Bramham is a village 4 Miles from Tadcaster. Many of the men remembered on the WW1 Memorial were local men or worked at nearby Bramham House owned by George Lane Fox, Bowcliffe Hall which was used as a rest home for injured officers during the war and bought in 1920 by the Aviation pioneer Robert Blackburn.
Robert probably bought this house as it was adjacent to RFC Tadcaster/ Bramham Moor at Headley Hall used to defend the city of Leeds and Sheffield from Zeppalin raids closing just before World War Two. And it can be presumed that again men from this airbase are remembered on the memorial. .
The village has a rich history and along with Bramham Park it truly is Yorkshires Downton Abbey with its rich heritage and past. Each year the Bramham Moor Hunt was held CLICK HERE for film of the 1925 event attended by Princess Mary and Lord Harewood.
The famous Bramham Horse trials are held here and now each year the now famous Leeds festival gathers to party. For more on Bramham and its history visit the excellent Historic Bramham Village.
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BROWN -- HOGG
BROWN Harold
Private 36283 2nd Bn Yorkshire Regiment KIA 19/11/1916 Aged 20.
Laid to Rest Bailleulmont Communal Cemetery France. Local Memorial Bramham
BROWN John Richard
Private 2187 5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 10/07/1915 Aged 22. Born Ingmanthorpe Nr Wetherby. Son of George William Born Brotherton 1850 and Mary Maskill Born Cowthorpe 1862 Married Dec 1883 Vol 9c Page 249. CWGC Walker's Buildings, Bramham, Boston Spa. Enlisted Harrogate.
Leeds Mercury 16/07/1915
"Shot Through The Head"
Mr. and Mrs. George William Brown, of Bramham, have received intimation of the death in action of one of their sons, Private John Brown, of the 5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment. Private Brown was proceeding to duty in the trenches when he was shot through the head, and died immediately. Mr. Brown, senior is a woodman at Bramham Park, and some months ago a younger son, Private Tom Brown, of the 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment, was shot through the groin. He has since received his discharge.
Thank You to Tony Cheal for the following piece.
" Claro Times Harrogate 23/07/1915"
Private John Brown, of the 5th West Yorkshires, who has been killed in action, was the son of a Bramham resident, and had lived for several years with Mr J W Morrell, of the Queen Farm, Harrogate, before the outbreak of war. A brother has been wounded and disabled for life, and discharged from the Army."
Remembered Ypres Menin Gate Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
COCKSHOTT Morrell
Private 2357 Alexandria Princess of Wales Own Yorkshire Hussars KIA 17/08/1915 Aged 37. Born Leeds 1878. Son of William Born Tilston Yorks 1848 and Mary A Born Daventry 1848. Enlisted Malton. Residence 1911 Bramham Park Occupation Groom.
Yorkshire Evening Post Leeds 24/08/1915
Major Lane Fox Loses old Servant
"Mrs M. Cockshott, Springfield Place, Leeds, has recieved a letter from Major Lane Fox. Informing her of the death of her son Private Morrell Cockshott Yorks Hussars. Pvt Cockshott was Major Lane Fox's valet for over 16 years. In his letter to Mrs Cockshott, the officer writes in high regard for his old servant, Pvt Cockshott had previousley been wounded and gassed. He had been at the front since April 1915."
Laid to Rest Pont-De-Nieppe Communal Cemetery France. Local Memorial Bramham.
COULTAS BROTHERS
COULTAS Frederick Charles
Lance Corporal 28164 6th Bn Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry KIA 23/08/1917 Aged 19. Born Bramham. Son of John Born Bramham 1847 a gardener by trade and Susannah Sangwell Born Hull 1848 Married Bramham 1869. Enlisted Manchester Royal Field Artillery 140653. 1911 Census 26, Stanhope Road Wheatley Doncaster Occupation Labourer Unemployed.
Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
COULTAS George Herbert
Private 2124 6/15th Bn Australian Infantry KIA 25/09/1916 Aged 35.
