ARMLEY ST BARTHOLOMEW
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ATKINSON - CALVERT
ATKINSON - BACON
ATKINSON Frederick Walker
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More Research required George Frederick Walker Born 1881 if so brother John Joseph remembered on Gotts Park.
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ARMATAGE
Ernest George Second Lieutenant 4th Special Company Royal Engineers KIA 14/07/1918 Aged 21.
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1895: Born Leeds 08th February Son of Benjamin and Clara Tattersall Married St Peters Leeds 1890.
1895: Baptised 23rd March St Bartholomew Armley. (Armitage)
1911: Residence No 17 Athlone Terrace Armley Occupation Clerk in a Tanners.
1917: Gained his Commission 17th October
Enlisted Leeds Highland Infantry Division 5904.
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Grave Inscription
"HE LAID HIS GIFTS ON THE ALTAR OF DUTY AND DYING LIVES"
Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley
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Laid to Rest Sucrerie Cemetery Ablain-St. Nazaire France. Photo CLICK HERE
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ARNOLD
George Private 15843 11th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 20/09/1917 Aged 24.
1894: Born 01st May Armley Son of Thomas Walter Died 1906 and Eliza Jane Claypham Married St John Moor Allerton 1881.
1894: Baptised Armley Hall Holy Trinity 27th September.
1905: Mother Eliza Jane passed away.
1911: Residence No 16 Club Row Pinfold Lane Armley Occupation Iron Driller Living with Brother.
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Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley
Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium.
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​ASHBY Sidney
Ordinary Seaman J/19260 KIA H.M.S Formidable 01/01/1915 Aged 18.
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1896: Born Battersea London 01st May Son of George Edward and Lydia Agnes Kettle Married Battersea London Vol 1d Page 589.
1911: Residence No 23 Far Fold Armley Occupation Apprentice Engineer.
1914: Enlisted 01st May into Royal Navy posted to H.M.S Formidable 13th June.
1915: KIA on board HMS Formidable the first battleship to be sunk in WW1. Commanded by Captain Loxley was sunk by two torpedoes from German submarine U 24, about 20 miles off Start Point Portland at 2 am whilst on exercises.
The first torpedo hit the number one boiler port side, the second about 45 minutes later caused the ship to list heavily to starboard, sinking it in less than two hours. 547 men including Sidney lost their lives with 233 surviving.
Stanningley Survivor Seaman William Henry Fletcher stated the following during an article about his escape from the Formidable.
Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley.
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Christ Church War Memorial Window Armley.
Remembered Chatham Memorial.
AUDAER
Ernest Clifford Second Lieutenant 15th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers 1st Salford Battalion KIA 01/07/1916 Aged 24.
1892: Born Armley 14th February Son of Walter Walker and Clara Cuthbert Married St Lukes Sheepscar Leeds 1892.
1911: Residence No 117 Tong Road Armley Occupation Dentist in his fathers practice.
1916: Entered France 15th June.
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Photo of Ernest CLICK HERE
Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley
Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France
BRADSTOCK
Harold Corporal 265737 1/7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 03/09/1916 Aged 21.
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1896: Born Bramley Son of Edward John R and Eleanor Tyler Married at St George Hanover Square London.
1911: Residence No 45 Tong Road Bramley Occupation Apprentice Electrical Engineers fitter.
1914-1915: Enlisted Leeds Original Service Number 2944.
1915: Landed France 15th April.
Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley
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Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France
BACON
Harold Staff Sergeant S4/128153 C Company 1st/15th Bn London Regiment Army Service Corps KIA 02/09/1918 Aged 24. Military Service Medal.
1895: Born Armley Son of John William and Clara Eliza Hill Married St Peters Leeds 1883.
1915: Enlisted Leeds 13th September Occupation Clerk. Residence 91 Hall Road Armley.
1915: Landed France 21 September.
Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley
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Remembered Vis-En-Artois Memorial France.
BARRACLOUGH - BINKS
BARRACLOUGH
Ellis Private 18393 10th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 01/07/1916.
1889: Born Churwell Son of John Henry and Ellen Ellis Married Dewsbury 1880.
1911: 42 Holdforth Street Wortley. Occupation Municipal labourer.
