There will also be a centenary service at the Cenotaph on Friday 11th November from 10:45 am.
Please note timings for this years Remembrance Sunday service including Parade and two minute silence at 11am.
There will also be a centenary service at the Cenotaph on Friday 11th November from 10:45 am.
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With sincere thanks to Suzanne Make for taking the time during her recent trip to the Lebanese Republic, to visit CWGC Beirut War Cemetery and see some of the casualties buried there. Included was Private George William Gill Service N°: 75412
George died aged 31 whilst attached to the 136th Coy Machine Gun Corps from the Royal Army Medical Corps, on October 23rd 1918. Son of Ruth Gill, of 57, Lowtown, Pudsey, and the late Squire Gill. Also remembered on the Pudsey Trinity Wesleyan Church Memorial Board. Members of our churches and social societies commissioned their own Great War Memorials to remember their fallen families and friends, at the places where their names were spoken the most. At the corner of Pudsey Fartown and Carlisle Road stands the fine red brick Sunday School, originally built by the Parish Church (and once again happily owned by the Parish Church) to serve as a hub to that community. The Fartown (Parish Church) Sunday School Great War Memorial, unveiled on December 18th 1920 is the only private memorial added to the exterior of a building for all to view in the local area. Unfortunately this has left it at the mercy of the weather and defacement for over a century. Today this combination is badly affecting the stone surface of the memorial. This is the full inscription recorded for posterity, along with what is known about those named upon it: “To the Glory of God This stone was laid by Myers Murgatroyd To commemorate the following Teachers and Scholars of Fartown (Parish Church) Sunday School, all of whom gave their lives in the Great War. December 18th 1920” Those named with additional information: Gunner Arthur Beaumont. Service N°: L6007 aged 33 of 155th (West Yorkshire) Brigade B Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Died on April 8, 1920 at home. Buried at Pudsey Cemetery, H. Gen 262. Enlisted aged 28 on 13th April 1915 at Leeds, trains at Wetherby but is often AWOL. Joins 155th B Battery, discharged 1st July 1919 awarded 14-15 Star, War Medal, Victory Medal. Formerly a Cotton Warp dresser, married to Alice and father of Ernest, Albert and Samuel. The family became members of the Mount Tabor congregation on Waterloo Road. Arthur died at home on 63 Littlemoor Road (next door to the Railway Pub), on 8th April 1920 from Vascular Heart Disease aged 33, after discharge from the Army on the grounds of poor health. His wife Alice was sadly later declined his Army pension. Arthur is named on the Cenotaph and is buried in Pudsey Cemetery, along with his sons; Albert tragically drowned aged 7 in 1916 whilst his father was engaging German targets on the Somme. Also his third son, Pioneer Samuel Beaumont who died in service 7th November 1945 age 35, and has a CWGC headstone, but is not named on the Cenotaph (though should have qualified). Private Harold Henry Beaumont. Service N°: 19727 aged 36 of the 10th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment. Died on Jun 30, 1918. Buried at Pudsey Cemetery, F617 (C.). “The Funeral of private Henry Beaumont took place at Pudsey Cemetery last Wednesday. He died at home (Highfield Street) on Sunday after a long and painful illness. Harold served in France for two years and 137 days with the York and Lancs Regt. and had been wounded and gassed. In January he was sent to Colchester Hospital and discharged February 3rd. Going home he took to his bed straight away and had been confined there up to his death, suffering great pain. He leaves a widow and four children. The military authorities sent a bearer party.” Son of William Beaumont. Husband of Agnes Maud Beaumont (A685 Gen.), of 5, Highfield St., Pudsey. Father of Mary, Evelyn, Emily, Nellie – the poor girls would have had to watch their father suffer in agony in their tiny 2 up 2 down terrace house. Private Harry Bertram Fellows Service N°: 266655 Aged 22 of the 6th Battalion Gordon Highlanders Died on Sep 23, 1917 Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial Panel 135 to 136. Belgium. Son of Alfred and Agnes Fellows, of 6, Victoria Villas, Stanningley, Leeds. Attended Pudsey Grammar School and named on their memorial, also named on the Pudsey Conservative Club Memorial Board*. Private Henry Firth Service N°: 41395 Aged 21 of the 17th Bn. 2nd Leeds (Bantams) West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince Of Wales's Own) Died on Aug 31, 1917. Remembered at Thiepval Memorial Pier and Face 2 A 2 C And 2 D. France. Son of Bedford and Jane Firth, of 73, Littlemoor Rd., Pudsey. Also named on the Pudsey Conservative Club Memorial Board. Rifleman George William Frederick Frankland Service N°: 4920 Aged 30 of the 1st/8th Bn. Leeds Rifles West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) Died on Sep 3, 1916 Buried at Mill Road Cemetery, Thiepval III. A. 10. France. Eldest of 7 sons. Son of Charles and Emma at 15 Brayshaw Street (behind Greenside School). Moved to 84 Glenroyd Occupation Lane. Worked as a Railway Porter at Stanningley Station. Research by Christine Throp of P&DCS and published as “A Pudsey Lad Remembered”. Gunner James Atkinson Jowett Service N°: 95172 Aged 34 of the 1st Highland Heavy Brigade Royal Garrison Artillery Died on Sep 16, 1918 Buried at Trefcon British Cemetery, Caulaincourt A. 30. France. Son of Oliver and Mary Atkinson Jowett of Fulneck. Husband of Edith Maud Jowett (Nee Bambridge), of 74, South Parade, Pudsey. Also named on the Pudsey Conservative Club Memorial Board. Name obliterated by damage Gunner Harold Marsh Service N°: 32477 Aged 16 of the 2nd Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Died on May 16, 1915 Buried at Pudsey Cemetery F. "C." 848. Son of Mr. George. W. and Mrs. Mary. E. Marsh, of 9, Tunnicliffe Row, Greenside. Died in Chapeltown Barracks in Leeds from Tuberculosis, only served in the UK. Second youngest Pudsey casualty of WW1. Private / Bugler Ernest Marshall Service N°: 13998 Aged 18 of the 9th Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Died on Jan 7, 1916 Buried at Gordon Dump Cemetery, Ovillers-La Boisselle III. R. 8. France. Son of Tom and Martha Marshall of Cemetery Road, previously of 25 Thorpe Road. Employed at Gibraltar Mill. Joined up aged 17 in September 1914, had been in France for 10 Months. Private Matthew William Moss Service N°: 34390 Aged 36 of the 10th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince Of Wales's Own) Died on Apr 13, 1917 Remembered at Arras Memorial Bay 4. France. Son of James and Annie Moss, of "Westfield", Uppermore, Pudsey. Husband of Clara Gertrude Ambler (Formerly Moss), of 4, Littlemoor Rd., Pudsey. Also named on the Pudsey Conservative Club Memorial Board. Marine Gunner Arthur Edward Murgatroyd Service N°: 6520 17/18 DA 13110 Aged 29 of the S.S. War Song (RNVR Royal Marine Artillery) Died on Jan 15, 1918 Buried at L'isle-de-Sein New Communal Cemetery Coll. grave. France. Born December 1888. Son of Aldermam Myers (Quarry Owner, Councillor for Stanningley Ward) and Mary of 2 Smalewell Road. Husband of Jane Nichols of 24 South Parade Pudsey, married Dec 1912. Employed as Power Crane Operator in Father’s quarry. Myers appealed via Military Tribunal at Pudsey Town Hall for Arthur to be exempted (application refused with enlistment deferred for a month). Joins Navy September 1916. Drowned along with all hands onboard the Steamer War Song, victims of U.93. Commemorated Pudsey Parish Church and Pudsey Conservative Club Memorial Board. Gunner James William Thomas Place Service N°: 26482 Aged 28 of the 292nd Bty. Royal Field Artillery / Labour Corps 465 Company Died on August 25th, 1919 Buried at Pudsey Cemetery F. "C." 633. on August 29th 1919 Native of Windmill Hill Pudsey. Son of George and Clara, husband of Lily. Died at 2nd Northern Hospital Beckett Park from heart failure, (a common cause of death amongst ex Gunners and Labour Corps). Also named on the Pudsey Conservative Club Memorial Board. Second Lieutenant John William Raistrick Aged 32 of the 1st/8th Bn. Leeds Rifles West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince Of Wales's Own) Died on May 19, 1917 Buried at Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue I. A. 13. France. Son of E. B. and S. J. Raistrick. Native of Pudsey. Also named on the Pudsey