Brown T W Cpl 24/368 5th York & Lancaster Regiment

BROWN, THOMAS WALTER, Corpl., No. 24/368, 1/5th (Territorial) Battn. The York and Lancaster Regt., eldest s. of Thomas Brown, of 65, Bailey Lane, Sheffield, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of Walter (and Sarah) Stokes b. Sheffield, co. York, in 1887; educ. Red Hill School there was a Miner; joined the the York and Lancaster Regt. 25 May, 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Dec. 1916, and died at St. John’s Ambulance Brigade Hos-pital, Etaples, 20 Oct. 1917. Buried at Etaples. His nurse wrote: “He was such a good boy, and was liked by all.” Unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Berry W T Pte 22826 8th York And Lancs Regiment

BERRY, WILLIAM THOMAS, Private, No. 22826, 8th (Service) Battn. The York and Lancaster Regt., eldest s. of William Thomas Berry, of 69, Midland Road, Royston, by his wife, Sarah Jane (-); b. West Bromwich, co. Stafford, 13 May, 1898; educ. at the Elementary Schools, Great Bridge Road Great Bridge, co. Stafford. was a Miner; enlisted 5 July, 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 7 April, and was reported missing after the fighting on the Somme 1 July, 1916, and is now assumed to have been killed on that date. Buried in a cemetery near Albert; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Peace H K Lt 3rd York And Lancs Regiment

LIEUTENANT H. K. PEACE

3RD BATTALION THE YORK AND LANCASTER REGIMENT

HUBERT KIRKDY PLACE was the youngest son of Hugh Kirkby Peace, head of the firm of W. K. and C. Peace, Steel and File Manufacturers, Sheffield.

He entered the School in 1896, and left in 1899. After leaving Rugby he entered his father’s office, and when the latter died, in December, 1906, he became Managing Director of the firm. It had always been his ambition to join the Army, and he took a great interest in the Volunteers, serving for ten years in the 4th (Hallamshire) Battalion. of the York and Lancaster Regiment. He retired from the Territorial Force a year before the outbreak of War.

In August, 1914, he received a Commission as Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment (Reserve of Officers), and on October 3rd he was sent to the Front attached to the 1st Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment.

Ilis first action was in the attack on the village of Herlies, which ended in the complete rout of the enemy at the point of the bayonet. On October 15th our line moved forward towards the village of Aubers.

Lieut. Peace was in command of a platoon in the first line of trenches, where they were under a withering fire from machine guns and rifles, and seeing that it was imperative that the supports should be hurried up he volunteered to go back himself for this purpose. He succeeded in his object, but on his return to the firing line he was shot in the neck by a sniper from a farmhouse on the flank. He never regained consciousness and died the next morning, October 16th, 1914, on his 33rd birthday.

Both his brother Officers and his men agreed in stating that Lieut. Peace’s action in fetching up supports not only saved the platoon from being wiped out, but also turned the tide of battle in their favour, and aided in ultimately driving the Germans from their position.

Lieut. Peace married, in August, 1906, Grace Mary, daughter of C. H. Weller, of St. Leonards, and left one son, five years old.

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1

PEACE, HUBERT KIRKBY, Lieut., 3rd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., 3rd s. of the late Hugh Kirkby Kirkby Peace, of Springfield House, Sheffield, Steel Manufacturer, by his wife, Emmeline (Sandygate, Sheffield), dau. of James Fawcett; b. Sheffield, 16 Oct. 1881; educ. Rugby; became Managing Director of his father’s firm, W. K. & C. Peace, File Manu-facturers, Feb. 1906; joined the 1st Volunteer Battn. York and Lancaster Regt. (Doncaster Militia), afterwards the 4th (Hallamshire) Battn., and served 10 years retiring in May, 1913, but, after the outbreak of war, was given a commission in 3rd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt. as Lieut., 4 Sept. 1914, and went to France attd. to the 1st Lincolnshire Regt., on 3 Oct. 1914; and died in hospital at Aubers, on the morning of 17 Oct., of wounds received in action near Lille, the previous day. Buried there. He had gone to the rear to hurry up supports, and he succeeded in getting them, but as he was returning he was wounded in the neck by a shot fired from a farm which it was supposed had been cleared by the French. A wounded soldier in Leeds Base Hospital, belonging to the Coldstream Guards said: “He died fighting to the last in trying to save his platoon from being cut to pieces, and many will never be able to give full praise and admiration for so gallant a deed.” He m. at St. Leonards-on-Sea, 2 Aug. 1906, Grace Mary (Thurgoland, Sheffield), dau. of Charles Weller, and had a son, George Hugh Kirkby, b. 15 Dec. 1909.

