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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - The Arras Memorial, Surnames "J" |
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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 "J" listed on the Arras Memorial are;- |
Private James Jackson. 27258. 13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of David and Ada Jackson, of 38, Cobden St., Thornaby-on-Tees. Killed
22 March 1918. Aged 20.
Born Thornaby-on-Tees, Enlisted Stockton-on-Tees, Resided Thornaby-on-Tees.
Private John Jackson,
201707. 1st/5th Battalion Manchester Regiment, formerly
20724 Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 25 March 1918.
Born Pickering (Yorks), Enlisted Malton (Yorks), Resided Pickering.
Commemorated Bay 5, ARRAS MEMORIAL.
Private William Jackson. 23459. 13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 22 March 1918. .
Born Dewsbury (Yorks), Enlisted Dewsbury.
Private Richard Jeffs. 202245. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment,
formerly 5037 Northamptonshire Regt. Killed 23 April 1917.
Enlisted Northampton, Resided Kislingbury.
Private John Jenkinson. 38868. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Richard and Jennet Jenkinson, of May Vale, Pilling, Garstang, Preston,
Lancs. Killed 24 April 1917. Aged 33.
Born Pilling (Lancs), Enlisted Garstang, Resided Pilling.
(SDGW gives number as 38808)
Private Martin Johnson. 203519. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Andrew and Ellan Johnson; husband of Elizabeth McLean Johnson, of 18,
Bibbys Lane, Bootle, Liverpool. Killed 24 April 1917. Aged 27.
Born Liverpool, Enlisted Bootle.
Private Sydney Johnson. 10632. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Thomas Johnson, of 6, St. Thomas Avenue, Stanningley, Leeds. Killed
23 April 1917. Aged 21.
Born Leeds, Enlisted Leeds, Resided Bramley.
Private Tom Johnson. 236183. 9th (Yorkshire Hussars) Battalion the
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), formerly 354 the Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 10 November 1917.
Born Easingwold (Yorks), Enlisted Easingwold.
Private Benjamin Thomas Jones. 38726. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 11 April 1917.
Born Capell Isaac (Camarthenshire), Enlisted Neath, Resided Skewen (Neath,
Glam).
Corporal James Richard Jones.
21568. 21st Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), formerly
16010 the Yorkshire Regiment. KIlled 9 April 1917.
Born Sunderland, Enlisted Sunderland, Resided Fulwell (Durham).
Commemorated Bay 10, ARRAS MEMORIAL.
Private Richard Jones. 38891. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Husband of Amy Alice Jones, of 3, The Friars, Priory St., Cheltenham. Killed
24 April 1917. Aged 39.
Born Malehurst (Salop), Enlisted Newport (Mon).
Private William Jordan.
47994. 18th Battalion the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's
Own), formerly 32862 the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of William and Annie Jordan; husband of Ann Jordan, of 31, Pitt St., Newcastle-on-Tyne.
KIlled 3 May 1917. Aged 42.
Born Alnwick (Northumberland), Enlisted Newcastle-on-Tyne, Resided Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Commemorated Bay 4, ARRAS MEMORIAL.
Private William Just. 235248. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Husband of Mary Elizabeth Just, of Rose Cottage, Thornton-in-Cleveland, Marton,
Yorks. Killed 14 May 1917. Aged 35.
Born Thornton-in-Cleveland, Enlisted Stokesley, Resided Thornton.
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>)