DALBY Francis David
Lance Corporal 38679 1/7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment Leeds Rifles KIA 20/12/1917 Aged 19. Born Bramham 1898. Son of George Born Bramham 1853 and Eliza Born 1855 Married 1879. Enlisted Harrogate.
Inscription
"Ever in Our Thoughts"
Laid to Rest Tyne Cot Cemetery Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
DIMMOCK George Henry
Serjeant 10/1329 8th Bn East Yorkshire Regiment KIA 18/08/1916 Aged 22. Born Leeds 20/12/1893 Baptised St Michaels Headingley 04/02/1894. Son of George and Husband of Francis Walshaw Married Parish Church Knaresbrough 1915. Enlisted Hull 11/05/1915 Occupation Railway Clerk North Eastern Railways. George was described as being 5ft 11 inches tall. Landed France 15/04/1916 posted from the 10th Bn to the 8th Bn EYR 15/05/1916 at Etaples. Appointed Acting Sergeant 16/07/1916. CWGC Residence Dodsworth House Wakefield Road Normanton. George was buried in the field Map Referance 57c, t, 25, c, 1.8. and his body was reburied fter the war
Inscription
"IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF FRANCES DIMMOCK DUTY DONE"
Laid to Rest Guillemont Road Cemetery Guillemont Somme France. Memorial Bramham.
DUFFIELD George
Sapper Royal Engineers DIED 14/09/1917 West Riding Asylum Menston Aged 30. Born Settrington 1887 Baptised Setterington 16/06/1887. Son of William Born Nunnington 1845 and Jane Richman Born Weston 1847 Married Malton 1871. 1911 Duffield family living at Whitwell Farm Bramham Park (the farm is on the A64 towards Tadcaster ). George was employed as a Plumber his father William was a Stud Groom in the hunting stables. George left a will of £471, 2s 4d to his sister Annie.
Laid to Rest All Saints Church Bramham. Local Memorial Bramham.
Eastwood Brothers
EASTWOOD Richard Edward
Private 42039 2nd Bn Worcestershire Regiment DOW 16/04/1918 Aged 21. Born Bramham 1896. Son of John Robert and Ada Anna Wharton Married Bradford 1883. CWGC/1911 Church Hill Bramham Occupation Plumber Apprentice. Enlisted Tadcaster R.A.S.C. 310946.
Inscription
Loved Honoured and Remembered.
Laid to Rest Haringhe Bandaghem Military Cemetery Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
EASTWOOD Robert Tarrant
Private DM2/171787 Army Service Corps Ambulance Driver 33rd Motor Ambulance Convoy DOW Basra 23/11/1918 Aged 29. Born 1889. Son of John Robert and Ada Anna Wharton. Brother of Richard Edward mentioned above. Husband of Florence Ella Osborne married Bramham 1915. (Incorrect initial on War Memorial.)
Leeds Mercury 1918.
Laid to Rest Baghdad Northgate War Cemetery Iraq. Local Memorial Bramham.
FIRTH Charles
Driver 32261 C Battery 84th Brigade Royal Field Artillery KIA 09/10/1917 Aged 20. Born Bramham 1896. Son of Arthur Born Copmanthorpe 1867 and Margaret Watson Born Masham 1874 Married 1895. 1911 Residence Willowgarth Cottage Bramham Occupation Grocers Errand Boy. Enlisted Leeds.
Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
GIBNEY Guy Somerville Australian 20/07/1916
Local Memorial Bramham.
HARE William Henry
Private 29031 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 26/10/1916 Aged 23. Born Bramham Baptised 17/09/1893. Son of Joseph and Harriett Emma Farrer Married 30/09/1888 Bramham. Residence 1911 The Cragg Bramham Occupation Farm Labourer. Enlisted Boston Spa.
Yorkshire Evening Post Leeds
Pte W. Hare (23) West Yorkshires was the second son of Mrs J. Hare, of Low road, Bramley, Leeds and before the war was a blacksmith at Bramham.
Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. Local Memorial Bramham.
