FATHER AND SON

 

KIRK Albert Lance Corporal 3939 2/7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 26/02/1917 Aged 42. Born Leeds 1874. Husband of Ada Thorp Married 1897 St John The Baptist New Wortley 6 Barnett Square Tram Conductor Leeds City Council. Father of George Myers Remembered Below. Laid to Rest Puchevillers British Cemetery France.

KIRK George Myers 12th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 03/05/1917 Aged 19. Born Leeds 1898. Son of Albert and Ada Thorp. Remembered Arras Memorial France. Both Remembered Armley War Memorial

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HUSBAND AND WIFE

MAYNE  Gertrude Worker 27339 Queen Marys Army Auxiliary Corps DIED 08/04/1918 Aged 29. Daughter of John Thomas and Elizabeth Sadler CWGC 14 Strawberry Place Gertrude Married George William Mayne 1910 Armley St Bartholomew 24 Middle Cross Street Armley. Laid to Rest Armley Cemetery Leeds. 

MAYNE George William Corporal 3484 2/8th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment 20/02/1917 Aged 30. Son of George William and Emily Banks Married 1885 Leeds Registered Building. Laid to Rest Aveluy Wood Cemetery Lancashire Dump Mesnil-Martinsart France. Both Remembered Armley War Memorial

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                                                                         THREE BROTHERS 

 BRITTON BROTHERS

Sons of

BRITTON Clifford Lance Corporal 17522 A Company 10th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers 23/01/1917 Aged 27.

BRITTON James Willie Private 18642 8th Bn King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 10/02/1917 Aged 25.

BRITTON Leonard Corporal 15529 D Company 1st Bn West Yorkshire Regiment 20/09/1917 Aged 30.

 

 

 

 

THE DYE BROTHERS 

Sons of Robert Back and Ada Alberta Cox Married 1889 St Silas Hunslet CWGC 41 Green Hill Lane Wortley.

ASK PERMISSION ANCESTORY GRAVE LOWER WORTLEY.

DYE Frederick C Company 7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 13/05/1915 Aged 19. 1911 12 Artist Terrace  Low Wortley Occupation Shop Assistant in Boots the Chemist. Landed France 16/04/1915. Originally Laid to Rest Winchester Post Military Cemetery Rue-du-Bacquerot. Winchester Post was a dressing station and Headquarters. Frederick was reburied at Aubers Ridge British Cemetery Aubers France. His parents placed the Epitaph " A dearly Beloved Son who Bravely did his Duty"

DYE Osborne PLY/142S Plymouth Company Killed by Shell 06/06/1915 Aged 22. Born 13/12/1892 Wortley. 1911 12 Artist Terrace Low Wortley Occupation Turner in a Iron Works. Enlisted 12/09/1914 Leeds. the CWGC quotes A railwayman as his profession. Naval Record Buried in the Plymouth Lines 06/06/1915 by the Reverend C W G Moore. Laid to Rest Redoubt Cemetery Helles Turkey. His parents placed the Epitaph " A Beloved Son Worthy of a Better Place".

Private Horace Bruckshaw who himself was KIA 28/04/1917 and is Remembered on the Arras Memorial Wrote  "In the evening we got shelled and I had a very narrow escape. I was standing in the open when a large shrapnel shell burst just in front. Bullets simply rained all round me, one even striking my boot. I fell into some bushes, which were against me, instinct telling me to take any cover that offered. It would have been too late to stop any damage being done however. There was one chap killed and about three wounded by that shell, who like myself were caught in the open." 

DYE Harry King's 12th Bn Own Yorkshire Light Infantry DOW Third Battle of Ypres  08/11/1917 Aged 27. Enlisted Bradford into the Northumberland Fusiliers 28058. 1911 12 Artist Terrace Low Wortley Occupation Milk Man. Laid to Rest Oxford Road Cemetery Belgium. His parents placed the Epitaph " United with His Brothers Osbourne and Fred who Fell in 1915" on his grave. PHOTO OF GRAVE

 

 

ADDIS BROTHERS

Sons of Daniel and Annie Houseman Married Bradford 1877.

ADDIS Charles Rifleman 267282 1/7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 25/04/1918 Aged 35. Born Leeds 1883.  Enlisted Leeds. Residence 4 Aviary Street Armley Occupation Warehouseman. Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium. 

ADDIS John Houseman Pioneer 193545 Base Signal Depot Royal Engineers Died 04/04/1917 Aged 38.  Born Aldbrough 1879. Husband of Annie Blythe Married St Bartholomew Church Armley 1901. Residence 1 Belle Vue Square Upper Armley. Laid to Rest Dar es Salaam War Cemetery Tanzania. Both Remembered Armley War Memorial

 

 

BARKER BROTHERS

Sons of James and Alma Dockray Married 1884 St Peters Church Leeds.