Conservative Club Memorial Board. Private James William Smith Service N°: 25697 Aged 23 of the A Coy. 11th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince Of Wales's Own) Died on Jun 9, 1917 Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Panel 21. Belgium. Son of Sarah Elizabeth Smith, of 9, Fartown Cottages, Pudsey. Also named on the Pudsey Conservative Club Memorial Board Driver William Ewart Springthorpe Service N°: 32464 Aged 19 of the 23rd Div. Ammunition Col. Royal Field Artillery Died on Jul 29, 1917 Buried at Dickebusch New Military Cemetery Extension Ii. F. 16. Belgium. Son of Joseph and Florence Springthorpe, of 14, Chapeltown, Pudsey. Able Seaman Lawrence Swallow Service N°: Tyneside Z/8873 Aged 22 of the Hawke Battalion. R.N. Division Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Died on Feb 3, 1917 Remembered at Thiepval Memorial Pier and Face 1 A. France. Son of Joseph and Ellen Swallow, of 13 Milner Fold, Fartown. Lance Corporal Cecil Maurice Thrippleton Service N°: 201621 aged 19 of the 1st/4th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders Killed in action on 19/09/1917 Buried at Cement House Cemetery Belgium. Son of Benjamin and Elizabeth of 36 Somerset Road. Commemorated at Pudsey Parish Church. Name added to “Missing Names” plinth at Cenotaph. Gunner Harry Tordoff Service N°: 122140 Aged 21 of the Royal Field Artillery D Battery of the 5th Brigade Died on May 8, 1918 Buried at Pudsey Cemetery D. "C." 253 (family memorial). Died at Southwark Hospital from the effects of mustard gas poisoning having served for over two years. Family home at 25 Smalewell Road, son of George and Martha Tordoff. Previously employed as a Grocer's Clerk, noted local cricketer at Church Y.M.A C.C., Pudsey Tradesman’s C.C. and the Parish Church team. Also named on the Pudsey Conservative Club Memorial Board. Private Robert Wade Service N°: 13304 aged 33 of Depot / 10th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince Of Wales's Own) Died on 12th September 1914 Buried at Pudsey Cemetery. Son of Joseph & Martha, lived & worked as a jeweller watch maker at 41 Chapeltown Pudsey. Enlisted at York but drowned in Huddersfield before joining unit. First Serviceman from Pudsey to die during the Great War. Commemorated at Pudsey Parish Church. Name added to “Missing Names” plinth at Cenotaph. Private Lawrence Biltcliffe Ward Service N°: 268234 Aged 22 of the 11th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince Of Wales's Own) Died on Jul 22, 1917 Buried at Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery V. B. 4. Belgium. Born at Pudsey. Son of Jim and Lillie Ward, of "Dumont," Surmingdale Rd., Bickley, Kent. Also named on the Pudsey Conservative Club Memorial Board. *Pudsey Conservative Club Memorial Board now in the custodianship of the 147 Sports Bar, Chapeltown – available to view by request. Please note most of the names on both memorials are of men who would have been considered “top enders” which is an old Pudsey tradition based on where you lived in the town. AuthorI’ve been an exec member of Pudsey & District Civic Society since 2014, also founder of The Friends of Pudsey Cemetery & Chapel and the research project www.pudseycenotaph.co.uk. Please support the Civic Society to help preserve and build our amazing heritage: info@panddcs.com Our amazing local craft group The Pudsey Poppy Display, have again been busy knitting and crocheting Poppies to create Remembrance displays for the Cenotaph, Greenside School, Cemetery wall and local businesses around Chapeltown. New for this year are the stunning bollard covers and the purple poppied horse head to remember the animals of the World Wars. The leggings on the Cenotaph information panels have also been freshened up. A great deal of pride and effort goes into the many hours of their voluntary community work. A big thank you from us to everyone in the display group; Lisa and Brian Farrar, Kath Clough, Debbie Bragg, Marlene Harwood, Denise Hobson, Danuta Skarszewska and Mandy, Karen Heppell, The Royal Hotel and 147 Sports Bar (and everyone that contributed but not mentioned here). All photos taken by members of the group. #Remembraceis #Lestweforget PLEASE NOTE REARRANGED TIMINGS FOR PARADE AND SERVICE Remembrance Sunday 14th November.