1912: Married Sarah Jane Batty St Bartholomew Armley 1912.
1915: Enlisted Leeds March 1915. Landed France 13/07/1915 Fought at Ypres, and
1916: KIA First day of the Somme at Fricourt which saw some of the heaviest fighting on the Somme.
1917: Sarah Remarried to Frederik Pearse Bramley and Holbeck District Registered Building.
Remembered St Bartholomew War Memorial Armley
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Laid to Rest in one of the four big graves for the 10th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment Fricourt New Military Cemetery Somme France.
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BARRACLOUGH
Frank Private 41084 8th Bn King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment KIA 27/09/1918 Aged 19.
1899: Born Armley Son of William and Elizabeth Bisby Married 1892 St Bartholomew Armley.
1911: Residence 9 Cayton Street Armley.
Remembered St Bartholomew War Memorial Gotts Park
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Remembered on Vis-en-Artois Memorial France.
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BARKER
Alfred Fitter 156664 123rd Battery Royal Field Artillery KIA 29/09/1917 Aged 24.
1893: Born Armley Son of James and Alma Dockray Married 1884 St Peters Leeds.
1911: Residence 5 Aviary View Armley Frame Fitter In Ironworks.
1916: Brother John Edward DOW 04th June Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley.
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Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley
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Laid to Rest Locre Hospice Cemetery Belgium.
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BASTIDE Charles (Charley)
Private 3827 1/8th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 10/07/1916 Aged 27.
1889: Born Leeds Son of Louis and Ada Mary Escritt Married 1887 St Matthias Burley.
1890: Baptised 06th April St Mathias Burley.
1910: Married Emily B Swift Bramley Registry office.
1911: Residence no 10 Neil Street Armley Road Iron Moulder.
1915: Landed France 03rd December.
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Photo of grave CLICK HERE
Laid to Rest Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension France.
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BEECROFT
Walter Private 57400 14th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers KIA 27/10/1917 Aged 32.
1879: Born 05th May Leeds Son of Albion and Sarah Lawton Married St Peter 1877.
1880: Baptised 24th May St Bartholomews Armley.
1911: Residence No 10 Beech Terrace Armley Occupation Forge Plate Dresser.
1915: Married Louisa Ross Married 1 St Bartholomews Church Armley.
1915-1917: Enlisted Leeds into Royal Engineers Service Number 179877.
Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Gotts Park
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Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium
BELL
John Scott Second Lieutenant 15th Field Company Royal Engineers KIA 01/08/1917 Aged 27.
1890: Born Glasgow Scotland Son of John Scott and Sarah McKillep
1911: Residence No 12 Laurel Terrace Armley Occupation Student Engineer.
1911-1915: Attended Leeds University taking an engineering course being a Member of Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
1915: Employed by the Bradford Dyers Association.
1915: Enlisted 15th May Leeds into 223rd Field Company Royal Engineers Service Number 98534.
1915: Posted to Mediteranean 20th December.
1916: Promoted to Corporal 15th January then Sergeant 25th March.
1917: Commissioned on the 23rd February.
1917: Reported to have been killed by shell fire.
Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley
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Laid to Rest in Hooge Crater Cemetery Belgium.
BELL Charles Henry
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BENNETT
Charles Henry Corporal 776260 C Battery 210th Brigade Royal Field Artillery DOW 22/09/1917 Aged 29.
1888: Born Armley Son of James and Mary Annie Pennington Married St John The Baptist New Wortley 1883.
Enlisted Leeds.
1911: No 4 Strawberry Place Armley Occupation Clerk.
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Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley.
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Laid to Rest in The Huts Cemetery Ieper Belgium.
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BEASLEY
Charles Thomas Private 60815 25th Tyneside Irish Bn Northumberland Fusiliers KIA 11/04/1918 Aged 39.
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1879: Born Armley 28th October Son of George and Clara Mawson Married at St Peter Church Leeds June 1879.
1901: Married Florence Bolland Coates St Bartholomew Church Armley.
1911: Residence No 1 Geranium Street Holbeck Occupation Window Cleaner.
1923: Remembered in Irelands Memorial Records.