BARKER Alfred Fitter 156664 123rd Battery Royal Field Artillery KIA 29/09/1917 Aged 24. Born Armley 1893. Son of James and Alma Dockray Married 1884 St Peters Church Leeds. Residence 5 Aviary View Armley Frame Fitter In Ironworks. Brother of John Edward Remembered below. Laid to Rest Locre Hospice Cemetery Belgium.

BARKER John Edward Private 18989 8th Bn Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry DOW 04/06/1916 Aged 25. Born Armley 1891. Enlisted Leeds 5 Aviary View Armley Frame Fitter in Ironworks. DOW 36th Casualty Clearing Station. Laid to Rest Heilly Station Cemetery Mericourt lAbbe France. Both Remembered Armley War Memorial

 

 

BECKWITH BROTHERS

Sons of William Henry and Ellen Huggins Ellen passed away in 1886 Married Manchester 1864.

BECKWITH James Edwin Lance Corporal 3028 1st/7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 08/12/1915 Aged 36. Born Leeds 1879 Vol 9b Page 488.  1911 Living with Cousin 32 Roscoe Street Roundahy Road Occupation Dining Room Waiter. Landed France 15/04/1915. Laid to Rest Essex Farm Cemetery Belgium. St Johns Rounday.

 BECKWITH Harry Private 200227 1/4th Bn Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry KIA 21/10/1917 Aged 37. Laid to Rest Ypres Reservoir Cemetery Belgium.

 

 

 BILTON BROTHERS

 Son of Mathew Parkinson and Margaret Thompson Married St Peters Gildersome 1885. 

BILTON George Private 24004 1st Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 21/03/1918 Aged 23. Born Armley 1895.Residence 1911 22 Cricketers Street Armley Occupation Brickmaker. Enlisted Leeds January 1916. Saw action at Battles of Somme, Ypres and Cambrai. Remembered on Arras Memorial France. National Roll of Great War 4 Barnet Terrace Armley "He joined the great white army of valiant souls"

 

BILTON Parkinson Rifleman 306017 2/8th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA Cambrai 22/11/1917 Aged 24. Born Armley 1893 Enlisted Leeds 14/08/1914 Service Number 10624 6th Bn Yorkshire Regiment Described as being 5ft 3inches Blue eyes. Discharged unlikley to make a soldier. Residence 1911 22 Cricketers Street Armley Occupation Brickmaker. Re Enlisted January 1915 saw action Ypres and the Somme. Remembered on Cambrai Memorial Louverval France.  National Roll of Great War/CWGC 4 Barnet Terrace Tong Road Armley, "He passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty and self sacrifice

 

 

 

 

CHILD

 

 

  CAIN BROTHERS

Son of Charles James and Hannah Blanche Chesher Married 1895 Vol 9b Page 879 at Leeds Registered Building

CAIN Oswald William Private 202194 2/4th Bn Leicestershire Regiment KIA 23/03/1918 Aged 20. Born Leeds 1898 Vol 9b Page 567. 1911 Residence 3 Dewsbury Terrace Hunslet Occupation Errand Boy. Original Service Number 6265 CWGC 7 Alpha Street Dewsbury Road. Remembered on Arras Memorial France.

CAIN Stanley James Private 25577 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 29/07/1917 Aged 20.Brother of Oswald Remembered above. Born Leeds 1896 Vol 9b Page 381. 1911 Residence 3 Dewsbury Terrace Hunslet Occupation Errand Boy.

 

Laid to Rest Hooge Crater Cemetery Belgium.

 

 

GATEHOUSE BROTHERS

Sons of John William and Mary Ellen Everetts Married Leeds Parish Church 14/03/1881

GATEHOUSE Harold Private 27969 21st Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 29/11/1916 Aged   Born Armley 1888. Laid to Rest Pierrecourt Communal Cemetery France.

GATEHOUSE Walter Corporal 30932 No.2 Aircraft Repair Depot Died 19/10/1918 Aged 34. Born Armley 1884. Husband of Florence Selina Nettleton Married Bardsey All Hallows 31/05/1909. CWGC 27 Harrow Street Whingate Terrace Armley. Occupation House Painter. Laid to Rest Armley Cemetery Leeds. Both Remembered Armley War Memorial

 

 

 NEWSOME BROTHERS

Sons of John and Florence Exley Married 1888 St Oswald Guiseley

NEWSOME Clifford Born Yeadon 1895 DIED Armley 1921 Aged 26.  1911 16 Mickley Street Armley. Buried Unknown.

