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6th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
6th (Service) Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment was raised at Beverley on 27 August 1914 as part of Kitchener's First New Army joined 32nd Brigade, 11th (Northern) Division. After initial training close to home, they moved to Belton Park, Grantham, to train with other units of the Division. In December 1914 the 6th East Yorks became the Pioneer Battalion to the 11th Division. On the 4th of April 1915 the Division assembled at Witley and Frensham for final training. They sailed for Gallipoli from Avonmouth via Mudros on the 1st of July 1915. They landed near Lala Baba at Suvla Bay on the 7th of August. On the 19th and 20th of December 1915 the Division was withdrawn from Gallipoli, moving to Imbros then to Egypt at the end of January. They concentrated at Sidi Bishr and took over a section of the Suez canal defences on the 19th of February. On the 17th of June 1916 the Division was ordered to France to reinforce Third Army on The Somme. They departed from Alexandria and landed at Marseilles on the 10 July 1916. By the 27th July, they were in the front line on the Somme and took part in The capture of the Wundt-Werk, The Battle of Flers-Courcelette and The Battle of Thiepval. In 1917 they were in action in Operations on the Ancre then moved north to Flanders for The Battle of Messines, The Battle of the Langemarck, The Battle of Polygon Wood, The Battle of Broodseinde and The Battle of Poelcapelle. In 1918 they were at Arras for The 1918 Battle of the Scarpe and The Battle of the Drocourt-Quant Line and fought in the Battles of the Hindenburg Line and The Battle of the Sambre including the passage of the Grand Honelle. At the Armistice the Division was on high ground east of Havay.
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
17th Dec 1915 6th East Yorks leave Suvla Bay The 6th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (Pioneers) embarked from West Beach, Suvla Bay on SS Bawry and disembarked Mudros.
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
2nd July 1916 Departure from Alexandria
9th July 1916 Move to billets
31st August 1916 Diary
5th September 1916 Diary
3rd of January 1918 Location of Divisional Units 
9th of January 1918 Very Cold in Busnes
10th of January 1918 Reliefs and Orders
12th of January 1918 Weather Very Cold
13th of January 1918 More Snow - More Training
18th of January 1918 Relief Amendments
21st of January 1918 Reliefs
24th of January 1918 Artillery Very Quiet
25th of January 1918 MG Fire All Night
28th of January 1918 Enemy Aircraft Brought Down
1st of February 1918 Harassing Fire
2nd of February 1918 Patrolling and Sniping
3rd of February 1918 Dugout Attacked
10th of February 1918 A Large Explosion
17th of February 1918 Shelling
24th of February 1918 A Daylight Patrol
26th of February 1918 Enemy Heavies Active
1918-03-01 Sectors Defined
2nd of March 1918 Heavy Gas Shelling
4th of March 1918 A Gas Shell Shoot
5th of March 1918 Garrison Orders
10th of March 1918 5th Dorsets on Patrol
11th of March 1918 Philosophe Heavily Shelled
12th of March 1918 Enemy Fire "Above Normal"
14th of March 1918 More Heavy Fire
15th of March 1918 German "Duds"
16th of March 1918 Artillery Activity Decreased
17th of March 1918 Seventeen Balloons Spotted
24th of March 1918 Germans on Short Rations
26th of March 1918 Seventeen Patrols Out
29th of March 1918 Usual Trench Warfare
31st of March 1918 Allied Gas Operations
7th of April 1918 A Relief Ordered
14th of April 1918 Dumps Destroyed
18th of April 1918 The COs Gas Warning
21st of April 1918 Heavy Bombardment
25th of April 1918 In Case of Attack
28th of April 1918 Demolition Plans
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Those known to have served with6th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Airey Richard. Sgt. (d.22nd Aug 1915)
- Blakemore Thomas William. L/Cpl. (d.17th Sep 1917)
- Brown Albert David. Pte. (d.9th Aug 1915)
- Burn William Hailes.
- Carney Edmund.
- Carr Charles. Pte. (d.21st Aug 1915)
- Chapman William Henry. Sgt. (d.9th Aug 1915)
- Colgrave Colin. Cpl. (d.29th September 1916)
- Creswell Andrew. Pte.
