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Births Sep 1887 Scanlon Herbert Douglas Nottingham 7b 246

He was a son of William and Annie Elizabeth Scanlon,  (née Ackland) who married in 1883 (the marriage was registered in the Basford Registration district) of 3, Mapperley Crescent, Woodborough Rd., Nottingham, England. He was the brother of William, Henry and Dorothy Scanlon. In 1901 the family lived at 12 Trent Boulevard, West Bridgford, Nottingham. Herbert emigrated to Australia in 1912 when he was 25.

Second Lieutenant Herbert Scanlon, enlisted on 30th March 1916 at Mildura, Victoria, Australia at age 27, and served with 22nd Battalion  Australian Infantry , Australian Imperial Force. He embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on 10th May 1915 on HMAT A38 Ulysses and then from Alexandria on 30th August 1915 to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli. He was promoted to Lance Corporal on 21st September whilst serving on the Gallipoli Peninsular. He disembarked at Mudros on 7th January 1916 . He was promoted to Corporal on 12th January at Tel el Kebir. He left Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force in France on 19th March 1916 , disembarking at Marseilles 26th March 1916. He was promoted to Sergeant on 10th April 1916 whilst serving in France and promoted to Second Lieutenant on 22nd August 1916.

Nottingham Evening Post, Roll of Honour, 9 September 1916:

‘Scanlon. Killed in action on August 5th, Second-Lieut. H Douglas Scanlon, Australian Imperial Force, second son of Mr Will Scanlon, 663 Carlton-road, aged 28 years. Deeply mourned. A noble life’s sacrifice. In full hope of immortality.’ (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

Article published 9th September 1916 in the Nottingham Evening Post :-

'LIEUT. H. D. SCANLON. Mr. Will Scanlon, of Nottingham, this morning [9th September 1916] received intimation from the War Office that his son, Lieut. H. Douglas Scanlon, was killed in action in France on September 5th. [sic] The deceased officer was educated at the Stanley Road Higher Grade School, Nottingham, under Mr. Hugh. He joined the Australian Imperial Force as a private at the outbreak of the war and gained his commission by merit. He was with the Anzacs in Gallipoli where he was gassed.'

He is remembered on the :-

Nottingham - High Pavement School War Memorial as D. Scanlon
The school was established in 1788 as the Unitarian Day School on High Pavement, Nottingham. It moved to premises on Stanley Road, Forest Fields, in 1895 then transferred to a new site on Nottingham's Bestwood Estate in 1955. The school became a sixth form college in 1975 when the comprehensive education system was introduced. The college was amalgamated with New College Nottingham in 1999 and moved to premises on Chaucer Street, Nottingham. The Bestwood site was demolished and redeveloped. A ROH is in Nottinghamshire Archives (ref SBX 282. 60/2)

High Pavement School - Photograph shows the original metal memorial which is now at the Nottingham High Pavement Six Form College, it is sited in the main entrance foyer on Chaucer Street, Nottingham.
 
West Bridgford War Memorial as HG Scanlon
Address:  Junction of Musters Road and Bridgford Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham NG2 7QP.

Inscription.

Lower plinth: ‘Erected by voluntary subscription in memory of those who fell in the Great War 1914 - 1919. Remember with thanksgiving the true and faithful men who in these years of war went forth from this parish for God and right. The names of those who returned not again are here inscribed to be honoured for evermore .'

Upper plinth: ‘Erected by voluntary subscription in memory of all those in West Bridgford who gave their lives in the Second World War 1939-1945 .’ The memorial was unveiled by Rev H.T. Hayman, chaplain of the Robin Hoods, on 5 June 1921. Nottingham Evening Post, Monday 6 June 1921: ‘Heroes remembered in Nottm. and District. West Bridgford. Brilliant sunshine reigned yesterday afternoon during the unveiling, by the Rev HT Hayman, chaplain of the Robin Hoods, of West Bridgford’s war memorial, which stands at the corner of Musters-road, near the Council offices. The memorial is a column of Portland stone, with enriched carved capital, surmounted with tabernacle work in the early English style, and stands on an octagonal base 6ft. wide, around which is carved:- ‘Pro Patria. The Victor heroes reset in many lands, but here the symbol of their glory stands.’ There are eight cast bronze plates, containing the inscription: Erected by voluntary subscriptions in memory of those who fell in the Great War, 1914-1919.  At the base is a circular wall, 18ft. in diameter, enclosing a flower bed. Prior to the unveiling Mr Hayman delivered a stirring address, in which he strongly deprecated the present industrial unrest. He had known West Bridgford for over 40 years and remembered it as a little village. To him it was remarkable to think that the parish – now quite a town – contributed upwards of 1,000 men to the war, 186 of them, alas! having passed over the border to return no more.’ (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk). www.picturethepast.org.uk - photograph ref. NCCS001450: ceremony at the war memorial c. 1930. Memorial cleaned 2011. The memorial is Grade II listed (241801).

Nottingham - Woodborough Road Baptist Church War Memorial as D Scanlon
 (163, Woodborough Road, Nottingham. NG3 1AX), designed by the eminent Nottingham architect Watson Fothergill, opened in 1895. Around 1980, it was taken over by the Pakistani League of Friends and is now an Islamic Community Centre. The church’s Great War memorials, one listing fatalities, the other members of the congregation who served and returned, were conserved by Rory Newsome. ‘My former history teacher,’ he notes, 'bought them from a salvage company that had cleared out the church and offered them to me last summer. I purchased them to protect their existence.' Mr Newsome hopes these memorials can be 'restored to their local area'.

Memorial listing six officers and fourteen men from the ranks who lost their lives during the Great War. The inscription reads:

'ERECTED BY THE CHURCH AND CONGREGATION IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN DEFENCE OF RIGHT IN THE GREAT WAR.'

An inscription under the names reads:

'DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY'