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Remembrance
- The Yorkshire Regiment, First World War Photos, - Individuals, Surname "L" Close window to return to main page |
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2nd Lieutenant Hugh Blackhall
LAIRD 3rd Battalion attached to 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the late Rev. David M. W. Laird, of 26, Napier Rd., Edinburgh. Killed 8 July 1916. Aged 20. Commemorated on Pier and Face 3 A and 3 D, THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. Photo : George Watson's College |
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 Photo from that of 6th Battalion Officers, 1915 |
Lieutenant Maurice Bovingdon
LAMBERT 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John James and Florence Louisa Lambert, of 44, Cyprus Rd., Church End, Finchley, London. Died 7 August 1915. Aged 21. Commemorated Panel 55 to 58, Helles Memorial. |
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Private Walter LAWRENCE,
24767 Geoff Lawrence, grandson of Walter Lawrence, recognised his grandfather in one of John Sheen's photographs. Geoff sent the following information on Walter Lawrence;- Front Row third from left. is Walter Lawrence from 154 Victoria Road Middlesbrough. His Army number was 24767 attached to C Company (13th Battalion). This info is from his Army pocket bible. He was wounded in France in July 1916 and again in Italy. I have a photo of him in pith helmet and putees on his return. He returned home to manage a Hintons Grocery branch in Stockton but died in 1931 due to complications associated with his wounds which never fully healed. |
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 Photo from that of 2nd Battalion Officers, 1914 |
Lieutenant Frank Cooper LEDGARD 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Armitage and Helen Ledgard, of The Manor House, Thorner, Leeds. Killed 23 October 1914. Aged 23. Buried HARLEBEKE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY. Born at Scarcroft, Leeds, 15th October, 1891, son of Armitage and Helen Ledgard, of The Manor House, Thorner, Leeds. 2nd Lieut., 25th March, 1911 ; Lieut.. 27th October, 1913. Proceeded to Belgium with 2nd Battn. in October. 1914. Killed in action near Ypres, 23rd October, 1914. He was in charge of the machine gun detachment of the battalion. "Another very brave man was Lieutenant Ledgard, who has relatives in Leeds. On the day of a big German attack in October, be was in command of the two machine guns. Operating against us were eight machine guns and some artillery, and every few minutes he had to change the position of the guns. Backwards and forwards along the trenches, from one position to another, he was running with the heavy machine gun on his shoulder, and perspiration streaming down his face. Man after man in his section was hit as they mowed down the German infantry, and eventually all were out of action except Lieut Ledgard and Private Norfolk. Almost at nightfall the officer was hit by a shell, and he died a great hero in the eyes of every Green Howard " (Yorkshire Post). |
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Carrington LE SUEUR 1st Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 26 July 1917. Commemorated Panel 33,YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL. Dr Simon Fielding (<simonharveyfielding@yahoo.co.uk>) has provided the upper photo, which is from a group photo of officers attending the School of Musketry at Pachmarhi, India in May 1915. The photo is usefully labelled with surnames and units, and one officer is 'Le Sueur Yorks'. Barrie Bertram (<bhbertram@tiscali.co.uk>) who provided the lower photo has provided the following information on Captain Le Sueur, who was an Old Boy of Queen Victoria College, Jersey (Channel Islands);- "Ernest Geoffrey Carrington Le Sueur, younger son of Arthur Le Sueur, of Jersey, was born 21st January, 1891. Entering College at the early age of eight, he remained for eleven years, passing 26th into Sandhurst in 1910. He was a Prefect, Colour-Sergeant of the OTC, and in the Cricket and Football XI's and Shooting VIII for three years. Many will remember a brilliant innings he played against Guernsey in his last term. In the same year he equalled CG Ames's school record for the Hurdles (17 2/5 seconds.). He was trained in the Sandhurst Company at Woolwich, and on passing out was gazetted to the Yorkshire Regiment (The Green Howards), and joined the 2nd Battalion at Blackdown Camp. In the following year he went out to India, to the 1st Battalion at Sialcote. Promoted Lieutenant in September 1914, he was given temporary rank as Captain a year later, and promoted Captain on New Year's Day 1917. In October 1916 he was invalided home from India on a year's sick leave, owing to eye trouble. Consulting a specialist in London, he was assured that there was nothing wrong with his eyes, and at once reported for duty and joined the Reserve Battalion. On 1st June, 1917, he went to the front, and eight weeks later was killed while leading his company in a successful raid on the enemy trenches. He married, on 5th May, 1917, Dorothy, only daughter of Major OJ Keene, CIE, VD, whose two sons were at College." The following additional information is given in M L Ferrar's "Officers of the Green Howards 1688 - 1931";- "Joined 2nd Battalion in France in June 1917. Killed in action on Observatory Ridge, Sanctuary Wood, Ypres, 26 July 1917, when leading his company on a raid of the enemy's trenches." |
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Captain Hugh LEVIN Born at York, 16 January 1886, son of Major H L M Levin, 19th Foot. 2nd Lieut. 28 january 1905; Lieut. 3 October 1906; Cptain 23 April 1913; Brevet-Major 3 June 1917; Retired 19 March 1921. In the War 1914-18 went to Belgium with the 2nd Battn. Severely wounded at Gheluvelt, 29 October 1914 (bronze star and clasp, silver and bronze medals). For the remainder of the War was employed on the staff at home (mentioned in despatches, Brevet of Major). |
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Private James LISTER.
7637. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of James and Emma Louisa Lister, of Addingham, Yorks.; husband of Mary Susannah Lister, of 32, Dale St., Hargreaves Square, Shipley, Yorks. Killed 2 April 1917. Aged 29. Born Addingham (Skipton, Yorks), Enlisted Richmond (Yorks), Resided Shipley. Commemorated Bay 5, ARRAS MEMORIAL. Photo from Craven's Part in the Great War, courtesy Chris Foster. |
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Colonel John William LODGE 3rd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Commanding 2nd (Home Service) Garr. Bn. Son of the late Robert and Mary Lodge, of Bishopdale, Aysgarth. Commanded 3rd Bn. in the South African Campaign. Died at home on 23 August 1917. Aged 60. Buried AYSGARTH (ST. ANDREW) CHURCHYARD. A biography of Colonel Lodge can be found on the page for the Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, War Memorial. |
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Private Robert LUMSDEN.
17479. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John William and Eliza Lumsden, of 66, Queen St., North Shields. Died 12 April 1917. Aged 22. Born Tynemouth (North Shields), Enlisted North Shields. Buried GOUY-EN-ARTOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION. "Jim" of the North East War Memorials Project (<jampas@btopenworld.com>) has kindly forwarded the attached photo, which comes from a contemporary in-house magazine of the Smith's Dock Company. (The Smith's Dock magazine has incorrectly linked Robert Lumsden to the Northumberland Fusiliers) |
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