St Aidens Harehills
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ALMOND Charles Herbert Private 55333 21st Bn Northumberland Fusiliers DOW 15/10/1917 Aged 19. Born Ravensthorpe. Son of George H and Margaret Elizabeth Swallow Married 1894 Ravensthorpe CWGC 47 Luxor Street Harehills Road. Epitaph on Grave reads "Too Dearly Loved to be Forgotten" Enlisted with his friend Herbert Reginald Aspinall 55329 below. Both DOW within 24 hours of each other one can only assumed they fought together as pals.
Laid to Rest Dozinghem Military Cemetery Belgium. GRAVE
ALTHORP Albert Edward Lance Corporal 15/15 A Company 15th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 25/04/1918 Aged 29. Born Roundhay Son of the late George Abbott and Ruth Gaunt Married 1885 St Clement Sheepscar CWGC 44 Welbeck Road York Road. Epitaph on Grave reads "In Silence We Remember"
Laid to Rest St Vaast Post Military Cemetery Richebourg L’Avoue France. GRAVE
Laid to Rest St Vaast Post Military Cemetery Richebourg L’Avoue France.
ASPINALL Herbert Reginald Private 55329 21st Bn Northumberland Fusiliers DOW 14/10/1917 Aged 19. Son of Willie Drake and Lily Peterkin Married 1897 St John The Baptist, New Wortley CWGC 67 Bayswater Mount Roundhay Road. Epitaph on Grave reads "Duty Nobly Done Dear Son, Dad and Mother, 67 Bayswater Road Leeds" Enlisted with his friend Charles Herbert Almond 55333 above. Both DOW within 24 hours of each other one can only assumed they fought together as pals.
Laid to Rest Solferino Farm Cemetery Belgium. GRAVE
ATKINSON Samuel Gaunt Private 401041 1st/1st West Riding Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps DOW 22/03/1918 Aged 20. Born 18/05/1897 at Home Baptised 14/07/1897 St Aiden's. Son of James William and Mary Gaunt Married 1896 All Hallows with St Simon Leeds CWGC 18 Nice View Harehills Road. 1911 Errand Boy at 38 Bexley Terrace Harehills Road. YEP reported Samuel had died of wounds and gas poisoning. Epitaph on Grave reads "To the Dear Memory of Our Only Son, J.W and M Atkinson"
Laid to Rest Etaples Military Cemetery France. GRAVE
BARKER Harry Watson Lance Corporal 24620 1st Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 21/03/1918 Aged 24. Born 12/10/1893 Baptised 13/11/1893 St Saviour Leeds. Son of John and Priscilla Carter Married 1881 St Peter Leeds. 1911Occupation Clerk Wholesale Clothing at 7 Conway Street Harehills Road. Remembered Arras Memorial France.
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BARKER William Norman Private DM2/164717 Royal Army Service Corps DIED 26/11/1918 Aged 27. Son of Thomas Christelow and Mary CWGC 13 Gledhow Wood Grove Roundhay. 1911 Business Assistant 209 Harehills Lane. Husband of Gertrude J Raisin Married 1915 St Aidens. Laid to Rest Croyden Queens Road Cemetery.
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BATTY Percival Private 36350 11th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 20/11/1916 Aged 32. Son of Joseph and Ann Husband of Edith CWGC 36 Robert's Avenue Harehills. 1911 Clothiers Salesman 52 Harehills Terrace. Epitaph on Grave "Ever Remembered"
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Laid to Rest Railway Dugouts Burial Ground Transport Farm Belgium. GRAVE
BELL James Private 19536 11th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 08/06/1917 Aged 28. Son of John and Ann Wright Married 1870 St Peters Leeds. CWGC 36 Bexley Terrace Harehills Road. 1911,10 Roseville Avenue Roundhay Road. Enlisted Camberwell London. KIA at Messines Ridge.
Remembered Ypres Menin Gate Belgium. GRAVE
BENNETT Harry Corporal 370001 2/9th Bn Manchester Regiment KIA 09/10/1917 Aged 22. Born 06/02/1895 Baptised 13/06/1895 Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Roscoe Place Son of Fred and Agnes McLeod Married 1893 St Martin, Potter Newton CWGC 73 Elford Grove Harehills Road. 1911 Occupation Trimmer Leeds City Tramways residence 15 Tramway Street Enlisted Leeds 268281 West Yorkshire Regiment. Harry was laid to rest in a grave on the battlefield he was recognised by his Identity Disc after the War was Laid to Rest Passchendaele New British Cemetery Belgium.
