ROBINSON John Thomas
Rifleman 37375 1st/8th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment (Leeds Rifles) KIA 09/10/1917 Aged 34.
1883: Born Hull Son of George Born Tadcaster 1851 and Sarah Elizabeth Born Downham Market Norfolk 1848.
1911: Residence Wighill Lane Tadcaster Occupation Carter Coal Agency.
Enlisted York.
Laid to Rest Cement House Cemetery Belgium. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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RUMBOLD William Edgar
Private 23940 B Company 18th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 27/07/1916 Aged 22.
1895: Born Tadcaster Vol 9c Page 890 Son of Charles Born Tadcaster 1866 and Annie Elizabeth Born Stainby 1861.
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1895: Christened Stillingfleet 08th December,
1911: Residence Ulleskelf at School
1919: Army Pension Mothers Residence Dewhirst Wetherby Road Tadcaster.
Laid to Rest St Vaast Post Military Cemetery Richebourg-L'Avoue France. Local Memorial: Tadcaster & Ulleskelf.
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SETTERINGTON Thomas
Private 33040 16th Bn West Yorkshire DOW 07/03/1917 Aged 22.
1895: Born Hambelton Vol 9c Page 942 Son of Thomas Adam Farmer and Innkeeper and Sarah Ann Mcknamara CWGC Hazlewood nr Tadcaster.
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1898: Father Thomas Adam became Licensee 24th March at Stutton Hare and Hounds. The pub was owned by Lord Vavasour of Hazelwood Castle and Samuel Smith was the Lessee.
1911: Residence Hare and Hounds Stutton Occupation Farmer.
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1919: War Pension Residence of Mum Sarah Ann White Quarry Farm Hazelwood Tadcaster.
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Enlisted Tadcaster.
Laid to Rest Varennes Military Cemetery France. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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SIMPSON Charles
Private 79688 11th Bn Royal Fusiliers City of London Regiment 22/09/1918 Aged 27.
1891: Born Tadcaster Vol 9c Page 925 Son of John and Elizabeth Gowland
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1891: Baptised 23rd April Tadcaster Methodist Church.
1914: Enlisted Tadcaster 13th Cavalery Reserve Regiment Service Number 31050.
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1919: Army Pension Residence of Mother Elizabeth No 2 Mill Lane Tadcaster.
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Laid to Rest Unicorn Cemetery Vend'huile France. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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SMITH Job
Private 243051 Lancashire Fusiliers DIED 17/10/1918 Aged 38.
1879: Born Helmsley 31st August being the twin brother of John. Son of George Born Leeds 1849 and Mary Galloway Born Helmsley 1849.
Thank You to David Poole Amateur Family Historian primarily connected with York Cemetery. Davids Father in Law was the son of Job and he gave information regarding Job and His Wife Alice Marriage details.
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1908: Married Alice Jeffels 08th August in Tadcaster Vol oc Page 1247.
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1909: Birth of Son Harry 08th August.
1911: Residence No 3 Springhill Terrace Tadcaster Occupation Brewers Labourer.
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1911: Birth of Son George.
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1913: Birth of Daughter Phyllis 14th November.
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1915: Enlisted York Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 24140.
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1915: Landed Egypt or Gallipoli 03rd December.
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1916: Battalion evacuated to Egypt from Gallipoli then sailed to Marseilles France Job was then wounded.
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1916-1917: Transferred to 480 Company Labour Corps Service Number 468000.
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1917: Birth of Daughter Elsie 22nd December.
1918: Job passed away at home from Pneumonia (Spanish Flu) contracted whilst on active duty Vol 9c Page 2276 .
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1927: Wife Alice Re married to William Powell in Wetherby.
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YORKSHIRE HERALD 1916
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"Private Job Smith and his brother Private H. G. Smith resided with their parents at Hill Side, and both joined in May 1915.
The first named is in the Lancashire Fusiliers and his brother is in the Royal Garrison Artillery.
Job is now a bomb thrower, and has spent a couple of months in Egypt and about the same time in France, and has been wounded."
Laid to Rest Tadcaster Cemetery. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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SMITH Samuel Leslie
Private 24744 10th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 04/11/1918 Aged 28.
1890: Born Headingley Son of William and Florence who Remarried to Henry Gilbert Jackson at Leeds in 1899.
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1911: Residence belle Vue No 3 Magdalen Road Ripon Occupation Under Brewer living with his mother.