- Fowles Lloyd. Pte. (d.28th August 1915)
- Fox Robert Michael. Pte. (d.9th August 1915)
- Fridlington George. Pte.
- Gunshon George Henry. Pte. (d.21st Aug 1917)
- Hall Walter John. Pte.
- Henderson John. Pte. (d.22nd Aug 1915)
- Jackson Vincent Machin. Pte. (d.26th Sep 1916)
- Kelly James. Pte. (d.26th Sep 1916)
- Mackay William. Pte. (d.22nd Aug 1915)
- McIntyre MM & Bar. John. 2nd Lt.
- Richardson George. Pte. (d.1st Oct 1918)
- Ripley Thomas Martin. Pte
- Roberts Albert Edward. Pte. (d.21st September 1915)
- Sieber John Frederick Louis. 2nd Lt. (d.4th Oct 1916)
- Smith Charles. Pte. (d.5th Sept 1916)
- Steele Arthur Joseph. Lt. (d.22nd September 1915)
- Thompson George Richard. Pte.
- Turner Richard. Pte. (d.8th Jul 1918)
- Walsh Patrick. Pte. (d.23rd Nov 1915)
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Pte. Albert David Brown 6th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment (d.9th Aug 1915) Albert Brown served with the 6th East Yorkshire Regiment. Unfortunately I have no other information, but it is possible Albert is my great grandfather but this has not been proven.
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Pte. Lloyd Fowles 6th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (d.28th August 1915) Lloyd Fowles is my great uncle and it is only from carrying out family tree research I have come to know of him, which is incredibly sad. Now that we know of him we will, as a family, be keeping his memory alive.
I have parts of his military record, but no photographs and no knowledge of were his medals may be. He is remembered on the CWGC Memorial at Helles.
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Pte. George Richard "Ginger" Thompson 6th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment My Grandad ended up joining the East Yorkshire Regiment in 1912. He was born in London, the tale I have been told is that he tried to join up but was to young, so he left London to go up to Yorkshire and enlisted in to the East Yorkshire Regiment. But I am not sure how true that is. But he did live in London and did join Regiment.
He served in 6th Battalion from 16th of February 1912 until he was discharged on the 11th of March 1919.
He saw service Mediterranean from 30th of June 1915 to 2nd of July 1916 and France from 3rd of July 1916 to 18th of April 1918.
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Pte. Robert Michael Fox 6th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment (d.9th August 1915) Robert Fox served with 6th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment, he went missing on the 9th of August 1915 and was later presumed dead.
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Cpl. Colin Colgrave 6th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (d.29th September 1916)  My grandfather, Colin Colgrave, was injured by rifle fire at the Battle at Mouquet Farm. He suffered a septic compound fracture of his right thigh and was taken to No.3 Canadian General Hospital at Boulogne but sadly died there from gas gangrene at 05.15 on 29th of September 1916. He was 24 years old and left a widow Mary (nee Willoughby) and 2 children Olga Mary and Colin, aged 5 and 3.
My mother never talked about her father but after her death we found his medals and other mementos including a rosary from Lourdes, many photographs and silk postcards, and his cigarette case still containing 6 cigarettes.
Through research and family history websites I have gathered much information and copies of documents regarding Colin. His letters tell of loneliness and other relatives grief. Sadly, we have no-one to pass these treasures on to, so they will be given to the Yorkshire Regiment
Colin was born on 12 March 1892 and died 1916. He was awarded the Victory Medal, The 1914-1915 Star and the British War Medal. He is buried at the Bolougne Eastern Cemetery.
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Pte. Andrew Creswell 12th Btn. East York Regiment Andrew Creswell started military service on 6th of January 1913 with the 2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He fought in the BEF retreat, Marne, Aisne, 1st Battle of Ypres.
In December he transferred a to 4th Div. Army Cyclist Corp (ACC). He remained in the Ypres area then onto the Somme in 1916, and was at Mailly Mallet.
