The following men lost their lives in WW2 and are commemorated on the Evenwood War Memorial.  Click on the name to find further information:

• Bell J.R.
• Brown R.
• Brownless J. G.
• Collinson M.
• Heaviside T.
• Hudson M.
• Lowson J.
• Maughan G.
• Peddelty M
• Prudhoe J.
• Race H.
• Sanderson J.
• Snowdon T.
• Stephenson J.
• Stephenson T.
• Stokoe T.
• Watson T.
• Watson W.
• Wilkinson M.
• Young N.

Private Maurice Peddelty listed above is buried in Evenwood Cemetery.

Also buried in Evenwood Cemetery are:

• Birch Angus Henry
• Raine George William
• Welsh Thomas Featherstone
• Pattison Percy

WHY REMEMBERING IS IMPORTANT: A PERSONAL VIEW

About 25 years ago I visited the battlefields of France and Belgium for the first time.  Up until the covid restrictions, I together with other lads from Evenwood, were regular visitors, paying our respects to the fallen of both World Wars.  When standing at the grave side of a young man from Evenwood, we realised that we may well have been the only people to have visited his grave.  If nothing else, we had honoured his life. 

For 25 years or so, I have immersed myself in WW1 and WW2, researching and then publishing two books about the First World War and one about the Second, remembering the trauma of the fallen men and the grief of their families. 

There are moments when I wonder what’s to be gained from being consumed by the past. But then I recall Marcus Garvey’s quote:

“A people without knowledge of their past, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.”

Never forgotten.

Kevin Richardson 17/12/2023