{"id":5397,"date":"2025-06-18T13:46:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/?page_id=5397"},"modified":"2026-01-02T15:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:00:53","slug":"richard-lenard-cherrington","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wwii\/carliol\/richard-lenard-cherrington\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Lenard Cherrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-5397\" data-postid=\"5397\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-5397 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_cuzr670 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-2 tb_izvx670 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_bryl670   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2><strong>Key Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Name:<\/strong> Richard (Dick) Lenard Cherrington<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>DoB:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Regt:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sergeant <strong>550234, 37 Sqdn., Royal Air Force<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>DoD:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>16 March 1941 aged 22<\/p>\n<p>Commemorated: El Alamein<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Academic Career<\/strong>: CGS 1930-35<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Other:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Biographical Information<\/strong><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-2 tb_jhjq670 last\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_q9y3262 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/Scan-to-Me-from-10.40.4.103-2014-04-24-152108-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-5710\" title=\"Scan-to-Me from 10.40.4.103 2014-04-24 152108\" alt=\"Scan-to-Me from 10.40.4.103 2014-04-24 152108\">    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_snvv898 image-top   tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"412\" height=\"627\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cherrington.png\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-5775\" title=\"Cherrington\" alt=\"Cherrington\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cherrington.png 412w, https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cherrington-197x300.png 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/>    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_efrs247 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_d4fy247 first\">\n                    <!-- module accordion -->\n<div  class=\"module module-accordion tb_9ske247 \" data-behavior=\"accordion\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n    \n    <ul class=\"ui module-accordion   gray\">\n            <li class=\"builder-accordion-active\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-9ske247-0\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-9ske247-0-content\" aria-expanded=\"true\">\n                                                            Family Background                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-9ske247-0-content\" data-id=\"acc-9ske247-0\" aria-hidden=\"false\" class=\"accordion-content tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_8pln247\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_pjv7247 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_xjcn247   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Son of Joseph Cherrington, and of Ethel Cherrington, of Carlisle.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph was from Wigan and was an electrician. Ethel, nee Carruthers was born in Harrison Street, Currock, Carlisle. Ethel\u2019s Mum had died when she was 14 and she then had a Stepmother. In the First World War she was a munitions worker at Eaglesfield, Annan, the \u201cDevil\u2019s Porridge\u201d. \u00a0Joseph had joined the Manchester Regiment during the First World War, and had served overseas. Joseph and Ethel were married in 1918. Richard was born \u2026?<\/p>\n<p>Joseph travelled to Quebec, Canada, and then onto Detroit, USA with a view of settling in the New World, in 1923. Joseph was killed in August 1924, the result of an accident. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John Beckett, also from Carlisle (Norfolk Street in Denton Holme) travelled to Canada in May 1924 and was followed by Ethel in July 1925 and they were married 8 days later at Niagara Falls. Meanwhile Dick had been left in Wigan as we have a school report from 1925; presumably with his paternal grandparents. His mother and stepfather returned to Carlisle. They had two children: Joyce (28\/07\/31) and John Barry. Ethel bought a fish and chip shop in Denton Holme. They went to Newcastle in 1937 (?) as John worked for Vickers. During the Second World War. Joyce was evacuated back to Carlisle to be with her grandmother. At some point John worked for Vickers Armstrong in Barrow. He was the Chief Inspector of Armaments working on centurion tanks. Her parents bought a house at Colville Terrace in Carlisle. Ethel later died there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brother of Mrs Joyce Stainton, teacher at Trinity School.<\/strong><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-9ske247-1\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-9ske247-1-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            Academic Record                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-9ske247-1-content\" data-id=\"acc-9ske247-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_qpte247\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_qslb247 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_0ykd247   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dick was good at school. In 1925 he was at school in Wigan and his school reports of the 7 and 8 year old boy agree he was good at most things. There was some criticism of his reading and pronunciation and that without supervision he could be \u201crough and noisy\u201d! At the Carlisle Grammar School, he enjoyed making wirelesses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-9ske247-2\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-9ske247-2-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            War Record                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-9ske247-2-content\" data-id=\"acc-9ske247-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_b254247\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_g45w247 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_ccj2247   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p><strong>War Service<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Dick had joined the RAF before war broke out, perhaps as early as 1938. He was sent out to Egypt. \u00a0Letters home speak of the rough crossing the had to get there and men being \u201csmashed up\u201d by the waves; then of playing golf as there was a course next to RAF Helwan; of guard duty; of flights to Palestine; of sports\u2019 day; and complaints about the prices in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>He was posted as \u201cMissing\u201d on 19 March 194 over Albania. The RAF said he was \u201cmissing, believed killed\u201d in a letter dated 5 May 1941. He is commemorated at El Alamein as he was stationed in Egypt. In 1951 the RAF wrote <em>\u201cYour son\u2019s aircraft was sent to attack Tirana Aerodrome on the night of 15\/16 March 1941 and took off at 0300 hours and failed to return. A report from the International Red Cross Committee, Geneva stated that he had lost his life on the 16<sup>th<\/sup> March, 1941, and was buried at the Tirana Military Cemetery, Albania, but indicated no definite details.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Unfortunately no trace has been found of his grave and a careful and exhaustive scrutiny of the records relating to the Tirana Military Cemetery, Albania has been made without success.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In these unhappy circumstances it is felt that his great sacrifice made by your son can most fittingly be commemorated by inscribing his name upon the Memorial to be erected by the Imperial War Graves Commissions at Malta.\u201d<\/em><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-9ske247-3\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-9ske247-3-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            Other                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-9ske247-3-content\" data-id=\"acc-9ske247-3\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_hez9247\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_7j5q247 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_ko31247   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>Dick was in the Boys\u2019 Brigade in Carlisle for four years, becoming a corporal. His officer there wrote a reference for him in 1935 for his RAF application.\u00a0 He liked swimming. In Egypt he did some boxing and won a trophy. While in the RAF little sister Joyce remembered him returning home and him putting her on a table to tap dance. She said he was a lovely person.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-9ske247-4\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-9ske247-4-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            Sources                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-9ske247-4-content\" data-id=\"acc-9ske247-4\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_7ain247\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_yhbi247 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_6um9247   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sister Joyce Stainton<\/p>\n<p>Census 1901 ; Class: <em>RG13<\/em>; Piece: <em>4868<\/em>; Folio: <em>61<\/em>; Page: <em>31<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a01911 Class: <em>RG14<\/em>; Piece: <em>31309;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>1911 <\/em>Class: <em>RG14<\/em>; Piece: <em>31336;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>1911 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935 (<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.co.uk\">www.ancestry.co.uk<\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Canada, Ocean Arrivals (Form 30A), 1919-1924<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ontario, Canada, Select Marriages<\/em>. Archives of Ontario, Toronto: Series: <em>MS932<\/em>; Reel: <em>700<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Detroit Border Crossings and Passenger and Crew Lists, 1905-1963<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>England &amp; Wales, Marriage Index, 1916-2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Wigan Observer 6<sup>th<\/sup> September 1924<\/em><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n\n<\/div><!-- \/module accordion -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Information Name: Richard (Dick) Lenard Cherrington DoB:\u00a0 Regt: Sergeant 550234, 37 Sqdn., Royal Air Force DoD: 16 March 1941 aged 22 Commemorated: El Alamein Academic Career: CGS 1930-35 Other:\u00a0 Biographical Information Family Background \u00a0 Son of Joseph Cherrington, and of Ethel Cherrington, of Carlisle. Joseph was from Wigan and was an electrician. 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