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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - The Arras Memorial, Surnames "G" |
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The Arras Memorial and the Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery
(Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>)
| The names of those men of the Yorkshire Regiment with a surname beginning with "G" listed on the Arras Memorial are;- |
2nd Lieutenant Walter Harold Game. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Ellen Game and the late George A. J. Game, of 16, Culmstock Rd., Clapham Common, London. Killed 23 April 1917. Aged 21.
Private Jack Gardner. 33125. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment,
formerly 12719 R W Kent Regt. Killed 11 April 1917.
Born Tonbridge (Kent), Enlisted Tonbridge (Kent).
Lance Corporal Nathaniel George, MM. 18348. 10th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of Elizabeth George, of 23, William St., Hetton Downs, Hetton-le-Hole,
Co. Durham, and the late Nathaniel George. Killed 11 April 1917. Aged 22.
Born Hetton Downs, Enlisted Sunderland, Resided Hetton-le-Hole.
Private James Robert Gibson. 241400. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of William and Helen Gibson, of 40, Oak Rd., Scarborough; husband of Beatrice
Alice Dawson (formerly Gibson), of 40, Trafalgar St. West, Scarborough. Killed
12 May 1917. Aged 24.
Enlisted Hull.
Private Thomas Bernard Gill,
28271. 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, formerly
5705 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Tom and Lucy Ann Gill, of 4, Flora
St., Church Lane, Eston, Yorks. Killed 12 May 1917. Aged 19..
Born Eston (Yorks), Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Eston.
Commemorated on Bay 4 and 5. ARRAS MEMORIAL.
Private William Gillard. 23489. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of the late George and Margaret Gillard, of Dewsbury, Yorks.; husband
of Gerty Gillard, of Rustic Cottage, Theddlethorpe, Louth, Lincs. Killed 11
April 1917. Aged 33.
Born Barrow-in-Furness (Lancs), Enlisted Richmond (Yorks).
Private John William Gillings.
28315. 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, formerly
32614 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 24 April 1917.
Born South Bank (Yorks), Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided South Bank.
Commemorated on Bay 4 and 5, ARRAS MEMORIAL.
| Private Joseph Gillis. 235140. 4th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of Sadie Gillis, of 7, Rectory Terrace, Sunderland, and
the late Charles Gillis. Killed 23 April 1917. Aged 24. Enlisted Sunderland. |
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| **Private Gillis was one of 16 soldiers who served in the Yorkshire Regiment who are commemorated in the British Jewry Book of Honour. Of the 50,000 Jews who served with the British and Colonial Forces during the First World War, 2,324 lost their lives and are commemorated in this book. |  |
Private Sidney Gillson. 203021 (7611). 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of the late John and Emma Gillson. Killed 23 April 1917. Aged 19.
Born Tulbourne (Cambs), Enlisted Cambridge, Resided Tulbourne.
Private James Gilstin. 13596. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 13 May 1917.
Born Sunderland, Enlisted Sunderland.
Private Frederick William Ginger. 42347. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment, formerly 183510 RFA. Killed 2 April 1917.
Born Mursley (Bucks), Enlisted Banbury.
Private Thomas Golightly. 39167. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Brother of Mrs. C. Anderson, of 22, Ford St., Sunderland Rd., Gateshead. Killed
14 May 1917. Aged 37.
Born Gateshead, Enlisted Gateshead-on-Tyne.
Private Alfred Edward Goodenough. 42348. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment, formerly 150471 RFA. Son of Mrs. Mary Matilda Goodenough; of 27,
Queen St., Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. Killed 28 April 1917. Aged 23.
Born Sutton Coldfield, Enlisted Sutton Coldfield.
Serjeant Thomas Gorman. 8835. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 2 April 1917.
Born Aldershot, Enlisted Aldershot, Resided Alton.
Private John Thomas Gott. 240223. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 27 June 1917.
Born Hull, Enlisted Driffield.
Private George Goulden. 30463. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Husband of the late Edith Goulden, of New Earswick, York. Killed 23 April
1917. Aged 41.
Born Leeds, Enlisted York, Resided New Earswick.
Private George Graham.
36234. 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment, formerly
12024 Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William and Agnes Graham, of 3, Olive
St., Middlesbrough, Yorks. Killed 12 December 1917. Aged 20.
Born Middlesbrough (Yorks), Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Commemorated Bay 6, ARRAS MEMORIAL.
Private William Graham. 38581. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment,
formerly 36280 West Yorks Regt. Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Graham,
of Gateshead; husband of Florence Graham, of 228, Jefferson St., Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Killed 13 May 1917. Aged 37.
Born Jarrow, Enlisted Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Private George Henry Grainger.
28332. 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, formerly
25916 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 24 April 1917.
Born Pocklington, Enlisted Pocklington.
Commemorated on Bay 4 and 5, ARRAS MEMORIAL.
Private Thomas Graves. 235053. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Thomas and Frances Maud Graves, of 26, South Parade, Huddersfield,
Yorks. Killed 23 April 1917. Aged 22.
Born Keswick, Enlisted Barrow-in-Furness, Resided Keswick.
Private John Robert Gray. 36071. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 9 April 1917.
Born Brotton (Yorks), Enlisted Saltburn, Resided Loftus.
Lance Corporal Walter Greenhalgh. 28839. 13th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 18 August 1916.
Born Todmorden, Enlisted Halifax, Resided Hebden Bridge.
Private Edward Griffin.
40149. 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, formerly
27990 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Thomas and Mary Griffin,
of 64, Stockton St., Middlesbrough, Yorks. Killed 12 April 1917. Aged 34.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Commemorated on Bay 2 and 3, ARRAS MEMORIAL.
(Not shown on the Middlesbrough War Memorial)
One of the Panels for the Yorkshire Regiment on the Arras Memorial.
(Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>)
Detail of the above Panel on the Arras Memorial showing the name of Captain
Hirsch, VC.
(Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>)