Absent Voters List Central Ward
Polling District B
Number : 638
Forenames : Frederick
Surname :Westwell
Number : 71600
Rank : Private
Unit : King's Liv.
Address : 12 Hindle Street
Accrington 1918 Absent Voters List Central Ward
Polling District B1
Number : 840
Forenames : Fred
Surname :Westall
Number : 198861
Rank : Gnr.
Unit : R.F.A.
Address : 20 St. James' Street
Number : 841
Forenames : Walter
Surname :Westall
Number : 30290
Rank : Cpl.
Unit : R.E.
Address : 20 St. James' Street
Accrington 1918 Absent Voters List North Ward
Polling District C1
Number : 1441
Forenames : William
Surname :Westwell
Number : 65684
Rank : Pte.
Unit : East Lancs.
Address : 222 Burnley Road
Accrington 1918 Absent Voters List Peel Park Ward
Polling District D1
Number : 2021
Forenames : Francis
Surname :Westwell
Number : 15164
Rank : Pte.
Unit : R.D. Corps.
Address : 111 Stanley Street
Accrington 1918 Absent Voters List Peel Park Ward
Polling District D2
Number : 2157
Forenames : Albert
Surname :Westwell
Number : 25947
Rank : Pte.
Unit : S.R.
Address : 190 Bold Street
Accrington 1918 Absent Voters List East Ward Polling District E1
Number : 2733
Forenames : George
Surname :Westwell
Number : 5639
Rank : Pte.
Unit : 6th East Lancs
Address : 18 Plantation Street
Number : 2720
Forenames : George
Surname :Westwell
Number : 5639
Rank : Pte.
Unit : East Lancs
Address : 95 Plantation Street
Accrington 1918 Absent Voters List South Ward
Polling District F2
Number : 3193
Forenames : John
Surname :Westwell
Number : 218560
Rank : Gnr.
Unit : R.G.A.
Address : 7 Edward Street
Accrington 1918 Absent Voters List Higher Antley
Polling District G1
Number : 3540
Forenames : Frederick
Surname :Westwell
Number : 359064
Rank : Pte.
Unit : Lab. Corps
Address : 48 Fountain Street
Number : 3609
Forenames : George
Surname :Westwell
Number : 325742
Rank : Pte.
Unit : R.E.
Address : 8 Holden Street
Roll
of Honour
Accrington Roll of Honour 1914-1919
WESTWELL, Cpl. Albert, M2/150786 (No. 1 Reserve
M.T. Depot, Army Service Corps); s. of Wilkinson and Susannah Westwell;
lived at Baxenden; d. 26th January 1917 (29); bd. Stonefold (St. John)
Churchyard.
War Memorial, Oak Hill Park, Accrington
Greater Accrington Roll of Honour 1914-1919, first published in the
Accrington Observer & Times, 1919
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register
Officers and Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919
Oswaldtwistle Roll of Honour 1914-1919
WESTWELL, Pte. Lawrence, 28927 (2nd Bn., East
Lancs. Regt.); lived at 73 Roe Greave Road, Oswaldtwistle; d.o.w. 7th
March 1917.
Greater Accrington Roll of Honour 1914-1919, first published in the
Accrington Observer & Times, 1919
Officers and Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919
Accrington Observer & Times, 17th January 1922
Clayton-le-Moors Roll of Honour 1914-1919
WESTWELL, Pte. Robert, 10374 (2nd Bn., East
Lancs. Regt.); lived at Clayton-le-Moors; k.i.a. 12th March 1915; comm.
Le Touret Memorial.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register
Officers and Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919
War Memorial, Mercer Park, Clayton-le-Moors
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
A WESTWELL
Corporal
M2/150786
No. 1 Reserve M.T. Depot, Army Service Corps who died on Friday 26 January
1917 . Age 29 .
Son of Susannah Westwell, of 658, Blackburn Rd.,
Baxenden, Accrington, and the late Wilkinson Westwell.
Cemetery: Stonefold (St. John) Churchyard Lancashire, United Kingdom
Grave or Reference Panel Number: 379.
ROBERT WESTWELL
Private
10374
2nd Bn., East Lancashire Regiment who died on Friday 12 March 1915 .
