Acknowledgements

I am indebted to husband Paul without whose help, support, encouragement, patience and publishing skills this document may never have been written.

I would like to thank the following people for their invaluable assistance in the research for this document

• Rector of Stickney (now retired)

• Churchwarden  St. Peter’s Church, Midville

• Lorraine Knight – Imperial War Museum

• Miss. Amanda Goode – Lincolnshire Archives

• Mrs. Maureen Annetts – Commonwealth War Graves Commission

• Mrs. P. Boyd – The Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire

• G. McArdle  – MOD Army Personnel Centre, Glasgow

• Mrs. P. Selvey – MOD Records Office, Hayes Middlesex

• T. C. Norton  – MOD Army Medal Office, Droitwich Spa

• Peter Gardner – Army Records Research

• Miss. Kate Portelli – National Army Museum

• Dr. John Davies – Royal Observatory, Edinburgh

• Ian MacGregor – National Meteorological Archive, Bracknell Berkshire

• Claire Brown – Land Registry

• Peter Ross – Guildhall Library, London

• S & D Services – London Record Offices Research

• J. & L. Helman  – North Yorkshire Research

• D. S. Bradley    – West Yorkshire Research

• Mrs. A. E. Cole – Lincolnshire Research

• David Hanlon – War Memorials

• Frank Cossey – Railways