BEESTON HILL WESLEYAN CHURCH & SUNDAY SCHOOL WAR MEMORIAL
Remembering the 24 men from the Beeston Hill area of Leeds who gave their lives in World War One and were remembered on the Beeston Hill Wesleyan Church War Memorial.
COURTESY OF GRAHAM PICKLES LEEDS
BANKS Walter Norman
2nd Corporal Royal Engineers 244906 DIED Penistone 03/07/1916 Aged 43.
1873: Born 16th October Holbeck Son of Kirkby and Margaret Ellen Hudson Married 1860 Kirkstall Registered Building.
1874: Baptised 09th March at Beeston Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
1898: Married Martha Keightley Married 07th April Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Dewsbury Road.
1914: Residence No 100 Beeston Road Walter Owned Nos 15 and 17 Dawson Road Beeston Hill.
1915: Landed France 05th October.
1916: Passed away Silkstone Camp Penistone Laid to Rest 6th July left £1,650.00 to Martha residing at No 21 Dawson Road Beeston Hill.
1918: Passing of Brother Private Harold Kirkby Banks of the New Zealand Division 29th September.
PHOTO GRAVESTONE TO BE ADDED.
Remembered New Zealand Section of this website.
Laid to Rest Holbeck Cemetery Leeds Plot No 4619.
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BARTLE Ernest
Private 24152 11th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 20/07/1916 Aged 22.
1894: Born Holbeck 16th March Son of Enoch and Emily Horner Married 1891 St Luke Beeston Hill.
1894: Baptised 22nd April St Luke Beeston Hill.
1911: Residence no 11 Bowness Terrace Holbeck Occupation Trimmer ion a c;lothing Factory.
1916: Yorkshire Intelligencer reported "Ernest Bartle Youngest Son of Mr Mrs Bartle No 9 Bowness Terrace Holbeck".
Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France.
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BIRKETT Horace Drawary
Acting Leading Stoker K/11086 Royal Navy HMS Ardent KIA 01/06/1916 Aged 26.
1890: Born Holbeck 15th June Son Emily of Remarried Mrs Clara Clayton 4 Harner Street Brook Street Selby.
1911: Patient in Leeds General Infirmary.
Mentioned Leeds in the Great War.
No CWGC Record of Birkett.
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BOLTON George R
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BOOTH John
Sapper Lance Corporal 108898 Q Special Company Royal Engineers DIED 06/08/1917 Aged 38.
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1879: Born Beeeston Hill 14th July Son of James and Annie.
1879: Baptised 09th October Beeston Hill Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.
1911: Residence no 7 Temple Crescent Occupation Builder.
1915: Enlisted 08th December Aged 35 and 5 Months Residence No 17 Temple Crescent Beeston Hill. Occupation Builder Religion Wesleyan. Joined the Yorkshire & Lancashire Regiment Service number 2091 Attached to 173rd Tunneling Company.
1916: Landed France 21rd September.
1917: Admitted to 64th Casualty Clearing Station 02nd August Captain J. Ramset stated that cause of death was Bronchil Pneumonia (Spanish Flu?)
Laid to Rest Mendinghem Military Cemetery Belgium.
BOWER Frank Brownhill
Pioneer 106587 5th Motor Bn Special Brigade Corps of Royal Engineers DOW 08/08/1916 Aged 21.
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1895: Born Hunslet Son of Joe Brownhill and Elizabeth Sarah Elizabeth Hollingworth Married 1877 Oldham.
1911: Residence Wedfield Cross Flatts Grove Beeston.
Enlisted London.
Laid to Rest Blighty Valley Cemetery Authuille Wood France.
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BOYD Thomas Ripley
Gunner 42445 3rd Bde Canadian Field Artillery 21/04/1916 Aged 33.
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1883: Born 03rd May Holbeck Son of Thomas a cloth finisher and embosser Born Leeds 1844 and Sarah Ann Sykes Born Leeds 1850 Married 1869 Leeds.
1894-1896: Attended Leeds Boys Modern.
1904: After leaving Leeds Boys Modern Thomas emigrated to Toronto Canada and started a business as a plasterer in the firm of Boyd and Colisham.
