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WILLIAM SNOWDEN.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster.
DETAILS UNKNOWN
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PRIVATE ARTHUR SOUTHERN.
SERVICE NUMBER: 30912. UNIT: 7th Bn East Yorkshire Regiment.
BORN: Tadcaster. ENLISTED: Hull.
GAVE HIS LIFE: 20/03/1917. AGED: 23.
CEMETERY: St Sever Cemetery Extension Rouen. GRAVE : O. VII. 3.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster. Kirkby Wharfe/Ulleskelfe.
Details Kirby Wharfe/Ulleskelfe.
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LANCE BOMBARDIER JOHN WILLIAM SOUTHERN.
SERVICE NUMBER: 151997. UNIT/REGIMENT: 301st Brigade Royal field Artillery.
ENLISTED: Harrogate. GAVE HIS LIFE: 13/01/1918.
CEMETERY: Jerusalem War Cemetery. GRAVE : S. 62.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster. Kirkby Wharfe / Ulleskelf.
Details Kirkby Wharfe/Ulleskelf.
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CORPORAL JOSEPH SPENCER.
SERVICE NUMBER: 13238. UNIT: 11th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment.
BORN: Thorpe Arch. ENLISTED: York. RESIDENCE: Stutton near Tadcaster
GAVE HIS LIFE: 19/09/1917. AGED: 27.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster.
The son of George Born Tadcaster 1859 and Mary Ann Strothard Born Thorp Arch 1857 who married in 1884.
Joseph had brothers Herbert Born Stutton 1897 Harry Born Stutton 1899 and sisters Alice Born Newton Kyme 1888 and Edith Born Thorp Arch 1892.
George was a railway platelayer hence the reason he moved around the Tadcaster area indeed all his children were born where there was a railway station .
When his son Joseph gave his life the family were living in the railway cottages in Stutton village near Tadcaster.
YORKSHIRE HERALD JULY 14TH 1916
"Pvt Joseph Spencer, Stutton, Tadcaster, has been wounded by shrapnel in the left shoulder.
He enlisted about a month after the outbreak of war, and has been in France for 12 months."
YORKSHIRE EVENING POST LEEDS 24TH OCTOBER 1917
"Mr and Mrs G.Spencer of Stutton Tadcaster have received official notification that their eldest son Corporal Joseph Spencer (27) of the West Yorkshires has been killed in action on September 30th.
He was formerly employed by the North Eastern Railway Company at Tadcaster.
He was invalided on July 1st 1916 and returned to the front in January 1917."
GRAVE : II. C. 9.
CEMETERY: Hooge Crater Cemetery.
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STOKER 1st CLASS WILSON STEEL.
SERVICE NUMBER: K/11446. UNIT: Royal Navy, H.M.S. "Hogue".
GAVE HIS LIFE: 22/09/1914. AGED: 29.
CEMETERY: Portsmouth Naval Memorial. PANEL: 4.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster. Clifford.
CWGC States:
"Son of Lucy A. Fowler, of High St., Clifford, Boston Spa, Yorks."
Wilson Steele was actually Wilson Fowler son of George Born Tockwith 1868 a gamekeeper on Smaws Farm and Lucy Ann Bilbrough Born Tadcaster 1869 they married at Tadcaster in 1889.
Wilson was the brother of Alfred Fowler remembered on this site who gave his life on the 20/11/1917.
Wilson also had brothers George born Newton Kyme and Harry Born Smaws Farm and sisters Lucy and Lillian.
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PRIVATE ALVARA STOREY
SERVICE NUMBER: 6/5627. UNIT: 1st/6th Bn.West Riding Regiment.
BORN: Gateforth Selby.. ENLISTED: Halifax..
GAVE HIS LIFE: 03/09/1916. AGED: 20.
CEMETERY: Connaught Cemetery Thiepval. GRAVE: XII. K. 1.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: None.
Alvara was the son of Hubert Stanley and mary who according to the Commonwealth War graves Commision were residing in Lower shelf Northowram Near Halifax.
However Alvara is included in this section due to the following newspaper article from September 1916.
Yorkshire Evening Post.
"Private Alvara Storey aged 20 years, son of H.S Storey of Hazelwood, Tadcaster fell in action on September the 3rd."
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LIETENANT FRANK WILLIAM SYKES.
REGIMENT: Royal Field Artillery. BORN: York. GAVE HIS LIFE: 14/03/1918. AGED: 25.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster.
Frank William was the son of William Born Brighouse 1858 and Agnes Ann Thompson Born Barnsley 1860 who married in 1885 at Doncaster.
YORKSHIRE EVENING POST LEEDS OCTOBER 17TH 1917
"F.W Sykes R.F.A. son of Mr W.Sykes CC managing director of Messers John Smiths Tadcaster Brewery has been wounded in the chest by shrapnel and is in hospital abroad.
Before entering the army he was a commercial assistant at the brewery.
He trained with the Leeds University O.T.C and was granted a commision in July 1915."
GRAVE : IV. B.5.
CEMETERY: La Clytte Military Cemetery Belgium.
The Family memorial for Frank found in Tadcaster Churchyard.
