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Lest We Forget

The Royal British Legion

SCRAYINGHAM WAR MEMORIAL

Detailed information for World War 1
Compiled and copyright © Martin Edwards 2025

Photograph copyright © Paul Goddard May 2025

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN HONOUR AND
LOVING MEMORY OF THE
MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO
FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1919

ARNOTT	Bertie	Gunner 152347, "A" Battery, 317th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action 17 October 1917. Resident Malton, enlisted Newcastle. Buried in NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot XI. Row A. Grave 2.
BARTON	John	Private 26921, 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry formerly R/22922, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Died at sea 21 December 1916. Born Riccall, Yorkshire, resident Scragingham, Yorkshire, enlisted Flaxton, Yorkshire. In the 1901 census he was the son of Thomas and Hannah Barton, aged 13, born Riccall, Yorkshire, resident Glebe Farm, Scrayingham, Pocklington, Yorkshire & Yorkshire (East Riding). No known grave. Commemorated on BASRA MEMORIAL, Iraq. Panel 26 and 63.
WATSON	Alfred John	Private 243281, 5th Battalion, Alexandria, Princss of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment). Killed in action 29 March 1918. Aged 23. Born and resident Scrayingham, Yorkshire, enlisted Malton. Son of John Francis and Sarah Ann Watson, of Scrayingham, Yorkshire. No known grave. Commemorated on POZIERES MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Panel 31 and 32.
WATSON	Francis	Private 39073, 1st Battalion [CWGC] or 7th (Blythswood) Battalion (Territorial)[SDGW], Highland Light Infantry. Died at sea 4 May 1917. Aged 35. Born Scrayingham, Yorkshire, resident Waltham, Hampshire, enlisted Winchester, Hampshire. Son of John Francis and Sarah Ann Watson, of Victoria Terrace, Bank St., Bishop's Waltham. Buried in SAVONA TOWN CEMETERY, Italy. Row E. Grave 3.

"GRANT TO THEM ETERNAL REST O LORD"

Last updated 29 August, 2026