SCOTHERN'S WORLD WAR ONE HEROES

Officially we sent 59 sons of Scothern to WW1 to serve their country and seven didn't return. However there was probably more Scothern bred that went to serve either as ammunition workers, nurses or ambulance drivers and definitely a further four other sons and daughters of Scothern who did not survive. There is a movement at present to have such people remembered on the Country's memorials and I for one would like these other heroes of Scothorne either inscribed on our monument or on an adjacent plaque.  They gave their lives for us.

In the Church graveyard one of our village daughters, Charlotte Fox, was buried and another sailor, Harry Smalley, is commemorated on the gravestone of his father John Smalley. Our Scothern bell ringer, aptly named Fred Bell, lived just over the parish boundary on Nettleham Road and is commemorated on the Nettleham monument, but he was definitely a man of Scothern.  Howwitt Wilkinson was born and raised at Scothern Grange and died on the first day of the Somme and should without doubt be commemorated as one of Scothern's Pals and war heroes.

Charlotte Fox came from one of the largest and most important farming families in Scothern. When her elderly parents passed away and the farm passed to her brother she moved to work near Leeds and at the start of WW1 she volunteered for work at the Barnbow ammunition factory. Unfortunately on 5th December 1916 an explosion killed 35 female workers including Charlotte. Her body was brought home to Scothorne and she was buried in the Churchyard on 9th December next to her mum and dad.

                              WE SHOUD REMEMBER THEM,  FOR OUR TOMORROW,  THEY GAVE THEIR TODAY.

Harry Smalley who died on HMS Mary Rose. The Memorial. Charlotte Fox, the Barnbow Canary

THOSE NOT ON OUR MEMORIAL.

THOSE REMEMBERED ON OUR MEMORIAL