LISTER Lawrence
Private 33882 15th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment ( Leeds Pals) KIA 03/05/1917 Aged 22.
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1895: Born Ozendyke Near Tadcaster Vol 9c Page 894 Grand Son of Richard and Mary Ann
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1911: Residence Fangfoss Farm Full Sutton Near York Occupation Farm Servant.
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1914-1916: Enlisted Selby Residence Ulleskelf.
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1919: Army pension states Grandfather Richard Residence No 20 Westfield Terrace Tadcaster.
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Cousin Arthur Remembered on Tadcaster Memorial.
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Remembered Arras Memorial France. Tadcaster Memorial
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LOFTHOUSE Harry
Private 12/4042 2nd Bn Auckland Regiment New Zealand Expeditionary Force KIA 21/02/1917 Aged 22.
1894: Born 19th October Tadcaster Vol 9c Page 927 Son of Joseph Edward Born Tadcaster 1853 and Emma Barber Born North Pickenham Norfolk 1866 Married 1884 Leeds Registered Building. (previously Married to Eleanor Barber St Michael Headingley Leeds 1879 having one son Thomas Born Burley Leeds 1881. Eleanor passed away Leeds 1882)
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1895: Baptised Stillingfleet 10th March
1911: Residence No 9 Kirkgate Tadcaster Occupation Apprentice Tinplate Worker.
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1915: Enlisted 17th November Trentham New Zealand Residence Naudville Occupation Dairy Farmer.
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1916: Embarked for England 20th July. Proceeded to France 12th December.
Remembered Cite Bonjean New Zealand Memorial France. Memorial Tadcaster.
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LOWE BROTHERS
Richard and Reuben Walter
Sons of James Born 1853 and Salina Ann James Born 1855, Married Derby 1874.
LOWE Richard Jarvis
Private 241958 1/5th Bn East Lancashire Regiment KIA 22/04/1917 Aged 30.
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1887: Born Burton On Trent 28th November Vol 6b Page 383.
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1888: Baptised 16th April St Pauls Burton on Trent.
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1911: Residence Haylin House Aberford Occupation Horseman on Farm.
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1914: Enlisted November at York into the East Yorkshire Regiment 17384.
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Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. Memorial Tadcaster
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LOWE Rueben Walter
Private 15296 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 09/08/1915 Aged 25.
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1890: Born Burton On Trent Vol 6b Page 359.
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1911: Residence No 11 Stutton Grove Tadcaster Occupation Brewery Labourer.
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1914: Enlisted York 25th August.
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1915: Left Liverpool 03rd July for Gallipoli via Murdos Greece.
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1915: Reuben landed at Suvla Bay on the 6th August.
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1915: Lost his life 09th August on Hill 70 (Scimiter Hill) near Lala Baba (click here) which the battalion had captured on the 07th August.
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1917: Reuben was still reported as missing in action from the landings at Gallipoli in 1915.
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Remembered Helles Memorial Gallipoli Turkey. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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MARSHALL William
Gunner 108201 263rd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery KIA 17/05/1917 Ages 25.
1892: Born Tadcaster Vol 9c Page 783 Son of Joseph and Mary Elizabeth Teale Married 1887 Christ Church Upper Armley.
1901: Father Publican and Paper Hanger at Britania Inn.
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1911: Residence High Street Tadcaster Occupation Apprentice Plumber.
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1915: Enlisted Tadcaster.
1915: Married Doris Horton Married Tadcaster 1915.
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1919: Army pension states Wife Doris Residence No 32 Station Road Otley.
1925: Wife Doris remarried to Edward Atkinson in 1925. .
Laid to Rest Duisans British Cemetery Etrun France. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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MASKILL Henry
Private 15231 9th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 27/08/1917 Aged 26.
1891: Born Bramham 1891 Son of Mark and Elizabeth Johnston.
1908: Married Ethel Hardy 20th April St James Wetherby Vol 9a Page 269.
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1909: Birth of Daughter Annie Vol 9a Page 114.
1911: Residence North Street Wetherby.
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1915: Landed Gallipoli Turkey 11th July.
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1917: Birth of Daughter Mar H Vol 9a Page 163.
