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Bilton-in-Ainsty

The war memorial in the village of Bilton-in-Ainsty in the south of North Yorkshire is a gabled Portland stone crucifix. The shaft of the cross is moulded at the bottom and stands on a plinth on a three-stepped base which is inscribed with dedications and the names of the fallen. It stands beside St Helen’s church on Church Street and commemorates the men of the villages of Bilton and Bickerton who fell in World War I.

In July 2002 English Heritage made a grant of £1350 towards work to clean the memorial of lichen and then to lightly cut out the letters in the areas where this was necessary.

The two texts on the plinth of the memorial read

Remember
with thanksgiving with honour
those from this parish
who gave their lives
for king and country
in the Great War
1914 – 1919

Their names liveth for evermore

This memorial stone
was set up by the people of
Bilton and Bickerton
unveiled by
Col Jerome CB CMG
of Bilton Hall
and dedicated by
the Reverend Canon Austen MA
Chancellor of York Minster
on 5 June 1920

J. Pallister MA vicar
A. Burniston Church
A.R. Sherwin Warden

The men commemorated on the faces of the memorial are

Bilton

Arthur E. Chapman L/Sgt 116 Canadian
Died of wounds near Cambrai 13 Sept 1918
Aged 28 years

Edgar I. Franklin Rifleman I.R.B.
Killed at Ypres 13 May 1915
Aged 20 years

Francis W. Skilbeck CPl 21 K.R.R.
Killed at Flers 15 Sept 1916
Aged 19 years

Bickerton
Thomas Barnes Pte G.W. R. Reg
Missing at the Dardanelles 16 August 1915
Aged 32 years

William Barnes Pte Canadians
Killed near Arras 2 Sept 1916
Aged 41 years

George Precious Pte North Fus
Killed on the Somme 8 Nov 1916
Aged 19 years

Further information

War Memorials Trust reference WM771
UK National Inventory of War Memorials: 29501

The memorial is listed building number 488428

If you have a concern about this memorial please contact the Trust on conservation@warmemorials.org

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