Boston Spa lies 4.5 Miles to the North West of Tadcaster. 

The Memorial is made of ancaster stone and stands 22 feet high it was dedicated by Colonal Lane Fox Local MP on the 26th June 1921 and remembers the 32 men who gave their lives from the village. 

 

Boston Spa west yorkshire

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ADKIN  --  KITCHENER

 

ADKIN Abraham Reginald

Corporal 235920 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 27/06/1918 Aged 23. Born Clifford 1894. Son of Charles T Born Boston Spa 1865 and Sarah Ann Taylor Married 1878. 1911 Residence Boston Spa living with Grandmother Occupation Butcher Apprentice. Enlisted Yorkshire Hussars 2550 then 330354 at York Landed France 22/02/1915. Served as Reginald. 

 

Remembered on his fathers gravestone St Mary the Virgin Churchyard.

(Acknowledgment thanks to Peter Lucas)

 

Laid to Rest Carvin Communal Cemetery France. Memorial Boston Spa.

 

ALLISON Cyril

Private 19/154 11th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 24/08/1916 Aged 20. Born Boston Spa 1896. Son of John William Landlord of Admiral Hawke in 1881 and The Crown in 1911 and Jane Gamble Married 1872 Boston Spa.  Enlisted  Leeds. 

 

Yorkshire Herald York 19/08/1916. 

Private Cyril Allinson, youngest son of Mr J. W Allinson, of Church Street, Boston Spa, has been severely wounded, and his father has gone to the front to visit him. He is with the West Yorkshire Regiment. An old pupil of Tadcaster Grammer School, he was employed as a clerk before enlistment."

 

"Our Loved One"

Laid to Rest Etaples Military Cemetery France. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

CARLISLE John Lancelot

Private 200763 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 01/08/1917 Aged 19. Born Newton Kyme 1898. Son of Edward Born Penrith 1864 and Mary Stables.  Born Martindale Westmorland 1867 Married Martindale 1887. Census 1911 Family living Newton Kyme Father was a Coachman John was at School. Enlisted York 1914. Johns father, Edward Enlisted Aged 52 Royal Defence Corps 17/07/1916 in Leeds in 1916 but never went to the front. Residence Wharfdale House Boston Spa. 

Leeds Mercury 1917.

"In Ever Loving Memory"

Laid to Rest Brandhoek New Military Cemetery Belgium. Local Memorial Boston Spa

 

CHAPMAN Walter

Private 47103 20th Tyneside Scottish Bn Northumberland Fusiliers KIA 05/06/1917 Aged 19. Born Boston Spa 1898. Son of Edgar William and Ada Ward Married 1880 Wetherby. CWGC/1911 St Marys Street Boston Spa. Enlisted Leeds Territorial Reserve Battalion 41220. 

 

Remembered Arras Memorial France. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

CLARK BROTHERS

 

CLARK Neville

Arthur Lieutenant 1st Bn Coldstream Guards DOW 28/11/1917 Aged 30. Born Matlock Bath Derbyshire 1887. Son of Arthur and Mary Francis Holland Married 1877. Husband of Mary Coulter Married 25/04/1916 Church of Maghull. 1911 Residence 73 Leighton Road Southville Bristol Occupation Tobacco Manufacturer Pupil. CWGC States Mary was living in Maghull Liverpool.

 

Laid to Rest Rocquigny-Equancourt Road Manancourt France. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

 

CLARK Charles Augustus 

Second Lieutenant 5th Bn Attached 1st Bn Rifle Brigade KIA 01/07/1916 Aged 30. Born Matlock Bath Derbyshire 1886. Residence 1911 71 Aberdeen Road Highbury North London Occupation Accountant. Landed France 07/12/1915.

 

 Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. Local  Memorial Boston Spa. 

 

 

CRACKNELL Alfred

Private 21818 10th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 20/09/1918 Aged 29.  Born Kirkstall Leeds 18/04/1889. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Ann Wilford Married Kirkstall Leeds 1888. Husband of Lillian Morris Born Boston Spa 1894 Married St Stephens Church Kirkstall 1917. Residence 1911 6 Vesper Mount Kirkstall. 

 

 

Yorkshire Evening Post 1918

Alfred was remembered in the YEP again in 1919, 1921 and 1922.