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1913: Samual is shown as living on Otley Road Tadcaster his dwelling described as being: Sitting room on ground floor, bedroom on first floor, furnished with board. Landlady was Harriett Ellis.
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1915-1917: Enlisted Tadcaster.
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1918: Samuel lost his life 7 days before the end of the War at the Second Battle of Sambre, the final operation in the One Hundred day Offensive, which ultimately led to the end of the war.
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1918: Samuel was Laid to Rest at Les Tuileries British Cemetery Map Referance 51.A.X.29.d.3.7 in Grave B15. The cemetery was behind the garden of a house, on the North side of the road to Salesches, at a hamlet called Les Tuileries.
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1919: Effects of £715.00 to mother Florence Residence shown as No 4 Wharfedale Villas Tadcaster.
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1923: Samuel was exhumed from his original resting place being identified by the Cross over his Grave his Clothing and Buttons.
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CWGC: Mother Florence Residence No 44 North Road Ripon.
Laid to Rest Englefontaine British Cemetery France. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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SMITH Thomas Eyre
Private 24441 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 16/08/1917 Aged 24.
1893: Born 06 September Norton Near Doncaster Vol 9c Page 806 Son of Laurence Born 1861 and Ada Lillian Proctor Born Liverpool 1860 Married St James Toxteth Liverpool 24th June 1884.
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1893: Baptised 02nd November Skelbrooke Near Doncaster.
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1911: Residence Whingate Hill Stutton Near Tadcaster Occupation Working on Farm.
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1918: War pension residence of Father Lawrence Kirkgate Tadcaster.
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Enlisted Harrogate.
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Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
SNOWDEN William
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1877: Born Tadcaster Son of Henry and Mary.
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1877: Baptised 05th December.
1911: Residence No 50 Priestic Road Sutton in Ashfield Occupation Tailor Maker living with Brother in Law.
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Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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SOUTHERN BROTHERS
Arthur and John William
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Sons of John Occupation Police Man and Edith Havercroft Married Caistor 1884.
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SOUTHERN Arthur
Private 30912 7th Bn East Yorkshire Regiment DOW 20/03/1917 Aged 23.
1893: Born Kirkby Overblow Residence at Enlistment No 199 York Road Tadcaster.
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1911: Residence No 31 The Avenue Starbeck Harrogate Occupation Railway Clerk.
1915: Enlisted 17th November at Hull 4th Bn East Yorkshire Regiment 5098 Residence York Road Tadcaster.
1916: Married Beatrice May Brayshaw Tadcaster Vol 9c Page 1467.
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1917: Arthur passed away from Wounds Recieved at No 6 General Hospital which was situated on what is todays Race Course at Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray Rond Point du Madrillet au champ de courses.
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1919: Pension records state Wife Beatrice Residence Stonleigh in Tadcaster.
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CWGC: Marlboro House Ulleskelf.
Laid to Rest St Sever Cemetery Extension Rouen France. Local Memorial: Tadcaster. Kirkby Wharfe/Ulleskelfe.
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SOUTHERN John William
Lance Bombardier 151997 301st Brigade Royal field Artillery DIED 13/01/1918 Aged 32.
Born Westborough Lincolnshire
1915: Married Lilian Bilbrough 09th October at St Lukes Harrogate Residence No 9 Mayfield Road Harrogate.
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1918: John passed away from Entric Fever (Typhoid)
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1919: War Pension states wife Lillian Residence Kirkgate Tadcaster.
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Laid to Rest Jerusalem War Cemetery Isreal. Local Memorial Tadcaster. Kirkby Wharfe/Ulleskelf.
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SPENCER Joseph
Corporal 13238 11th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 19/09/1917 Aged 27.
1889: Born Thorp Arch Vol 9c Page 1332 Son of George Railway Platelayer Born Tadcaster 1859 and Mary Ann Strothard Born Thorp Arch 1857 Married 1884.
1911: Residence Firby Kirkham Abbey near Malton Occupation Waggoner on a farm.
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1914: Enlisted York 10th October.
1915: Landed France 13th July.
1916: Injured on the first day of the Somme 01st July and sent home.
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1917: Joseph was laid to rest next to three others from the 11th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment in the area around Zillebeke Map Reference 177.365E & 364E.
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1919: Family Residence Railway Cottages Stutton.
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1922: Joseph was exhumed and Laid to Rest at Hooge Crater Cemetery.
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Laid to Rest Hooge Crater Cemetery Belgium. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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(FOWLER) STEEL Wilson
Stoker 1st Class K/11446 Royal Navy H.M.S.Hogue KIA 22/09/1914 Aged 29.