Epitaph on Grave reads "He Gave His Life That Those He Loved Might Live". GRAVE
BENNISON Arthur J Private G/ 52222 23rd Bn Middlesex Regiment KIA 31/07/1917 Aged 22. Son of James William and Nellie Mathews Married Birmingham 1892. Occupation Trimmer Wholesale Clothier 20 Blenheim Avenue Husband of Caley Eva Garnett Married 1916 St Matthew Chapel Allerton Caley Remarried in 1919 to Sidney Newstead. Enlisted Yorkshire Regiment No 43267. Remembered Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Belgium.
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BEST Albert Frederick Private 268885 2/6th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 21/11/1917 Aged 18. Born 13/01/1899 Baptised 04/06/1899 St Andrews Leeds. Son of Albert Edward and Charlotte Grace Coates Married 1885 St Michael Farnley CWGC 37 Dorset Terrace Harehills. Epitaph on Grave reads "He Gave His All" Laid to Rest Rocquigny Equancourt Road British Cemetery France.
BIRDSALL Harry Private (Rifleman) 1459 B Company 1/7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 10/11/1915 Aged 21. Son of Frederick and Elizabeth Ann CWGC 5 Bayswater Crescent Harehills. 1911 No 11 Conway Avenue Harehills Road Occupation Apprentice Plumber. Landed France 14/04/1915. Buried in a trench grave near Ypres 131/9 East alongside Parker Joseph Born New Wortley 244 Rifleman 1/8th Bn West Yorkshires KIA 10/11/1917 Aged 26. 09/08/1919 Harry and Joseph Laid to Rest Duhallow ADS Cemetery Belgium. Epitaph on Grave reads "Until The Morning Breaks"
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BLACKBURN Wilfred Private 2544 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 01/09/1916 Aged 24. Born 09/12/1891 Baptised 10/01/1892 St Stephens Burmantofts.Son of William Henry and Caroline Green Married 1892 St Stephen Burmantofts 1911/CWGC 17 Luxor Street Harehills Road Occupation Leather Factory Clerk.
Remembered Loss Memorial France. GRAVE
BOWKETT SISTER AND BROTHER
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Parents Henry and Harriett Augustine Maintenant Born Paris France they Married at St Saviour Southwark London 1884
BOWKETT Florence Augustine Ruth DIED in an Explosion at Barnbow Ammunition Factory Cross Gates Leeds on the 17/03/1917 Aged 31. alongside another girl name unknown. Born 1885 Stoke Damerel Devon. Baptised 11/09/1889 Walworth Lady Margaret Church Southwark London. Married James Hodgkins Aston Birmingham 1903. 1911 Residence 175 Stonedale Terrace Snydale Road Normanton. James remarried in 1918 to Kitty Axup All Saints Normanton. When the family gave details for the Australian Roll of Honour for John Henry it mentions that his sister was killed in the explosion at Barnbow see below. NEWSPAPER ?
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BOWKETT John Henry Private 1412 13th Company Australian Machine Gun Corps DOW 11/06/1917 Aged 21. Born Erdington Birmingham 1895. John had a Brother Thomas William and a Sister Mary Margaret Born 1897. Enlisted 16/11/1914 Foster Victoria Australia. Wounded in Action 09/06/1917 suffered a fractured skull, passed away at the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station Bailleul. Laid to Rest by Chaplain H Vine in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension Nord France.
Epitaph on Grave reads "Foster Victoria"Australian War Memorial Canberra Panel 177. Roll of Honour. GRAVE X2
BOWMAN Arthur Private 267498 1/5th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 25/04/1918 Aged 28. Son of John and Elizabeth 1911 Wards Fold Mabgate Occupation Baker. Husband of Minnie Gibson Born Umballa Bengal India Which was a large British Military Centre in the mid to late 1800s they Married 1914 Leeds Registered Building. Minnie moved to Canada in 1918 and married Edward Seymour Chase she claimed Arthurs medal in 1928 whilst living in Fredericton City New Brunswick Canada. Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium.
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BUCKINGHAM Frank Private 3604 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders DOW 16/10/1915 Aged 17. Son of Alfred James and Phoebe Jane Jennings Married 1896 St Peters Leeds CWGTC 1 Elford Terrace Harehills Road. 1911 at School 28 Four Lane Ends Bradford. Enlisted Dingwall, Ross shire Scotland Landed France 01/09/1915. Epitaph on Grave "Until the Day Breaks and the Shadows Flee"
Laid to Rest Merville Communal Cemetery France. GRAVE
BURKE John William Ordinary Seaman J/68550 Died from Sickness Flu ? 23/04/1918 Aged 19. Born Leeds 07/01/1899. Son of Thomas Edward and Minnnie Elizabeth Pawson Married 1897 Leeds Registered Building. CWGC 71 Bayswater Mount Roundhay Road. Laid to Rest Harehills Cemetery Leeds.