Source : De Ruvigmy’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

ALLINGTON, JOSEPH, Corpl., No. 241199. The York and Lancaster Regt.. s. of the late Joseph Allington, by his wife (-) (now wife of Isaac Hadley, of 31. King Street, Thurnscoe East, near Rotherham); b. Ackton Hall, co. York, 18 April, 1885; educ. St. Andrew’s National School, Newcastle; enlisted in the York and Lancaster Regt. 25 Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 16 Aug. following, taking part in many engagements, in which he was twice wounded, and was killed in action at Armentières 15 April, 1918. Buried there; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Gawan-Taylor F 2nd Lt 2nd York And Lancs Regiment

Source : The Sphere 2nd Oct 1915

GAWAN-TAYLOR, FRANCIS, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 2nd s. of His Honour Judge (Henry) Gawan-Taylor, of Croftlands, Heads Nook, Cumberland, County Court Judge of Circuit No. 3, Cumberland and Westmoreland, by his wife, Rachel, 3rd dau. of the late Thomas Joseph Candler, of Low Hall, West Ayton, co. York; b. Darlington, 27 Aug. 1892; educ. Rossall (Scholar and Exhibitioner), and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (Scholar, 1913); was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt. (Special Reserve), 16 Jan. 1915; was attd. to the 2nd Battn.; went to France, 1 June, 1915, and was killed in action near Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915, during the British advance north and west of Hooge; unm. Buried there.

While at Rossall School he was a member of the O.T.C.; was a keen athlete and ran in the mile race for Cambridge in 1914, when the Oxonian, A. N. S. Jackson, beat him by eight yards. His Commanding Officer wrote of him: “Your son was one of my subalterns; he was a very promising young officer and was doing very well. We had to take some German trenches. I had two subalterns hit on the way there, but your son was there after we got into their trench. It was while directing the consolidating of their trenches that he was hit by a bullet through both temples. The men of his platoon greatly regret his loss, as they had learned to love him.” He was engaged to be married to Alyson May Estcourt Boucher, dau. of the Rev. Canon Boucher, Rector of Frolesworth, Lutterworth.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Tayler E H 2nd Lt 1st York And Lancs Regiment

TAYLER, ERIC HARDWICK, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 2nd s. of Archdale Tayler, of Manurewa, Auckland, New Zealand, Accountant, by his wife, (-), dau. of J. G. Culpan, of Auckland; and grandson of the late Rev. Archdale Wilson Tayler, of Leeds, England; b. 15 Jan. 1894; educ. Auckland Grammar School; St. John’s College, Taniaka (where he held a Maria Blackett Scholarship), and Auckland University College. He received a commission in the Coast Defence Detachment of the 3rd (Auckland) Regt., 11 March, 1912, and in March, 1914, sat for the examination open to the Territorial Forces of Canada, South Africa, Malay, and Australasia, for direct commissions in the regular Army. There were about 180 candidates, and Lieut. Tayler headed the list with 3,307 marks, out of the possible 4,500. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the York and Lancaster Regt. 20 June, 1914, and left Auckland two days before the outbreak of war to join his regiment at Jubbulpore, India. From there they were ordered to England and went to the front early in 1915. After about a fortnight in the trenches he contracted pneumonia and was admitted to the Clearing Station at Hazebrouck, France, 31 Jan. 1915, and died 9 Feb. following of double pneumonia; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1