1894: Born Tadcaster 23rd December Son of George Born Tockwith 1868 a gamekeeper on Smaws Farm and Lucy Ann Steele Bilbrough Born Tadcaster 1869 they Married Tadcaster 1889.
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1906: Enlisted Royal Navy 22nd August Occupation Maltster at brewery. Described as being 5 feet 6 3/4 Inches Tall Brown Hair Grey Eyes.
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1909-1911: Served on Board H.M.S Hampshire.
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1911: Residence on board H.M.S Hampshire in Portsmouth 02nd April.
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1914: Wilson lost his life around 07.00 am when Submarine U9 fired two torpedoes into the side of H.M.S Hogue from a range of only 300 yards. Three ships H.M.S Aboukir, H.M.S Cressy and H.M.S Hogue were lost that day with the loss of 1,459 men.
1917: Brother Alfred Fowler Gave His Life 20th November Remembered on Clifford WW1 Memorial.
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1919: Fathers Residence High Street Clifford.
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Remembered Portsmouth Naval Memorial. Local Memorial Tadcaster & Clifford.
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SYKES Frank William
Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery KIA 14/03/1918 Aged 25.
1892: Born York Vol 9d Page 32 Son of William Born Brighouse 1858 and Agnes Ann Thompson Born Barnsley 1860. Married Doncaster 1885.
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1911: Residence Ivyholme Tadcaster Occupation Brewers Chemist.
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1915: Gained his commission in the July after training with Leeds University Officer Training Corps
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1917: Frank was wounded in the chest by shrapnel.
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1918: Will effects of £4,750 and 50 shillings left to his father.
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Thank you to Chris Noble of Boston Spa who kindly provides the following Information:
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"Only son of William Sykes of 'Ivyholme,' Tadcaster. Father's occupation, Chairman and Managing Director of John Smiths Brewery Limited. Frank was educated at Giggleswick School and Captain of cricket and football teams. Prior to the war, he assisted in the commercial management of the brewery, and was a director of the company. Previously wounded in action."
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Laid to Rest La Clytte Military Cemetery Belgium. Local Memorials; Tadcaster, Leeds Corn Exchange and Giggleswick School.
Frank is remembered in St Marys Church Tadcaster and on the family grave stone in Tadcaster Cemetery.
Laid to Rest La Clytte Military Cemetery Belgium. Local Memorials; Tadcaster, Leeds Corn Exchange and Giggleswick School.
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TATE BROTHERS
George and Herbert
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Sons of Frederick Born 1867 Malton was a clerk in one of the local breweries and then as a foreman in one of the brewery stables and Annie Mary Pickard Born 1868 at Towton Married Tadcaster 1893.
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TATE George
Private 132936 4th Bn Machine Gun Corps KIA 05/04/1918 Aged 20.
1898: Born Tadcaster Vol 9c Page 950.
1911: Residence Coronation Villas Wetherby Road Tadcaster at School.
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1914-1916: Enlisted Harrogate.
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Laid to Rest Vielle-Chapelle New Military Cemetery Lacouture France. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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TATE Herbert
Private 57264 11th Bn Cheshire Regiment 12/07/1917 Aged 21.
1896: Born Tadcaster.
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1896: Christened Stillingfleet 12th July.
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1911: Coronation Villas Wetherby Road Tadcaster at School.
1915: Enlisted York 04th November 2/1st Yorkshire Hussars 3471 Residence Oak Dean Wetherby Road Tadcaster. Described as being 5 feet and 3/4 inches tall. Medal Record state Herbert served in the Kings Own Loyal Lancashire Regimen Service Number 25212.
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1916: Transferred to the Cheshire Regiment 02nd October.
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1917: Landed France 15th June.
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1917: Herbert lost his life at the Battle of Messines CLICK HERE.
Laid to Rest Belgium Battery Corner Belgium. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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TAYLOR Francis James
Lance Corporal (Rifleman) 2653 A Company 12th County of London Bn The Rangers DOW 03/07/1916 Aged 23.
1893: Born Dundee Scotland Son of James Burnett Born Gateshead Occupation 1st Class Officer Of Customs & Excise and Hannah Wells Anderson Married Ripon 1889.
1911: Residence Leighton Hall Carnforth Occupation Assistant Master (teacher).
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1914: Enlisted London.
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1914: Landed France 24th December.
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CWGC: Parents Residence No 3 Station Road Tadcaster.
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Laid to Rest Couin British Cemetery France. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.