Private Louis Carrick, 202914, 1st/4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (as well as a service re-numbering that could have caught us out). Son of John Henry and Emily Carrick of Baulk End, Easington, he is listed as “Lewis” on the 1891 census and again ten years later when boarding with the Briglin family of Burton Pidsea, with whom he was employed as “horseman on the farm”. The spelling has changed in 1911, by which time Louis was back at the family home in Easington, working as a farm labourer. He had seven brothers and one sister.
He died aged 34 on October 26, 1917 and is one of 33,783 UK soldiers remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing situated outside Passchendaele.
he is commemorated on the Easington WW1 Memorial, East Yorkshire. Most of his brothers served in the war. His little brother, Edgar lost a leg and his older brothers, sustained a bad head injury, whereby a metal plate was put in his skull and suffered terrible headaches.