Enlisted Leeds into West Yorkshire Regiment 38642.
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Remembered on Ploegsteert Memorial Belgium
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BRIGGS
Edward Bugler S/11375 1st Bn Rifle Brigade KIA 01/07/1916 Aged 20.
1895: Born Leeds 23rd September Son of Joe and Adelaide Rawling Married Hunslet District Registered Building 1893.
1902: Mother Adelaide Remarried to Thomas Rochford St Matthew Holbeck.
1911: Residence No 18 Strawberry Mount Occupation Assisted Fire wood Business.
1914: Enlisted Leeds 29th September Royal Army Medical Corps 38011.
1915: Landed France 13th July appointed Bugler on the 26th July.
1919: Medals to be sent to his mother Adelaide.
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Edwards sister Ada Married Arthur Poulter who won the Victoria Cross in 1918.
Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley.
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CONTACT FAMILY PERMISSION ANCESTORY
Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France
BILTON
Parkinson Rifleman 306017 2/8th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA Cambrai 22/11/1917 Aged 24.
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1893: Born Armley.
1911: Residence No 22 Cricketers Street Armley Occupation Brickmaker.
1914: Enlisted Leeds 14th August Service Number 10624 6th Bn Yorkshire Regiment Described as being 5ft 3 inches tall Blue eyes.
Was quickly Discharged unlikley to make a soldier.
1915: Re Enlisted January 1915 saw action Ypres and the Somme.
1920s: National Roll of Great War "He passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty and self sacrifice"
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Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial
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Remembered Cambrai Memorial France
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BINKS
George Rifleman 202202 1/5th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 09/10/1917 Aged 24.
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1893: Born Armley 14th September Son of Joseph and Sarah Jane Booker Married at St Peters Church Leeds 1893.
1893: Baptised 15th October St Bartholomews Armley.
1911: Residence No 27 Town Street Armley Occupation Shipping Clerk.
1918: Pension records state Mother Sarah Jane Residing Golden Lion Hotel Armley Road.
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Remembered St Bartholomew War Memorial
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FAMILY GRAVE AT ARMLEY HILL TOP CEMETERY PHOTO TO BE TAKEN. Remembered tyne Cot Memorial Belgium.
BOYLE - BUCKLE
BOYES
Douglas Rifleman R/33487 21st Bn King's Royal Rifle Corps DOW 27/03/1918 Aged 33.
1885: Born Bradford Son of George Edward and Mary Elizabeth Speight Married Bradford 1876.
1911: Residence 48 Bayswater Row Harehills Occupation Drapers Assistant.
1913: Married Esther Elizabeth Turner Married 11th August St Bartholomew Armley.
1914-1917: Enlisted Leeds.
Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial
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Laid to Rest Chauny Communal Cemetery British Extension France.
BOYLE
Frederick Sergeant 82793 Number 3 Bn Machine Gun Corps KIA 22/03/1918 Aged 26.
1892: Born Darlington Son of Thomas and Mary Jane.
1911: Residence No 31 Brooklyn Place Armley Occupation Warehouseman Clothiers.
1914: Enlisted Leeds 06th August Captain Francis A Lupton being the Attesting Officer Service Number 1889 Rifleman 8th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment.
1915: Landed Le Harve France 25th April.
1915: Wounded Gun Shot Wound to Ankle 23rd May Sent to Engalnd for treatment.
1916: Married Nellie Russell St Bartholomew Armley
1916: Transferred Machine Gun Corps and promoted Sergeant.
1917: Landed back in France 26th April.
1918: Nellie gave address as 26 Kilburn Road Wortley.
1923: Wife Nellie remarried to Percy Kilburn at Bramley Holbeck registry Office.
1978: Nellie passed away in Leeds
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Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial
Laid to Rest Ham British Cemetery Muille-Villette France.
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BROWN James
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BROWN George
Gunner 80726 29th Division Royal Field Artillery 23/101/1915 Aged 20.
1895: Born 29th March Leeds Son of George and Ann Elizabeth CWGC 10 Empress Street Whingate Road Armley.
1895: Baptised 04th May St Saviour Leeds.
1907: Married Hannah Hewson St Bartholomew .
