ARMLEY GOTTS PARK
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STONES - WALPOLE
STONES - THOMPSON
STONES Herbert Gledhill
Private 24319 A Company 2nd Bn Yorkshire Regiment DOW 25/07/1917 Aged 39.
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1876: Born Armley 12th August Son of Alfred and Sarah Beaumont Married 1874 St Peter Leeds.
1876: Baptised 01st October.
1900: Married Mary Elizabeth Roberts 02nd June Christ Church Upper Armley.
1911: Residence No 05 Claremont Place Armley Occupation Time Keeper Engineering Works.
1916: Remembered on Family Grave Armley Cemetery. PHOTO CLICK HERE
Remembered Christ Church War Memorial Window Armley.
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Laid to Rest La Neuville British Cemetery Somme France.
STONEY John
Rifleman R/41447 Kings Royal Rifles Attached 9th Bn Queen Victoria's Rifles KIA 25/08/1918 Aged 18.
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1900: Born Leeds Son of John and Sarah Orphin Married 1896 Bramley and Holbeck District Registered Building
1911: Residence No 18 Grasmere Place Tong Road Armley at School.
1915: Enlisted Leeds.
Remembered St Bartholomew Remembrance Book Armley.
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Remembered Vis-En-Artois Memorial France.
STORR William
Rifleman R/10163 4th Bn Kings Royal Rifles DOW 10/05/1915 Aged 19.
1895: Born Leeds. Son of Alfred and Sarah Shelton Married 1886 Nottinghamshire.
1911: Residence No 31 Genn Row Armley Occupation Crane Driver.
1913: Married Edith Hurst St Bartholomew Armley.
Remembered St Bartholomew Remembrance Book Armley.
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Remembered Ypres Menin Gate Belgium.
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SULCH Harry
Private 9th Bn Cheshire Regiment 53276 DOW 22/05/1918 Aged 30.
1888: Born Dewsbury Son of Harry and Lavinia Bentley Married 1888 Dewsbury.
1911: Residence No 5 Ellis Buildings Wellington Road Occupation Farm Labourer.
1916: Enlisted Leeds 04th April into Royal Army Service Corps 60876, Residence No 9 Roseneath Terrace Wortley.
1916: Awaiting Trial 01st July M T Isleworth.
1916: Found Guilty stealing sentanced 12th July 56 days detention.
1918: Landed France 03rd March.
1918: Reported missing and Prisoner of War in Wesel Germany 12th April.
Laid to Rest Fredericksfield Prisoner of war Cemetery reinterred in 1922 at Cologne Southern Cemetery Germany.
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SUNDERLAND Fred Christopher
Private 268426 1/6th Bn West Riding Regiment DOW 27/04/1918 Aged 35.
1882: Born Armley Son of George and Elizabeth.
1910: Married Mary Elizabeth Newton Bramley and Holbeck District Registered Building.
1911: Residence No 14 Greenock Place Armley Occupation Bricklayer.
Remembered Christ Church War Memorial Window Armley.
Laid to Rest Etaples Military Cemetery France.
SUTCLIFFE Frank Peter
Private 37532 17th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 09/08/1917 Aged 21.
1896: Born Leeds Grandson of Catherine Sutcliffe. Son of Alfred and Annie Marie Hepworth.
1911: Residence No 17 Addingham Street Whingate Armley living with grandmother.
Laid to Rest Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery Somme France.
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SUTTON Harry Cooper
Rifleman R/8728 4th Bn Kings Royal Rifles KIA 10/01/1915 Aged 26.
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1889: Born Acomb Son of George and Rhoda Marshall Married 1894 Bramley and Holbeck District Registered Building
1911: Residence Chakrata United Territories India Occupation Soldier in Kings Royal Rifles. CLICK HERE
Enlisted Bradford Residence at time Armley.
Remembered Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Belgium.
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SWABY John
Private M/317078 Military Transport Repair Depot Battersea Army Service Corps DIED at Home 23/06/1918 Aged 21.
1897: Born Hunslet Son of Tom and Eliza Lambert Married 1886 Pocklington.
1911: Residence No 42 Winchester Street Armley Occupation Errand Boy.
1915: Enlisted Leeds 11th December.
1918: Passed away 12.45 4th London General Hospital Tuberculosis.
Laid to Rest Wortley Cemetery Leeds.
Thomas Wycherley Private 15/1278 15th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 01/07/1916 Aged 18.
1898: Born Armley 09th March Son of Jacob Marshall and Annie Wycherley Married 1889 Mansfield
1898: Baptised 10th April St Bartholomews Armley.