HARE Edward James
Private 210453 20th Bn canadian Regeiment KIA 10/05/1917 Aged 42. Born Bramham 25/07/1874, Baptised Bramham 30/08/1874 Son of James and Ann Pawson Married 02/07/1854 St Peters Leeds. Husband of Isabella Francis Coulson Married 29/10/1903 Welland Ontario Canada residence 1911 Gilmore Street Welland Ontario Occupation Carpenter. Edward enlisted Welland 27/12/1915 Residence Amigari Ontario Occupation shipping clerk he lied about his age saying he was born in 1894 claiming he was 21 years of age. He was described as being 5ft 7 inch tall, fair complexion with blue eyes and sandy coloured hair. Set sail from Halifax Canada 08/07/1916 arriving Liverpool onboard SS Lapland 25/07/1916. Left for France 29/09/1916. Reported wounded 07/04/1917 and stayed with his battalion. In 1921 a memorial cross, medals a scroll and plaque what is called a death penny were sent to his wife Isabella (Mabel). Isabella never remarried and passed away in Welland 01/05/1923.
The Canadians kept records of where and how a man gave his life. It was reported that on the 10/05/1917 Edward was
"Improving his location in Winnipeg Road, 150 yards south of Arleux Loop, on the east side of the road when at 21.00 hrs he was hit on the head by a piece of shell, and instantly killed." Map Sheet no (36c) 44a, T, 23, d, 9, 9.
Edwards signature on enlisting.
Toronto Star 31/05/1917 Acknowledgment and thanks to the Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Records show Edward was laid alongside 7 others who were killed in the explosion. Edwards body was brought in after the war and was identified by clothing and numerals.
Laid to Rest Cabertet Rouge British Cemetery Souchez France. Local Memorial Bramham
Acknowledgment to J. Stevens and the Canadian Virtual War Memorial
HOGG Godfrey Graves
Private 202147 2/4th Bn Leicestershire Regiment KIA 25/03/1918 Aged 20. Born Bramley 1897. Son of Frederick and Alice Mary Graves Married East Retford 1897. 1911 Residence. 45 Brunswick Terrace Pudsey. Enlisted Wetherby West Yorkshire Regiment 29400.
Remembered Arras Memorial France. Local Memorial Bramham.
JAKEMAN -- SIMPSON
JAKEMAN George William
Private 35311 2nd Bn Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry KIA 18/11/1916 Medal 15/11/1916 Aged 34. Born Bramham 1880. Enlisted York. Son of George and Mary Grey Married Bramham 1873. Husband of Edith Henderson Married 1904 Tadcaster Vol 9b Page 1356. 1911 Residence Stutton Grove Stutton Occupation Brewers Labourer. CWGC Chapel Street Tadcaster. One of Georges sons Lawrence Gave His Life in WW2.
Laid to Rest Waggon Road Cemetery Beumont-Hamel France. Local Memorials Bramham & Tadcaster.
JENKINSON Edwin
Private 64872 9th Bn Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry KIA 24/08/1918 Aged 35. Born Bramham 1883. Son of William and Ann Smith Married 1870. Husband of Maude May Lacey Married All Saints Bramham 1910. Residence 1911 Biggin Farm Bramham Occupation Farmer. Enlisted Harrogate West Yorkshire Regiment 7101.
Laid to Rest Regina Trench Cemetery Grandcourt France. Local Memorial Bramham.
KITCHEN Joseph
Private 27964 16th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers KIA 03/07/1918 Aged 37. Born Bramham 1881. Son of Joseph and Ellen Jordan Married 1881. Husband of Alice Firth Married 1912. CWGC/1911 The Crag Town Hill Bramham. 08/10/1918 Edwin left £488, 8s 10d to his wife Maude who was living at Croft Villa Bramham. Enlisted York.
Laid to Rest Douchy-Les-Ayette British Cemetery France. Local Memorial Bramham.
LECKENBY Mark
Private 34478 18th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 03/05/1917 Aged 24. Born Bramham 1893. Son of Robert and Rebecca Thompson Married Great Ouseburn 1882. Enlisted York.
Remembered Arras Memorial France. Local Memorial Bramham.
