Winkburn
St John of Jerusalem

War Memorial

There are no war memorials or Rolls of Honour at the church. However, the war memorial at the south-western corner of the churchyard of Nottingham St Mary records that two men of the parish fell in the First World War and research has revealed that at least five servicemen with links to Winkburn were killed in the war.

Thomas
Chapman

Thomas Henry Chapman was born in Norfolk and moved to Winkburn c.1895 when his father took the job of head gamekeeper. By 1911 he had left Winkburn and was living with his uncle in Peterborough and working as a gamekeeper on a private estate.

He enlisted at Newark in January 1915, married in December that year and moved to Renishaw, Derbyshire. Lance-Corporal Chapman served with the 2/8th Territorial Battalion Sherwood Foresters and was killed on 27 April 1916 in Dublin during the Easter Rising. He was buried in Kilmainham (Royal Hospital) Cemetery, Republic of Ireland.

His name appears on the Chapman family grave marker in the churchyard extension at Winkburn.

William Henry Drabble was born in Winkburn in 1895 though the family moved to Southwell shortly after his birth. He later moved to Worksop and took a job as a grocer's assistant. Sergeant Drabble of 1/8th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) was killed in October 1917 and was buried at the Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France.

Thomas Bernard Terry was born in Daybrook, near Nottingham, in 1895 but by 1911 was living with his mother at the Burnell Arms in Winkburn where his grandfather, Francis Weatherell, was the publican. Private Terry served with the 1/8th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) and died from gunshot wounds received at the frontline near Lindenhoek in Belgium on 20 April 1916. He is buried in Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

Harry Woodcock

Henry (Harry) Woodcock and his brother John George Woodcock were both born in Winkburn: Harry in 1892 and John in 1888. The Woodcock family lived at Dilliner Farm at the west end of the parish from c.1882-1903. Neither men were resident in the village when they enlisted: Harry had moved to Rufford and was working as a horseman; John was at Rufford Hill Farm near Ollerton and was also a horseman.

Private Harry Woodcock joined the 8th battalion Leicestershire Regiment and was killed in action on 15 July 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

Gunner John Woodcock served with 'D' Battery, 106th Brigade Royal Field Artillery and died of pneumonia at at No. 51 Casualty Clearing Station on 17 February 1919. He is buried in Tournai Communal Cemetery Allied Extension, Hainault, Belgium.

Both soldiers are commemorated on a war memorial to the 'men of Rufford who gave their lives in the Great War' in Ollerton St Giles.

Their younger brother, Arthur, also born in Winkburn, served in the South Notts Hussars during the war but survived. He died in Southwell in 1967.

Further information on the men who died during the war is available on the Nottinghamshire Roll of Honour website.