1911: Residence No 11 Salisbury Avenue Armley at School.
1914: Enlisted Leeds Town Hall Residence No 11 Salisbury Avenue Armley
1915: Landed Egypt 22nd December.
1916: Reported Wounded in Leeds mercury 13th July.
Courtesy of Olwynn Swindell
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Remembered St Bartholomew Remembrance Book Armley.
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Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France.
SYKES Leonard
Private 29409 Royal Army Medical Corps Attached Inland Water Transport Dockyard Dispensary DIED 01/06/1918 Aged 38.
1879: Born Leeds Son of William and Elizabeth Broughton 18 Conference Terrace Armley Railway Clerk.
1879: Baptised 01st January All Souls Leeds.
1910: Married Hilda Broadbent Married Boston.
1911: Residence No 18 Conference Terrace Armley Occupation Railway Clerk.
1919: Hilda Remarried to Thomas F Fenton in South Milford.
CWGC: Residence No 22 Highfield Villas Sherburn in Elmet South Milford.
Laid to Rest Basra War Cemetery Iraq.
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SYKES Tatton
Private 267654 C Company 1st/6th Bn Seaforth Highlanders DOW 13/04/1917 Aged 21.
1896: Born 06th April Armley Son of Tatton and Sarah Lockwood Married 1888 Goole.
1898: Baptised 24th October Holy Trinity Armley.
1911: Residence No 12 Christ Church View Armley Student Part Time Solicitor's Office Boy.
Remembered Christ Church War Memorial Window Armley.
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Laid to Rest Etaples Military Cemetery France.
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TATE James Leonard
Private 534930 1st/15th Bn London Regiment KIA 04/04/1918 Aged 19.
1899: Born Horsforth Son of John William and Eleanor Abbott Married 1896
1911: Residence No 7 Salisbury View Armley at School.
Remembered Armley Methodist Church
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Remembered Pozieres Memorial France.
TAYLOR Charles
Private 17/161 10th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 01/07/1916 Aged 39.
1877: Born York Son of Mary
1899: Married Susan Cade Woods 25th December in Hull.
1911: Residence No 120 Ley Lane Armley Occupation Iron Worker.
1916: Yorkshire Evening Post Reported Charles death 09th August.
Remembered St Bartholomew Remembrance Book Armley.
Laid to Rest Fricourt New Military Cemetery Somme France.
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TAYLOR BROTHERS
Son of George and Jane Ann Lawson married 1884 Osmotherley.
TAYLOR George
Private 141 1st West Riding Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps DIED 28/03/1915 Aged 23.
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1892: Born Leeds.
1911: Residence No 47 Simpson Street Armley Occupation Tailors Cutter.
Laid to Rest Netley Military Cemetery Hampshire.
TAYLOR Edward Lawson
Gunner 1511 Royal Field Artillery DIED at Home 11/08/1916 Aged 26.
1890: Born Osmotherley CWGC 47 Simpson Street Tong Road Armley.
1911: Residence No 47 Simpson Street Armley
1914: Enlisted Fenton Street Leeds 08th October.
1916: Silver Badge no longer fit for active service 17th March Epilepsy. This had been reported has being a family problem on his fathers side and that Lawson had these attacks since 1912 usually at night.
Laid to Rest New Wortley Cemetery Leeds.
TAYLOR Sydney Dixon
Private 115329 193rd Company Labour Corps KIA 11/06/1917 Aged 21.
1896: Born Leeds Son of Charles Henry and Emma Dixon Married 1899 St Peter Leeds
1911: Residence No 20 Cedar Road Carcroft Armley Occupation Milk Deliverer.
Enlisted Leeds 1722 West Yorkshire Regiment.
Remembered St Bartholomew War Memorial Armley.
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Remembered Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Belgium.
TAYLOR S H
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General Post Office Remembrance Book remembers S. H. Taylor Machine Gun Corps of Leeds.
Unknown at This Time too many on Record.
CWGC Possible 11 Matches Can You Help.
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TEMPEST Horace
Private 242370 D Company 1/5th Bn West Riding Regiment DOW 29/03/1918 Aged 21.
1896: Born Hunslet 24th November Son of John and Mary Eliza Crabtree Married 1895 Hunslet District Registered Building.
1896: Baptised 16th December Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Dewsbury Road.
1911: Residence No 10 Harrow Street Whingate Road Armley Occupation Ticket Stamper Tailoring.
