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PRIVATE GEORGE TATE.
SERVICE NUMBER: 132936. UNIT/REGIMENT: 4th Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
BORN: Tadcaster. ENLISTED: Harrogate.
GAVE HIS LIFE: 05/04/1918. AGED: 20.
CEMETERY: Vielle-Chapelle New Military Cemetery, Lacouture.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster.
George was the son of Frederick born 1867 in Malton North Yorkshire who was a clerk in one of the local breweries and then has a foreman in one of the stables,.
His mother Annie Mary Pickard was born in 1868 at Towton near Tadcaster they married in 1893.
George was the younger brother of Herbert see below who also gave his life.
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PRIVATE HERBERT TATE.
SERVICE NUMBER: 57264. UNIT/REGIMENT: 11th Bn. Cheshire Regiment.
BORN: Tadcaster. ENLISTED: York.
GAVE HIS LIFE: 12/07/1917. AGED: 21.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster.
GRAVE: I. E. 15.
CEMETERY: Belgium Battery Corner.
YORKSHIRE EVENING POST LEEDS JULY 18TH 1917.
"Mr and Mrs Fred tate of Westfield Terrace Tadcaster have recieved notice that their son Trooper Herbert Tate has been killed in action on July 11th.
A clerk at Messers John Smiths Brewery he joined the colours in November 1914, and saw service at the Balkans ,where he was invalided after an attack of Malaria."
Elder brother of George (see above)
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LANCE CORPORAL FRANCIS JAMES TAYLOR.
SERVICE NUMBER: 2653. UNIT/REGIMENT: A Company.12th (County of London) Bn (The Rangers).
BORN: Scotland ENLISTED: London. RESIDENCE: Clapham London.
GAVE HIS LIFE: 03/07/1916. AGED: 23.
CEMETERY: Couin British Cemetery. GRAVE: II. A. 6.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster.
Son of James B. Born Gateshead in 1863 and Hannah Born in 1862. Francis had brothers Henry and John.
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PRIVATE ROBERT HENRY TAYLOR.
SERVICE NUMBER: 8100. UNIT/REGIMENT: 2nd Bn Yorkshire Regiment.
BORN: Tadcaster. ENLISTED: Tadcaster.
GAVE HIS LIFE: 22/10/1914. AGED: 28.
CEMETERY: Ypres Menin Gate Memorial. PANEL: 33.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster.
CWGC States:
Son of Edward and Martha Ann Taylor, of 19, Westfield Terrace, Tadcaster, Yorks
YORKSHIRE HERALD 1914
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SERJEANT FREDERICK TERRY.
SERVICE NUMBER: 2503. UNIT: 1st 5th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment.
BORN: Tadcaster. ENLISTED: York.
GAVE HIS LIFE: 29/09/1916. AGED: 23.
CEMETERY: Thiepval Memorial. PANEL: 2A. 2C. 2D.
LOCAL MEMORIAL: Tadcaster.
Son of Frederick Born Tadcaster 1852 and Margaret Wilkinson Born Owston Ferry 1854 who married at Tadcaster in 1881.