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BURSTALL Walter Phineas Private 142713 49th Company Machine Gun Corps KIA 25/04/1918 Aged 21. Born 14/04/1897 Baptised 08/07/1897 All Souls Leeds. Son of Harry Barton and Betsy Gilbert Married 1888. Residence 1911 No 17 Bayswater Place Harehills
Occupation Errand Boy To a Tea Merchants. Enlisted Leeds West Yorkshire Regiment 1862. Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium.
BUTLER John Swift Sapper 239441 Railway Operations Division Royal Engineers 24/10/1917 Aged 28. Born 29/05/1889 Baptized St Marks Woodhouse 03/07/1889. Son of Charles Moore and Elizabeth Swift Married 1871 St Georges Leeds. Enlisted Longmore Sheffield 08/12/1915. Father was at Banstead Terrace Harehills. John spent six months in France before returning home.Passed away 04.30 at West Bridgeford Hospital Nottingham John had drank carbolic Acid in field nearby to the hospital, coroners verdict suicide whilst of unsound mind. John had been informed a few days earlier that he would be returning to France a Nurse found a letter to his mum in his pocket. Laid to Rest Beckett Street Cemetery Leeds.
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CAMERON Archibald Private 330865 9th Bn Highland Light Infantry KIA 15/07/1915 Aged 19. Son of George Fergus and Jane Ridell. 1911 No 42 Harehills Terrace. Born 1896 Leeds. renlisted Glasgow. Laid to Rest Delville Wood Longueval France.
CHAFER Samuel Rifleman 4006 1/7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 05/08/1916 Aged 38. Born 1878 Lincolnshire. Son of Charles and May. Husband of Florence Clara Fairhall 1911 No 34 Ashton Terrace Harehills Occupation car cleanerLeeds City tramway department. Married 1913 Nottinghamshire. Laid to Rest Authuile Military Cemetery France.
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CHAMBERLAYNE Arthur Second Lieutenant D Company 16th Bn Lancashire Regiment DOW 10/04/1917 Aged 22. Born 1894 Stalybridge. Son of Dr Edward and Lucy Margaret Loe Married St John The Evangelist Leeds 1888. 1911 at Collage Epsom College Public School And Master's Houses. Laid to Rest Officers Section St Sever Cemetery Rouen France. Also St Johns Roundhay.
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CHARNOCK Joseph Unknown Can You Help..
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CLARKE William James Corporal SASR/04456 363rd Division Drowned 08/01/1916 Aged 42. Husband of Rose Lilian CWGC 19 Leith Street Beckett Street Harehills. Drowned whilst onboard SS Citta Di Palermo Remembered Holly Brook Memorial Southampton.
CLAYTON John William Rifleman 2198 1/8th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 20/07/1917 Aged ? Other details unknown can you help. Laid to Rest Blighty Valley British Cemetery France.
CLIFFORD Willie John Private 31300 8th Bn East Yorkshire Regiment KIA 13/11/1916 Aged 20. Born Leeds 1896. Son of Sam and Ada 1911 No 80 Bayswater Crescent Harehills a Tailor.. Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. GRAVE ?
COCKBURN John Paterson Private 266637 1/7th Bn Gordon Highlanders KIA 23/07/1918 Aged 24. Born Coatbridge. Son of Thomas and Margaret CWGC 38 Chandos Place Roundhay. 1911 Ravenscar Place Roundhay Occupation Shop Assistant. Laid to Rest in a trench grave in 1919 finally Laid to Rest La Neuville-aux-Larris Military Cemetery France.
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COX George Private 41752 9th Bn Essex Regiment DOW 30/06/1918 Aged 20. Born Birmingham. Son of George and Annie CWGC 8 Nice View Harehills. 1911 16 Roseville Terrace Errand Boy in a Clothing Factory. Epitaph on Grave reads " O Death Where is Thy Sting" "O Grave Where is Thy Victory"
Laid to Rest Varrennes Military Cemetery France. GRAVE
CROSSLEY Leonard Private 63197 1st Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers KIA 02/12/1917 Aged 30. Born Brighouse 16/05/1887. Son of Henry and Emma Whitaker CWGC Brighouse Husband of Maud Wilks Married 11/04/1914 St Aidens CWGC 4 Chiswick Terrace Burley Lodge Road. Remembered Cambrai Memorial Louverval France.