Laid to Rest St Sever Cemetery Extension Rouen France.
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THACKRAH Benjamin Webster
Rifleman 202878 20th Bn Rifle Brigade DIED 18/02/1917 Aged 53.
1864: Born St Stephens Leeds Son of Frederick Webster and Sarah Brayshaw Married Leeds 1857.
1887: Married Rebecca Wood St Hilda Knowsthorpe Leeds. 39 Granny Lane Low Wortley.
1911: Residence No 39 Granny Lane Low Wortley Occupation Iron Turner.
1914: Enlisted 31st August Leeds aged 49 and 11 months old into the 7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment 2385.
1916: Landed Egypt 03rd January
1917: Benjamin was found Dead near Preston barracks Cairo with both thighs and his left arm broken, Reported very likely Benjamin was hit by a car on the road.
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Remembered St Bartholomew War Memorial Armley.
Remembered Cairo War Memorial Egypt.
THEAKSTONE Walter
Private 46205 15th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DIED 10/11/1918 Aged 27.
1891: Born Leeds Son of Charles and Jane Cookshaw Married 1881 York.
1911: Residence Allisons Yard Knowsthorpe Leeds Occupation Boot Protector Maker.
1916: Married Florence Alice Gibson Christ Church Upper Armley
1920: Florence remarried to Edwin Marsden Bramley and Holbeck District Registered Building. Residence No 6 Modder Place Armley.
Remembered Christ Church War Memorial Window Armley.
Laid to Rest Longuenesse St Omar Souvenir Cemetery France.
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THIRKETTLE Herbert John
Private 36074 25th Bn Durham Light Infantry DIED at Home 06/11/1917 Aged 38.
1879: Born East Bradenham Norfolk. Son of David John and Maria Rump Married 1876 Norfolk.
1901: Married Lily Richardson St Bartholomew Armley CWGC 26 Theaker Lane Armley.
1911: Residence No 25 Salisbury Avenue Armley Occupation Laundrey Van Man.
1915: Enlisted Leeds 30674 West Yorkshire Regiment Residence No 15 Ellis Square Armley Drayman.
1917: DIED at the First Northern General Hospital Newcastle Upon Tyne of a Tumour at 18:05.
Laid to Rest Armley Cemetery.
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THIRKILL George
Private 10048 C Company 2nd Bn West Riding Regiment KIA 28/03/1918 Aged 23.
1895: Born 15th April Armley Son of Edward George and Susannah Mary Hannah Mulcaster Married St Peter Leeds.
1900: Baptised 27th April HolyTrinity Armley.
1911: Residence No 2 Goodwin Street Armley Millhand.
Laid to Rest Ste Catherine British Cemetery France.
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THOMPSON Frank
Private 21112 2nd Bn Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 23/10/1916 Aged 21.
1895: Son of George William and Annie Elizabeth Tingle Married 1888 Christ Church Upper Armley
1895: Baptised 01st September St Bartholomews Armley.
1911: Residence No 64 Theaker Lane Armley Mill Curling Machine Minder.
1914: Enlisted 04th December Leeds.
Remembered Christ Church War Memorial Armley.
Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France.
THOMPSON Harry
Gunner 73144 23rd Battery Royal Field Artillery DOW 31/05/1915 Aged 20.
1895: Born Leeds Son of William and Jane
1911: Residence No 1 Victoria Place New Wortley.
Laid to Rest Bedford House Cemetery Enclosure No 2 Belgium.
THOMPSON J ??
Unsure too many on record to be Researched.
TIILOTSON - WALPOLE
TILLOTSON Joseph
Lance Corporal 266637 1/7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 09/10/1917 Aged 31.
1886: Born Armley Son of James and Jane Marshall Married 1879 St Matthew Holbeck 142 Barnet Street Long Road Armley.
1886: Baptised New Wortley 11th November.
1909: Married Lucy Higgingbottom Bramley and Holbeck District Registered Building.
1911: Residence No 142 Barnet St Long Road Occupation Stereotyper.
1923: Lucy remarried to Arthur J Snowball Methodist Church Hall Road Armley.
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Laid to Rest Passchendaele New British Cemetery Belgium.
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TINGLE Walker
Private 4/7954 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 30/10/1915 Aged 19.
1896: Born Armley Son of Frederick and Sarah Ann Mills Married 1887 Christ Church Upper Armley.
1911: Residence No 9 Albany Terrace Whingate Road Armley Occupation Driller in a Factory.
CWGC: Parents Residence No 11 Lumley's Buildings Bramley Street Bramley.
