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Yorkshire
Regiment, - Memorials Overseas Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Surnames "W" |
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The Ypres Menin Gate Memorial
Photo : Edward Nicholl
| The names of those men of the Yorkshire Regiment with a surname beginning with "W" listed on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial are;- |
Private William John Wakeley. 42503. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Formerly 164310 R F A. Killed 7 June 1917.
Born Atterford (Somerset), Enlisted Taunton, Resided North Curry (Somerset).
Private William Walker. 7293. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed
4 November 1914.
Born Trinity (Derby), Enlisted Derby, Resided Castle Donnington.
Major Wilfrid Beckett Walker. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Capt. Edwyn Walker. His brother, Capt. O.B. Walker was also lost. Killed
29 October 1914. Aged 38.
Commmemorated on Panel 33, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.
(His name is shown as "Wilfred" in the CWGC records, but he was
christened "Wilfrid".
The following is taken from "Officers of the Green Howards 1688 -1931"
by M L Ferrar;-
Born at Scarborough 5 August 1876, 2nd son of Captain Edwyn Walker, 15th Hussars.
2nd Lieut 20 February 1897; Lieut 15 October 1898; Captain 25 June 1904; Major
3 December 1913.
Served in the Boer War, 1900-02. Operations in the Orange River Colony, including
actions at Vet and Zand Rivers. In the advance Eastwards, actions at Diamond
Hill and Belfast. With the 2nd Battalion Mounted Infantry in operations in
the Transvaal, 30 November 1900 to the end of the war.
Mentioned in despatches, Queen's medal and 4 clasps, King's medal and 2 clasps.
Proceeded to Zeebrugge with the 2nd Battalion in October 1914 and was killed
at Ypres, 29 October 1914.")
(Captain O B Beckett was with the 15th (The King's) Hussars and was killed
on 23 August 1914.)
Private Willoughby Ward Walker. 1580. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 29 July 1916.
Born Scarborough, Enlisted Scarborough.
Private Arthur John Waller. 1881. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 25 April 1915.
Born Scarborough, Enlisted Bridlington, Resided Scarborough.
Corporal Richard George Wallinger, 996. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of Ellen Hansom (formerly Wallinger), of Urlay Nook, Yarm, Yorks.,
and the late William Wallinger; husband of Jane Ann Calvert (formerly Wallinger),
of 1, Newlands Rd., Eaglescliffe, Co. Durham. Killed 24 May 1915. Aged 34.
Born Seaton Carew (Hartlepool), Enlisted Yarm, Resided Eaglescliffe.
Private Humphrey Walton. 260124. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Formerly 4053 Durham L I. Son of John and Jane Walton, of 93, South Terrace,
Cornsay Colliery, Co. Durham. Killed 31 July 1917. Aged 23.
Born Edmondsley (Durham), Enlisted Durham, Resided Cornsay Colliery.
Lance Corporal James Joseph Wanless, 575. 4th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 1 May 1915.
Born Eston (Yorks), Enlisted Eston.
Private William Henry Warburton. 42031. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Formerly 448 1st T R Battalion. Son of George Warburton, of 69, Milling St.,
Gateshead. Killed 7 June 1917. Aged 32.
Born Newcastle-on-Tyne, Enlisted Gateshead.
Private Albert Victor Warren. 42526. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Formerly 183562 Royal Field Artillery. Son of James and Emily Warren, of The
Anchor Inn, Church St., Wiveliscombe, Somerset. Killed 7 June 1917. Aged 20.
Born Cardiff, Enlisted Hilsea, Resided Wiveliscombe.
Private Albert Wastell, 1500. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Thomas and Annie Wastell, of Danby's Yard, Yarm, Yorks. Killed 15 July
1915. Aged 19.
Born Yarm (Yorks), Enlisted Yarm.
Serjeant Septimus Waugh. 17906. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of James and Catherine Waugh, of Row, Roadhead, Carlisle. Killed 7 June
1917. Aged 29.
Born Bewcastle (Brampton), Enlisted Burnley, Resided Carlisle.