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DEARDEN Lawrence Bernard Corporal 2549 2nd Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers KIA 24/08/1916 Aged 21. Born Leeds 1895. Son of Charles and Emma Belwood Married 1886 St Matthew Little London.1911 No27 Studley Terrace Occupation Clerk.
Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. GRAVE
DODGSON George Greenwood Private 28029 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 2/10/1916 Aged 39. Born Hunslet. Son of the late George and Eliza Greenwood Married 1873 St Peter Leeds. 1911, 141 Spencer Place Occupation Restaurant Manager. Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France.
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DYSON John Burrows DIED at Home 1919 Vol 9b Page 550. Born Leeds 1880.Son of George and Martha Sunley Married St John Moor Allerton Husband of Charlotte Evelyn Chilvers Married 1908 St Michaels Buslingthorpe.1911 44 Bexley Terrace Harehills Road Cabinet Maker. No Known final resting place.
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ESSAM Alfred Hugh Lance Corporal 24353 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 22/06/1917 Aged 56. Born Kettering. Alfred son also gave his life in WW1 I am not sure of the connection to St Aidens. 1911 Occupation Organist a teacher of music. residence in Kettering. Laid to Rest Mennin Road Cemetery South Belgium.
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FAWCETT Benjamin Private 238023 25th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers DIED 17/10/1917 Aged 26. Son of Arthur and Emma Hill Married 1881 Hull.Residence 1911, 50 Banstead Grove Roundhay Road Occupation Hat & Boot Shop Assistant. Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium.
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FIELD William Lance Corporal 83631 210th Field Company Royal Engineers KIA 26/10/1916 Aged 21. Son of William and Lena CWGC of 37 Bayswater Mount Roundhay Road. Epitaph on Grave Reads "He Sleeps With England's Heroes in the Watchful Care of God"
Laid to Rest Hebuterne Military Cemetery France. GRAVE
FISHER Harold Lance Corporal 240393 1/4th Bn Yorkshire Regiment KIA 29/03/1918 Aged 21. Born Norton Near Malton. Son of George and Margaret Ann Porter CWGC 54 Harehills Terrace Roundhay Road . Harold was Laid to Rest Hangard Military Cemetery alongside 37 others who were not identified after the war he along with the others was moved. Epitaph on Grave Reads "Too Dearly Loved to be Forgotten" Laid to Rest Hangard Communal Cemetery Extension France.
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GALLOWAY Walter Private 43739 1/6th Bn Royal Warwickshire Regiment DOW 04/10/1918 Aged 23. Son of Joseph H and Sarah Ann Wigglesworth Married 1880.
Laid to Rest Granezza British Cemetery Veneto Italy. PHOTO OF GRAVE
GEORGE Reginald Acting Bombardier 95909 C Battery 51st Brigade Royal Field Artillery DOW 12/09/1917 Aged 25. Son of Harry Hutchinson and Mary Jane. 1911 no 32 Ruthven View Harehills Occupation Apprentice Cutter. Laid to Rest Ypres Reservoir Cemetery Ypres Belgium.
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GLEAVE Fred Driver 776003 B Battery 245th Brigade Royal Field Artillery 08/05/1918 Aged 28. Son of Edward and Mary Ellen Blackburn Married 1879 Barnsley. Husband of Emily Smith Married 1917 Ebenezer Methodist Church Beckett Street CWGC 4 Conway Road Harehills Road.
08/05/1919 YEP
Laid to Rest Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No 3 Belgium. GRAVE
GOOCH Wallace Rifleman 2672 1/8th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 08/07/1916 Aged ? Cant find any details of Wallace Evelyn Chrissie Gooch Married at St Aidens in 1919, hence the reason Wallace may be remembered on the memorial. Landed France 16/04/1916. Laid to Rest Blighty Valley Cemetery Authuile Wood France.
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GRASBY George William Private 267199 5th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 17/10/1918 Aged 28. Baptised 23/02/18 St Peters Hunslet Moor. Son of Hugh and Emma Blaymires Married 1876 St Simon Leeds. 1911 Pawn Broker 22 Compton View Stanley Road Harehills. Just four days after George passed away close relatives and friends including a Fiancé Margaret posted in the YEP. It is often forgotten how many Fiancés were left behind and heartbroken. I always wonder who Margaret was and what happened top her ?
YEP 21/10/1918
Laid to Rest St Sever Cemetery Extension France. GRAVE
HALEY Harry YEP 28/05/1917 "Pvt Harry Haley Royal Scots Previously reported missing is now officially stated has been killed in action on the 11th April. He was the son of Mr and Mrs J Haley of 41 Rossal Road Harehills He had been in France for two years Until the war he was employed in Glasgow.
