St AIDENS ELFORD PLACE HAREHILLLS
SIMMS - WRIGHT
SIMMS Alexander A ? Unknown could be Captain who drowned in 1918 no connection to Leeds.
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SIMPSON Percy Private 370305 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 27/08/1917 Aged 25. Born 13/08/1892 Baptised St Thomas Leeds. Son of William Henry and Mary Ray Married 1887. 1911 no 30 Darfield Avenue Ashley Road Occupation Assistant Provision Warehouse ?
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SIMON Barnet (Barney) Private M/298299 9th Auxiliary Petrol Company Army Service Corps DIED 10:45 am 08/09/1917 Aged 38. Born Leeds 1879. Son of Archibald Born Russia 1844 and Fanny Born Russia 1846. Husband of Sarah Blaskey Married 1911 New Synagogue Chapletown Road formerly New Briggate Synagogue. Sons Archibald B 1912 and Arthur B 1914. Enlisted Leeds 11/01/1915. Occupation Shop Assistant Residence/CWGC 25 Conway Drive Harehills. Arrived Rouen France 16/06/1917 on board SS King Edward. Died from Accident Fractured Base of Skull near Retonval. At the investigation there were ten witnesses including two German prisoners of War. Private 3069 W. Stansfield Cheshire Regiment attached 52nd POW Company stated "Lorry 4844 became trapped in Mud 100 yards from a prisoner of war camp and Barnet was assisting to move the lorry by throwing stones at the base of the wheels to get a grip, wedges which were holding logs on the lorry came off and Barnet was observed jumping over the first two logs the third hit his head. Barnet was taken to the Casualty Station at Abancourt and died 20 minutes after arriving there.
Laid to Rest Blargies Communal Cemetery Extension France. British Book Jewry 25 Conway Grove Harehills. GRAVE
SMALLPAGE Percy Private 242285 2/6th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 03/05/1917 Aged 35. Son of Arthur Willam and Mary Ann Smith Married 1875 St Mark Woodhouse 1911 no 78 Bayswater Mount Harehills Occupation Compositor.
Remembered Arras Memorial France. GRAVE
SMART George Unknown can you help..
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SMITH Walter Lance Corporal 201463 2/5th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 03/05/1917 Aged 19. Son of Edmund and Margaret 1911 no 6 Nice Street Harehills at school.
Remembered Arras Memorial France. GRAVE
SMITHSON Joseph (Joe) Private 21428 2/5th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 14/05/1916 Aged 35. Son of Thomas. Husband of Annie Billingham Married 1913 St Aidens. Laid to Rest Aveluy Communal Cemetery Extension France.
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SPEIGHT Whitham Royal Field Artillery then Labour Corps Baptised 1890 St Peters Hunslet Moor. Son of Fred and Lily Terry Married 1889 St Peters Hunslet Moor. 1901 Family at Bayswater Terrace Harehills. No other details can you help
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SPINK Arthur Private 46227 13th Bn (Barnsley) York and Lancaster Regiment DOW 30/04/1918 Aged 38. Son of William Henry and Mary Husband of Maud Alice Thomas Married 1904 Methodist Church Roundhay Road 1911 no 26 Elford Terrace Postman. Enlisted Leeds 03/11/1915
Laid to Rest Boulogne Eastern Cemetery France. GRAVE
STEPHENSON Charles to be researched two on record can you help..
SUGDEN Gilbert Lance Corporal 265383 1/7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 27/07/1917 Aged 20. Son of Arthur and Carrie CWGC 40 Yathorne Terrace Roundhay Road. "Ever in our Thoughts"
Laid to Rest Ramscappelle Road Military Cemetery Belgium. GRAVE
SUTCLIFFE Fred from Morley can you help..
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TAYLOR BROTHERS
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Sons of Westwood and Alice Gill Married 1877.
TAYLOR Alan Wilson Private 35568 16th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 03/05/1917 Aged 35. Husband of Ethel Wilby Married 1909 St Mathias Burley 1911 no 5 Lumley Walk Burley Occupation Warehouseman in a woolen factory. Remembered Arras War Memorial France.
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TAYLOR William Blackburn Driver 149409 A Battery 186th Brigade Royal Field Artillery KIA 21/08/1917 Aged 20. Occupation Yorkshire Post.
Laid to Rest Track X Cemetery Belgium. GRAVE
THOMSON Sydney Lance Corporal 1571 1/7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 14/07/1916 Aged 20. Born Liverpool. Son of Matthew and Mary Ellen 1911/CWGC 12 Gathorne Mount Harehills Occupation Tailor Cutter. Laid to Rest Authuile Military Cemetery France.
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THOMPSON BROTHERS
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Sons of John and Mary Jewittt Married 1884 St Peters Leeds in 1911 the family resided at 5 Ellers Grave. CWGC 25 Hamilton Terrace.
Both brothers joined up together in Leeds on the 02/06/1915 into the same regiment having service numbers 17227 and 17228 respectively. They were sent to Gallipoli Turkey 14/11/1915 before being shipped to France in July 1916. Sadly both brothers gave their lives on the same day and most likely where next to each other as they went over the top.