The Parish Church will be OPEN TO ALL, for visiting, lighting candles, viewing the Field of Remembrance etc from 09:45 am till 12 noon, and will be serving HOT DRINKS throughout the morning. Note the service of Remembrance will be held at the Cenotaph. From 10:30 am The Parade leaves the Bus Station 10:50 am. The Parade arrives at the Cenotaph 11:00 am Act of Remembrance at the Cenotaph including: wreath laying and the Two Minute Silence 11:10 am The Parade returns to the Bus Station All welcome including HM Forces and ex-Services Identified - The exact CWGC plot locations for each of the 47 German POWs previously named on the lost Moreton Banks memorial (Keighley), and now at rest in CWGC Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery. Thanks to the excellent "German Prisoners of the Great War" (edited by Anne Buckley, published by Pen & Sword), for having a transcript of the memorial in its original German gothic script, and Appendix II which holds the details of all the prisoners at Raikeswood - this information combined with the CWGC database has given a definite identification of each mans grave at Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery. The buried men used to receive regular visits and memorial services - hopeful they can now be honoured together again as a group. 47 men had all died over a few short weeks during the Spanish Flu Pandemic in early 1919 whilst being treated at Moreton Banks Hospital, Keighley. They were buried together in groups of five, placed one on top of the other at Moreton Cemetery Keighley. The graves were united by a single memorial which held the men's names, units and place of birth. The monument consisted of a wall made from local stone which contained a curved alcove with a bronze memorial plaque. Small trees and shrubs were planted on either side. A central lawn was surrounded on its remaining three sides by low walls. Sadly the memorial was demolished and placed in the empty graves as the bodies were exhumed and moved to Cannock Chase (on the instruction of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge). From that point on they could no longer be identified as a group of comrades, thankfully though they were laid to rest at Cannock Chase together on two rows (see name list and map). It's been a unique opportunity to research a lost German memorial built on British soil, one that fellow researcher Andrew Bolt and myself have gained a lot of satisfaction from. Thanks to Andrew's site visits and painstaking archive research, we know where at Moreton Cemetery the Germans were buried in Yorkshire soil for 40 years. Further to this we know something about these men that were interred and died together, these are some of their surprising an eventful stories that continue to this day: Oberleutnant zur See, Walter Eduard Alexander Schmitz of UC-75 on his third cruise in command. His U-Boat had sunk the HMAPV Dirk off Flamborough Head in the early hours of 29th May 1918. On 31 May 1918, while HMS Fairy was escorting an East Coast convoy, the German submarine UC-75 was sighted and rammed by the steamer SS Blaydonian. The U-boat surfaced within the convoy and was attacked and rammed by HMS Fairy. Schmitz and another submariner leapt onto the destroyer's forecastle as their submarine sank. Fairy, however, had sustained heavy damage and sank a short time later about 10 miles (16 km) south of Flamborough Head. She was awarded the battle honour "Belgian Coast 1914–17" for her service. Schmitz was interrogated at Cromwell Gardens in London he was then sent to the POW camp at Raikeswood in Yorkshire. There's a bit of controversy over the Fairy's actions on the sinking, Schimtz felt that they murdered most of the crew when they were incapacitated. The propeller screws from UC75 (a war grave) were confiscated from a salvage diver 3 years ago, restored and one of the propellers has been handed back to the German Navy in Plymouth, while the other will go on display