Rosindale, Herbert

…as the family has none. If you know of the location of any, the information would be appreciated. Glenn Rosindale Smith [Hammer.tongs@bigpond.com] Thank You also to Glenn for supplying the…

Brown, John Alfred

John and William Brown Family Grave, Paull, East Yorkshire. Farrier Corporal, John Alfred Brown Army Service Corps Born Thorngumbold, East Yorkshire, 1891. Son of Alfred Brown (1855-1946) and Ann Grange…

Wright, Elijah

…Yorkshires absorbed reinforcements and resumed its four-company organisation. On 26/27 June it was in support for a minor attack, and C Company and a platoon of D Company took over…

Thacker, Wilfred

…son and lived with his parents Charles and Jane in Kirk Ella and he was employed as a Stationary Engine Stoker on the Docks. The Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) was…

Whiley, Arthur Albion

and heavy howitzer shells. Eye-witnesses described the tired and hungry battalion behaving ‘as if they were doing an attack practice in peace’. At 950 yards (870 m) and again at…

Keighley, Richard Ernest Clayton

…ALSO JOINED THE RGA AND TRANSFERRED TO THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS OBSERVATION SECTION. RICHARD KEIGHLEY WAS KILLED BY SHELL FIE ON THE 1ST AUGUST 1917. HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 22…

Hardy, Samuel

…OIL MILLER. HE ENLISTED IN HULLON 30/8/14 AND HAD SERVED IN FRANCE FOR A YEAR AND EIGHT MONTHS. HIS YOUNGER BROTHER HAROLD HARDY, ALSO OF THE EYR, HAD DIED OF…

Thompson, Francis Martin (Frank)

…HE WAS SERVING IN THE ARMY, IN INDIA WHEN WAR BEGAN. SERVED IN EGYPT AND THE DARDENELLES. TRANSFERRED TO THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 01/09/1918, AGED…

Evers, Bertram Saxelbye

…Bertram was a fine sportsman. He gained a football Blue at Clare College, Cambridge and went on to represent England as an amateur footballer against Wales and France in 1913….