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Pte. Michael Riley

British Army 12th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment

from:Jarrow

(d.28th Mar 1916)

Michael Riley, Private 17339, enlisted at Jarrow and, after previous service in the East Yorkshire Regiment (Service No.15325), served in the 12th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment. He was killed in action age 20 on the 28th March 1916. He is remembered at Elzenwalle Brasserie Cemetery. VI.B.4. His medal card records the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals also that he was killed in action.

Michael was born in Boldon 1896, son of Anthony and Catherine Riley nee Gilfoy of Jarrow. An Ancestry search of census records for 1911 shows the family living at Gillespies Building, Bolden Colliery, Durham with Catherine(43) a widow, described as a washerwoman. she had beeen married for 20 years having 10 children, 7 of whom survived. There are 5 children, all born in Boldon Colliery, recorded at this address, 3 sons and 2 daughters all of school age except Michael who is 15 and working as a screener coal miner above ground.



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