Remembered Vis-en-Artois Memorial France. Local Memorials Boston Spa, Kirkstall War Memorial Leeds.

DYKES BROTHERS

 

DYKES Henry

Rifleman C/12370 10th Bn Kings Royal Rifle Corps KIA 04/04/1917 Aged 34. Born Seaton Carew Durham 1882. Son of Thomas William and Isabella Barker Married 1873. Residence 1911 High Street Boston Spa, Occupation Hotel Boots ? Enlisted York 16/11/1915 21st Bn Kings Royal Rifles. Landed France 05/05/1916. Shell Wound 16/09/1916 sent to Birmingham Hospital. Rejoined the 10th Bn 10/07/1917. Medals were to be retained for his brother Bombardier Thomas William Dykes of Low Moor Bradford. 

 

Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. Local Memorial Boston Spa. Ireland Casualties of WW1 Remembrance Book Dublin.

DYKES Walter 

Private 5507 6th Bn Inniskilling Dragoons Attached 1st Regiment of Life Guards when KIA 30/10/1914 Aged 28. Brother of Henry above. Walter enlisted into the West Yorkshire Regiment aged 19 Occupation porter  05/12/1905 at Wetherby. Described as being 5ft 8 inches tall black hair with brown eyes. 26/01/1906 transferred to the 6th Bn Dragoons going to Cairo in Egypt, signing up for 7 years service and 4 years as a reservist. Stationed Lucknow India 03/04/1911. Walter left the army in 1912 and was mobilised as a reservist 05/08/1914. Medical records show he has a mild case of Malaria and suffered badly over his army career with tonsillitis. Walter was part of the Original British Expeditionary Force and fought at Mons. He was transferred to the 1st Regiment of Life Guards part of the Household Cavelery Blues and Twos. 

 

During the retreat from Mons Walter saw action at Le Cateau 26/08/1914, The Marne 06-12/09/1914, Battle of the Aisne in late September, Messines known as the raxce to the sea to stop the Germans taking the ports of BelgiUM, and finally the 1st Battle of Ypres at  Langemarck 21- 24/101914 and finally the Battle of Gheluvelt which started 29/10/1914-31/10/1914 Walter lost his life on the day the British lines were broken and lies where he fell to this day, the next day the british recaptured the lines and trench warfare attrition set in.

(Copyright of International Wargrave Project)

Remembered Ypres Menin Gate Memorial. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

 

FARRER Artheling

Rifleman C/12555 21st Bn Kings Royal Rifles Corps DOW 10/10/1916 Aged 22. AWARD Military Medal 09/12/1916. Born Boston Spa August 1894. Son of Edward Butcher High Street Boston Spa and Elizabeth Smith Died 1904 Married 1879. 1911 Occupation Butcher Boy. Enlisted Helmsley York 29/11/1915 Occupation Farmer. 05/10/1916 Gunshot Wound to the Abdomen 36th Casualty Clearing Station at Heilly 08/10/1916. 

 

Yorkshire Evening Post October 1916 

Private Atheling Farrer 22 the son of Edward Farrer of the High Street Boston Spa has succombed to wounds he recieved in June of this year. Private Farrer joined the KRR eleven months ago, and before the war was employed at the Victoria Club New Briggate Leeds.

 

Laid To Rest Heilly Station Cemetery Merricourt L-A'bbe France. Local Memorial Boston Spa

 

FLETCHER Robert

Private 33750 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 09/10/1917 Aged 20. Born Boston Spa 1897. Son of Henry and Frances Warriner Married Crambe near Malton 1890. Residence The Grove Boston Spa. Enlisted York. Robert was found after the war and laid to rest Cement Cemetery, he was identified by his paybook.

 

"Ever In Our Thoughts"

Laid to Rest Cement House Cemetery Belgium. Local Memorial Boston Spa

 

HARKER Leonard

Private 37647 9th Bn Kings Own Yorkshire Light infantry KIA 16/09/1916 Aged 29. Born Boston Spa 1887. Enlisted Sheffield. 1911 Southgate Gardens Pontefract Occupation Docker Assistent.