He joined 12th East Yorkshire Regiment on 11th December 1916 and fought around Arras and Oppy Wood before another transfer to 6th East Yorks on 8th of February 1918. He was discharged on the 22nd of February 1919 and awarded the Silver Badge.
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Pte. Albert Edward Roberts 6th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (d.21st September 1915) Albert was born in India on 15th November 1878 and baptised on 18th December 1878 at Morar,Gwalior, India. He was the son of George and Mary Ann Roberts. (George was in the 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment for 22 years and stationed in India).
The family returned to England and set up home in Durham where George became a prison warder and Albert became a miner. Albert married my grandmother Margaret Lewis on 26th April 1913 at Hebburn, Co Durham and my father was born on 20th April 1914. I don't have a date but he enlisted at Jarrow, Co Durham and died of dysentry in Malta. He is buried in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta.
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Lt. Arthur Joseph Steele 6th Btn. East Yorkshire Rgt. (d.22nd September 1915) Arthur Steele was my great uncle and an engineer. He was killed retiring from a trench on 22nd September. A letter about his death was written to his mother by a fellow soldier and friend W Bray. I have that letter and Lord Kitchener's telegram advising his mother of his death.
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Pte. George Fridlington 6th Btn. East Yorkshire George Fridlington was probably born on 16 September 1880 in Sculcoates, Hull.
His parents were William James & Agnes Cordelia Fridlington.
In 1881 he his living with his family and his Father a general labourer.
By 1891 his father was a gas works labourer
On the 28th of May 1896 George joined the East Yorkshire Militia (3rd Bttn. East Yorkshire Regiment) aged 17 years 6 months. At teh time he was employed as a labourer for a Mr Madden of Hull. He can sign his name
He follwoing day a Medical was held at Beverley. He described as 5' 5" tall, weighs 8 stone and has blue eyes, brown hair and a fresh complexion. During 1896 he took part in the annual militia training and then left to join the Royal Navy on August 19th 1896.
George doesn't in fact join the Royal Navy until 16th of September 1897 when he signs up for 12 years. He has grown by an inch or so and now has grey eyes! He also has some tattoos now - 3 faint dots on his left forearm, a Maltese Cross on his right forearm and a sailor and flag on the back of his right hand.
The Royal Navy quotes a different birth date of 16th September 1879. However his birth registration is Q4 1880, which ties in with census details, so 16th September 1880 is probably correct.
He served on the following ships
- HMS Caledonia - 18 August 1896 to 26 Oct 1897 -conduct very good.
- HMS Pembroke I - 16 September 1897 to 18 January 1898 - conduct very good.
- HMS Prince George - 19 January 1898 to 6 February 1899 - conduct good, but then spends 7 days in cells. 14 February 1899 to 26 June 1899 - conduct -fair.
- HMS Pembroke I - 27 June 1899 to 5 September 1899 conduct good.
- HMS Jupiter - 6 September 1899 to 9 November 1899 conduct fair.
- HMS Majestic - 10 November to 17 November 1899 - no conduct rating, and he is back in the cells for 14 days. 2 December 1899 to 10 December 1899 no rating given.
- HMS Jupiter - 11 December 1899 to 20 June 1900 no rating given.
21 June 1900 to 25 June 1900 now ranked as Able Bodied Seaman.
- HMS Pembroke I - 26 June 1900 to 11 October 1900 - no rating given
- HMS Colossus - 12 October 1900 to 4 November 1900 - no rating given
- HMS Pembroke I - 5 November 1900 to 28 January 1901 - conduct good, then noted as Run. 3 December 1901 to 30 December 1901 conduct fair.
31 December 1901 to 21 January 1902 no rating given
- HMS Grafton - 22 January 1902 to 11 May 1902 conduct very good, then noted as Run.
- HMS Pembroke I - 12 July 1903 to 26 September 1903 conduct cant be deciphered, but record ends with Run again.
On the 4th November 1903 he was discharged. In
1906 he marries Mary Ann Ryan.
O the 2nd of April 1911 he is living at 5 Johns Place, York Street in Hull with his wife Mary Ann and children Emily and John. His younger brother, John, and a lodger are also living in the property, which consists of just three rooms.
