The Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire (Mr. Henry N. Gladstone) wanted a record of all Servicemen in Flintshire, and appointed a Committee of local ladies and gentlemen for the purpose of preparing a complete list of Ex-Service men for the County record, so cards were dispersed throughout the County and a complete record of all men who had served, including their full names and addresses, the units they had served, and distinctions gained, and also including the names of men who were killed or died as a result of war service. They were to be two distinct cards, the “Living” and the “Fallen,” the latter having the corner cut off to distinguish the fact, signed by the men themselves or in the case of the “Fallen”, by family or friends. That was the noble ideal, but when I came to research the men on the memorials, I found that many were missing. I don’t know why, except to speculate that many families had come to the area for work and when the breadwinner died, many widows went back home to their families there. I also believe that many cards were not returned, for whatever reason, perhaps they simply didn’t like forms to fill in, but anyway there were not included in the records. On one card on the reverse, it simply said “Return to T.I. Williams, Shotton”, so many were not collected and it was left, I assume for people to take them to different points. A Roll of Honour in the form of a book was a complete record of these cards, which was presented to the Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire on the 22nd July 1922 at a Garden Party at Hawarden Castle. The Volume is now at the National Library of Wales at Aberystwth. It is unique, as no other county in the British Isles has one.
Likewise, some men were missed off the War Memorials, as there names were not handed in, so I have compiled a list of the cards and found 3 on Queensferry that are not on any memorial that I know of.
List of names of the “Fallen,” on the Flintshire WW1 Index Cards for Queensferry. (All these men are on the North Wales Memorial Arch (Panels) in Bangor.) Please click on the link to read their stories.
F1 BENNETT, Samuel – Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour, but on Connah’s Quay & Shotton
F2 BRASSINGTON, John -Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour, but on Connah’s Quay & Shotton
F3 COLLEY, George – Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour, but on Sealand
F4 CUNNAH, Robert Ellis – Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour but I have put him on the Shotton – Not on any Memorial page,
F5 FOX, William – On Queensferry Roll of Honour
F6 GRIFFITHS, Chas.- Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour but on the School Plaque.
F7 GRIFFITHS,- Edward Thomas, Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour but not on the School Plaque.
F8 GRIFFITHS, Arthur – On Queensferry Roll of Honour
F9 HUGHES, William – Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour or on any other Local Memorial but I have put him on the Queensferry – not on any Memorial
F10 IZZARD, Clarence – On Queensferry Roll of Honour.
F11 JACKSON, David Samuel – On the School Plaque
F12 JONES, Lemuel – Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour but on Leeswood Memorial
F13 LATHAM, Henry Stephen – On Queensferry Roll of Honour and on the School Plaque.
also on Hawarden
F14 LEATHERBARROW, James Minard- on the School Plaque.
also on Hawarden
F15 LEATHERBARROW, Eric – on the School Plaque.
also on Hawarden
F16 LEWIS, Thomas Griffith – on the School Plaque.
F17 MORRIS, Isaac Walter – on the School Plaque.
F18 NICHOLS, Percy Henry – on the School Plaque.
F19 PAGDIN, Jabez Gilbert - on the School Plaque.
also on Hawarden
F20 REES, John Morgan – Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour but on Hawarden Memorial
F21 SMITH, William John – Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour but on Hawarden Memorial
F22 TAYLOR, Jas Roach – Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour but on the School Plaque and Hawarden County School Memorial
F23 THOMAS, Jacob – Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour but on the Sandycroft Memorial in St. Francis’s Church and the Hawarden Memorial
F24 TOZER, John – Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour but on Hawarden Memorial
F25 TURNER, Henry – Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour but on Hawarden Memorial
F26 VENABLES, John – Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour but on the School Plaque and Hawarden Memorial
F27 WILLIAMS, William – Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour but I have put him on the Queensferry – not on any Memorial and NOT the William Williams on Hawarden
F28 TOWNLEY, Wm. – Not on Queensferry Roll of Honour but on Sealand and Hawarden