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PRIVATE ROBERT ELMER
SERVICE NUMBER: 58279. REGIMENT: 173rd Company Machine Gun Corps (Infantry).
BORN: Leeds. ENLISTED: Monk Fryston. RESIDENCE: South Milford.
GAVE HIS LIFE: 22/07/1917. AGED: 20.
CEMETERY: Estaires Communal Cemetery Extension France. GRAVE: IV. C. 12.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Monk Fryston.
Origanily enlisted into Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Service Number 30637.
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PRIVATE WALTER FIRN.
SERVICE NUMBER: 13202. UNIT/REGIMENT: 10th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment.
BORN: Wakefield ENLISTED: York. RESIDENCE: South Milford.
GAVE HIS LIFE: 05/05/1916. AGED: 19.
CEMETERY: St Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension Nord. GRAVE: II. D. 18.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Monk Fryston.
CWGC States:
"Son of John and Annie Firn, of High St., South Milford, Yorks."
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PRIVATE GEORGE GARNETT.
SERVICE NUMBER: 28990. UNIT/REGIMENT: 1st Bn East Yorkshire Regiment.
BORN: South Milford. ENLISTED: South Milford. GAVE HIS LIFE: 04/10/1917. AGED: 18.
CEMETERY: Hooge Crater Cemetery Belgium. GRAVE: X .A. 1.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: South Milford.
George was the son of John a railway platelayer Born South Milford 1867 and Sarah Jane Firth Born Leeds 1867, they married in 1890.
The family resided on the High Street South Milford, George had a brother William and Sisters Edith, Mary, Lily, and Annie.
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PRIVATE NORMAN HANSON.
SERVICE NUMBER: 10669. UNIT/REGIMENT: 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment.
BORN: South Milford. ENLISTED: York. GAVE HIS LIFE: 07/08/1915. AGED: 24.
CEMETERY: St Helles Memorial Turkey. PANEL: 47 to 51..
LOCAL MEMORIAL: South Milford.
Norman was the son of John Born Cold Hill Aberford Yorkshire 1857 and Fanny Born South Milford 1859.
Those Who Died Record states cause of Death was "Died of Wounds at Sea".
Possibly on one of the many Hospital Ships after being evacuated from the Gallipoli Landings.
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GUNNER THOMAS EDWARD HILL.
SERVICE NUMBER: 69203. UNIT/REGIMENT: 135th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery.
BORN: South Milford. ENLISTED: South Milford. RESIDENCE: Leeds.
GAVE HIS LIFE: 24/04/1917. AGED: 21.
CEMETERY: St Fauberg D' Amiens Cemetery Arras France. PANEL: V. C. 2.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: South Milford.
CWGC States:
"Son of Lucy A. Hill, of Common Lane, South Milford, Leeds, and the late Robert Thomas Hill".
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PRIVATE HENRY HODGSON.
SERVICE NUMBER: 12396. UNIT/REGIMENT: 10th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment.
BORN: South Milford. ENLISTED: York. GAVE HIS LIFE: 01/07/1916. AGED: 20.
CEMETERY: Thiepval Memorial France.M PANEL: Face 2A. 2C. 2D.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster.
YORKSHIRE HERALD 1916
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ACTING SERJEANT HARRY HOWIE.
SERVICE NUMBER: 7547. UNIT/REGIMENT: 2nd Bn Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment.
BORN: Leeds. ENLISTED: Halifax. RESIDENCE: South Milford.
GAVE HIS LIFE: 23/02/1915. AGED: 28.
CEMETERY: St Tuileries British Cemetery Zillebeke Belgium. PANEL: Special Memorial C.24
LOCAL MEMORIAL: None.
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RIFELMAN JOHN FREDERICK HUME
SERVICE NUMBER: 270091. UNIT/REGIMENT: 1/8th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment.
BORN: South Milford. ENLISTED: South Milford. GAVE HIS LIFE: 09/10/1917. AGED: 19.
CEMETERY: Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium.. PANEL:. 42. to 47. and 162.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: South Milford.
CWGC States:
"Son of John Henry and Maria Hume, of High St., South Milford, Yorks.
An employee of the N.E. Railway".
John was the son of John Henry Born York 1869 and Maria Longfield Born Sherburn-in-Elmet 1874, they married in 1897.
John's father is shown as a Carpenter Joiner in the 1901 census.
