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GUNNER WILLIAM MARSHALL.
SERVICE NUMBER: 108201. UNIT/REGIMENT: 263rd Siege Battery. Royal Garrison Artillery.
BORN: Tadcaster. ENLISTED: Tadcaster.
GAVE HIS LIFE: 17/05/1917. AGED: 25.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster.
CEMETERY: Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun. GRAVE/PANEL : IV. L. 22.
YORKSHIRE EVENING POST LEEDS JUNE 1ST 1917.
Mr and Mrs J.Marshall of Kirkgate Tadcaster, have recieved intamation of the death in action in France on may 17th of thier second son Gunner William Marshall, R.F.A.
The deceased was previousley in partnership with his father and brother as painters decoraters and plumbers.
His younger brother Private Fred Marshall Durham Light Infantry is in hospital at Glasgow suffering from wounds.
The other brother was mentioned in the following newspaper artical.
YORKSHIRE HERALD 1916
Fred Private C. H. Marshall, joiner (John Smiths Brewery) of Sunningdale has been in the Sherwood foresters since May 1915.
He has two brothers in the Royal Garrison Artillery.
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PRIVATE HENRY MASKILL.
SERVICE NUMBER: 15231. UNIT: 9th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment.
BORN: Bramham. ENLISTED: Tadcaster.
GAVE HIS LIFE: 27/08/1917. AGED:
CEMETERY: GRAVE/PANEL :
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster. Bramham.
See Bramham.
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PRIVATE FREDERICK MASON.
SERVICE NUMBER: 11639. UNIT: 9th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment.
BORN: Tadcaster. ENLISTED: York.
GAVE HIS LIFE: 16/11/1915. AGED: 23.
CEMETERY: Hill 10 Cemetery. GRAVE/PANEL: I. F.15.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster.
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PRIVATE JACK METCALFE.
SERVICE NUMBER: 42016. UNIT: 7th Bn.East Yorkshire Regiment.
BORN: Tadcaster. ENLISTED: Harrogate. RESIDENCE: Tadcaster.
GAVE HIS LIFE: 09/06/1918. AGED: 17.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster.
CWGC STATES:
"Son of John Metcalf Rosemary Row Tadcaster".
The above service details are correct shown in Those Who Died Records and the CWGC site shows this man with the details so this record is correct. No "E" was shown on the spelling of the name this is how it was on his birth certificate.
However at the bottom of the Gravestone it reads "Safe in the arms of Jesus, from his sorrowing father, mother and three brothers" The 1901 census shows Jack living with his parents John BORN pickering aged 28 and Fanny Maria Born Brompton aged 29 no other family members were there.
A Private 201568 John Claude Metcalfe Born Halifax Enlisted York Residance Wetherby KIA 31/08/1917, 18th Bn West Yorks Regt Aged 28, son of William and Rose Ann is remembered in the records and did have three other brothers ! could this have been a clerical error by the CWGC engravers and the message at the base of Jacks Gravestone was intended for John claude.
Yorkshire Herald from 1916.
" Driver J. H. Metcalfe is at the front. A brewers labourer, of Rockliffes Yard Tadcaster he enlisted only a few weeks after war was declared"
CEMETERY: Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No 2. GRAVE/PANEL : I. D. 15.
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LANCE CORPORAL BRISCOMBE MORRIS.
SERVICE NUMBER: 21483. REGIMENT: 2nd Bn Norhtumberland Fusiliers.
BORN: Holbeck Leeds. ENLISTED: York.
GAVE HIS LIFE: 10/09/1916. AGED: 31.
CEMETERY: Struma Military Cemetery. GRAVE/PANEL: V. F. 8.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster.
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GUNNER HERBERT NELSON.
SERVICE NUMBER: 35545. REGIMENT: "A" Battery 78th Brigade. Royal Field Artillery.
BORN: ENLISTED:
GAVE HIS LIFE: 28/02/1919. AGED: 41.
CEMETERY: Fulford Cemetery, York. GRAVE/PANEL : G. 7.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster.
CWGC States:
"Son of Robert Nelson, of Tadcaster, Yorks,
husband of Mabel Nelson, of 75, Waterside, King's Langley, Herts."