LESTER Francis James
Private 35311 10th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 24/04/1917 Aged 34. Born Felsham Near Ipswich Suffolk 1883. Husband of Annie Ethel Deacon Born Winslow Buckinghamshire 1883 Married 1913 Winslow Buckinghamshire. CWGC Tandridge Court Laundry Oxted Surrey. Enlisted Harrogate. Reported by Yorkshire Evening Post was working at Bramham Park and was struck by a shell he passed away on the way to a dressing station.
Yorkshire Evening Post
Laid to Rest Feuchy British Cemetery Near Arras France. Local Memorial Bramham.
LOCK William Arthur
Private 32826 3rd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 21/11/1916 Aged 31. Born Aberford 1886. Son of William and Sarah Ann Summersgill Married 1882. 3 St Edwards Terrace Clifford. Husband of Margeret Cundill Married Leeds All saints church 20/09/1913. Margaret Remarried to Isaac Greenshaw in 1918. CWGC Beaconsfield Terrace Bramham. 1911 Royal Oak Inn Aberford Occupation Painter. Enlisted Boston Spa. .
Yorkshire Evening Post 2nd December 1916
"Private William Lock, West Yorkshires Eldest son of the late Mr & Mrs Lock Royal Oak Inn, Aberford and of Beaconsfield Terrace, Bramham, Died in hospital in Newcastle on September 19th. He leaves a widow and two children."
(Williams son Walter Born 1916 Gave his Life in WW2)
LOCK Walter Flight Sergeant 524132 No 9 Squadron Royal Air Force 25/04/1942 Aged 26.)
Laid to Rest Byker and Heaton Cemetery Newcastle Upon Tyne. Local Memorials Aberford & Bramham
MASKILL James Edward
Private 25835 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 16/06/1916 Aged 19. Born Bramham 1897 Vol 9a Page 121. Enlisted Leeds. Son of Jane Hannah Maskill cousin of Harry remembered below. Jane Hannah married Alfred Bowen in 1915. James was with his mother in 1901 at his cousin Harry house in templenewsome. (Christened Maskill not Maskell as on the memorial)
Remembered Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
MASKELL Harry
Private 15321 9th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 27/08/1917 Aged 17. Born Templenewsome Leeds 1899 Vol 90b Page 281. Baptised St Marys Whitkirk 30/11/1899. Son of James and Martha Ann Plows Married 1892 St James Seacroft. 1911 family were living in Chesterfield. Enlisted Tadcaster. CWGC Cousin of Florence Brown of Walker's Buildings Bramham. Landed Gallipoli 11/07/1915. Henrys war pension went to his cousin Florence.
Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium. Local Memorials Bramham & Tadcaster.
MARRINER Henry Edward
Private 20102 43rd Company Machine Gun Corps KIA 16/09/1916 Aged 22. Born Boston Spa 1894. Son of Frederic and Henrietta Robinson Married 1891. Residence 1911 shown as a domestic houseboy. Enlisted Durham into Durham Light Infantry 12352 Landed France 21/01/1915.
Laid to Rest A.I.F Burial Ground Flers Somme France. Local Memorial Bramham.
NICHOLSON George Robert
Private 42086 18th Bn Manchester Regiment DOW 01/08/1917 Aged 26. Born Bramham 1891 Vol 9a Page 115. Son of Louis and Helen Black Swan Yard New Street Pocklington. Husband of Amy Pearson Married Pocklington 1913. Amy Married Ernest Tillett in 1924. CWGC Primrose Cottages Church Lane Bramham. Enlisted Pocklington nr York into the Royal Field Artilllery 165832. Residence at Enlistment Bramham.
Laid to Rest Lijssenthoek Military Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
PALLISTER William
Rifleman C/12357 18th Bn Kings Royal Rifle Corps DOW 17/04/1918 Aged 31. Born Boston Spa 1887. Son of George and Martha Ellen Thompson. Enlisted Harrogate 16/11/1915 Residence High Street Boston Spa. Landed France 05/05/1915. Gun shot wound to the kneck and face 05/07/1917 Princess Christian Hospital Weymouth. Reported Missing 28/03/1918 possibly taken as prisoner of war. Brother of George Nelson Pallister also gave his life remembered Boston Spa Memorial alongside William. 1911working as a Groom for John Wharton a director on the North Eastern Railway.