NEWSOME Horace Private 42614 4th Bn North Staffordshire Regiment DOW at Home 07/05/1918 Aged 18. Born Yeadon 1900. Son of John and Florence Exley Married 1888 St Oswald Guiseley CWGC/1911 16 Mickley Street Armley. Laid to Rest St Bartholomew Armley. Both Remembered Armley War Memorial 

 

 

LUMB BROTHERS

Sons of George Denison Lumb and Elizabeth Margaret Atkinson Married St Peter Leeds 1885.

LUMB Thomas Denison Private 2011 A Squadron Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry KIA 25/05/1915 Aged 22. Born Leeds 1892 Vol 9b Page 565. 1911 Residence 31 Lyddon Terrace West Leeds. Landed France 17/04/1915. Remembered on Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Belgium.  

LUMB Wilfred Denison Private "A" Company 15/603 15th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 03/07/1916 Aged 26. Born Headingley. Enlisted Leeds Landed Egypt 22/12/1915. 

 

 

Laid to Rest Bertrancourt Military Cemetery Somme France

 

 

  RATHMELL BROTHERS

Sons of William Thomas and Henrietta Helmsley Married 1883 St Luke Sheepscar

RATHMELL Leslie Rifleman 265224 2/7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 12/05/1917 Aged 20. Born Birmingham 1897.  1911 62 Simpson Street Tong Road Doffer in a Textile Mill. Remembered Arras Memorial France. Brother of Walter Below.

RATHMELL Walter Private DM2/224824 611th M.T. Company Attached XVII Corps Heavy Artillery Army Service Corps DOW 06/12/1917 Aged 21. Born Birmingham 1892. Residence 1911 62 Simpson Street Tong Road Electro Plater. Husband of Edith Ludbrook Married 1913 Methodist Chapel Cardigan Road Burley. Edith Remarried 1920 Methodist Chapel Cardigan Road Burley George W Dains. CWGC 23 Springfield Mount Woodside Horsforth. Laid to Rest Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension France. Brother of Leslie Above. Both Remembered Armley War Memorial

READER BROTHERS GAVE THEIR LIVES THE SAME DAY

Son of William and Elizabeth Sparham Married 1877 St Peter Leeds. 

READER Robert Private 24079 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 23/03/1917 Aged 21. Laid to Rest Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension France. 

READER William Private 45920 12th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 23/03/1917 Aged 38. Born Wortley. Husband of Agnes Swift Married 1901 Methodist Chapel Greenside Wortley CWGC 5 Carr Croft Terrace Tong Road Wortley Town Postman. Left Agnes £111.17s and 9 pence. Agnes had the following placed on Williams Gravestone. "In the Midst of Life We Are in Death" Laid to Rest Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery France. Both Remembered Armley War

 

 

 

SAWYER

 

 

 

STAWMAN CLIFFORD AND HARRY SEE KIRKSTALL

 

Clifford and Harry lay side by side at peace in Vermelles.

 

 

STEWART BROTHERS

Son of John and Martha Ann Roberts Married 1894 St Philip Wellington Street 

STEWART John Corporal 201248 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders 08/09/1917 Aged 21. Born 09/06/1896 1 Arley terrace Armley. CWGC 1 Shires Yard Wortley Road Armley.

 

Laid to Rest Bard Cottage Cemetery Belgium.

STEWART William Private 254374 14th Bn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders KIA 24/10/1918 Aged 20. Born 21/07/1888 3 Hope Avenue Armley. Enlisted 9 Cavandish Road Leeds 21/06/1915 Landed Le Harve July 1918. Laid to Rest Dottignies Communal Cemetery Belgium. Both Remembered Armley War Memorial

 

 

 WADDINGTON BROTHERS

Sons of Arthur and Annie Elizabeth Hoole Married 1892 Bramley and Holbeck District Registered Building 

 WADDINGTON Joseph Private 13263 C Company 3rd Bn Dorsetshire Regiment DIED 11/07/1916 Aged 23.  CWGC 47 Tong Road Armley. Enlisted 05/09/1914 Leeds 14536 Hussars Of The Line. Salonika Dysentery 21/06/1916. Died of Dysentery St Andrews Military Hospital Malta. YEP Monday 24/07/1916 " Private Joseph Waddington Munster Fusiliers Has died in Hospital in Malta. His parents live at 23 Rose Mount Tong Road Armley. previous to the war he was employed by Mr Lawson 18 Park Place Leeds. His father and two young brothers are also at the front"  Photo YEP 25/07/1916. Laid to Rest Pieta Military Cemetery Malta. 

WADDINGTON Rowland Private C Company 15th/17th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment 12/04/1918 Aged .  CWGC 47 Tong Road Armley. Both Remembered Armley War Memorial

 

Remembered Ploegsteert Memorial Belgium

 

WATKINSON BROTHERS

Sons of Alfred Newton Died Armley Aged 38 1909 and Sarah Eliza Slingsby Married 1884 St Peter Leeds.

