Bestwood - St Mark's Mission Church
School Walk, Bestwood Village, Notts NG6 8UU. The church was built in the 1880s by the Bestwood Coal and Iron Company, owned by the Lancaster family, on land donated by the Duke of St Albans. The company also built the colliery, cottages, school and ironworks. St Mark's was a mission church and daughter church of Emmanuel Bestwood Park and the first service was held in the church in May 1887. The memorial was unveiled on 17 July 1921 by Lord Osborne Beauclerk (later 12th Duke of St Albans). The dedication on the marble tablet reads: 'To the Glory of God and in loving memory of the men of Bestwood who fell in the Great War 1914-1919'. The names on the memorial include three members of the Lancaster family.
Identified casualties
16 people
- Names on this memorial
- Photographs
Names on this memorial
- James Bailey Pte 2nd Bn Cameronians 9/5/1915
- Harold Bass Capt 10th Bn West Yorkshire Regt 24/4/1918 MC
- Walter Cowie Pte 1st Bn Gordon Highlanders 23/8/1916
- Thomas Hollis Hall Sgt 8th Bn Sherwood Foresters 14/10/1915
- Archibald Gilbert Hamilton Pte 1st Bn Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 7/9/1916
- Leonard George Heath Capt 2nd Skinners Hourse Meercut Cav Bde 14/3/1916
- Thomas James Pte 1st Bn Northumberland Fusiliers 11/9/1916
- Gerald William Lancaster capt 3rd Bn Monmouthshire Regiment 14/9/1918 MC
- James Lancaster capt 3rd Bn Monmouthshire Regt 8/5/1915
- John Cecil Lancaster Maj 1st Bn Royal Warwickshire Regt 8/5/1915
- John Thomas Lane Pte 7th BnSherwood Foresters 27/5/1917
- Frederick Henry Pates Gnr 236th Coy Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 26/11/1917
- Thomas Albert Reynolds Pte 1st Bn Dorsetshire Regt 1/7/1916
- Arthur Cecil Richmond 1/7th Bn Sherwood Foresters 1/7/1916
- Thomas Whitby LCpl 16th Bn Sherwood Foresters 22/6/1917
- Robert Oswald Gardner Capt 3rd Bn Monmouthshire Regt 8/5/1915