Cemetery: LE TOURET MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Panel 18
Location : Le Touret Memorial is located at the east end of Le Touret
Military Cemetery, on the south side of the Bethune-Armentieres main
road. From Bethune follow the signs for Armentieres until you are on
the D171. Continue on this road through Essars and Le Touret village.
Approximately 1 kilometre after Le Touret village and about 5 kilometres
before you reach the intersection with the D947, Estaires to La Bassee
road, the Cemetery lies on the right hand side of the road. The Memorial
takes the form of a loggia surrounding an open rectangular court. The
court is enclosed by three solid walls and on the eastern side by a
colonnade. East of the colonnade is a wall and the colonnade and wall
are prolonged northwards (to the road) and southwards, forming a long
gallery. Small pavilions mark the ends of the gallery and the western
corners of the court. The names of those commemorated are listed on
panels set into the walls of the court and the gallery, arranged by
Regiment, Rank and alphabetically by surname within the rank. Over 13,000
names are listed on the memorial of men who fell in this area before
25 September 1915 and who have no known grave.
Historical Information : The Memorial in Le Touret Military Cemetery,
Richebourg-l'Avoue, is one of those erected by the Commonwealth War
Graves Commission to record the names of the officers and men who fell
in the Great War and whose graves are not known. It serves the area
enclosed on the North by the river Lys and a line drawn from Estaires
to Fournes, and on the South by the old Southern boundary of the First
Army about Grenay; and it covers the period from the arrival of the
II Corps in Flanders in 1914 to the eve of the Battle of Loos. It does
not include the names of officers and men of Canadian or Indian regiments;
they are found on the Memorials at Vimy and Neuve-Chapelle.
WILKINSON WESTWELL
Private
17014
2nd Bn., King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regt.) who died on Saturday 8 May
1915 . Age 19 .
Son of Susannah Westwell, of 658, Blackburn Rd.,
Baxenden, Accrington, Lancs., and the late Wilkinson Westwell.
Cemetery: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Panel 12
Location: Ypres (now Ieper) is a town in the
Province of West Flanders. The Memorial is situated at the eastern side
of the town on the road to Menin (Menen) and Courtrai (Kortrijk). Each
night at 8 pm the traffic is stopped at the Menin Gate while members
of the local Fire Brigade sound the Last Post in the roadway under the
Memorial's arches.
Historical Information: The Menin Gate is one
of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the
area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched
from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood
in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war. The
Salient was formed during the First Battle of Ypres in October and November
1914, when a small British Expeditionary Force succeeded in securing
the town before the onset of winter, pushing the German forces back
to the Passchendaele Ridge. The Second Battle of Ypres began in April
1915 when the Germans released poison gas into the Allied lines north
of Ypres. This was the first time gas had been used by either side and
the violence of the attack forced an Allied withdrawal and a shortening
of the line of defence. There was little more significant activity on
this front until 1917, when in the Third Battle of Ypres an offensive
was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a
weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in June to
dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success,
but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July,
quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the
rapidly deteriorating weather. The campaign finally came to a close
in November with the capture of Passchendaele. The German offensive
of March 1918 met with some initial success, but was eventually checked
and repulsed in a combined effort by the Allies in September. The battles
of the Ypres Salient claimed many lives on both sides and it quickly
became clear that the commemoration of members of the Commonwealth forces
with no known grave would have to be divided between several different
sites. The site of the Menin Gate was chosen because of the hundreds
of thousands of men who passed through it on their way to the battlefields.
It commemorates those of all Commonwealth nations except New Zealand
who died in the Salient before 16 August 1917. Those United Kingdom
and New Zealand servicemen who died after that date are named on the
memorial at Tyne Cot, a site which marks the furthest point reached
by Commonwealth forces in Belgium until nearly the end of the war. Other
New Zealand casualties are commemorated on memorials at Buttes New British
Cemetery and Messines Ridge British Cemetery. The YPRES (MENIN GATE)
MEMORIAL now bears the names of more than 54,000 officers and men whose
graves are not known. The memorial, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield
with sculpture by Sir William Reid-Dick, was unveiled by Lord Plumer
in July 1927.
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