BORN BRADFORD 1885. SON OF BENJAMIN YEADON (1856-1908) & SELINA DEAKIN (1857-1927), OF 27 RYDALE STREET, BRADFORD, WEST YORKSHIRE AND 13, SOMERSET AVENUE, WITHERNSEA STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). BROTHERS THOMAS, HARRY & SISTER ETHEL. A STABLEMAN (1911 CENSUS) AND RAILWAY PLATE LAYER. HE LIVED IN HULL. ENLISTED IN BRADFORD. SERVED WITH THE 2ND DUKE OF WELLINGTON’S WEST RIDING REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 15/09/1918, AGED 30. LISTED AS A HULL CASUALTY IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 01/05/1917. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, SELINA. HE IS BURIED AT TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, HARRY YEADON, 21/127, 21ST WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 02/03/1917, AGED 32. HE IS BURIED AT FAUBOURG D’AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS.
BOTH THEIR WAR PENSION WENT TO THEIR MOTHER, MRS SELINA YEADON, WHO MOVED TO 1 CLIFFE WOOD VIEW, BRADFORD, AND LATER TO WITHERNSEA STREET, HULL. (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS).
| Name | Joseph Yeadon |
|---|---|
| Birth Place | Bradford, Yorks |
| Residence | Hull |
| Death Date | 15 Sep 1918 |
| Death Place | France and Flanders |
| Enlistment Place | Bradford |
| Rank | Private |
| Regiment | Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment |
| Battalion | 2nd Battalion |
| Regimental Number | 267308 |
| Type of Casualty | Died of wounds |
| Theatre of War | Western European Theatre |