Laid to Rest Denain Communal Cemetery nr Cambrai France. Local Memorials Boston Spa & Bramham.
PEACOCK Ernest William
Private 235822 1st Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 14/07/1918 Aged 22. Born Northalerton 1896. Son of William and Ellen Ann Stead Married York District 1884. Residence 1911 The Village Castle Eden Occupation Domestic Gardener. CWGC Grove Road Boston Spa. Enlisted York Yorkshire Hussars 3156 and 330680 Landed France 20/12/1915.
Laid to Rest Lijssenthoek Military Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
POUTER (POWTER) Frederick Armstrong
Lance Corporal 6051 1st Bn Scots Guards KIA 1st Battle of Ypres 11/11/1914 Aged 28. Born Bramham 12/10/1886. Son of Fanny Powter. Fanny married in 1891 to John Jackson. Enlisted York. 1911 in Army in Egypt. Landed in France 13/08/1914, nine days after the outbreak of war possibly one of the first men from the Tadcaster area to go to France. One of the "Old Contemtables". Frederick took part in the Battle of Mons in August 1914 and was part of the BEF retreat fighting at the First Battle of the Aisne in early September 1914 and the First Battle of the Marne in late September 1914. Sadly Frederick lies where he fell.
Remembered Ypres Menin Gate Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
RATCLIFFE Charles Thomas
Lance Corporal 2903 7th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DOW 17th Clearing Station 17/12/1915 Aged 25. Born Bramham. Son of James and Mary Jane Wharton Married St Chad's Far Headingley 1890. CWGC/1911 6 Oddy Row Moor Road Headingley Leeds, Occupation upholsterer. Enlisted Leeds.
Laid to Rest Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
SIMPSON William
Gunner L/5657 B Battery 87th Brigade Royal Horse Royal Field Artillery KIA 02/12/1917 Aged ? Born Leeds. Enlisted Leeds. Residence at Time of Enlistment Bramham.
Laid to Rest Locre Hospice Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
SUMMERSGILL -- YOUNG
SUMMERSGILL Arthur Edward
Private 38317 10th Service Bn York and Lancaster Regiment KIA 15/11/1916 Aged 28. Born Bramham 1888. Son of William Scot and Hannah Farndale Married Brmham 1883. Enlisted Leeds 15/12/1914 15th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment Leeds Pals 15/1081. 22/12/1915 Embarked for Egypt. France 08/03/1916. Wounded 06/06/1916 Gunshot wound Right foot and knee. 16/06/1916 Sent to England on Hospital Ship Western Australia, thus missing the Leeds Pals attack at Serre on the 01/07/1916. Sent to France with the York and Lancasters 01/09/1916.
Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. Local Memorial Bramham.
SMITH Frank Hardwick
Serjeant L/5577 A Battery 164th Brigade Royal Horse and Field Artillery KIA 01/07/1916 Aged 23. Born SlingsbyNr 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. 26/07/1916 Franks death was announced inthe YEP Leeds and his parents address given as Spa Lane Boston Spa. Franks Brother William was Killed during an air raid on Chatterton Docks in September 1917 he his remembered alongside Frank on the Boston Spa War Memorial.
"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 Memorials Bramham & Boston Spa.
STOCKDALE William
Private 25820 Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry DIED Wetherby 1918 Vol 9a Page 129 Aged 24. Born Bramham 13/10/1894. Son of Arthur Sugden Born Bramham 1861 and Emma Harriet Born Bramham 1863 Married Bramham 1887 Vol 9a Page 189. Enlisted Leeds 16/11/1915. Occupation Gardener Residence Front Street Bramham. Served in France 09/08/1916 to 24/02/1917. Discharged 12/06/1917 Due to Bronchitis Aggrevated by Active Service.
Local Memorial Bramham.
NOT REMEMBERED CWGC
THOMPSON William
Private 10870 2nd Bn Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry KIA 14/09/1914 Aged 22. Born Bramham 1892. Enlisted Pontefract. Son of Frederick Charles and Elizabeth Wharton Married 1889. Residence 1911 Bramham Occupation Under Keeper.