On the 14th of December 1914 George enlists in the 3rd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment. He is now aged 34 years and two months, and is a coal trimmer. He has grown to a height of 5' 8". Now has two tattoos - hands and heart on his left wrist and a sailor on his right hand. His address is 7 Ash Grove, Dalton Street in Hull and the date of his marriage is given as 15th December 1906 and it took place at St Silas Church Sculcoates, Hull.
He was two children are noted:- Emily Ryan, born on November 24th 1902. She is crossed out and a note has been added - illegitimate - she was born 4 years before the marriage. John Francis Fridlington was born on 25th of April 1907.
On the 17th of December 1914 the vicar of St Silas Church certifies that Emily Agnes was the infant daughter of George Fridlington and Mary Ann Ryan, was baptised on 7th of December 1902, and their parents subsequently married, thus legitimising her. The Adjutant replies stating he must have actual birth certificate.
Given the note mentioned above, it appears the original certificate was not forthcoming and thus a dependant allowance was not made for her.
On the 28th of January 1915 George forfeits 6 days pay and was given 10 days detention due to absence from 23rd January 1915 to 24th January 1915 and from the 25th January 1915 to the 28th January 1915.
On the 13th of February 1915 he deserted. But on the 30th of March 1915 he rejoined after being arrested and awaiting trial.
On the 12th of April 1915 George was tried by the Divisional Courts Martial, and was convicted of desertion & deficiency of kit, and was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment (9 months remitted). All his former service is forfeited and entitlement towards pension now restarts from this date.
On the 19th of August 1915 he returns to duty. He had presumably been released from prison before the end of his net 6-month sentence.
But on the 17th of September 1915 he forfeits 6 days pay due to absence from this date to the 22nd of September.
He is absent again and on the 6th of October 1915 he forfeits 8 days pay for a seven-day absence.
Again on the 6th of November 1915 he forfeits 6 days pay for a three-day absence.
On the 15th of November 1915 George is transferred to the 6th Battalion and moves with battalion to Gallipoli and then to France
On the 30th of January 1917 he was posted to 3rd Battalion at Home Depot
and on the 1st of March 1917 he was reported absent. On the 24th George was declared a deserter but on the 26th he returned and
forfeited seven days pay for a six day absence.
On the 18th of April 1917 he forfits thirteen days pay for a twelve-day absence
and the following day was also awarded 14 days detention.
On the 18th of June 1917 Georges was tried and sentenced to 56 days detention, forfeiting all ordinary pay for the same period, and also put under further stoppage of pay until he had made good the loss of equipment worth 3s 1d.
On the 7th of July 1917 he was posted to the 6th Battalion. and on the 1st of November 1917 he transferred to the Labour Corps 753rd Area Employment Company the reason for transfer is given as benefit of service.
On the 7th of July 1918 he is posted to 742nd Area Employment Company.
On the 2nd of June 1919 he re-enlists for a further period in the Labour Corps for a short service until 30th of April 1920.
On the 2nd of July 1919 he was posted to the Base Depot of the BEF as part of the 723rd Labour Coy., and then proceeds overseas as part of the Graves Exhumation team.
On the 21st of October 1919 he was deprived of one days pay but no reason is stated on his records.
On the 7th of November 1919 George embarks on the SS Princess Henrietta for transport to the UK as unfit .
He is discharged on the 11th of November 1919. His conduct is quoted as indifferent. He gives an address of 6 Eleanors Terrace, Oxford Street in Hull. He also has rheumatism due to active service but it is not thought to be permanent.
But on the 23rd of November 1919 he is granted a pension of 6s 10d per week for 72 weeks due to rheumatism (not attributable to military service). He has a 15% degree of disablement.
George had served in the Mediterranean theatre from November 15th 1915 to July 2nd 1916 and then in France to January 29th 1917. After a spell back in the UK, he was in France again from July 7th 1917 to December 16th 1918 before returning to the UK through to June 1st 1916.