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HARDY Thorpe Private 17/1047 17th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW at Home 24/08/1916 Aged 23. Born 27/09/1884. Baptised 04/04/1894 St Peters Leeds. Son of George and Sarah 1911/CWGC 71 Elford Grove Roundhay Road Office Boy.
Laid to Rest Liverpool Kirkdale Cemetery. GRAVE
HARGREAVES John W Pioneer 129876 N Special Company Royal Engineers DOW 14/08/1917 Aged Husband of Lily Pearson Married 1917 Holbeck District Registered Building.
Laid to Rest Brandhoek New Military Cemetery Belgium. GRAVE
HARGREAVES Rowland Driver 72457 E ECable Section Royal Engineers 24/06/1917 Aged 23. Born 21/11/1894 Baptised St Stephen Burmantofts. Son of William and Elizabeth CWGC 59 Harehill's Terrace Boundry Road. Landed France 13/04/1916. Spent Xmas of 1916 and new year of 1917 at home on leave. Cant find any connection to above John William however both served in Royal Engineers. Laid to Rest Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Belgium.
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HARTNELL Cuthbert Captain 8th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 16/07/1915 Aged 28. Born Leeds 26/08/1887 Vol 9b Page 473. Son of Wilson and Elizabeth Margaret Turnbull Giles.1911 Cuthbert was living with his family on Wetherby Road Roundhay Occupation Electrical Draughtsman. Enlisted Leeds 1914 Landed France 15/04/1915. Killed in trenches by a shell north of Hooge Belgium It is my belief that Cuthbert was buried at St Jean Crossroads Cemetery which was moved to Irish Farm New Cemetery after the War. Also Remembered St Johns Roundhay.
Laid to Rest Irish Farm New Cemetery Belgium. GRAVE
HERLEY John William Private 15/447 15th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment Attached Light Trench Mortar Battery KIA 01/07/1917 Aged 23. Only Son of Edward Thomas and Ada Jones Married 1880 St Mary the Virgin Hunslet. 1911 No 23 Cemetery Road Beeston Hill Occupation Slave Merchant Clerk. Two sisters Edith and Ada married at St Aidens in 1919.
Laid to Rest Euston Road Cemetery Colincamps Somme France. GRAVE X 4
HEWITT Bernard Private 23949 10th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 16/07/1915 Aged 21. Born Leeds 1895. Son of Thomas Richard and Annie Rebecca Willett Married 1894 St John The Baptist New Wortley. Epitaph on Grave Reads "Into Thy Hands O Lord" Laid to Rest Dantzig Alley British Cemetery Mametz Somme France.
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HIBBERD Edward James Lance Corporal 84888 118th Company Machine Gun Corps KIA 14/11/1917 Aged 20. Born Kidderminster. Son of Henry and Annie Beech. CWGC 31 Hilton Road Harehills. Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium
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HINDLEY Charles Private 9279 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA Aged 24. Son of Thomas Henry and Rebecca CWGC 100 Bayswater Road Harehills. Epitaph on Grave Reads "Ever in our Thoughts" Laid to Rest Rue du Bacquerot No 1 Military Cemetery Laventie France.
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HINSLEY Harry Private 403286 1st/2nd West Riding Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps DOW 31/03/1918 Aged 25. Born Goole. Son of Amos and Susannah 1911 41 Roseville Terrace Occupation Grocer Assistant. Husband of Lilian Frances Watkinson Married 1914 St Peters Methodist Church Beckett Street. CWGC 53 Seaforth Road Harehills. Epitaph on Grave Reads "Love Honoured and Remembered" NINE ELMS GRAVE BELGIUM
HIRST Edward Private 10938 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 09/08/1915 Aged 25. Son of Thomas and Sarah J Husband of Sarah H Hullah CWGC 7 Wickham Street Beeston Hill Married 1915 Holy Spirit Beeston.
Remembered Helles Memorial Gallipoli Turkey. GRAVE
HOPPS Frederick Arthur Private 41860 1st Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers KIA Aged 24. Born 10/12/1893 Baptised 14/02/1894 Free Methodist Chapel Burmantofts. Son of Alfred and Annie Elizabeth Worsop Married 1874 Leeds Registered Building1911/CWGC 27 Harehills Terrace Roundhay Road Occupation Draper's Apprentice. "He Did His Duty" Originally in a trench grave after the war Laid to Rest Wulverghem Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery Belgium.