Headingley War Memorial
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FIRTH Phillip Roy Second Lieutenant DIED Doncaster 17/10/1918 Aged 19. Born Dewsbury 1899. Son of John Leonard and Emily Jane Burton Married Louth 1898. CWGC Whinfield Headingley.
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Remembered Lawnswood Cemetery Leeds.
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HALEY Arthur Lee Company Quartermaster Serjeant T4/210417 Clearing Office Royal Army Service Corps DIED at Home 09/04/1918 Aged 32. Born Leeds 1886. Son of Jack and Kate Lee Married 1883Tadcaster. Husband of Olive Mary Vince Married 1915 St Michael Headingley. Olive remarried in 1924 to Ernest Bagley at Leeds Registered Office. Enlisted Leeds 11/11/1914. Residence 28 Norwood Place Victoria Road Headingley. Landed Le Harve 09/01/1917. Invalided Home 21/01/1918. Died Western General Hospital Manchester Cause Renal Calculus Gaul Stone. Laid to Rest Lawnswood Leeds.
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HIELD Eustace John Private 403508 2/1st West Riding Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps DOW 07/11/1918 Aged 32. Born Leeds 1888. Son of Joseph and Fanny Kate Houlding Married 1871 Islington London. 1911 171 Chapeltown Road Manager in Manufacture of Woollen Cloth. Laid to Rest Sebourg British Cemetery France.
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KAY Stanley Burdett Captain Royal Flying Corps
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LAWSON Arthur Ashley Second Lieutenant Tank Corps DIED Bournemouth 19/03/1918 Aged 30. Born Uddingston Lanark Scotland 1887. Son of William S and Eliza. 1911 8 Virginia Road Wool Merchants Assistant Enlisted 14th London Regiment 735 Transferred Tank Corps 30/11/1917.
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LOCKWOOD Joe Hinchliffe Lance Corporal 307569 1/5th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 12/10/1918 Aged 26. Born Batley 1892. Son of Herbert Armitage and Mary Anne Hinchliffe Married Batley 1877 CWGC 119 Cardigan Road Headingley. 1911 Green Grocer Assistant 1 Wrangthorn Avenue Hyde Park.
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Laid to Rest St Aubert Military Cemetery France.
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MARCHANT Francis Scott Lieutenant 5th Bn Border Regiment Attached Tank Regiment KIA 22/03/1918 Aged 22. Born Leeds 13/05/1896. Son of William Edward Boutland CWGC Solicitor and Gertrude Elizabeth Scott Married 1895. Emigrated Canada 1912. Enlisted Aged 18 4 months 10th Bn Canadian Infantry 25/09/1914 Valcartier Occupation Bank Clerk. Height 5ft 9 inch chest size 35inch. Swarthy complexion Blue Eyes Brown Hair. Scar on Forehead birthmark right thigh. Landed France 13/02/1915. Commissioned 04/12/1915 Border Regiment.
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MARSDEN Thomas Air Mechanic 1st Class Royal Air Force DIED 09/03/1919 Aged 29. Born Leeds 1890. Son of Edward Wilby and Sarah Ann Burton Middleton Married St Mathias Burley in Headingley 1885. Water Maker ? 30 Kendal Place. Laid to Rest Leeds General Cemetery Remembered Lawnswood Cemetery.
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McCONNELL Herbert Owen Acting Lance Corporal Mounted Branch Corps of Military Police DIED 30/10/1918 Aged 25. Born Leeds 1894. Son of Gregory and Martha CWGC 29b Beechwood View Cardigan Lane Headingley. Enlisted Leeds 04/05/1911 West Riding Field Ambulance. Discharged under termination of engagement 03/05/1916. Laid to Rest Awoingt British Cemetery France.
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MITCHELL Arthur Richard Private 62094 2nd Bn King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry KIA 30/08/1918 Aged 18. Born Leeds 1899. Son of Walter Richard and Ellen Florance Kemp Married 1894 Leeds Registered Building. 1911 27 Monkbridge Street Night Chemist. Meanwood Brother of Rowland Below. Laid to Rest Assevillers New British Cemetery France.
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MITCHELL Rowland Lance Corporal 263113 2/4th Bn King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry DOW 27/09/1918 Aged 23. Military Medal. Born Leeds 1895. 1911 Tailors Trimmer. Enlisted West Yorkshire Regiment 3913. Brother of Arthur Richard Above. Laid to Rest Grevillers British Cemetery France.
PAGE Hubert Able Seaman Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve see that page
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POTTS William Edgar Second Lieutenant 5th Bn Attached 15th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 13/04/1918 Aged 27 Military Medal. Born Leeds 08/11/1890. Son of Joseph and Sarah Anna Burton CWGC 9 Estcourt Avenue Headingley. Husband of Winifred Middleton Married Brentford 1918. Winifred Remarried to Arthur Scipio Mussabiri at Brentford in 1923. CWGC 20 Merton Avenue Chiswick London. Enlisted Leeds 27/04/1909 Sergeant 3370. LandedFrance 10/01/1917. Commissioned 30/10/1917. Remembered Ploegsteert Memorial Belgium. photo
PULLEYNE Richard Ivor Lieutenant SEE H.M. Submarine E.34. Sunk 20th July 1918. Click Here Scroll to bottom of page to see details of Richard.