 

Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

 

 

HICKSON Herbert

Lance Corporal C/12166 18th Bn Kings Royal Rifle Corps DOW 28/03/1918 Aged 26. Born Liverpool 1892. Son of George Miles and Louisa Jones Married Liverpool 1878. Residence 1911 The Grove Boston Spa Occupation Grocer Assistant. Enlisted York. Memorial Boston Spa. Brother of John Albert 

 

Remembered Arras Memorial France. Local Memorials Boston Spa,Tadcaster.

 

HOWE Charles

Private A/2753 1st Bn Canadian Infantry KIA 22/09/1916 Aged 30. Born Boston Spa 21/06/1886 Vol 9a Page 125. Son of Joseph and Ada 1901 Walton near Boston Spa. 1911 High Street Boston Spa. Enlisted Sarnia Ontario Canada 11/01/1915 Occupation Farmer. 

 

Laid to Rest Adanac Military Cemetery Miraumont Somme France. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

 

 

JOHNSON William Herbert

Private 15002 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 07/08/1915 Aged 20. Born Collingham 1895. Son of Henry and Sarah Ann 1911 St Helens Ribston Wetherby Occupation Farm Labourer. Enlisted Wetherby Landed Gallipoli 11/07/1915. 

 

Remembered Helles Memorial Gallipoli Turkey. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

 

 

KITCHENER Herbert William

Lance Corporal 24118 2nd Bn Yorkshire Regiment KIA 08/07/1916 Aged 26. Born Hertford 1890. Son of William and Elizabeth Crew Married Hertford 1883. CWGC 28 St Johns Street Hertford. 1911 48 Pont Street Chelsea Occupation Servant. Enlisted Leeds. 

 

Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

 

LATHAM  --  TEASDALE

 

LATHAM Percy George

Company Serjeant Major 16/156 16th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 01/07/1916 Aged 26. Born Boston Spa 17/04/1889. Son of Alfred George Latham Born New Brighton Cheshire 1857 School Master at St Marys School and Alice Dean Born Dorstone Herefordshire 1859 Married Leominster District of Herefordshire 1881. Husband of Jessie Wright Married 02/06/1913 All Saints Church Bradford. Two children Jack Born 27/02/1914 and Janet Born 13/07/1916 12 days after Percy gave his life on the 1st day of the Battle for Albert Somme. Educated at Bangor Wales. Enlisted Bradford September 1914 Residence 80 Little Horton Lane Bradford Occupation Government Valuer. Landed France December 1915. 

 

Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

 

LONGFELLOW Nathan

Private 201780 2/5th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 16/04/1918 Aged 27. Born Boston Spa 1889. Son of Nathan and Mary Daniel Married 1884 CWGC High Street Boston Spa. Enlisted Leeds. 

 

Laid to Rest Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery Extension Somme France. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

 

MARLOWE Cecile Arthur

Secound Lieutenant 1/2 nd Bn Bn Attached 1/7 th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 18/10/1918 Aged 34.  Born Rathmines Co Dublin Ireland. Son of Edward clerk in the four courts in Dublin and Sarah Ennis Residence 1916 14 Dromard Terrace Sandy Mount Dublin. Husband of Mary Agnes Brown Born Hunslet 1887 Married St Josephs Hunslet 11/01/1908. CWGC Church Street Boston Spa. Educated in Dublin employed at the Tower Brewery Company Tadcaster. Enlisted 15/06/1915 4th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment Landed France 13/12/1917 with the 10th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment. Gazetted to the rank of 2nd Lieutenent the 2nd West Yorkshire Regiment 30/01/1918. Posted France 22/04/1918. Involved in fighting near the village of Ivry 18/10/1918 transferred to the No 8 Clearing Station Hospital at Boulogne.

 

A sad fact of the war was the amount of sons and daughters who were born and their fathers never saw their new born. One such instance is Cecile who had a daughter 28/10/1918 which was celebrated in the births section of the YEP Leeds 31/10/1918.

 

"Marlowe Oct 28th at Alton Villas Boston Spa to Agnes nee Brown and the late Lieutenant C A Marlowe a daughter."

