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3rd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment
3rd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) was in York in August 1914 when war broke out, they soon moved to Whitley Bay to defend the coast. The 3rd Battalion remained in Britain throughout the conflict, training troops to reinforce other units abroad.
7th Aug 1914 3rd West Yorks man the Tyne Garrison 3rd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment moved from their base in York to Whitley Bay as part of the Tyne Garrison.
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Pte, Osmond Clark 3rd Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment (d.1st July 1916) Osmond Clark is my husband's grandfather. We discovered his name on the WWII memorial in Lawnswood Cemetery Leeds. The date of his death was 1st July 1916, and we immediately linked that to the Battle of The Somme.
However, after obtaining his death certificate, we found, sadly, he had died in Whitley Bay of acute lobar pneumonia while serving with the Tyne Garrison. This may have been linked to conditions they experienced, but we shall never know. Unfortunately, his first wife died in 1911, and this meant that my husband's father was left an orphan at the age of 8. He had a stepmother, but eventually he was brought up in a very strict household by his grandparents.
I have been unable to obtain his service records. The reason I have been given is that they were likely among those records which were destroyed.
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2nd Lt Hugh Price 3rd (Reserve) Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (d.11th Oct 1918) My father's eldest brother, 2nd Lieutenant Hugh Price, died in the Battle of Cambrai on 11th October 1918, aged 27, the day before the German High Command requested an armistice. He was serving attached to the 7th Btn.
Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment.
His parents, Daniel and Kate Price lived at 2 Delaval Road, Whitley Bay, along with my father Cecil Price, who was too young to service in the Great War.
Daniel was born in Wales and Kate was from Sheffield.
Daniel's first language was Welsh.
I have never seen a photograph of Hugh or his fiancee and all I know is that he was engaged to be married and that his fiancee never married.
Kate Price never got over the loss of Hugh and she died in Whitley Bay in 1953, where she lived in Stanley Crescent with my mother and father.
Daniel Price was a draper by trade and I believe Hugh was as well.
I recall that Hugh had been working in London before he joined the Army.
All the male members of the Price family were in St. Paul's (CofE) choir in Whitley Bay, from about 1903, when they moved from Hartlepool to Whitley Bay.
My father Cecil died at the age of 97 in 1999.
My mother Vera died in 2018 at the age of 95.
I would greatly appreciate being able to see a photograph of 2nd Lieut
Hugh Price.
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Pte. Thomas Percival Montager Brumpton 3rd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment Letters from Percy Brumpton's lady friend were found in the personal effects of a friend recently deceased.
They were married in 1917 at Rotherham.
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Pte. Paul Frederick Horton 2nd Btn. Royal Scots (d.28th September 1917) Paul Horton was the son of Thomas Frederick and Minna Horton of Bedford. Born in Bedford he attended Bedford Modern Scool before going onto Manchester University where he obtained a 2nd class MA, History with honours. He was Assistant Minister at Fulneck Church.
He enlisted in March 1916 in Pudsey, Yorkshire with the 3rd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, later transferring to the 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots. He was killed in action on 28th of September 1917 aged 29 years at Ypres and is buried in Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium. He is remembered on the War Memorial in St Peters Church, Bedford. A pupil of Bedford Modern School 1896-1906, commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923.
Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
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A/Sgt. Thomas Henry Rose 3rd Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment My great grandfather Tommy Rose joined up on 28th August 1914 and was discharged as no longer physically fit for war service on 17th September 1917. He was shot in the lung at Gallipoli. He survived the war and died in 1940.
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Lt. Graydon William Goldsworthy MC. 3rd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment Graydon Goldsworthy was my uncle and I am serching for his records. I have a copy of him joining in 14/11/1915, commisioned 4/9/1916, awarded M.C. 21/1/1919, retired 10/10/1921. I have recently received from his daughter, copies of his hand wrtten letters sent home to his parents from the trenches in France between Nov 1915 and Feb 1916.
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Lt Harry Rowland Thelwell 3rd Btn. West Yorkshire Regt (d.8th July 1916) Lt Harry Thelwell, 3rd Bt, (att 2nd) Duke of Wellington's West Riding Rgt, died of wounds on July 8th 1916. When war broke out Lt Thelwell joined the Queen Victoria Rifles in which regiment he had already served for four years and went to France on October 1914. he took part in the attack on Hill 60 following which he was given a commission in the Duke of Wellington Rgt and was sent to France where he received his second star. He was the only son of Mrs Thelwell and the late Mr George Thelwell of Commercial Street, Leeds. He was 23 years of age and was educated at St Cuthbert's College, Worksop.
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