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Pte. Bertie Laver
British Army 17th Btn., attchd. Royal Engineers Middlesex Regiment
from:Braintree, Essex
(d.19th December 1916)
Sgt. Ernest Laverick DCM
British Army 13th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Middlesbrough
(d.28th July 1917)
2nd.Lt. Frederick Gordon Laverick
British Army 7th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:Middlesbrough
(d.23rd July 1917)
Second Lieutenant Frederick Laverick served with 7th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment.
Sgt. John George Laverick MM
British Army 20th Btn. Nothumberland Fusilliers
from:Newfield, Durham
Jack Laverick was discharged at the end of hostilities with the rank of Sergeant. He returned to his trade of coal mining in the Newfield, Durham area. In 1919 he married Elizabeth Jackson and in 1926 emigrated to Hikurangi, New Zealand with Elizabeth and their young daughter Vera. Jack continued underground coal mining in the area.
With the outbreak of WW2 Jack enlisted in the New Zealand Army but was rejected for overseas service on health grounds due to being gassed during WW1.John George Laverick MM, died at Whanagrei Base Hospital, New Zealand on 29th February 1944 and is buried beside his beloved Elizabeth at Kaurihohore Cemetery, Northland, New Zealand.
Pte. John Laverick
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Burradon
John Laverick was discharged in 1916
Capt. Charles Stewart Touzeau Lavers DFC.
Royal Flying Corps 1 Sqd.
David James Laverty
British Army 12th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Ballytober, Bushmills, Co Antrim,
L/Cpl. John Laverty MM.
British Army 7th/8th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Ballymoney, Co. Antrim
(d.20th Nov 1917 )
During a two week period in August 1917, Lance Corporal Laverty acted with such heroism that he was both awarded the Military Medal. In November that year, Laverty and Private McKee held off a German attack with a heavy machine gun, while their fellow servicemen withdrew. Both men manned the gun to their deaths. They have no known grave and are commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.
L/Cpl. John Laverty MM.
British Army 7/8th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Ballymoney
(d.20th Nov 1917)
L/Cpl John Laverty served with the 7/8th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers and was awarded the MM. He died on the 20th November 1917.
Pte. Arthur William E Lavery
British Army 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Arthur Lavery died aged 22, he was born in Chatham 1894. He lived and enlisted in Jarrow. In the 1911 Census he is recorded as Arthur Lavery, age 17, a Shipyard Labourer, lived with his parents Edward & Martha Lavery & his siblings at 104, Hope Street, Jarrow. He first served in France on the 18th of 1915.
Arthur is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph Jarrow.
2/Lt. D. Lavery
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
Edward Lavery
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Cookstown
(d.16th May 1915)
Pte. J. Lavery
British Army 3rd Dragoon Guards(Prince of Wales Own)
(d.6th Nov 1914)
Pte. John Lavery
British Army 3rd Dragoon Guards
(d.6th Nov 1914)
John Lavery died aged 19 whilst serving with the Dragoon Guards, a regular soldier, he had previously served with the Durham Light Infantry. He went to France with the BEF on the 31st of October 1914. John is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
he was born in Jarrow in 1895, he had enlisted in Jarrow and lived Lichfield Nottingham. In the 1911 Census he is recorded as John Lavery, age 16, a Metal Cleaner in an Iron Foundry, a Boarder with the Wallace Family living at 132, Dee Street, Jarrow-on-Tyne.
Pte. Joseph Lavery
British Army 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.10th Nov 1916)
Joseph Lavery died aged 38, born in Longtown Cumberland in 1878, he lived in Jarrow and was the husband of Florence Knaggs (formerly Lavery nee Renton) of 34 Shakespeare Street Jarrow. He enlisted in Newcastle with the Durham Light Infantry.
Joseph is buried in Coin British Cemetery.
Pte. Joseph Lavery
British Army Royal Irish Rifles
from:Soldierstown
In April 1916, Joseph Lavery had taken ill and was sent to the general hospital in Rouen, France, suffering from influneza. He went on to fight at the Somme and was found some days after going over the top in a shell hole suffering with severe shrapnel injury to the head. He was sent home to recover, we think, in the UVF hospital in East Belfast. He was discharged wounded and received the silver badge For King And Empire Services Rendered.
