Kirkstall War Memorial
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SMITH Robert Brown CH/720S Chatham Bn DOW 15th General Hospital Alexandria 19/07/1915 Aged 16. Born 06/02/1899 Guiseley. Lied about age to enlist. Son of George Francis and Sarah Ann. Laid to Rest Chatby War Memorial Cemetery Alexandria Egypt.
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SMITH John Lance Corporal 22788 43rd Company Machine Gun Corps KIA 16/09/1916 Aged 20. Son of John Robert and Sarah E Hardcastle Married 1893 St Chad Far Headingley CWGC 16 Vicarage Street Kirkstall. Enlisted Leeds West Yorkshire Regiment 11620. Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France.
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SNAPE Edmund Jasper 41114 11th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 20/09/1917 Aged 23. Born 1894 Ashton-Under-Lyne Son of Issachar and Mary Jane Bostock CWGC 61 La Salla Road Verdun Montreal. Enlisted Leeds. Landed France 16/04/1915. Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium.
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SPENCE E A Can You Help
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STEAD Jesse Lance Corporal 8874 2nd Bn Scots Guards KIA 18/12/1914 Aged 18. Born 05/01/1895 Baptised St Stephens Kirkstall. Son of Robert Henry and Sarah Elizabeth Hunter Married 1888 St Peters Leeds CWGC 9 Stoke Street Attercliffe Sheffield. Enlisted Leeds West Yorkshire Regiment. photo
STEPHENSON Clifford Private 112179 79th General Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps Pneumonia 10/12/1918 Aged 31. Son of John and Mary. Husband of Eleanor Gaines Married 29/10/1910 St Stephen Kirkstall CWGC 11 Aston Street Bramley. Enlisted 30/08/1916 Residence 4 Wyther View Kirkstall. Laid to Rest Rome Testacccio Protestant Cemetery Rome Italy.
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STURDY G George Born 1900 Kirkstall 1911 9 Church Street Kirkstall. No record of CWGC Can You Help.
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SUMPNER Harry Bombardier 104098 95th Heavy Artillery Group Royal Garrison Artillery DOW 26/05/1917 Aged 29. Son of John and Selina Scarborough Married 1877 St Stephen Kirkstall 1911/CWGC 16 Park Row Kirkstall. Husband of Nora Cooper Married 31/01/1912 Memorial Church Wallsend CWGC 15 Westfield Terrace Wallsend. Nora re married 1919. Enlisted 11/12/1915 Wallsend. 04/05/1917 Admited Hospital Gun shot Wounds Face and Left Side of Body. Laid to Rest Ravenna War Cemetery Italy.
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TAYLOR Fred Private 11805 Scots Guards 29/04/1915 Aged 34. Son of Samuel and Mary CWGC 4 Cross Row Kirkstall. Laid to Rest Brompton Cemetery.
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TAYLOR Harold Davis Gunner 128044 24th Trench Mortar Battery Royal Field Artillery KIA 23/07/1918 Aged 26. Born Bolton. Son of John CWGC 155 Kirkstall Lane. Laid to Rest Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension France.
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TEALE Edgar Alan Private M2/133780 963rd Mechanical Transport Army Service Corps DIED 16/06/1918 Aged 24. Born 1894 Kirkstall. Son of Albert and Louisa Craven Married 1890 St Stephen Kirkstall 1911 Residence 6 Commercial Road Kirkstall. Laid to Rest Jerusalem War Cemetery Israel.
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WARRIOR Herbert Private 28309 8th Bn Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 21/04/1918 Aged 22. Son of Robert and Sarah Worthy Married 1882 Ripon. CWGC 421 Kirkstall Road Burley. Enlisted 01/01/1915 Leeds Driver 3804 Army Service Corps T4/252408. 32 Stansfield Row Burley. Landed France 19/03/1917 Transferred October 1917. All medals personal effects sent to his father Robert. Laid to Rest Chocques Military Cemetery France.
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WENTWORTH Stanley Private 30511 8th Bn East Yorkshire Regiment KIA 28/04/1918 Aged 19. Born 1899 Farnley. Son of Charles and Lily Turner Married 1898 St Stephen Kirkstall. Enlisted 14/01/1917 Leeds Residence/CWGC 23 Sandford Road Kirkstall Warehouseman. Reported Missing 20/03/1918 Steenwerk. Telegram to Stanleys Mother states death between 12-28th April 1918 from a German Casualty list. Remembered Ploegsteert Memorial Belgium.
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WESLEY John Frederick Rifleman 2110 1/7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment Attached 146th Company Machine Gun Corps KIA 03/09/1916 Aged 29. Born 1887 Kirkstall. Son of Levi and Agnes Augusta Sarah Drake Married 1875 St Oswald Guiseley 1911 Residence 44 Church St Kirkstall Furnace Man. Landed France 16/04/1915. Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France.
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WILCOCK BROTHERS
WILCOCK Arthur Buckley Private 19/35 17th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 25/08/1916 Aged 20. Born 1896 Thornhill Lees Dewsbury. Son of William and Emily Garforth Married 1893 Dewsbury. 1911 Residence 13 Danube Grove New Wortley Twister Woollen Mill. Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France.
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WILCOCK James Herbert Lance Corporal 9511 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 27/08/1917 Aged 25. Born Batley CWGC Son of William and Emily 3 Morris View Kirkstall. Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium.
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WILDING Walter Private 38899 25th Bn Tyneside Irish Northumberland Fusiliers KIA 12/10/1917 Aged Born Bedwellash Suffolk. Son of H and Martha CWGC Hunston Bury St Edmunds. Enlisted Leeds West Yorks Regiment 25082. Brother Arthur Frederick Gave His Life 27/03/1918. Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium.
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WILLANS Harold Stanley Private 15912 8th Bn East Lancashire Regiment KIA 22/12/1916 Aged 26. Born 08/09/1890 Holbeck. Son of William Blackburn and Mary Broadbent Married 1868 St Peter Leeds CWGC 29 Headingley Mount Kirkstall. 1911 Arnside Halifax Road Nelson Hatter & Hosier Shop Assistant. Enlisted Burnley. Laid to Rest Le Touret Military Cemetery Richebourg-L'Avoue
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WOOLEN William John Serjeant 20572 106th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery KIA 23/09/1918 Aged 28. Born Dublin. CWGC Son of Jim Carlyle and Margaret Gardner (formerly Woollen) Born Bombay India 57 Church Street Kirkstall. Laid to Rest Lebucquiere Communal Cemetery Extension France. Remembered in Ireland Casualties of World War 1 1914-1918.
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WORTHY BROTHERS
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WORTHY Herbert Driver 892 1/1st West Riding Brigade Royal Field Artillery KIA 13/06/1915 Aged 21.Born 1894 Leeds. Son of Robert Boville and Emma Oldfield Married 1892 Malton. 1911 Residence 20 Norman Mount Kirkstall Lithographer Printer Apprentice. Laid to Rest Rue-du-Bois Military Cemetery Fleurbaix France.
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WORTHY Frank KIA Private 028878 24th Company Cosham Royal Army Ordnance Corps DIED Portsmouth Aged 21 20/05/1917. 1911 20 Norman Mount Kirkstall Grocers Clerk. Enlisted Leeds West Yorkshire Regiment 1809. Laid to Rest St Stephens Churchyard Kirkstall.
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WRIGLEY George Arthur Private 24253 2nd Bn Yorkshire Regiment KIA 01/07/1916 Aged 39. Born 1877 Yeadon. Son of Joseph and Elizabeth. Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France.