Remembered Mikra Memorial Greece.
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BODDY
James Herbert Barker Private 38563 15th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 03/05/1917 Aged 19.
1898: Born Cheriton Folkestone Son of Louisa Remmaried to Edward Poll in 1914.
1900: Brother Robert W Born India
1902: Sister Ethel M Born India.
1911: Residence No 8 Marsden Street Wortley at School.
1914-1916: Enlisted Leeds.
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Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Book Armley
Remembered on Arras Memorial France.
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BROADBENT
Clifford Private 5295 D Company 1st/8th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 12/09/1916 Aged 21.
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1895: Born Bramley Son of Samuel and Francis Frankland Married All Hallows with St Simon Leeds 1888. Residence
1911: Residence No 20 Ellis Square Theaker Lane Armley Occupation Grocers Assistant.
Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial
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Laid to Rest Ste Marie Cemetery Le Harve France.
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BROGDEN
George Henry Private 23428 9th Bn Yorkshire Regiment KIA 08/08/1916 Aged 25.
1891: Born Leeds Son of Arthur Edward and Emma Baldwin Married Leeds 1885. Residence
1911: Residence No 56 Theaker Lane Armley Occupation Mill Hand Fettler.
1914-1915: Enlisted Leeds.
1915: Landed France 05th December.
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Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley.
Laid to Rest Pozieres British Cemetery Ovillers-La Boisselle France.
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BUTTERS George Augustus
Private 62812 7th Field Ambulance R.A.M.C. KIA 22/03/1918 Aged 22.
1896: Born East Dereham Norfolk Son of Arthur Augustus and Julia Drew CWGC 1 Lewis Place Oldfield Lane Wortley.
1911: Residence No 21 Highfield Crescent Wortley.
Inscription
"In The Hearts of Those He Left Behind"
Laid to Rest Bucquoy Road Ficheux France.
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BUTTERWORTH T W
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BUTTERWORTH Archibald (Archie) James
Corporal 15/1574 11th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 20/09/1917 Aged 23 Award Military Medal.
1894: Born Otley 04th February Son of Lucy Baptised 18th September Otley All Saints.
1911: Residence No 12 Denmark Street Gateshead Occupation Music Hall Artist.
1914: Enlisted into Leeds Pals 15th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment at Colsterdale.
CWGC Nephew of Eliza M 22 Dewhurst Street Tong Road Armley.
Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley.
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Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium
BUTTERWORTH William Brook
Private 24493 2nd Bn West Riding Regiment KIA 03/05/1917.
1883: Born Yeadon Son of Joseph Brook and Ada.
1903: Married Jane Ann Rogers St Bartholomew Armley 03rd September.
1916: Enlisted Leeds 14th July Yorkshire Regiment Service Number 32496. Residence No 1 Pennant Place Armley Occupation Bricklayer. 1916: Landed France 20th October
1917: Laid to Rest 19th May.
Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley.
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Brown's Copse Cemetery Roeux France.
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BUCKLE Henderson
Private 18762 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 13/06/1917 Aged 34.
1883: Born Bramley 05th May Son of Joseph and Hannah Henderson Married St Peter Leeds 1873.
1899: Hannah remarried to George Ellis Bramley and Holbeck District Registered Building.
1907: Married Edith Johnson St Peter Bramley.
1911: Residence No 2 Bramley Terrace Bramley Occupation Railway Shunter. Two daughters Annie Camm and Elsie.
1915: Enlisted Leeds Landed Gallipoli Turkey 21st September.
1917: Saturday 07th July Yorkshire Post reported death of Henderson giving family residence of No 20 Filey Street Armley Road.
Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley.
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Remembered on Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Belgium.
BURWIN - CALVERT
BURWIN Frank
Private 19086 8th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers DOW 26/09/1916 Aged 28.
1888: Born Bradford. Son of Isaac and Martha Ann Wilby Married 1874 Halifax.
1910: Married Evelyn Gough Married St Peters Leeds.
1911: Residence No 13 Leamington Street Armley Occupation Brass Driller.
1928: Evelyn remarried to Charles Stubley.
Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France.
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Bell Harry
Private 17/805 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 16/08/1917 Aged
Born Leeds. Enlisted Leeds.
