Company Sergeant Major
MARKET GREEN, COTTINGHAM, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
09/09/1916
Aged
24
BORN NAFFERTON 22/04/1881. SON OF HENRY BARR AND ANNE FORBES - 1 BELGRAVE VILLAS, CARTWRIGHT LANE, BEVERLEY. SERVED SIX YEARS WITH THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS IN 1906. WORKED AS A CARTER AT MARKET GREEN , COTTINGHAM. WORKED AS A GALVANIZER IN CANADA. ENLISTED IN THE CEF ON 11/03/1915. HIS ARMY RECORDS DESCRIBE HIM AS 6 FOOT 2 INCHES TALL, 41 I […]
Lockington, Beverley, East Yorkshire, UK
Died on
28/09/1916
Aged
44
Private Thomas Lawson of Lockington (1872-1916) of Lockington Thomas Lawson was born in Lockington in 1872, the third son of John and Eliza Lawson. Prior to the war, in 1891, Thomas was a gunner in The Royal Artillery in Wales but left Britain altogether and enrolled in the United States Army. He served in the U.S.A for four years bef […]
