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The Memorial Cross in the Churchyard of All Saints, East Cowton.
Photo : John Hendry of the Imperial
War Museum's Register of War Memorials website
The Memorial Cross in the Churchyard of All Saints, East Cowton (South of Darlington, in North Yorkshire) is inscribed;-
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918.
WILLIAM ATKINSON
THOMAS FRANCIS BOWES
HERBERT EDWIN CORNER
LESLIE KEITH GIFFORD-WOOD
HARRY ROBINSON
WILLIAM SEVERS
RODERICK WEB
Four soldiers who served in the Yorkshire Regiment are commemorated on this memorial.
Private Thomas Francis Bowes. 149314. 41st battalion Machine Gun
Corps, formerly 45198 Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the late R. and S. Bowes,
of Huttons Ambo, York. Killed 18 October 1918. Aged 24.
Born Hutton Ambo (Yorks), Enlisted Tadcaster (Yorks).
Buried LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY.
Private Harry Robinson. 35621.
10th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, formerly 23362 the Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of Tom and Mary Ann Robinson, of East Cowton, Northallerton,
Yorks. Killed 4 October 1917. Aged 19.
Enlisted West Hartlepool.
Buried HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY.
Corporal William Severs. 235503. 1st/6th
Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), formerly 2764 the Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of John T. Severs, of East Cowton, Northallerton, Yorks.; husband
of Kathreen Mary Severs, of 25, Walbrook Terrace, St. Peter's, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Killed 12 April 1918. Aged 24.
Born Middleton Tyas (Yorks), Enlisted Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Commemorated on Panel 82 to 85 and 162A, TYNE COT MEMORIAL.
2nd Lieutenant Leslie Keith Gifford Wood. 6th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 22 August 1915.
Commemorated Panel 55 to 58, HELLES MEMORIAL.
The following comments are provided by Robert Couson in his Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
" Leslie Gifford-Wood was a vicar’s son from North Yorkshire and
was one of the original territorial officers of the 6th battalion on the Army
List for October 1914 when the battalion was raised at Richmond in Yorkshire.
He sailed with the battalion for the Gallipoli campaign from Liverpool on
July 3rd 1915 aboard the troopship ”Aquitania”.
The battalion landed on the island of Lemnos on July 10th and then moved to
the island of Imbros on July 20th for training and acclimatisation.
In the early hours of August 7th Lt Gifford-Wood and the battalion boarded
the lighters and were towed ashore to land at Suvla Bay on the Gallipoli Penninsula.
Their first objective was the hill of Lala Baba which was secured by midnight
on the first day. The following days saw the forces gradually pushing east
and on August 19th plans were formulated for an attack on the enemy positions
at Scimitar Hill.
The battalion frontage had fields thick with hedges and bushes and the advance
began at 3-30 p.m. with Lt Gifford-Wood in the leading party. He was killed
early in the attack in a hail of shrapnel and machine gun fire on August 22nd
1915.
2nd Lt Leslie Keith Gifford-Wood has no known grave and his name is remembered
on the Helles Memorial."
The names of the First World War dead on the Memorial Cross in the Churchyard
of All Saints, East Cowton.
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Photo : John Hendry of the Imperial
War Museum's Register of War Memorials website
All Saints' Church, East Cowton and the Memorial Cross in the Churchyard
Photo : m of the War
Memorials Online website
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