Remembered Le Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial Marne France. Local Memorial Bramham.
THOMPSON John
Private 12720 219th Bn Bn Machine Gun Corps KIA 31/07/1917 Aged 24. Born Bramham. Son of Mathew and Amelia Hick Married Wetherby 1871. Enlisted Beverley East Yorkshire Regiment 20072.
Laid to Rest Coxyde Military Cemetery Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
THOMPSON Reginald
Private 25095 1/5th Bn Northumberland Fusilier DIED 23/03/1918 Aged 28. Born Bramham June 1889. Son of Thomas and Jane Elizabeth. Husband of Hilda Ascough Married Darlington 1916. Enlisted Darlington. 1911 Post House Wynd Darlington Occupation Barman.
Remembered Pozieres Memorial France. Local Memorial Bramham.
WRIGHT Rebecca Amelia Beatrice
Nurse DIED Wednsday 08/01/1919 Aged 41. Born Leeds 23/12/1877, Baptised as Rebecca Amelia Beatrice 11/02/1878 Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Oxford Place Park Lane Leeds. Daughter of James died 1925 a Joiner and Mary Sinclair Married St Peters Leeds Parish Church 27/12/1876. Residence 1911 Clarence Road Horsforth. Residence 1915 Field House Bramham, Occupation Nurse as part of the Voluntary Aid Detachment at Baeuliu Aux Hospital in Harrogate known as the Royal Bath Hospital which closed in 1994, Enlisting officially 12/01/1917.
Posted 01/03/1917 to East Leeds War Hospital established in 1915 in the Old Leeds Union Workhouse. Today the hospital is the Thackray Museum at St James Hospital until she passed away in the Easst Leeds War Hospital due to Tuberculosis (the symptoms described on her death certificate are of Spanish Flu which she most likely caught of a soldier recentley returned from the front) Her passing was announced in the Yorkshire Evening Post 10/01/1919 and 11/01/1919.
Local Memorials Bramham. Five Sisters Window York Minster.
WARE Samuel
Private 32006 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 25/10/1916 Aged 19. Born Bramham. Baptised 26/01/1896 St James Bramham. Son of Fred and Lousia Smith Married 1890 CWGC Wathersame Kennels Bramham. 1911 Stubbing Moor Bramham Occupation Farm Labourer. Enlisted Boston Spa.
Remembered Thiepval Memorial Somme France. Local Memorial Bramham.
WIGGLESWORTH George
Private 73254 Machine Gun Corps KIA 16/08/1917 Aged 20. Born Bramham 1897. Son of Richard and Ada Young Married 1888. Enlisted Leeds 08/11/1915 Yorkshire Light Infantry 25774 Residence Park Farm Bramham. Memorial Bramham.
YORKSHIRE EVENING POST LEEDS 08/09/1917
"Notice has been received by Mr and Mrs Wrigglesworth of Park Farm Bramham, that their eldest son Gunner George Wrigglesworth of the machine gun corps was killed in action on August 16th, he was 20 years of age. Prior to enlisting in 1915 he was employed at the gardens at Bramham Park."
Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
WARRINGTON Tom
Serjeant 1326 1st 13th Bn 15th County of London Civil Service Rifles KIA 09/05/1915 Battle Aubers Aged 22. Born Saxton 1892 Vol 9c Page 914. Son of William Edward Born Saxton 1848 and Sarah Hare Born Bramham 1849 Married Bramham 1868. Toms Father was the Landlord of the The Crooked Billet public house Saxton. Residence 1911 23 Graham Road West Acton Occupation Carpenter Sword Factory. Enlisted Paddington London. Landed Le Harve France 04/11/1914.
Laid to Rest Ploegsteert Memorial Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
WILKINSON Charles Robert
Lance Srerjeant 30567 C Company 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment KIA 06/05/1918 Aged 20. Born Bramham 1898. Son of Thomas Smith and Ruth Richardson Married 1893. CWGC 24 Southampton Street Redcar North Yorkshire. 1911 residence No 3 Eldon Terrace Ossett, Occupation Painters Errand Boy. Enlisted Redcar.