Corporal Frederick Ernest Webber. 8468. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of George and Annie Webber; husband of Amy Beatrice Rodley (formerly Webber),
of I, Brown's Court, Swan St., York. Killed 30 October 1914. Aged 26.
Born Newington (London), Enlisted Stratford, Resided York.
Private George William Webb, 1313. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of George and Annie E. Webb, of 8, Pearson St., Middlesbrough. Killed
24 May 1915. Aged 21.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
(In the 1911 Census, the Webb family were living at 104, Lumley Street, Middlesbrough.
In the Census, George William Webb was siad to have been born in Doncaster.)
Private George Henry Welburn, 3645. 5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 15 July 1915.
Enlisted Beverley (Yorks).
Lance Corporal Reuben William Wenden, 12528. 7th Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 11 September 1915.
Born Hackney (London), Enlisted Scarborough, Resided London.
Lieutenant Charles Guy Weston. 7th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 1 November 1915. (Lieutenant C G Weston's name originally appearred
on the Memorial, but he is buried in Divisional Cemetery. He is listed in
the CWGC database in Divisional Cemetery and no longer in the database for
the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.).
Christopher Noble maintains a website for the Wetherby
War Memorial, on which a great deal more information on Lieutenant
Weston can be obtained.
Private Joseph Wheatley. 38931. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 7 June 1917.
Born Winlaton (Durham), Enlisted Blaydon, Resided Ryton-on-Tyne.
Private Walter Whitaker. 7180 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son
of Walter Whitaker, of 15, Pawson St., East Ardsley, Wakefield; husband of Hilda
Cooper (formerly Whitaker), of 30, Station Rd., Cross Hills, Keighley. Killed
30 October 1914. Aged 27.
Born Malton (Yorks), Enlisted Keighley, Resided York.
Private Augustus Richard White. 42520. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Formerly 183586 Royal Field Artillery. Son of William George White; husband
of Caroline White, of 6, Gloster Rd., Wadhurst, Sussex. Killed 7 June 1917.
Aged 41.
Born Peckham, Enlisted Gloucester.
Private William Whitefield.
12842. 140th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), formerly
24109 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 7 June 1917.
Born Leeds, Enlisted Leeds.
Commemorated Panel 56, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.
Serjeant Wifred Harold Gill Whitehead. 713. 4th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of Thomas and Martha Whitehead, of 119, Waterloo Rd., Middlesbrough.
Killed 4 May 1915. Aged 24.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Private Frederick Whitton. 9064. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Mrs. Mary Rowell; husband of Edith May Whitton, of 18, Stanley St., New
Beckton, London. Killed 30 October 1914. Aged 25.
Born Trinity (Darlington), Enlisted Darlington.
Private Richard Wilbor. 3032. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son
of Thomas and Elizabeth D. Wilbor, of Black Swan Yard, Northallerton, Yorks.
Killed 20 March 1916. Aged 21.
Enlisted Northallerton.
Buried RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND.
(Private Richard Wilbor is an example of person initially recorded as missing,
but with the body subsequently being recovered, identified, and buried.)
Private William Henry Wilkinson. 38703. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Mr. W. H. and Mrs. M. A. Wilkinson, of 7, John St., Northgate, Darlington.
Killed 7 June 1917. Aged 20.
Born Darlington, Enlisted Darlington, Resided Vondergate (sic).
Private Frederick Bertrand Williams. 2543. 4th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 25 April 1915.
Enlisted Northallerton.
Private Charles Wilson. 7995. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son
of the late Thomas and Hannah Wilson. Killed Between 22 October 1914 and 6 November
1914. Aged 30.
Born Brompton (Scarborough), Enlisted Scarborough.
Private Edward Wilson(alias). 9662. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed Between 22 October 1914 and 6 November 1914.
Born Grangetown (Yorks), Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Grangetown.
Private Ernest Frederick Wilson. 30421. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Husband of Mary Jane Wilson, of 18, Prospect Park, Prospect Mount, Scarborough.
Killed 2 August 1917. Aged 40.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Scarborough.
Private Ira Israel Wilson. 11927. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 7 June 1917.
