Memorial Details

WINSTON	St.Andrew’s Church

   And in the 2nd World War

   1939-1945.

   Pte. Leslie Brown

   2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry

   died of wounds Burma March 20th 1943

   Pte. George Dickinson

   1st Battalion Green Howards

   Died of wounds  Italy April 28th 1944

   Pte. Albert Edward Layton R.A.M.C.

   Killed in action Italy October 20th 1944

   Pte. George Cecil Layton

   2nd Battalion Green Howards

   Died of wounds India July 10th 1943

   First Radio Officer Harry Lowson

   Merchant Navy

   Missing off Cape Town June 1942

   Pte. Harold Organ

   2nd Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

   Killed in action Burma February 22nd 1942

   Corporal James Arnott Sisson

   1st/5th Battalion Queen’s Royal Regiment(W.Surrey)

   Killed in action France June 14th 1944.

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The Teesside Mercury report gives further details:

   Pte. Leslie Brown, who died from wounds while 

   fighting with the 2nd Battalion of the D.L.I. 

   in Burma, aged 36.  His widow, now 90, lives 

   in Old Cleatlam and among their seven children 

   son Cliff lives at South View.  Another son, 

   Leslie, has a contracting business at Westholme 

   and a sister who is travelling from Canada to be 

   present (at the unveiling).

   Pte. George Dickinson, formerly of Winston Station, 

   who died from wounds at Anzio on April 28, 1944, aged 32.

   Pte. Albert Edward Layton, Royal Army Medical 

   Corps, from South Cleatlam, killed on October 20, 

   1944 when a shell exploded as he was helping to 

   stretcher a senior officer away from fighting 

   at Faenza, Italy.

   Pte. George Cecil Layton, 2nd Battalion, the Green 

   Howards, who died of gunshot wounds near Karachi, 

   India, on July 10, 1943 while fighting Pathan 

   tribesmen on the North West Frontier.

   Henry Lowson, First Radio Officer, Merchant Navy, 

   a member of the family which owned Winston Colliery, 

   who lost his life in June 1942 when his ship, “Queen 

   Victoria”, sand between Cape Town and Freetown.

   Private Harold Organ, 2nd Battalion, The King’s 

   Own Y.L.I., killed in action in Burma on February 22, 1942.

   Lance Corporal James Arnott Sisson, 1st/5th Battalion 

   The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey), only child 

   of the Rev. Arnott Sisson, rector of Winston from 

   1940 to 1955, who, was killed in action at Caen on 

   June 14 1944 aged 22.

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