Remembered Christ Church War Memorial Window Armley.
Laid to Rest Hill 10 Cemetery Gallipoli Turkey.
TODD Sydney
Private 15/902 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 28/08/1917 Aged 21.
1896: Born 15th January Newtown Leeds 1896 Son of John and Rose Emma Groundwell Married 1890 Leeds Registered Building.
1896: Baptised 04th February Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.
1911: Occupation Butchers Boy No 71 Roseville Road Harehills.
Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium.
TOMLINSON James Walsham Walker
Private 12770 8th Bn Lincolnshire Regiment 26/09/1915 Aged 18.
1896: Born Brigg Son of John Thomas and Mary Eva Walker Married Birkenhead 1896
1911: Residence No 23 Fearnley Street Armley Occupation Errand Boy.
Remembered St Bartholomew War Memorial Book Armley.
Remembered Loos Memorial France.
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TOMLINSON W
Remembered St Bartholomew War Memorial Book Armley.
Too Many on Record to be certain can you help.
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TOULSON Samuel Usherwood (Misspelled on CWGC Tolson)
Private 3/17258 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DIED 12/05/1917 Aged 27.
1890: Born Kirkstall 01st May Son of Albert Usherwood and Mary Jane Davies Married 1889 Leeds Registered Building.
1890: Baptised St Stephens Kirkstall 07th June.
1910: Married Florence M Giles St Peter Leeds 13th August.
1911: Residence No 1 Winker Green Armley Occupation Mill Hand.
Remembered St Bartholomew War Memorial Book Armley.
Laid to Rest Red Cross Corner Cemetery Beugny France.
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TOWNSIN Alfred Corbett
Private 38318 2/4th Bn York and Lancaster Regiment KIA 28/03/1918 Aged 21.
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1896: Born Normanton December Son of William Clare and Mary Ann Phillips Married Wakefield 1893,
1903: Father William remarried to Agnes Elizabeth Black Bramley and Holbeck District Registered Building.
1911: Residence No 5 Rombalds View Armley.
1916: Leeds Mercury 22nd July reported Alfreds death.
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Remembered St Bartholomew War Memorial Book Armley.
Remembered Arras Memorial France.
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TURNER John Herbert
Private 7956 1st Bn Scots Guards KIA 11/11/1914 Aged 21.
1893: Son of Arthur Rhodes Turner and Mary Kinsey Married 1892 St Barnabas Holbeck
1911: Residence No 19 Heights Lane Armley Occupation Milk Deliverer.
Acknowledgment to De Ruvgnys Roll of Honour
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Remembered Ypres Menin Gate Belgium.
TYNE Walter
Private 260051 12/13th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers 29/05/1918 Aged 33.
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1885: Born Son of Charles and Isabella Kaye.
1907: Married Alice Metcalfe Married St Bartholomew Armley 06th April.
1911: Residence No 8 Claremont Place Whingate Road Armley Occupation Pattern Weaver in Worsted Mill.
Remembered Soissons Memorial France
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UNCLESS Bernard
Private 37498 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 27/03/1918 Aged 20.
1897: Born Armley Son of Henry and Ann Madden Married 1895 Bramley and Holbeck District Registered Building.
1911: Residence No 24 Winchester Terrace Armley Occupation Office Boy to a Woolen Merchant.
Remembered Pozieres Memorial France.
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WADE Ernest Harry
Private 23639 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 27/08/1918 Aged 21.
1897: Born Armley Son of Samson and Grace Ann Lawson.
1897: Baptised Christ Church Upper Armley 01st December.
1911: Residence No 25 Temperance Terrace Pinfold Lane Armley Occupation Errand Boy.
1918: Remebered Family Grave Armley Cemetery. CLICK HERE
Remembered Christ Church War Memorial Window Armley.
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Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium.
WADE Harry
Private 24461 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 12/09/1916 Aged 21.
1895: Born Leeds Son of John Edward and Alice Marsden Married 1893 St Peter Leeds.
1911: Residence No 9 Rillington Place Armley Occupation Feeder in a Printing Works.
1916: Leeds Mercury 29th August reported Harry had been wounded Residence of No 14 Garfield Grove Armley.
CWGC: Residence No 14 Garfield Grove Armley.
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Remembered Armley Methodist Church Branch Road Armley
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Inscription
THIS SPOT WILL BE FOR EVER ENGLAND
Laid to Rest Bethune Town Cemetery France.
WADDINGTON Edward
Private 24322 1st Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 19/09/1918 Aged 23.
