The Yorkshire Regiment, Local War Memorials

War Memorials Elsewhere, -
Liverpool,
Town Hall Roll of Honour

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Liverpool Town Hall, - The Hall of Remembrance (1) Liverpool Town Hall, - The Hall of Remembrance (1)
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The Hall of Remembrance in Liverpool's Town Hall was opened by the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales, in 1921 and contains the City's Roll of Honour.

The Roll of Honour carries the names of over 13,000 military men from Liverpool who died during the First World War. This list of war dead began to be compiled during the war when names of the fallen were posted in a window overlooking Exchange Flags and relatives queued to add names. Because of this, the list is far from complete, but a number of names have been added since 1921, on additional panels.

The Roll of Honour is presented in a number of framed panels, with the names of those who lost their lives presented alphabetically and with the regiment / ship that they served in.
The Roll of Honour is fully searchable on the Hall of Remembrance website. (Hint : searching for soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment use the search term "YORKSHIRE REGT.")

15 soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment are named on this Roll of Honour.

Richard Humphreys kindly visited the Town Hall and photographed some of the Yorkshire Regiment names on the Roll of Honour. He was assisted by Andy Barker of the Town Hall Management Team. Photographing the individual names on the Roll of Honour was a difficult process due to names appearing at different heights on the Roll of Honour, and because of the glass protection in front of the names. A composite of the photographed names is shown below.

Private Joseph William Birchall. 6374. (Panel 12, left. Shown as "J W Birchell".)
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Joseph and Annie Birchall, of 58, Cardigan St., Wavertree. Liverpool. Died at home 12 November 1919. Aged 38.
Born Huyton (Liverpool).
Buried LIVERPOOL (ALLERTON) CEMETERY.
(Probably a career soldier. He was based at Sheffield Barracks in the 1901 Census, serving with the Yorkshire Regiment.)

Lance Corporal William Wortley Blow. 9222. (Panel 14, left.)
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John Blow; husband of Winifred Crighton (formerly Blow), of 70, Enid St., Liverpool. Died 22 October 1914. Aged 21
Born Richmond, Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Liverpool.
Commemorated Panel 33, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.

Private Richard Blunden. 8386. (Panel 14, right.)
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mrs. Francis Clarke, of 1, Hamilton Terrace, Elm Grove, Liverpool. Killed 30 October 1914. Aged 27.
Born Liverpool, Enlisted Richmond (Yorks), Resided Liverpool.
Buried PERTH CEMETERY (CHINA WALL).

Private Isaac Culshaw, 41645. (Panel 10, right.)
6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Formerly 162186 R F A. Son of William and Elizabeth Culshaw, of 49, Marlborough St., Liverpool; husband of Mary Culshaw, of 81, Rosebery St., Liverpool. Killed 27 September 1917. Aged 32.
Born Liverpool, Enlisted Liverpool.
Commemorated on Panel 52 to 54 and 162A, TYNE COT MEMORIAL.

Private Walter Earl. 41637. (Panel 2.)
6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Formerly 160562 R F A. Killed 14 August 1917.
Born Liverpool, Enlisted Liverpool.
Commemorated Panel 33, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.

Private Charles Francis, 33657. (Panel 3.)
9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William Francis; husband of Annie Ferguson (formerly Francis), of 36, First Avenue, Stoneycroft, Liverpool. Died 21 September 1917. Aged 26.
Enlisted Liverpool.
Commemorated on Panel 52 to 54 and 162A, TYNE COT MEMORIAL.

Corporal Albert Edgar Lewis. 10520. (Panel 24, right.)
6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 10 August 1915.
Born Liverpool, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Commemorated Panel 55 to 58, HELLES MEMORIAL.

Serjeant Arthur Robert Lewis. 13369. (Panel 24, left.)
8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 29 July 1916.
Born Stockton-on-Tees, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Buried WARLOY-BAILLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION.