1914: Enlisted into the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Valcartier 03rd September 16 km from Quebec joining the 9th Battery Canadian Field Artillery having previousley served for three years in the Boar war. At his medical Thomas is described as being 5ft 7 inches tall, with a dark complexion black hair Grey eyes with a chest size of 37 inches.
1914: Thomas arrived in England in November.
1915: After training was sent to France in February.
He fought at Ieper and Festhubert and it was said that he fired the first shot at Neuve Chapelle. Thomas was recommended three times for honours for as what was described as, "faithfull and Gallant service".
1916: Thomas lost his life in April at Reninghelst near Poperinghe Belgium where it was reported he was Instantaneously Killed by a German shell.
Remembered Leeds Boys Modern. Metropolitan Wesleyan Methodist Church Toronto.
Laid to Rest Reninghelst New Military Cemetery Belgium.
CLARKSON Arthur
Private 43560 1/4th Bn Yorkshire Regiment DOW 10/04/1918 Aged 18.
1900: Born Leeds Son of Robert John and Ann Paul Married 28/07/1894 All Saints Leeds.
1911: Residence No 17 West Mount St Beeston Hill.
Laid to Rest La Kreule Military Cemetery Hazebrouck France.
LENNOX Francis William
Private 15/586 D Company 15th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment 18/11/1916 Aged 34.
1882: Born Arthington Son of Joseph Edward and Catherine Macdonald Wray.
1911: 01st March Served 40 days in Wakefield Prison for Debt.
1911: Residence No 119 Stratford Street Beeston Hill Occupation Drapers Assistant.
Laid to Rest Couin British Cemetery France.
DEDMAN Reginald Victor
Private 3811 1st Bn Northumberland Fusiliers KIA 16/06/1915 Aged 20.
1895: Born Leeds Vol 9b Page 458 Son of Herbert and Eleanor Webster Married 1898 St Clement Sheepscar.
1911: Residence No 25 New Scarborragh Beeston Hill.
1914: Landed France 18th December.
CWGC: Family Residence No 211 Beeston Road.
Laid to Rest Kemmel No.1 French Cemetery Belgium.
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DODD George
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FIRTH Charles
Born Hunslet Enlisted Wakefield
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FIRTH Charles
Born Leeds Son of Matthew and Violet Ann Firth of 14 Freestone Street Lady Pit Lane
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GILPIN Herbert
Private S/17698 6th Bn Gordon Highlanders KIA 11/04/1918 Aged 19.
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1899: Born Hunslet Son of George and Mary Hinsliffe Married 1877 St Mary the Virgin Hunslet.
Remembered Loos Memorial France.
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HAYWOOD Frank
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Born Batley Son of Thomas William and Sarah Ann
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JEFFERSON Harry
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KEMP Sylvester Percival S B
Private 307605 10th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 30/03/1918 Aged 33.
1885: Born Holbeck Son of William and Louisa Bretherick Married 1881 St Peter Leeds.
1911: Residence No 124 Tempest Road Beeston Hill.
Remembered Arras Memorial France.
MORLEY Robert
Private 140573 8th Bn Machine Gun Corps KIA 27/05/1918 Aged 34.
Born Chapeltown Son of Robert and Martha CWGC 39 Mount Place Dewsbury Road.
CWGC Formerly 4510 West Yorkshire Regiment.
Laid to Rest Sissonne British Cemetery France.
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PEEL Alfred
Bombardier 44361 D Battery 50th Brigade Royal Field Artillery DIED 04/11/1918 Aged 34.
Born Canterbury Son of George and Maria CWGC Sturry near Canterbury Kent.
Laid to Rest Terlincthun British Cemetery Bolougne France.
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PHILLIPSON Ernest OR
PHILLIPSON Ernest
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RHODES Walter 1901 OR
RHODES Walter 14729
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ROULSTON George Wilfred
Serjeant 44193 6th Bn Machine Gun Corps KIA 21/03/1918 Aged 24.
Born Son of Ebenezer and Louisa CWGC 20 Greenmount Street Beeston Hill.
Husband of Lily CWGC 45 Mosley Street Basford Nottingham.
Enlisted Leeds 2120 West Regiment.
Remembered Arras Memorial France.