BORN BRADFORD 1884. SON OF BENJAMIN YEADON (1856-1908) & SELINA DEAKIN (1857-1927), OF 27 RYDALE STREET, BRADFORD, WEST YORKSHIRE AND 13, SOMERSET AVENUE, WITHERNSEA STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). BROTHERS THOMAS, JOSEPH & SISTER ETHEL. WORKED AS WOOD CUTTER. REDIED IN BRADFORD FOR 20 YEARS.
ENLISTED AT BRADFORD. SERVED AS PRIVATE 127, 21ST WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 02/03/1917, AGED 33.
BURIED FAUBOURG D’AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS, FRANCE
HIS BROTHER JOSEPH WAS A STABLEMAN (1911 CENSUS) AND RAILWAY PLATE LAYER. HE LIVED IN HULL. ENLISTED IN BRADFORD. SERVED WITH THE 2ND DUKE OF WELLINGTON’S WEST RIDING REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 15/09/1918, AGED 30. LISTED AS A HULL CASUALTY IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 01/05/1917. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, SELINA. HE IS BURIED AT TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE.
BOTH THEIR WAR PENSION WENT TO THEIR MOTHER, MRS SELINA YEADON, WHO MOVED TO 1 CLIFFE WOOD VIEW, BRADFORD, AND LATER TO 13. SOMERSET AVENUE, WITHERNSEA STREET, HULL. (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS)