CWGC: States Cousin of Florence Brown, of Walker's Buildings, Bramham.
Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium. Local Memorial: Tadcaster & Bramham.
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MASON Frederick
Private 11639 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 16/11/1915 Aged 23.
1892: Born Tadcaster Vol 9c Page 784 Son of John and Annie Backhouse Married Tadcaster 1891
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1911: Residence No 2 Fern Cottage York Road Tadcaster Occupation Domestic Oddman.
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1914: Enlisted September.
CWGC: No 2 Fern Cottage York Road Tadcaster.
Laid to Rest Hill 10 Cemetery Gallipoli Turkey. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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METCALF Jack
Private 42016 7th Bn East Yorkshire Regiment DOW 09/06/1918 Aged 19.
1899: Born Tadcaster Vol 9c Page 952 Son of John and Fanny Maria Leaf Married Scarbrough 1897.
1911: Residence Rosemary Row Tadcaster at School.
(Thank you to relative Helen Baker who has confirmed that J.C Metcalfe remembered on the Wetherby War Memorial is not Jack Remembered at Tadcaster.)
Laid to Rest Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No 2 France. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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MORRIS Briscomb
Lance Corporal 21483 2nd Bn Northumberland Fusiliers DIED 10/09/1916 Aged 31.
1885: Born Holbeck Leeds Vol 99b Page 331 Son of Grace Ann Morris Born Boston Spa 1864. Grace Married John Bradley in 1898
1907: Married Mary Francis Brown at Bellingham Vol 10a Page 1557.
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1911: Residence No 4 Ely Street Gateshead Living with Mother Grace.
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1914: Enlisted York West Yorkshire Regiment 17733.
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1916: Briscomb passed away in Macedonia.
1919: Wife Mary Remarried to Thomas E Atkinson at Bellingham.
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CWGC East View Bellingham Northumberland.
Laid to Rest Struma Military Cemetery Greece. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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NELSON Herbert
Gunner 35545 A Battery 78th Brigade Royal Field Artillery Died 28/02/1919 Aged 41.
1877: Born Sherburn Durham Vol 10a Page 409 Son of Robert and Mary Hewick Married Northallerton 1865.
1911: Residence No 24 Stutton Grove Tadcaster Occupation Labourer in Brewery.
1915: Married Mabel Rose Married Great Berkhamstead 02nd August.
1916: Birth of Daughter Phyllis M Born 15th January.
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1919: Passed away York Military Hospital from Influenza (Spanish Flu) Contracted whilst on active service.
1920: Mabel remarried to Herbert Waudby in York.
CWGC: Gave Mabels Residence as No 75 Waterside King's Langley Hertfordshire.
PHOTO OF GRAVE TO BE ADDED
Laid to Rest Fulford Cemetery York. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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Pearson Plows Brothers
Charles, Ernest and Richard
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Sons of William Pearson Born 1849 and Elizabeth Brathwaite Born 1850 Married 11th October 1874.
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PLOWS Charles Pearson
Private 20089 1/5th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 12/1/1918 Aged 30.
1889: Born Tadcaster Vol 9c Page 801.
1911: Residence No 11 Wood Street Rodley Occupation Plate Layer Labourer Living with Sister Carris Pearson Jackson .
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1911: Married Edith Annie Shaw 02nd May at St John Farsley.
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1911: Birth of Daughter Mary 08th September.
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1913: Birth of Son Walter 05th March.
1914: September Enlisted Tadcaster.
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CWGC: Wife Edith Residence No 3 Townend Street Kirkstall Road Leeds.
Remembered Vis-En-Artois Memorial France. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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PLOWS Ernest Pearson
Private 7760 10th Bn West Riding Regiment KIA 27/10/1918 Aged 34. AWARDS: Military Medal.
1884: Born 30th November Tadcaster Vol o9c Page 838.
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1911: Married Sarah Duggan Bradford Vol 9b Page 477. (Ernest Married under the Surname Pearson)
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1911: Birth of Daughter Lily 02nd November Bradford Vol 9b Page 342 .
1914: Enlisted Leeds Shown as Ernest Pearson in Soldiers Died Records.
