BORN POCKLINGTON, YORK 1895 . SON OF WILLIAM BUTTLE WHO DIED 10/11/18. ENLISTED AT HULL. SERVED AS A BOMBARDIER, IN THE 179TH ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. DIED OF WOUNDS AT CAMBRAI, ON 30/11/1917, AGED 22. MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1914. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ANNIE FITCHES. HE LEFT A WIFE, ANNIE & DAUGHTERS, SON & DAUGHT […]
Lance Corporal
POCKLINGTON, EAST RIDING, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Died on
14/11/1917
Aged
23
Trooper B. Byass of Warter. Bernard Byass, joined the 1/1 East Riding Yeomanry in 1914, Regimental Number 1114, later 50081. Serving in Egypt and Palestine, Bernard was promoted to Corporal and was killed in action at Naane, Palestine, on 14/11/1917. He was buried in Ramleh Cemetery and is commemorated on the War Memorial at Warter Estat […]
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE WILLIAM WARD HAYTON 32958. Born 1884 in Pocklington, Yorkshire William was a tough man to track down. He and his four siblings appear to have been orphaned very young as the 1891 census has them in the Workhouse at Pocklington with no parents listed. William had an elder sister, Elizabeth, who was eleve […]
3 GRAPE LANE, POCKLINGTON, EAST RIDING, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Died on
27/05/1918
Aged
27
Private 240131 Pte Robert Pratt. Born and enlisted at Pocklington, worked with his father as a rabbit catcher, living at 3 Grape Lane. Killed in action on the 27th May 1918 aged 27. Commemorated at Rosieres Communal Cemetery Extension. CWGC gives date of death this day, but more likely March as this cemetery is in the Somme region, in wh […]