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THOMPSON William Private 17227 8th Bn West Riding Regiment KIA 14/09/1916 Aged 29. Husband of Zoe Helen Hopwood Married 04/09/1915 St Chads Headingley CWGC 71 Highbury Terrace Headingley. Laid to rest 3/4 mile east of the village of Authuille in 1919 he was moved to Lonsdale Cemetery. Epitaph on Williams Grave Reads " Also in Memory of 17227 Duke of Wellingtons Regiment 14th September 1916"
Laid to Rest Lonsdale Cemetery Authuille France. GRAVE
THOMPSON Harry Private 17228 X Company 8th Bn West Riding Regiment KIA 14/09/1916 Aged 21. Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France.
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TOMLINSON Vernon Gunner 1394 A Battery 248th Brigade Royal Field Artillery KIA 30/09/1916 Aged 24. Born Wakefield 1892. Son of John William and Annie Enlisted 03/09/1914 Leeds Residence 17 Airlie Avenue Harehills Occupation Clerk in a clothes factory. Laid to Rest Mesnil Communal Cemetery Extension France.
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TUCKER Douglas Anderson Private 4579 1/5th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 06/02/1917 Aged 17. Born Bristol. Son of Samuel C. and Anna E CWGC 23 Bexley Grove Harehills Road. Epitaph on Grave Reads "In Ever Loving Memory of our Dear Son" Laid to Rest Courcelles-au-Bois Communal Cemetery Extension France.
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VERITY Alfred Private 24362 12th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 28/10/1916 Aged 21. Son of John William and Ada Briggs Married 1888 All Souls Leeds. 1911 no 98 Bayswater Mount Harehills Occupation Tailors Apprentice.
Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. GRAVE
VINCE Walker William Company Serjeant Major see sgts mess
YEP 01/07/1926
Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. GRAVE
WALKER Francis Gunner 72754 D Battery 47th Brigade Royal Field Artillery 27/08/1915 Aged 40. Born Beverley. 1911 no 55 Sandhurst Terrace Harehills Occupation Commercial. Son of Thmas and Sarah Ann Fisher. Husband of Elizabeth Hayles Married 1896 Beverley. Laid to Rest Ypres Reservoir Cemetery Extension Belgium.
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WALKER Frederick William Able Seaman SS/5300 Drowned 12/01/1918 Aged 20. Born Dudley 27/07/1896 Sep 1897 Vol 6c Page 120. Son of Arthur Valentine and Annie Georgina Weston Married St George Leeds 1892 Vol 9b Page 534. CWGC/1911 Residence 11 Roscoe Terrace Chapeltown Road Occupation Errand Boy. Served at the Battle of Jutland in HMS Comus.
Remembered Portsmouth Naval Memorial. PHOTO
WARREN Samuel Arthur Private 15/1857 15th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 01/07/1916 Aged 19. Born 1897 Leeds Son of Arthur and Mary Ann Fawcett Married 1896 St Martin Potter Newton CWGC 46 Luxor Street Harehills. Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France.
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WATSON Harry Private 2853 1/8th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 16/07/1916 Aged ?
Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. PHOTO
WHITAKER Samuel Serjeant 15/971 15th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 03/05/1917 Aged 20. Son of Charles and Emily Winterbottom Married 1883 CWGC 16 Hollyshaw Lane Whitkirk. 1911 no 145 Spencer Place at School.
Remembered Arras Memorial France. PHOTO
WHITEWICK Clarence Howard Corporal 306275 2/8th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 20/07/1918 Aged 22. Son of Robert Norman and Sarah King Married 1890 St Clement Sheepscar 1911/CWGC 48 Bankside Street Roundhay Road Occupation Assistant Wholesale Clothing House. Clarence was laid to rest at Jonchery Sur Vesle he was identified by the name on the cross and a hospital card found on his body.
It took over a year for the family to be informed officially that Clarence had been killed. Most family's held out hope that there loved ones were prisoners of war in fact many who had been reported killed did arrive home. Sadly family's were being informed well into the early 1920s that there loved ones had been killed as the battlefield and cemetery's were cleaned up for the local population to rebuild and move on with their lives.
YEP 16/09/1919
After the war Laid to Rest Marfaux British Cemetery France. PHOTO
WORSNOP Harry Private 229055 1st Bn London Regiment Royal Fusiliers 08/10/1918 Aged 26. Son of Eli and Henrietta Pearson Died 1915 Married 1888 St Thomas Leyland's. Eli remarried in 1896 to Ada Beasley. CWGC 19 Darfield Avenue Ashley Road Harehills Road. 1911 no 10 Bayswater Crescent Occupation Bricklayers Labourer. Epitaph on Grave Reads "God Be With You Until We Meet Again"
Harry circa 1916 Acknowledgments and thanks to Paul Worsnop Australia
Laid to Rest Rumilly en Cambresis Communal Cemetery Extension France. PHOTO X 2