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1918: Ernest lost his life on the attack of Piave just North of Venice.
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1919: Army Pension Wife Sarah Residence No 45 Cobden Street Lister Hill Bradford.
Laid to Rest Tezze British Cemetery Italy. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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PLOWS Richard Pearson
Lance Corporal 18/1381 18th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment (Bradford Pals) DOW 27/05/1916 Aged 29.
1886: Born Tadcaster Vol 9c Page 795.
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1886: Christened 31st October Tadcaster.
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1910: Married Margaret Ann McIntyre Bradford Vol 9b Page 501.
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1911: Residence No 37 Morpeth Street Lister Hills Bradford Occupation Wool Steeper in a Washouse ( Wife Maragaret was a Wool Combe Minder).
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1911: Birth of Son John William 25th May.
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1912: Birth of Son Francis Pearson 03rd October.
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1915: Enlisted 22nd January in Bradford. (Served as Plows)
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1915: Birth of Son Richard 02nd July.
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Following time line Courtesy of War Time Memories Project.
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1915: Left Liverpool 06th December on board the Empress of Britian Landed Cairo Egypt to defend the Suez Canal 22nd December.
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1916: Left Port Said Egypt in March sailed for 5 days landing in Marseilles.
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1916: Train from Marseilles to Pont Remy East of Abbeville Marched to Bertrancourt arrived 29th March.
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1916: Richard passed away from wounds received in trenches around Colincamps on the Somme. The war diary in the days before describes heavy shelling and a working party being attacked by a German Raiding party.
1916: On the 1st June his regiment went onto to be part of the attack at Serre on the Somme, out of a strength of 2000 the 18th Bn Bradford Pals suffered 1,770 Casulaties.
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1919: Army Pension Wife Margaret Ann Residence No 55 Clayton Street City Road Bradford
Laid to Rest Bertrancourt Military Cemetery France. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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POOLE Frank
Bombardier L/27666 "X" 32nd Trench Morter Battery Royal Field Artillery KIA 26/06/1916 Aged 27.
1889: Born 10th June Tadcaster Vol 9c Page 801 Son of Thomas and Charlotte Ellerbeck Married Tadcaster 1882.
1911: Residence Denehurst Wetherby Road Tadcaster Occupation Shop Assistant Co-op, and Bell Ringer at St Marys Parish Church Tadcaster.
1915: Enlisted 05th June in York.
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1916: Will 01st September in London effects left to mum Charlotte £347.00.
Laid to Rest Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extension France. Local Memorial Tadcaster.
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POTTER James
Driver 39737 107th Brigade Royal Field Horse Artillery KIA 04/04/1918 Aged 29.
1888: Born Thornton-Le-Clay Near York Vol 9d Page 380 Son of Ezekiel and Margaret Poulter Married Malton 1876.
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1910: Married Henrietta Dunnhil Easingwold Vol 9d Page 909.
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1911: Residence Diklands Whenby Terrington Near York Occupation Farm Foreman.
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1912: Birth of Daughter Lillian 20th April.
Enlisted York.
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1918: War Pension Wife Henrietta Residency Ivy Cottage High Moor Tadcaster.
Laid to Rest Moreuil Communal Cemetery Allied Extension. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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PRATT Thomas Arnold
Private 36269 6th Bn Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry KIA 21/09/1917 Aged 19.
1898: Born Tadcaster Vol 9c Page 930 Son of George and Harriet Dobson Married Tadcaster 1885.
1911: Residence No 1 Westfield Terrace Tadcaster at School.
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1916: Enlisted Harrogate into 91st Territorial Reserve Battalion the 15th Bn, the York & Lancaster Regiment and 15th East Yorkshire Regiment Service Number 5/855909.
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1917: Newspaper article below from Skyrack Courier states Thomas was killed by a shell as he went up the trench line.
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1919: War Pension Residence Mother No 22 Wharfedale Crescent Tadcaster.
Leeds Mercury October 1916 News of Thomas Brother James.
Laid to Rest Wulverghem-Lindenkoek Road Military Cemetery Belgium. Local Memorial: Tadcaster.
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