Robert Fenton Reilly Rifleman Queen's Westminster Rifles London Regiment DIED 30/10/1918 Aged27. Born Leeds 1891.Son of William James and Isabella Husband of Annie Emma Garner Married St Paul New Southgate Middlesex 1918. 1911 Insurance Clerk with Mother at 7 North Grange Mount Headingley Leeds Laid to Rest Pont-de-Nieppe Communal Cemetery France.
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SKIRROW Arthur Lieutenant 13th Bn York and Lancaster Regiment KIA Aged 28. Born Leeds 1890. Son of William and Emily West Married 1877 St George Leeds. Husband of Nellie Dora Hill Married 1915 Burley St Matthias CWGC 34 St Michaels Lane Headingley. Enlisted Leeds Pals August 1914. 2nd Lieutenant 07/08/1915 Lieutenant June 1917. Went o Gallipoli did not land then to Egypt for training. Attached Sherwood Foresters invalided to England after an accident in May 1916. KIA in a counter attack between Boiry-Rictrude and Moyenneville. Laid to Rest Bienvillers British Military Arras France photo de Rugnys.
SULLIVAN Charles Private G/75721 24th Bn Royal Fusiliers KIA 23/04/1918 Aged 18. Born Blackpool 1899. Son of Charles Henry and Catherine Morgan Married Leeds Register Office 1890. A student in 1911 20 Brudenell Mount. Laid to Rest Berles New Military Cemetery France.
THOMSON Harold Private 403216 2/2nd West Riding Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps KIA 21/07/1918 Aged 28. Born Woodhouse 1890. Son of George and Martha Jeffeson Married 1890 St Peter Leeds. Husband of Amy Croft Married 1909 All Souls Leeds CWGC 1 Grunberg Place Headingly. 1911 3 Bolland Square St Marks Road Coach & Motor Painter. Laid to Rest St Imoges Churchyard Marne France.
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WEBSTER John Philip Lieutenant 9th Bn King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry DOW 24/10/1918 Aged 30. Born Leeds 1888. Son of Thomas Park and Mary Tate Jones Married 1885 St Matthew Holbeck. Husband of Edith Roe Hanby Married Watford 1915. Edith remarried to Alexander Valentine Stubbs 1936 St Chads Far Headingley. CWGC 23 Bagby Road Woodhouse Lane. 1911 a Clerk at 189 Cardigan Lane Headingley. Enlisted as a Private London Regiment 2938. Commissioned 21/11/1916.Proceeded to France 06/10/1918 Laid to Rest Awoingt British Cemetery France.
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WILCHER Leslie Reginald Victor Second Lieutenant 113th Brigade Royal Field Artillery DIED 08/05/1919 Aged 21. Born Leeds. Son of Louis Faithorn and Elizabeth Maria Wilkinson Married London 1889. CWGC Elladene 183 Kirkstall Lane Headingley. Brother of Harold WILCHER also Remembered on Headingley Memorial. Laid to Rest Cologne Southern Cemetery Germany.
WILKINSON Edward Louis S.S. Tatarrax Born Leeds Son of Arthur and Annie Elizabeth CWGC 39 Headingley Avenue Headingley
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WOOD William Stuart Son of Charles and Alice Lucy 1911 14 Granby View Headingley Clerk.
WRIGHT Robert Alban Serjeant 15/662 14th Bn Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Birmingham Pals) KIA 13/04/1918 Aged 23. Born Bedford 1895. Son of Reverend Alban Henry Born Brazil Died 1896 and Mary Jane Moore Married 1882 District of Strokesley North Yorkshire. Enlisted Birmingham Residence at time of Enlistment Shirley. Landed France 21/11/1915. Robert was KIA during the Battle of Hazebrouk opposite Chateau Les Lauriers defending Nieppe Forest (Click Here for Details of the battle) Thank You to Graham Wright of Northallerton for the following information. "There is a commemorative plaque for Robert on a chair in The Lady Chapel of Church of St Peter (Leeds Parish Church) Robert is also remembered in the Birmingham Book of Remembrance in Birmingham Hall of Remembrance. In The Register of Soldiers Effects his sister Katherine is shown as being the sole legatee. Originally Laid to Rest at Hault and in 1919 finally Laid to Rest Melville Communal Cemetery Extension Somme France. Sister Katherine Jane placed the following on Robetrts Grave stone "We Which Have Believed Do Enter into Rest"
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WRIGHT Reginald Sapper 160393 227th Field Company Royal Engineers 28/03/1918 KIA Aged 28. Born 16/12/1890 Baptised St Marks Woodhouse 08/02/1891. Son of Edward and Ellen Coggill Married 1877 Leeds Registered Building. Husband of Maud Horsey Married 29/03/1913 St Marks Woodhouse residence 187 Woodhouse Street Occupation Plumber. A son Edward was born in the December period of 1913. Originally laid to rest 26/05/1919 in a trench grave near to Harbonnieres.
Finally Laid to Rest Heath Cemetery Harbonnieres Somme France. photo