The West Yorkshire Regiment raised 35 Battalions and was awarded 57 Battle Honours and 4 Victoria Crosses, losing 12,700 men during the course of the war.
Lance Sergeant
BORN LEEDS 1871. SON OF LATE ROBERT & ROSETTA ANNALL, 4 GLENCOE TERRACE, CROSS GREEN LANE, LEEDS. ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN. MARRIED LEEDS 8/02/1902. WIFE BARBARA SCOTT (1876 -1945) AND THEIR SIX CHILDREN LIVED ABOVE. HE WAS A MOULDER BY TRADE. HE HAD PREVIOUSLY SERVED WITH THE 3RD WYR AND MILITIA BEFORE THE WAR. JOINING THE ARMY ON THE 9/1 […]
George William Dayes was born in Beverley on 7 September 1892, the eldest son of Herbert and Harriet Dayes. He lived in Hotham, where he worked as a farm cowman. He enlisted in Hull. When war was declared George enlisted in the West Yorkshire Regiment, and, serving with the 2nd Battalion which became part of the 23rd Brigade of the 8th […]
Company Quarter Master Sergeant
BORN DUBLIN 5/10/1864. SON OF GEORGE DENSLEY AND MARY ANN MORGAN. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. THE FAMILY MOVED TO ENGLAND AND TRAVELED WIDELY. HIS FATHER DIED ON 12/02/1902, AT GILLINGHAM, KENT. HIS MOTHER DIED IN MANCHESTER, ON 31/10/1918. JOHN PATRICK DENSLEY WAS MARRIED THREE TIMES. FIRST TIME AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT, ON 29/01/1889, TO CATHERI […]
BORN HULL 1882. SCULCOATES. LATE ROBERT & ROSE ANN STEVENS ABOVE OFF HEDON ROAD. TRANSFERRED TO 377690 LABOUR CORPS. CWGC RECORDS.