1895: Born 11th April Morley Son of Joseph and Amelia Riley Married 1900 St Peter Bramley.
1895: Baptised 15th May St Andrews Bruntcliffe.
1911: Residence No 27 Claremont Place Whingate Road Armley Occupation Mill Hand.
Remembered Christ Church War Memorial Window Armley.
Laid to Rest Chapelle British Cemetery Holnon France.
WADDINGTON BROTHERS
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Sons of Arthur and Annie Elizabeth Hoole Married 1892 Bramley and Holbeck District Registered Building CWGC 47 Tong Road Armley.
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WADDINGTON Joseph
Private 13263 C Company 3rd Bn Dorsetshire Regiment DIED 11/07/1916 Aged 23.
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1911: Residence No 47 Tong Road Armley Occupation Draper Assistant.
1914: Enlisted 05th September Leeds 14536 Hussars Of The Line.
1916: Salonika Dysentery 21st June.
1916: Died of Dysentery St Andrews Military Hospital Malta.
Remembered St Bartholomew War Memorial Book Armley.
Laid to Rest Pieta Military Cemetery Malta.
WADDINGTON Rowland
Private 25712 C Company 15/17th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 12/04/1918 Aged 21.
1897: Born Armley 02nd January.
1898: Baptised 04th November St Bartholomew Armley.
1911: Residence No 47 Tong Road Armley Occupation aged 14 Office Boy.
Remembered St Bartholomew War Memorial Book Armley.
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Remembered Ploegsteert Memorial Belgium.
WADDLE George William (Known as Willy)
Private 23980 12th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 14/07/1916 Aged 21.
1895: Born 14th March Armley Son of Edward Clark Born Kirkstall Died 1908 and Mary A Johnson Married 1894 Holy Trinity Armley Hall.
1896: Baptised 07th June St Simons Leeds.
1910: Mary remarried to John Shackleton No 1 Bramley and Holbeck District Registered Building.
1911: Residence No 47 Gledhow Street Armley at School.
1916: Leeds Mercury 04th August Reported Georges death Residence No 24 Butts Street Armley.
Remembered St Bartholomew War Memorial Book Armley.
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Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France.
WAGSTAFF Robert Henry
Private 20515 8th Bn Yorkshire Regiment 04/10/1916 Aged 42.
1874: Born Doncaster Son of Robert and Barbara Ann Platts Married Doncaster 1870.
1897: Married Emily Adams Married St Wilfreds Calverley
1904: Sent to prison for 7 years.
CWGC: Emilys Residence No Residence No 21 Binks Street Armley Road.
Remembered St Bartholomew War Memorial Book Armley.
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Laid to Rest Adanac Military Cemetery France.
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WALKER C C
Can You Help.
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WALKER George
Private 242371 1st Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 16/04/1918 Aged 30.
1888: Born Leeds Son of George
1916: Married Amy Fothergill St Bartholomew Armley 01st April.
CWGC: Residence No 3 Abbott Terrace Armley Road.
Inscription
"Ever in my Thoughts, from his Loving Wife Amy"
Laid to Rest Mendinghem Military Cemetery Belgium. PHOTO
WALKER Harry Desmond
No record Can You Help.
WALKER Harry
Private 260037 26th Tyneside Irish Bn Northumberland Fusiliers DOW 30/04/1917 Aged 19.
1898: Born Armley Son of James Schofield and Euphemia A Forder Married 1886 St Peter Leeds.
1911: Residence No 24 Pickering Street Armley Occupation Clerk Office Boy.
CWGC: Residence No 5 Crompton Terrace Armley.
Enlisted Leeds 5745 West Yorkshire Regiment.
Remembered Southfield Methodist Chapel Armley.
Laid to Rest St Nicolas British Cemetery France.
WALKER Herbert 30/07/1916 17498
YEP 30/07/18 with Harry Killed August 16th 1916. ?
Too many From Leeds Unknown Can You Help.
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WALKER J W
Too many on record to be certain Can You Help.
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WARPOLE W no such person on record believe spelling mistake see below.
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WALPOLE William
Private 13257 2nd Bn Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry KIA 18/11/1916 Aged 22.
1893: Born 18th August Armley Son of William Jaqcues and Ann Riding Married 1892 St Marys Quarry Hill.
1893: Baptised 10th September St Bartholomew Armley.
1911: Residence No 15 Cheltenham Street Armley Occupation Weaver.
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Remembered Southfield Methodist Chapel Armley.
Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France.
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