Private John Henry McGarry, 3/7962. (Panel 27.)
10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mrs. Margaret A. McGarry, of 35A, Newsham St., Scotland Rd., Liverpool. Died 4 October 1917.
Born Liverpool, Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided South Bank (Yorks).
Commemorated Panel 52 to 54 and 162A, TYNE COT MEMORIAL.

Private Vincent Neil. 42871. (Panel 63.)
8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Formerly 160944 R F A. Died 19 October 1917.
Born Liverpool, Enlisted Liverpool, Resided Wavertree (Liverpool).
Commemorated Panel 52 to 54 and 162A, TYNE COT MEMORIAL.

Private William Robinson. 38815. (Panel 45.)
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Mary Frances Robinson, of 118, Upper Warwick St., Liverpool. Killed 31 July 1917. Aged 37.
Born Liverpool, Enlisted Liverpool.
Commemorated Panel 33, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.

Captain Clifford Sandford Simpson. (Panel 40.)
8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 10 July 1916.
Buried BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY.
Robert Coulson has provided biographical details of Captain Simpson in his Biographies of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"Clifford Simpson was born in Liverpool on February 11th 1891 and was educated at Repton School where he joined the Officer Training Corps followed by Trinity College at Cambridge which he entered in 1910.
At the onset of war he applied for a commission and was gazetted as a 2nd Lt with the 8th Battalion in September 1914 and received promotion to Lieutenant in December.
In August 1915 he married his fiancée Winifred Stokes at Petersfield in Southampton and on the 26th of the month sailed with the 8th Battalion from Folkestone to Boulogne.
By now a Captain and Adjutant to the battalion Clifford Simpson spent the remaining months of 1915 in the Bois Grenier sector to the south of Armentieres.
In June 1916 the battalion moved to Longeau near Amiens to prepare for the Somme offensive and on July 5th the battalion were in action in the attack on Horseshoe Trench.
On July 10th the battalion attacked the village of Contalmaison from the direction of Baillif Wood, the advance going in at 4.50 p.m.
Captain Clifford Sandford Simpson was killed in this action at Contalmaison on July 10th 1916 at the age of 25.
A brother officer wrote later,
“He was killed in the thickest of actions at about 5-30pm. Nobody could have wished for a better or more noble end. He was with Col Vaughan in the thick of it charging across the open to attack the village. The whole battalion mourns him”.
Another wrote,
“He died as he lived a very great and gallant gentleman”.

Private Frederick William Thompson. 9319. (Panel 37.)
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mrs. C. Daley (formerly Thompson), of Fulmer, Slough, Bucks., and the late Mr. J. Thompson. Killed 15 June 1915. Aged 20.
Born Canterbury (Kent), Enlisted Dublin, Resided Fulmer (Bucks).
Commemorated Panel 12, LE TOURET MEMORIAL.
(Shown as "Corporal" on the Liverpool Town Hall Roll of Honour.)

Private Joseph Heyns Thompson. 235192. (Panel 36.)
4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Mary E. Thompson, of 29, Parton St., Fairfield, Liverpool. Killed 22 April 1917. Aged 28.
Born Liverpool, Enlisted Liverpool.
Buried WARLINCOURT-HALTE BRITISH CEMETERY.

Private James Wray. 35381. (Panel 33 right.)
5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 3/45894 74th T R Battn. Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Williams (formerly Wray), of II, Copeland St., Everton, Liverpool. Killed 11 April 1918. Aged 19.
Born Liverpool (Lancs), Enlisted Liverpool.
Buried CROIX-DU-BAC BRITISH CEMETERY, STEENWERCK.

Liverpool Town Hall, - The Hall of Remembrance (2) Liverpool Town Hall, - The Hall of Remembrance (2)
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Liverpool Town Hall, - Three of the Panels in the Hall of Remembrance Liverpool Town Hall, - Three of the Panels in the Hall of Remembrance
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A Composite of all the Yorkshire Reegiment Names Found on the Roll of Honour A Composite of all the Yorkshire Regiment Names Found on the Roll of Honour
Photographed by Richard Humphreys and Andy Barker

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