The war memorials are in St Peter and St Paul Church. The main wooden memorial reads:
1914-1918
John Sutcliffe
Albert Sutcliffe
Francis Hughes Farebrother
Charles Marshall DSC MC
Cpt Harcourt Sutcliffe Farebrother
Cpt James Pyman
Lt Henry Stanley Love
Brass plaque:
Lt Frank Calder Tilbrook
7th DLI
d of wounds in France
10th April 1918
Interred in the British Cemetery at Haverskerque
Brass plaque:
Pte George Christopher Markham
5th Lincolnshire Regiment.
Killed in France April 11th 1917
Brass plaque:
John Willows Tuplin
Served with the Royal Engineers in France 1917-1919
d at Stallingborough March 9th 1921 age 38
HARCOURT SUTCLIFFE FAREBROTHER
Lieutenant, Norfolk Regiment
Died: 24 July 1916
Buried: Stallingborough St Peter and Paul churchyard.
This is the only First World War burial in the churchyard.
NOTE: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission lists him as a lieutenant, but other records refer to him as captain.
Background
Harcourt was the younger son of the late Ernest William Farebrother FRIBA – an architect - and his wife Kate, nee Sutcliffe. Kate was the sister of Grimsby MP, Tom Sutcliffe. After remarrying Kate became Mrs Brooks Wood, of 15 Elm Place, South Kensington. Harcourt was the grandson of the Revd C Farebrother MA, rector of Truham-cum-Corby, and Chaplain to the Duke of Cambridge.
Harcourt attended Harrow School and, like his elder brother, Francis (see below) then went on to Sandhurst. He was gazetted to the Norfolk Regiment in November 1909 and served in Gibraltar, Belgium, India and Mesopotamia. He went to the Front in November 1914 and was mentioned in despatches three times. He was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous bravery at Shaiba, Mesopotamia. It was there, on 12 April 1915, that he received the wounds from which he died in London, on 24 July 1916.
Colonel Peebles wrote to his Mother:
'Your boy will be a great loss to the Regiment ; you know yourself how popular he was with all ranks. We can ill afford to lose him.'
Major Lodge wrote:
'He seemed to have such a good influence both on the men and on his brother-officers, quite extraordinary in such a young and most popular man. You do not know what a blank his death will make in the Regiment.'
Colonel Luard wrote:
'He was such a splendid fellow in every way.'
Captain Temple-Frere wrote:
'He was the best and keenest soldier I have ever seen.'
Although he died in London, Captain Farebrother was buried in Stallingborough. His grave is marked by the characteristic Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone.
Harcourt's older brother, Francis Hughes Farebrother, also served in the First World War. He was born in Stallingborough in 1886. After attending Sandhurst, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Indian Army in August 1905. After a year on attachment to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, he joined the 128th Pioneers in December 1906. He became a lieutenant in 1907 and a captain in August 1914. During the First World War, he served with his regiment in Egypt from November 1914 to December 1915. He then served in Mesopotamia from December 1915 to March 1916. He then went on sick leave before rejoining the regiment in Mesopotamia in May 1917. So it's likely that he attended his brother's funeral. He went on to become Staff Captain of the 19th Brigade (7th Indian Division) and went to Egypt with the Brigade in January 1918. He became a Brigade Major of the 28th Brigade from September 1918.
His son, M. Harcourt Farebrother, was born in India in 1923. He was named after his uncle, the late Harcourt Sutcliffe Farebrother. He was educated at Winchester and commissioned into the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards (6th Armoured Division), becoming a Lieutenant in December 1940. After serving in North Africa and Italy, he died at the age of wounds received in an action near Perugia on 19 June 1944. He is buried in the Assisi war cemetery in Italy.
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