He qualified for the 1915 Star as well as the usual British War & Victory medals.
Unusually, transcripts of his trial are in his service record. It seems he was caught by a policeman whilst working in civilian clothes at Messrs Storey and Wittys Wharf at Wincolmlee. A corporal was sent to escort him back to the barracks and both of them and the receiving officer gave evidence. George opted to have no defence lawyer and asked the witnesses no questions , an air of inevitability, perhaps?
Whilst on active service, he received treatment in the field (from a Field Ambulance) for piles, but a few days later he was admitted to the 11th Casualty Clearing Station at Le Treport in France suffering from haemorrhoids, which led to treatment at a military hospital in the UK.
In October 1918 he was admitted to a medical post suffering from scabies
George died in Hull in late 1940, just over a year after his wife.
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Pte. Patrick Walsh 6th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment (d.23rd Nov 1915) I have recently discovered Patrick Walsh's Army records while doing my family tree. Patrick who was from Sunderland died from jaundice while at Sulva.
His parents were Patrick Walsh (born Galway, Ireland) and Mary Ann Barrett (Sunderland). Patrick left a wife, Margaret, and an adopted daughter Maria, who lived at 50 Woodbine Street, Sunderland. We do not have any photos of Patrick but if anyone does we would love to see them.
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2nd Lt. John Frederick Louis Sieber 6th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (d.4th Oct 1916) John Sieber was the cousin of my maternal grandfather. His parents were German immigrants who came to South Shields in the early 1890s. John was born in South Shields, where his father was a pork butcher, on 6 Nov 1896. He attended South Shields Grammar Technical School for Boys where he was a scholar and went from there, in 1913, to Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne, then part of Durham University. He joined the Durham OTC and on the outbreak of war was commissioned with the 6th Battalion, E Yorks. Apart from what I have read on websites - Gallipoli then France - I know nothing of his war history.
However, his story is an interesting one in this sense: at the time he was fighting the Germans for the British Army his parents and uncle and aunt, (my great grandparents) had been living and working on Tyneside. Although they escaped internment, they were hounded out of the region because they were Germans spending much of the war in Cumbria. His cousin - my grandfather's sister - had gone to Germany to stay with family in the summer of 1914, aged 13, and essentially was stranded in Germany for the duration of the war. Although she was not interned, she was treated as an alien, required to report twice daily to the local police in Kiel, Schleswig Holstein, and denied rations and education. The effect on this family arising from this state of internal conflict can only be imagined. They all stayed in England after the war, returning to Tyneside where my grand father's family, at least, prospered.
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Sgt. Richard Airey 6th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment (d.22nd Aug 1915) Richard Airey, my Great Uncle, was born in 1869 at Undermillbeck, Westmorland and was the son of Richard Airey and Jane Airey nee Slater. He was married to Amy Kate Airey and had five children (three surviving after 1903). He was mentioned in the 1901 and 1911 census forms as a Storekeeper with Hull Corporation.
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Pte. John Henderson 6th Battalion, C Coy East Yorkshire Regiment (d.22nd Aug 1915) John Henderson enlisted on 27th August 1914 and served with C Coy, 6th (Service) Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment.
He was born on 22nd August 1894 in Warkworth, Northumberland
He was killed on 22nd Aug 1915 aged 21.
He has no known grave but he is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey
Private John Henderson arrived with the Regiment at Sulva Bay Gallipoli on 7th Aug 1915.
On the 1911 Census, John is recorded as living with his parents, grandmother and sister Jessie at Sturton Grange, Warkworth. He was working on the farm. He was the only son of Mr. Andrew & Mrs. Elizabeth Henderson (nee Younger), Bank House Cottages, Acklington, Northumberland.
His Father’s occupation is listed as Roadman for rural District Council. On the 1901 Census, John is living with his parents and sister Jessina at Morden Farm, Lesbury. In 1918 his parents are living at Bank House Cottages, Acklington
An Item in the Alnwick Gazette in 1916 records:
“Mr & Mrs A. Henderson, Bank House Cottages, Acklington have received word from the War Office that their only son John Henderson, East Yorks Regt, who was reported wounded and missing on 22 Aug 1915 (his 21st birthday) has now been officially reported killed on that date. He enlisted on 27th August 1914 and went with his Regt to the Dardenellesâ€.
