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 […]
10, MINSTER TERRACE, MINSTER LANE, MOORGATE, BEVERLEY
Died on
06/04/1924
Aged
26
KNOWN AS "TOM". BORN BEVERLEY 1898. SON OF ELIZA BATTY & ABRAHAM BATTY, OF 10, MINSTER TERRACE, MINSTER LANE, MOORGATE, BEVERLEY (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WAS A HAIRDRESSER'S APPRENTICE BEFORE WAR BEGAN. ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY ON 31 JAN 1916. MOBILIZED ON 3 MAY 1917. POSTED TO FRANCE ON 14 JUNE 1917. SERVED AS A PRIVATE IN THE 5TH &a […]
, BEVERLEY, EAST RIDING, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
01/07/1916
Aged
23
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.
