Regiment: Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment, (“Green Howards”), 5th Battalion, B Company

Last Name
Address
Narrative
Pollard, Thomas Hesslewood
Lance Corporal
Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment, (“Green Howards”), 5th Battalion, B Company
48, Wheeler Street, Hull
       
Died on
17/09/1918
       
Aged
27
Born Market Weighton, 1891. Son of Elizabeth Pollard, of 48, Wheeler Street, Hull (War Pension address). Son of a retired Postman. He had six brothers and three sisters. He worked for the North Eastern Railways. He enlisted at Market Weighton. Served with the 5th Yorkshire Regiment. Died a Prisoner of War, at the Marne, on 17/09/1918, a […]
Tomlinson, John Robert
Private
Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment, (“Green Howards”), 5th Battalion, B Company
North Frodingham, Driffield, Yorkshire
       
Died on
24/10/1916
       
Aged
24
Born North Frodingham, Yorkshire, 1892. Son of Thomas Waites Tomlinson (1853-1931), of North Frodingham, Driffield, Yorkshire, and the late Mary Jane Bentley (1859-1921). Son of a farm labourer at Hutton Cranswick. He had eight brothers and six sisters. Four sons died in the war:- Private Thomas Bielby Tomlinson, 201348, 1/4th EYR. Ki […]
Williamson, Edwin
Lance Corporal
Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment, (“Green Howards”), 5th Battalion, B Company
RAILWAY TERRACE, BEVERLEY, EAST RIDING, YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
       
Area
Beverley,
       
Died on
05/07/1915
       
Aged
18
BORN BEVERLEY, 1897. SON OF ROBERT WILLIAM WILLIAMSON (1859-1918) AND AGNES WILLIAMSON (1868-1944), OF BISHOP BURTON.  A CHURCH LAD'S BRIGADE MEMBER IN BEVERLEY AND THE FIRST TO BE KILLED IN THE WAR. ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY IN 1914. SERVED WITH THE 5TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD, BY A SNIPER, ON 05/07/1915, AGED 18. UNMARRI […]