WATKINSON John Private 31806 16th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 03/05/1917 Aged 19. Born Armley 1898. 1911 40 Cedar Avenue Armley Cloth Finisher. Remembered Arras Memorial France. (Brother of Robert below)

WATKINSON Robert Private 7911 1st Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 22/09/1914 Aged 29. Born Armley 1885. CWGC 40 Cedar Avenue Armley. 1911 was in India with the West Yorkshires. Remembered La Ferte-Sou-Jouarre Memorial France. Both Remembered Armley War Memorial

 

 WEBSTER BROTHERS

Sons of Richard and Mary Ann Willis Married 1891 Aysgarth

WEBSTER Michael Harold Lieutenant 13th Bn Attached 16th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 01/07/1916 Aged 22. Born Keighley 1894. . Enlisted Highland Light Infantry 22878. Landed France 23/08/1915. Father at 3 The Hollies Tong Road Armley. Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. (Brother of Mathew Below)

WEBSTER Mathew Willis Bombardier 795547 62nd Division Ammunition Column Royal Field Artillery KIA 15/03/1918 Aged 21. Born Armley. Son of Richard and Mary Ann Willis Married 1891 Aysgarth. CWGC 3 The Hollies Wesley Road Armley. Both Remembered Armley War Memorial

                                                                    

                          

Laid to Rest Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension France.  (Brother of Michael Above)

 

 

 

WHITELEY BROTHERS

Son of John and Mary Lucy Walker Married Leeds Registered Building 1893. Mary remmaried to Albert Hollings 1920 St Bartholomew Armley

WHITELEY Ernest Gunner 888 4th West Riding Brigade Royal Field Artillery KIA 01/10/1916 Aged 21. Born Hunslet. Son of John and Mary Lucy Walker Married 1893 Leeds Registered Building. Remarried to Albert Hollings 1920 St Bartholomew Armley, CWGC 54 Fitzarthur Street Armley. Enlisted Leeds 1912 Territorials. Called 05/08/1914. Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. (Brother of John Walker Below)

WHITELEY John Walker Royal Flying Corps  Click Here Scroll Down Page. Bon Leeds 08/06/1898 Baptised St Peters Church Leeds Parish Church 14/08/1898. CWGC 54 Fitzarthur Street Armley. Both Remembered Armley War Memorial

                                               

      Remembered Arras Flying Services Memorial France.

 

 

WALTON

WALTON JOSEPH 1422 1/8th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment 31/01/1917 Aged 24.

 

Laid to Rest Couin New British Cemetery France.

WALTON

 

 

WHITWORTH BROTHERS

Sons of  William and Martha Whitehead Married 1883 Dewsbury.

WHITWORTH Fred Able Seaman Tyneside 2/7681 Drake Bn KIA 01/11/1917 Aged 25. Born 06/11/1892 Armley. Husband of Annie Elizabeth Merritt Married 1917 St Peter Bramley CWGC 29 Harrow Street Armley. 1911, 33 Conference Place Armley. Naval Record States the following The report of this man's death was notified very late 27/11/1917. He is the only RND Rating buried in the Divisional Collecting Post Cemetery Extension Boesinghe. This being his original burial site as reported in January 1918. There are no casualties noted in the Drake Bn War Diary 31/10/1917-2/11/1917. It seems most likely that he was wounded/killed with the two stretcher parties supplied for 190th Brigade Operations 29-30/10/1917 & his death was overlooked till much later in November 1917. Remembered Armley War Memorial.

 

Laid to Rest Divisional Collecting Post Cemetery Extension Boesinghe Belgium

WHITWORTH William Private 40292 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 25/09/1917 Aged 29. Husband of Ethel Wade Bennett Married 1910 St Peters Leeds. 1911 Clayton Bulldings Cockersdale Drighlington. CWGC 35 Harrow Street Wortley. Ethel remarried 1920 to Charles Arnold Taylor. Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium. 

 

WILSON BROTHERS

Sons of David and Frances Harris Greig Married 1880 Bramley and Holbeck District Registered Building. 

WILSON Alexander Greig Private 7488 2nd Bn Yorkshire Regiment DIED Prisoner of War ? 26/11/1914 Aged 34.  Husband of Maud Watmough Married 1913 St Peter Leeds Remarried 1918 Huddersfield to John W Rafton CWGC 51 Holdforth Street New Wortley. Landed France 05/10/1914. Enlisted before 1911. Laid to Rest Hamburg Cemetery.

WILSON Clarence Greig Rifleman 2742 1/7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 10/12/1915 Aged 21. 127 Gelderd Road New Wortley Invoice Clerk. Landed France 15/04/1915.

                                                           

                                                              Laid to Rest Essex Farm Cemetery Belgium. 

 

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