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Yorkshire
Regiment Memorials Overseas, - The Ploegsteert Memorial, Surnames "W" |
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The Ploegsteert Memorial
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)
The names of those men of the Yorkshire Regiment with a surname beginning with W" listed on the Ploegsteert memorial are;- |
Private Albert Ward. 33819. "X" Coy 12th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Formerly 261080 R A S C. Son of Roland and Charlotte Ward, of 6,
Sincil St., Lincoln. Died 11 April 1918. Aged 27.
Born Lincoln, Enlisted Lincoln.
2nd Lieutenant Laurence Albert D Ward. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Mr. A. E. Ward, of Woodlands, Eaglescliffe, Co. Durham. Died 10 April
1918. Aged 22.
(See below for further information on Laurence Ward.)
Private William Ward.
64702. 25th Battalion (Tyneside Irish) Northumberland Fusiliers, formerly
47723 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 11 April 1918.
Born Leicester, Enlisted Leicester.
Commemorated Panel 2, PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL.
2nd Lieutenant Eric George Wellesley. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Died 21 December 1915.
Lance Corporal Ralph William Wheatley,
40791. 23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers,
formerly 26698 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of
Albert and Elizabeth Jane Wheatley, of 13, Edward's St., Eston, Yorks. Killed
13 April 1918. Aged 26.
Born South Bank (Yorks), Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Commemorated Panel 2, PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL.
Lance Corporal Charles White. 23868. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Robert and Sarah White, of 7, Lucknow St., Albert Hill, Darlington.
Died 12 April 1918. Aged 28.
Born Darlington, Enlisted Darlington.
Private Frederick Wilkins. 48384. 12th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Formerly TR/5/71370 T R Battalion. Son of W. John Wilkins and Fanny Wilkins,
of 116, Twycross St., Highfields, Leicester. Died 11 April 1918. Aged
18.
Born Leicester, Enlisted Leicester.
Lance Corporal Albert William Windross. 21408. 12th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Died 11 April 1918.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Private William Wingate. 47905. 12th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Formerly 224341 R E. Died 9 April 1918.
Born Barony, Enlisted Glasgow.
Private John William Wood.
52811. 10th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, formerly
266594 the Yorkshire Regiment. Died 7 September 1918.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Commemorated on Panel 4, PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL.
Private Lawrence Cyril Woodman.
64685. 23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers,
formerly 47706 the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Tom and Alice Woodman, of 11, Clarence St., Burton-on-Trent.
Killed 8 April 1918. Aged 19.
Born Burton-on-Trent (Staffs), Enlisted Lichfield.
Commemorated on Panel 2, PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL.
One of the Lions Guarding the Ploegsteert Memorial
(Photo : Edward Nicholl)
Supplementary Information on Lawrence Albert D Ward;-
1. From the Roll of Honour kept in Egglescliffe Parish Church, compiled by D Bell and D N Revell.
2nd Lieutenant Laurence Albert D Ward. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment.
Laurence Ward came home from Canada at the outbreak of war. He joined the
4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment in November 1914. Was made Corporal and served
in France in 1916.
He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant with the 13th Battalion in 1917. Mentioned
in Despatches. Killed in action near Armentieres on 10 April 1918.
Laurence Ward was the son of Albert Edward and Cicely Ward of "Woodlands",
Yarm Road. Egglescliffe. His father was a manager of a salt works, was a well-known
character in the parish, and was known as "Salty Ward".
2. The following information on Laurence Ward is taken from Yarm1914.com;-
"Laurence was born in Eaglescliffe in 1896 to Albert Edward Ward aged
27, a secretary in a Saltworks and his wife Cicely aged 28. They married in
1893 when Cicely was a servant at Woodside Hall in Preston on Tees where the
Mayor of Stockton Richard H Appleton lived. They moved to Highfield Villas
and in 1895 their first daughter Frances Cicely was born. Their second daughter,
Freda Margaret was born in 1901.The family were wealthy enough to have their
own servant Nora Flyn. By 1911 Albert was the manager at the saltworks and
the family had moved to a 7 roomed house on Yarm Road called Woodlands. The
family understood the importance of a good education and Frances was a residential
pupil at Barnard Castle school. The servant was now Annie Dualey.
Laurence was 18 at the outbreak of war and signed up with the Border Regiment
with army number 4181/241752 reaching the rank of corporal before being commissioned
on 30th October 1917 with 4th Yorkshire Hussars (Alexandra Princes of Wales
Own). He was killed in action on 10th April 1918 and remembered on Ploegsteert
Memorial in Belgium.
He is remembered on the Egglescliffe War memorial and Middlesbrough High School
memorial plaque which is displayed in Middlesbrough College. Yarm1914.com
believe it is likely that he attended Yarm Grammar School as well and therefore
remembered on the board in Conyers School. "
The facts given in the Yarm1914.com website are somewhat at variance with
facts in the Egglescliffe Roll of Honour.