Sgt. William Lavery
British Army 11th Btn., A Coy. Royal Irish Rifles
(d.24th June 1916)
Sgt Lavery has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 15A and 15B.
Pte Patrick Lavey
British Army 12th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Haverton Hill
(d.13th July 1916)
Law
British Army 42 Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
L/Cpl. Alfred Law
British Army 7th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Smethwick, Worcestershire
(d.8th Aug 1915)
Alfred Law was born in 1897, one of 10 Children. When the First World War started he enlisted at Smethwick and served with the 7th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment. We do not know where he fought up to 8th August 1915 when he was killed in action at Gallipoli. He was a great man and is remembered by all the family.
L/Cpl. Alfred Law
British Army 7th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Smethwick, Staffordshire
(d.8th Aug 1915)
My great uncle Alfred Law, was born in 1897 in Smethwick, Staffordshire. When war was announced he went to enlist at Smethwick and joined the 7th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. I do not know the places he fought at but I do know that he died on the 8th August 1915 at Gallipoli while fighting alongside the Anzacs. His brother (my Grandfather) who was fighting in Palestine was not told for two weeks because of being in conflict there.
We as a family are very proud of what he died for and as a memorial to him we light a lantern every night so that it can burn bright in honour of his bravery.
L/Cpl. Alfred Law
British Army 7th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
(d.8th Aug 1915)
My great uncle, Lance Corporal Alfred Law, was killed along with hundreds of commonwealth troops an attack at Chunuk Bair early on the Sunday morning.
Sgt. Frank Edger Law
British Army 8th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Coventry
He was with his Battalion 8th K.R.R.C after transferring from the 1st Battalion K.R.R.C as an N.C.O through out WW1 right up until he was captured during the German attack on 21st March 1918. He was taken to Mannhiem and put in a prison of war camp there. During his time there he caught pneumonia, and managed to trick the Germans into believing it was tuberculosis which back then was contagious and a killer. The Germans did not want to have some one with this illness among them so they repatriated him back home via Switzerland. He was them looked after by his wife until he recovered and then was able to re join the K.R.R.C at Winchester later being demobbed in 1919.
Pte. George Law
British Army 1st Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Clavering, Essex
(d.31st Oct 1915)
George Law is my Gt Uncle, 1st Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps 10954 Died aged 23 on Sunday, 31st October 1915. Commemorated in Woburn Abbey Cemetery, Cuincy, Pas de Calais, France. His grave marker reads as follows: Seven long years have passed away one we love was called away Mum and Dad.
Pte. Herbert Edgar Law
British Army 11th Battalion Essex Regiment
from:Arkesden, Essex
(d.1st July 1916)
Bertie Law was killed on the 1st of July 1916.
Pte. James Albert Law
British Army 8th Btn. King's Own (Royal Lancaster)
from:54 Ferndale St., Burnley
(d.12th May 1917)
James Law was the elder brother of my paternal grandmother, Dorothy Law. In his earlier life he made several trips to Brazil along with his parents and sister as the family had an interest in a cotton mill there. He subsequently married Susannah and set up as a hairdresser. He was much loved and admired by my grandmother who subsequently named her only child (my father) after him.
Cpl. Leonard "Aladdin" Law
British Army 1/5th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment
from:West Melton
(d.9th Oct 1917)
Sgt. Melvin Law
British Army 9th Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
(d.1st July 1916)
Sgt Melvin Law served in the 9th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. During the Somme offensive on 1st July 1916, Sgt Law was killed in action. He has no known grave but is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
L/Cpl. Richard Law
British Army 1st Btn. Cameron Highlanders
from:Selkirk
Grandfather Dick Law was an Old Contemptible with the 1st Cameron Highlanders. He was wounded and captured at Langemark on the 25th of October 1914. He was repatriated as unfit for further service to Switzerland in May 1916.
L/Bmbdr. Sidney Walker Law
British Army 154th Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
(d.21st March 1918)
"Poor Sid was killed instantly about 10.30 on the morning of the 21st March 1918. You will be grateful to know he did not suffer at all. In the evening, we buried him just before receiving the order to retire, placing a rough wooden cross over the grave. The grave is situated behind the village of Beaumetz, about 1000 yards from the Bapaume-Cambrai Road and behind the gun pits". An extract from a letter to Sid Law's mother from Bombadier Leslie Henry Fisher MM number 147103 of the same battery sent in January 1919.
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