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Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley.
Remembered on Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium.
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CHAPMAN Arthur Allsop
Lieutenant 7thBn Attached 9th Bn West Riding Regiment KIA 25/04/1917 Aged 21.
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1895: Born Great Gonerby Grantham Lincolnshire Son of Henry a Schoolmaster and Sabina Allsop Married 1888.
CWGC No 20 Athlone Grove Armley.
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Originally Laid to Rest Feuchy Chapel Quarry Cemetery Feuchy 200 Metres from where Arthur now lies
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Unknown Memorial Leeds Town Hall. Gotts Park War Memorial Armley.
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Laid to Rest Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery Wancourt France.
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CHAPMAN Eric
Corporal 2209 C Company 1/8th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 22/09/1917 Aged 20.
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1896: Born Leeds Son of Frederick and Julia Anne Brown Married 1879.
1911: No 4 Whingate Armley Occupation Insurance Clerk.
CWGC River View Llangollen Denbighshire.
Remembered
Unknown Memorial Leeds Town Hall. Gotts Park War Memorial Armley.
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Laid to Rest Essex Farm Cemetery Belgium.
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CARRIS William
Unknown can you help no detail CWGC possibly passed away after war.
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CHADWICK Louis
Private 54150 18th Bn Canadian Infantry Western Ontario Regiment KIA 15/09/1916 Aged 37.
1879: Born 21st January Bramley Son of William Born Baildon 1855 and Ann Jane Driver Born Leeds 1856.
1879: Baptised 26th October St Peter Bramley.
1901: Residence Wellington Barracks London Serving in Scots Guards.
1911: Residence No 20 Duke St Fitzwilliam near Wakefield Occupation Detailer below Ground in Mine.
1911: Landed Quebec.
1914: Enlisted Canada 16/12/1914 On his Attestation papers he served three years in the Scots Guards.
1916: Reported to have been buried at Martinpuich Somme Map Referance M.31.b.3.6.
CWGC: Gave Residence family at No 10 Churd Road Armley.
Remembered Vimy Memorial France.
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CARTER Wilfred
Private 65476 1st Bn Northumberland Fusiliers DOW 06/06/1918 Aged 39.
1879: Born Leeds Son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Knapton Lowe Married 1875 Christ Church Upper Armley.
1903: Married Bertha Powell Married 02nd June St Mary of Bethany Wortley CWGC 6 James Street Tong Road New Wortley.
1911: Residence No 4 Gilpin View Armley Occupation Reader In Printing Office.
1914-1917: Enlisted Leeds 54957 West Yorkshire Regiment.
Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley.
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Laid to Rest Pernes British Cemetery France.
CARTER Harry
Pioneer 24019 331st Company Royal Engineers (Road Making in France) Died of Wounds at home 1919 Aged 40.
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1879: Born Armley Son of Fred and Lily. Husband of Florrie Juckes Married St Bartholomew Armley 21/01/1916.
1911: Residence No 10 Oriental Street Armley. Occupation Carman Barman.
1915: Enlisted 03rsd December.
1918: Admitted to hospital with TB March Discharged 27th May
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Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley.
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Laid to Rest Unknown
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CAMPBELL John Reginald S
Private 20008 9th Bn Essex Regiment KIA 09/04/1917 Aged 19.
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1897: Born Armley Son of John Marks and Mary Whitham Married All Hallows with St Simon Leeds 1896.
1911: Residence No 28 Main Street Armley Occupation Grocers Boy.
Enlisted Royal Horse and Field Artillery 32758.
Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley.
Remembered Arras Memorial France
CALVERT Herbert
Private 34482 18th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 03/05/1917 Aged 37.
1879: Born Holbeck 29th November Son of Frederick and Elizabeth Parkinson Married Hunslet 1874
1908: Married Margaret Frances Pinkney St Bartholomew Church Armley 06th July.
1911: Residence No 7 Allerton Terrace Kirkstall Road Occupation Newspaper Hawker.
CWGC Wife Margaret at No 89 Simpson Street Armley.
Remembered Gotts Park War Memorial Armley
Remembered Arras Memorial France.
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