Please note, the following page includes links to the referenced sources. In the case of memorials containing multiple servicemen names Calvert, the link should direct you to either the transcription of the memorial or a search results from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (hereafter CWGC) database.
There are 181 UK servicemen with the surname Calvert, who lost their lives in the First World War, and are listed on the CWGC database.
Memorials and Cemeteries in Belgium
In the Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium, 11,961 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War are buried or commemorated. However, 8,373 of the burials are unidentified. Additionally, the Tyne Cot Memorial commemorates nearly 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom, and New Zealand, who died in the Ypres Salient after 16 August 1917 and whose graves are not known.
There are 6 Calverts on the Tyne Cot Memorial, but none in the Tyne Cot Cemetery.
The Menin Gate at Ypres commemorates 54,579 casualties from the First World War. The 5 servicemen named Calvert have the forenames Robert, Herbert, James Sinclair, George Henry and James Summers.
Memorials and Cemeteries in France
The Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery, in Somme, France, contains 600 graves, of which 61 servicemen have been identified. None of them are named Calvert. Neither the Mill Road Cemetery (1305 casualties) nor the Connaught Cemetery (1288 casualties) have anyone named Calvert either.
The Thiepval Memorial commemorates more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave. 20 servicemen named Calvert are commemorated and their details can be viewed on the CWGC website.
Memorials in Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough War Memorial, outside Albert Park, has over 3,000 names recorded on its 24 plaques, all belonging to people who lost their lives whilst fighting in the First World War. There are five Calverts listed; Ernest Calvert, James Calvert, James C Calvert, Thomas Calvert and Thomas E Calvert. A comprehensive history of the memorial, including a list of names, can be found on the Middlesbrough Council website. Additionally Bob Coulson compiled a Roll of Honour from the names on the memorial, which can be viewed from the North Yorkshire War Memorials – Middlesbrough webpage. He mentions that only soldiers who had their names put forward by the townspeople were included on the memorial, as such some soldiers were omitted.
A further memorial, to Newport Ironworkers who lost their lives, was restored and redisplayed at TWI, close to where the ironworks used to be. Teesside Live covered the unveiling and provided a list of the 76 soldiers commemorated on the plaque, amongst them E Calvert. Similarly, an E Calvert was listed on the Middlesbrough High School For Boys WW1 memorial, currently located at Middlesbrough College.
All Saints Church, Middlesbrough has a memorial plaque mounted under the window to the right hand side of the church entrance. Twenty-one employees of the Gjers and Mills Ironworks died in the First World War, but none were named Calvert. The Traces of War website has a close up image of the plaque with soldiers names and regiments clearly visible. Additionally, the WWI memorial from St Hilda’s church was moved to All Saints and contains a J Calvert amongst the 158 named parishioners.
Images of the South Bank War Memorial on Normanby Road can be viewed on the War Memorials Online website, however there is no-one named Calvert listed. This is also the case with the Middlesbrough Constabulary WW1 memorial.
The following Middlesbrough memorials can be viewed on The Yorkshire Regiment, WWI Remembrance website, but nobody named Calvert is included on these memorials.
- Boro Brick Road, Riverside Stadium
- Central Methodist Church Memorial Window (in the Dorman Museum)
- Erimus Quoit and Rifle Club
- Grove Hill Methodist Church
- Grange Road Methodist Church
- Jewish Synagogue (in the Hebrew Prayer House, Linthorpe Cemetery)
- North Ormesby Methodist Church (in the Dorman Museum)
- Smiths Dock (Offshore Base)
- Smiths Dock (Park)
- St. Barnabas’ Church
- St. Columba’s Church
- St. John the Evangelist (South Bank)
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