Remembered Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
WARD Edward
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Local Memorial Bramham.
WADESON Edward Yeadon
Lieutenant 3rd Bn attached to 10th Bn Loyal North Lancashire KIA 22/03/1918 Aged 22. Born Thirsk 1895. Son of the Reverand Edward Gustavus and Margaret Elizabeth Yeadon Married Wirral 1888. CWGC of Bramham Vicarage. Edward was an old boy of Tadcaster Grammer School and went to Selwyn College Cambridge. Leeds Mercury reported that Edward was wounded at the battle of the Somme in July 1916.
Remembered Arras Memorial France. Local Memorial Bramham.
WALTON Joseph
Lance Corporal 6386 1st Bn South Wales Borderers KIA 31/10/1914 Aged 36. Born Garforth 1878. Enlisted 08/11/1897 Pontefract York and Lancaster Regiment 5003. Discharged payed £18.00 19/08/1899. Son of James and Elizabeth Fall Married Tadcaster 1875. 1911 James was living in Bramham with Josephs brother Arthur. Husband of Mary Raper Married Bramham 1906 Mary Re to Married James Cowell in Tadcaster 1921. Residence 1911 Pentre Hawarden Flintshire Wales Occupation General Labourer.
Remembered Menin Gate Memorial Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
YOUNG BROTHERS
YOUNG Osborne
Private 62479 Royal Army Medical Corps DOW 28/04/1918 Aged 23. Born Thorner 1895. Son of Thomas Born Bilton and Elizabeth Ann Young Born Clifford 1861 Vol 9c Page 522 Married Bramham 1879. Residence 11 Walker Buildings Bramham Occupation Grocers Assistant. Enlisted Aldershot as an Ambulance Driver. Landed France 23/11/1915.
Laid to Rest Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Belgium. Local Memorial Bramham.
YOUNG William John
Private 6437 1st Bn West Yorkshire Regiment DIED at Home 17/11/1918 Aged 23. Born Lucker Northumberland. Son of John William and Helen Sophia Dodds Married 1894 Belford Northumberland. Williams Occupation Farm Labourer High Street Bramham. Leeds Mercury 17/11/1919 reported full military funeral for William.
Laid to Rest Hunslet Old Cemetery Leeds. Local Memorial Bramham.
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BRAMHAM CONNECTION A list of those men with a Connection to Bramham that are not remembered on the Bramham WW1 War Memorial.
BURDON Rowland
Captain Royal Flying Corps Tadcaster Bramham Airfield KFA 10/01/1917 Wetherby Vol 9a Page 170 Aged 23. Born London 06/02/1893. Son of Colonel Rowland Burdon and Mary Arundal Slade Married St George Hanover Square London 1887. Rowland was the only son of Rowland Burdon part of the well known and famous Burdon family of Sunderland and its surrounding area. Rowland's Great Grandfather was the man behind the building of the Wearmouth Bridge in Sunderland. Click Here.
Rowland lost his life in a flying accident at Tadcaster hence why he is remembered on this site. In August 1914 Rowland joined the Northumberland Hussars as a dispatch rider. His father raised the 18th Bn Durhan Light Infantry to which he became a Lieutenant on 24/09/1914. He was gazetted to Captain in June 1915, and and was sent to France in the November. Rowland was invalided home in June 1916 and after recovering was sent to Tadcaster (Bramham) Airfield in as an instructor and Flight Commander in the Royal Flying Corps. He passed away due to a flying accident in the Tadcaster area (Can You Help With Details Please) Laid to Rest St James Church Castle Eden Co Durham.
GRASBY Joseph
Private 28168 3rd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment Attached Labour Corps DIED at Home 19/02/1919 Aged 31. Born Tockwith 1888. Son of John Born Cattel 1861 and Esther Young Born Bilton 1867 Married 1885. Husband of Alice Mary Burks Born Sherburn-In-Elmet 1896 Married 1918 CWGC Residence Bramham. Laid to Rest Tockwith the Epiphany Churchyard. Memorial None