 

His commanding officer wrote: 

Cecil was cool in danger and quite fearless at all times and his loss is keenly felt by all his brother officers and men alike

 

Laid to Rest Terlincthun British Cemetery Wimille Boulogne France. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

 

MORRIS Gerald Halton

Private 78501 12th Bn Durham Light Infantry KIA 29/10/1918 Aged 20. Born Boston Spa 1897. Son of Arthur and Beatrice Mackrell Married 1884. CWGC Albion Hotel Clifford. Enlisted Harrogate 05/03/1917 Residence Albion Hotel Clifford Occupation Wood Turner. Landed 13.08/1918 Arguala Itlay. His brother Edward Halton served in the Rhine until 1919. 

 

Laid to Rest Tezze British Cemetery nr Venice Italy. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

 

 

NICKALLS Norman Tom

Brigadier General Commanding 63rd Infantry Brigade 21st Division Formerly 17th Lancers KIA 26/09/1915 Aged 51. Born Bromley Kent 1864. Son of Tom and Emily Quihampton Married Maldon 1860. CWGC Patterson Court Red Hill Surrey. Husband of Evirild Wentworth Withington Married St Peters Wooley Yorkshire 1895. CWGC 61 Elm Park Gardens West Brompton London. Educated at Eton, Norman was Commissioned into the 17th Lancers in November 1886, he served in South Africa in the Boar War between 1900 and 1902. Residence 1911 Edward Barracks Sialkot Cavalry Brigade India, where he retired. Moved to boston Hall Boston Spa commanded the Yorkshire Territorial Brigade  and at the outbreak of war was Commisioned as Brigadier General in August 1914. June 1915 saw Norman in court being charged with assault after challanging a man by the name of Horseman during a recruitmant drive at Scarborough, Norman had questioned why he had not enlited and struck Horseman with his wip. He was fined 2 Guinees and on leaving the court shook hands with Horseman. Norman was a popular member of the Bramham Moor hunt.

His death was reported nation wide including a story of his chauffeur who was taken prisoner, and was according to the YEP compelled by the Germans to guide them to the British lines. This he did up to a certain point, when he communicated with his comrades, and for his bravery he was done to death by the Huns, his body was when found having no fewer than 17 bayonet wounds.  Major Bulloch of the West Yorkshire Regiment reported that he saw a shell hit near the chalk pit where Norman was stood his body was never found. Norman is remembered on a Brass plaque in Eton Collage Chapel.

Remembered Loos Memorial France. Local Memorial Boston Spa. Eton Collage.

PALLISTER BROTHERS

PALLISTER George Nelson

Private C/12168 21st Bn Kings Royal Rifle Corps KIA 17/09/1916 Aged 23. Born Boston Spa 1893. Son of George and Martha Ellen Thompson Married Boston Spa 1883. Residence 1911 High Street Boston Spa Occupation Grocers Assistant Enlisted York. 

 

Yorkshire Evening Post October 1916

 Rifleman George Pallister of the 22nd Kings Royal Rifles the son of George Pallister The High Street West Boston Spa. Has been reported Killed in Action on September the 15th 1916. Rifleman Pallister was formely employed by F. W. Dixon of Boston Spa.

 

Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

PALLISTER William

Rifleman C/12357 18th Bn Kings Royal Rifle Corps DOW 20/04/1918 Aged 31. Born Boston Spa 1887. Enlisted Harrogate. George Nelson and William also had a brother  John Thomas who survived the war serving in the Royal Field Artillery 1915-1919. 

Laid to Rest Denain Communal Cemetery near Cambrai France. Local Memorials Boston Spa, Bramham. 

 

PARNABY William

Private 57886 2/5th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 20/07/1918 Aged 19. Born Boston Spa 1898. Son of Caryle and Jane Young Married Boston Spa 1891. CWGC St. Mary's Street Boston Spa. Enlisted Harrogate. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

 

"On Earth he Toiled, In Heaven he Rests, They Miss him Most, Who Loved him Best"

Laid to Rest Marfaux British Cemetery France. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

RICHARDSON Edward 

Private 17L/4968 16th Queens Lancers Household Cavelry KIA 12/10/1914 Aged  Born Dublin. Enlisted Ballincolling Ireland 16th Lancers Residence at Enlistment Dalkey Co Dublin Ireland. 1911 In India. 1911 in Boston Spa a Charles and Annie Richardson Annie Born Ireland. 