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2nd Lt. John McIntyre MM & Bar. 6th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment John McIntyre was born in Choppington Northumberland in 1894. He joined the East Yorkshire Battalion in 1914 aged 20 as a private. He landed in Suvla Bay on 8th August 1915 and spent 4 months surviving the cold, lack of food and the Turkish guns until he left on 19th December for Mudros.
In January 1916 he was made sergeant and by February his unit was defending the Suez Canal. The Middle of May they embarked from Egypt to Marseilles via Malta. They arrived at St. Pol on 13th July 1916.
In the following year and three months John was awarded the Military Medal and Bar and moved through some of the more famous battle grounds as listed in his war diary.
On 13th December 1917 John McIntyre returned to England.and was noted as a candidate for admission to Officer Cadet in the Royal Air Force. He had two letters from King George inviting him to become an officer of the Royal Air Force in September 1918.
In 1919 he relinquished his Royal Air Force Commission. At some stage during his war service he had broken his ankle and never had it set so he suffered from this injury later in life. He had shrapnel wounds on his face but like many men never talked fully about what happened.
We heard about the Turkish throwing bombs which they threw back if they had time. We saw that he was not afraid of rats and that he could kill them with his bare hands. He never bragged about his medals so we didn't know how he won them and he is mentioned in the regimental diary and the date but not what he had done to deserve them.
I expect he thought people would not believe what or where he had been because his regiment had been to a lot of fighting arenas. The final thing I have learnt from the study is that John's elder brother James was in the same regiment as him and he was killed on the 11th August 1917 so he probably didn't want to talk about any of it in case it upset his parents.
John's only son Hoodless Robinson McIntyre, a Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion Gordon Highlanders, was killed on 26th September 1944 in the mountains of the Gallic Line and is buried in the War Cemetery in Fienza, Italy. John died in 1979 in Bradford.
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Pte. William Mackay 6th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (d.22nd Aug 1915) William Mackay served with the 6th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment.
He was aged 24 when he died on 22nd August 1915.
Born in Jarrow in 1890 he was the son of William Hall Mackay of 99 Salem Street Jarrow and the late Margaret Jane Mackay (nee Bowey). On the 1911 census he is recorded as William Mackay age 20 General Labourer in Tube Works with his parents William and Margaret Jane Mackay and family at 99 Salem Street, Jarrow. He enlisted in Jarrow.
William is remembered on the Helles Memorial.
He is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow and was commemorated on the Triptych (right panel) in St. Mark's Church Jarrow (it is no longer a Church)
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Pte. James Kelly 6th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (d.26th Sep 1916) James Kelly was serving with the 6th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment when he died on 26th September 1916. He was born and enlisted in Jarrow, he was the son of James Kelly and the late Matilda Kelly of Jarrow.
James is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
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Pte. Richard Turner 752nd Coy. Labour Corps (d.8th Jul 1918) Richard Turner died aged 26. He was born in 1892 Jarrow, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Turner of 20 Queen's Road Jarrow. In the 1911 Census Richard Elliott Turner, age 18, a Coal Hawker, is recorded as living with his Parents, Thomas & Elizabeth Turner & his siblings at 180, High Street, Jarrow. He enlisted in Jarrow and served in the 6th Battalion, & 7th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment before transferring to the Labour Corps. He first served in the Balkans on the 29th of September 1915.
Richard is buried in Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery.
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Pte. Charles Carr 6th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment (d.21st Aug 1915) Charles Carr aged 19, died on 21st August 1915 whilst serving with the
6th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment.
He was born and lived Hebburn, son of Arthur and Mary Carr (nee Dunn). On the 1911 census Charles Carr age 14, Platers Marker in Shipyard is listed as living with his parents Arthur and Mary Carr at Hebburn. He enlisted in Wallsend.
Charles is remembered on the Helles Memorial and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (south face) Jarrow.
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