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The First World War Memorial Plaques outside the East Morton
Memorial Institute (Bradford)
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There are three commemorative plaques on the East Morton Village Institute (Bradford). One plque commemorates names from the Second World War (on the left of the building), and two of the plaques commemorate the names of those who lost their lives in the First World War. These two plaques are on either side of the entrance porch.
The plaques bear the following dedication;-
"THIS INSTITUTE/ WAS ERECTED/ BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/ IN MEMORY OF/ THE
MEN FROM MORTON/ WHO SERVED/ DURING THE EUROPEAN WAR/ AND IN PARTICULAR/ OF
THOSE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ AND WHOSE NAMES/ ARE RECORDED/ ON THESE TWO TABLETS"
16 names are commemorated on the two tablets.
1 Officer of the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on the First World War Memorial Plaques in the East Morton Village Institute.
Major Tom Illingworth Mitchell. 13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Tom Mitchell and Marion Illingworth Illingworth (sic), his wife, of
The Park, Eccleshill, Yorks. Enlisted in (Public Schools) 24th Bn. Middlesex
Regt. in 1914. Died of wounds 12 April 1918. Aged 33.
Buried ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY.
The following biographical notes are taken from the
Shrewsbury School website;-
"School House, left in 1902. He initially joined the 16th (Service) Battn.
Duke of Cambridge’s own, Middlesex Regt., but, on being wounded, was
transferred to a Temporary Captaincy in the 24th Reserve Service Battn on
13th November 1915.
When again passed for general service, he was attached to the Line Battn.
of the regiment (13th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment) with which he was
serving when he fell.
His father, Tom Mitchell JP, died 8th May 1915 and his younger brother, Second
Lieutenant George Mitchell, was killed in France, 22nd July 1915."
(No further information, other than that he was a nephew of the Rt. Hon A
H Illingworth, MP, Postmaster General. (ref. Find
a Grave website)).
His brother, 2nd Lieutenant George Mitchell, of the 1st Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highlanders, who died 22 July 1915 aged 26 years old is also commemorated.
The Second World War Memorial Plaque outside the East Morton Memorial Institute
(Bradford)
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The
East Morton Village Institute
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