Laid to Rest Tirlincthun British Cemetery Wimille France. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

 

ROBINSON George

Private 13810 11th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 04/07/1916 Aged 22.  Born Boston Spa 1894. Son of Edward and Lizzie Ringrose Married 1875. CWGC 1911 Residence Poplar Cottages Boston Spa Occupation Butcher Assistant. Enlisted York. 

 

Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

 

SCATCHARD Thomas

Captain Royal Army Medical Corps KIA Battle of Marne by a Shell ? 08/09/1914 Aged 36. Born Boston Spa 06/07/1878.  Son of  Dr Thomas Edward Born Boston Spa 1845 and Martha Theakston Born Boston Spa 1846. Husband of Ada Mary Hervey the daughter of Colonel De La Motte Hervey of the 13th Bengal Lancers Married Agra India 1907. Thomas attended collage in Epsom Surey and was a medical student in Leeds in the 1901 census. Serving in the Army in the 1911 census having spent 5 years in India at Lucknow, Agra, Kailana and Ranikhet. 

Thomas Enlisted 05/07/1905 Royal Army Medical Corps and was promoted to Captain 31/01/1909. Was at Connaught Hospital Aldershot when war broke out. Landed France 16/08/1914 with the 26th Brigade Royal Field Artillery. 

 

Laid to Rest Bellot Communal Cemetery France. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

SIMKIN Ernest Archibald 

Private 33412 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 09/10/1917 Aged 36. Born Ashford Kent 1881. Enlisted Boston Spa.

Remembered Tyne Cot Cemetery Belgium. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

SMITH BROTHERS

 

SMITH Frank Hardwick

Serjeant L/5577 A Battery 164th Brigade Royal Horse and Field Artillery KIA 01/07/1916 Aged 23. Born Slingsby Nr Malton 1892. Son of John Richard and Sarah Jane Hardwick Married 1886 Chorlton District. CWGC Slingsby. Residence Spa Terrace Boston Spa Occupation Grocers Assistant. Husband of Hilda Stubbs Married 1912. CWGC Grove Boston Spa. Enlisted Leeds.  

 

"On Earth he Toiled, In Heaven he Rests,They Miss Him Most, Who Loved Him Best

Laid to Rest Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extension France. Local Memorial Boston Spa. Bramham

 

SMITH William Hardwick

Stoker 1st Class K/2306 Royal Navy H.M.S Pembroke Killed in an Air Raid 03/09/1917 Aged 31. Born Slingsby. Son of John Richard and Sarah Jane CWGC Spa Terrace Boston Spa. 

 

Laid to Rest Gillingham Woodlands Cemetery. Local Memorial Boston Spa. 

 

TEASDALE David Henry

Private 14/538 14th Service 2nd Barnsley Division York and Lancaster Regiment KIA 11/09/1916 Aged 20. Born Boston Spa 1896. Son of Albert and Ada Newton Married Boston Spa 1894. 1911 Residence Thorp Arch Occupation Servant. Enlisted Barnsley 08/02/1915, Residence Manor Park Bretton West near Barnsley Occupation Framer. When enlisted lived at 2 Bedford Terrace Boston Spa. Height 5 ft 5 inches tall. Charged 18/11/1915 Dirty Boots on Parade. Landed 28/12/1915 Mediteranean. Landed 10/03/1916 France. Medals sent to Parents 24/01/1917 residence Primrose Lane Boston Spa.  

 

Laid to Rest St Vaast Post Military Cemetery Richebourg-L'Avoue France. Local Memorial Boston Spa.

 

 

TEASDALE John George

Private S/41866 2nd Platoon A Company Gordon Highlanders 1/14th London Scottish Regiment KIA 29/08/1918 Aged 19. Born Upper Emsley March 1899. Son of Alfred Henry and Jane Elizabeth Milner Married Knaresbrough 1898. CWGC Moor End Boston Spa. Enlisted Harrogate 16/04/1917 Residence Moor End Boston Spa Occupation Bakers Apprentice. escribed as being 5ft 8 inches tall. Landed France 29/03/1918.

 

Laid to Rest H. A. C. Ecoust-St. Mein Pas de Calais France. Local Memorial Boston Spa.