Born Spennymoor (Durham), Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Private John Wilson (Alias). 1270. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Real Family name BETTERIDGE. Son of Richard and Anna Mary Betteridge, of 4,
Stapylton St., Grange Town, Yorks. Killed 30 April 1915. Aged 22.
Born Eston (Yorks), Enlisted Normanby, Resided Grangetown.
Private John William Wilson.10289. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Ambrose Wilson, of 36, Melville St., Bradford. Killed 22 October 1914.
Aged 18.
Born Ripon (Yorks), Enlisted Bradford.
Private John William Wilson, 2370. 5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of John Henry and Eliza Wilson, of 18, St. John Walk, Bridlington; husband
of Ethel Kirby (formerly Wilson), of 32 Havelock Crescent, Bridlington. Killed
25 April 1915. Aged 31.
Born Bridlington, Enlisted Bridlington.
Private Edgar Winterflood. 23217. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 4 July 1917.
Born Thornhill (Dewsbury,Yorks), Enlisted Dewsbury, Resided Thornhill.
Private William Wise. 3/6344. 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Brother
of Mrs. Maria Jones, of 4, Pybus Place, Esplanade, Redcar. Killed 14 August
1917. Aged 39.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Strensall, Resided Middlesbrough.
Private Percy Wollaston.
235340. 20th Battalion The King's (Liverpool Regiment), formerly
243121 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mrs. H. Wollaston, of 32,
Felix Rd., Ipswich. Killed 31 July 1917. Aged 32.
Born Ipswich (Suffolk), Enlisted Hexham (Suffolk), Resided Hexham.
Commemorated on Panel 4 and 6, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.
(Percy Wollaston is commemorated on the Hexham, Northumberland, War Memorial.
Therfore his place of enlistment would not have been "Hexham (Suffolk)"
but Hexham (Northumberland).)
Private George William Wood. 20716. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 7 June 1917.
Born Malton (Yorks), Enlisted Malton.
Private Thomas Wood. 386. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed
3 May 1915.
Born Skelton (Guisborough), Enlisted Skelton.
Private Richard Wooley. 10269. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed
4 November 1914.
Born Whitechapel (London), Enlisted Stratford, Resided Bow (London).
Lieutenant Richard Bowen Woosnam. 6th Battalion attached 4th Battalion
Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 4 June 1915.
(Lieutenant R B Woosnam, although inscribed on the Memorial under the "Yorkshire
Regiment" is listed in the CWGC register under the Worcestershire Regiment!
He is shown in SDGW as being in the Yorkshires, though does not appear in
Green Howards Gazette records.
In the CWGC register he is shown as " Son of Bowen Pottinger Woosnam
and Kate Woosnam of 41 Warwick Gardens, Kensington. Aged 34." But the
CWGC register also shows him as being on the Addenda Panel, Helles Memorial!)
Private Edward Wordsworth.
235177. 8th Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, formerly
9697 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 4 August 1917.
Born Salford (Lancs), Enlisted Salford.
Commemorated on Panel 41 and 43, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.
Private Charles Wright. 2039. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son
of the late John and Mary Wright. Killed 25 April 1915. Aged 25.
Enlisted Guisborough.
Private Frederick Wright. 38487. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 7 June 1917.
Born East Cowton (Yorks), Enlisted Northallerton.
Lance Corporal John Thomas Wright. 19534. 9th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of William and Elizabeth Wright, of Helmsley, Yorks.; husband
of Harriet Wright, of South View, East End, Ampleforth, York. Killed 7 June
1917. Aged 34.
Born Helmsley (Yorks), Enlisted Malton, Resided Ampleforth (Malton).
Private Thomas Dent Wright. 42621. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Formerly 29/469 Northumberland Fusiliers. Killed 7 June 1917.
Born Barnoldswick, Enlisted Barnoldswick.
Private John Thomas Wyatt. 8467. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 30 October 1914.
Born Bethnal Green (London), Enlisted Stratford, Resided London.
One of the Lions at the top of the Menin Gate Memorial, with the Memorial
Dedication
Photo : Edward Nicholl
The Memorial Dedication inside the Gate
Photo : Edward Nicholl