When Roy Fallows book was written there were five names which at that time could not be identified. With extra material being released on various websites their details can now be added.
George Thomas Clewlow was born in Hanley in 1893 to Thomas and Elizabeth nee Ratcliffe. His uncle was John Edward Ratcliffe who had moved to Armitage to work in the pottery. George also worked at a pottery but in Hanley and there is no evidence to show that he had worked at Armitage. He joined the 7th Bn North Staffs and was killed at Gallipoli on 10th Aug 1915. He is commemorated on the Helles Memorial in Turkey.
The war memorial states that James Courtney died in 1918 and the only record that fits is for a Private in the 12th Bn Manchester Regt who was killed on 12th Oct 1918 leaving a widow Agnes nee Cox. At present there is no sign of a connection with Armitage.
Leslie Edward Lawrence was born in Calne, Wiltshire in 1898 to Edward John and Florence Beatrice nee Hawkins. Having joined the Wiltshire Regt he was promoted to Corporal and was killed at Ypres on 31st July 1917. Again, there is no sign of a connection with the village.
Also on the memorial is William Scott who was a Private with “A” Company, 7th Battalion North Staffs. They took part in the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign and were evacuated early in 1916 to Egypt. From February 1916 they served in Mesopotamia and were part of the North Persia Force. They ended the war in Baku, Azerbaijan and it is likely here that he met his death. The records show that he drowned on 10th July 1919 in Southern Russia and he is listed on the Haida Pasha Memorial in Turkey. Azerbaijan had declared independence in 1918 but was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1920. Hansard, the official report of all Parliamentary debates, shows that Colonel Wedgwood, MP For Stoke on Trent, asked the Secretary of State for War (Winston Churchill) whether he knew that the 7th Bn had been asked to volunteer and fight the Russians and he replied “It was never in Russia. Some of the men who were liable to be retained were transferred to the 7th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment, in the Army of the Black Sea. This battalion is now, I understand, being disbanded in the process of demobilisation. No part of the Army of the Black Sea is engaged in fighting Russians or is within hundreds of miles of the anti-Bolshevik front.” However, at the moment, Scott does not appear to have any connection with Armitage.
Jack Wilkes was a shoemaker at Bostocks in Stafford and when war was announced he was called up from the Reserve to the 1st Battalion North Staffs. He married Florence May Lear of Armitage at St. John the Baptist church, Armitage, on 1st August 1914 but only a few days later he left for the front. He was killed on 1st November and buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. Three years later his widow married Ambrose Baron , also a soldier, and they moved to Denton, Manchester.