at the Royal Navy Museum in Portsmouth. Lieutenant Franz Schulte - German Army Flying Corps Kampfgeschwader der Obersten Heeresleitung more commonly known as Kagohl 3 or the "English Squadron", was a renowned Gotha heavy bomber pilot - reputed to have "dropped the most bombs on London" "December 7th 1917: A Canterbury Red Cross official was held at gunpoint yesterday by a German aviator while his comrade set fire to their Gotha bomber which had just crashed. It came down in the marshes adjacent to Broad Oak Road, injuring two of the crew who were eventually taken into custody by the Rev Philip Somerville, acting in his capacity as a special constable. Before the arrest, however, a most dramatic scene unfolded. The Gotha of Kagohl 3 was on a raid of the area when it was hit by antiaircraft fire and subsequently crash landed in a field after just missing a mill and several houses. First on the scene was Mr J.B. Wilford of Mandeville Road, Canterbury, an orderly in the Red Cross. He noticed that two of the three German crew were injured and offered to render first aid. One of them promptly produced a revolver and held Mr Wilford at gunpoint while his comrade fired the aircraft. He is almost certainly the first man to face a German at gunpoint while on English soil. Mr Wilford was joined by the Rev Somerville, Rector of St Stephen's Church and another special, Mr G.W Haimes from Sturry who said: "The plane was alight when we arrived. The Germans were not hostile and one was able to understand some English. They surrendered their equipment and arms to the Rev Somerville without protest:' The Rector said when he arrived on the scene the men were standing by the wrecked aircraft which was in flames with machine gun cartridges exploding right and left. "They asked me in broken English for a policeman to whom they could surrender and I assured them I was a special constable. An ambulance waggon conveyed the men to Canterbury police station and the two who were injured were then taken to hospital where they were well treated and most profuse in their thanks to the hospital authorities for the attention they received." During the day the burnt out Gotha was inspected by thousands of people who flocked to Broad Oak. The Red Cross took full advantage of the situation and made a collection; £32 was realised." Report compiled by Alan Roberts Lieutenant Schulte died in hospital on the 2nd March 1919. His brother Paul was also a pilot but later joined the Catholic Church. He found a novel way to commemorate his dead brother in 1936, by diverting the Zeppelin 'Hindenburg' over Yorkshire to fly over Keighley whilst celebrating mass. Flowers and a silver crucifix from Pope Pius XI were dropped from the aircraft with a note - these were placed on Franz Schulte's grave. “Father Paul Schulte, of Aix-la-Chapelle, known as the “flying padre,” celebrated the first mass in the air, for which the Pope had granted special permission. Schulte erected an altar in the salon, where all the passengers gathered. The candles were not lighted because of danger of explosion. Fr. Schulte’s Mass intention was for the repose of the soul of his brother, Lieutenant Franz Schulte, who died in 1919 of influenza while a prisoner of war in England." Pudsey & Farsley Royal British Legion Branch are walking over 11 Kilometres on Saturday 31st October, visiting the War memorials and War Grave sites associated to the Pudsey old Borough. They will pay their respects and plant Poppy Crosses to the fallen as they go. Starting 10am on Saturday 31st October, the walk is planned to last approx. 4 hours and is in lieu of our cancelled annual Parade.
We are asking for donations towards the Poppy Appeal on this Just Giving page in support as the walk, you can also follow the same route on your own "Move to Remember" - see below. You can donate to their JustGiving page by clicking here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/pudseyandfarsleyrblbranch?utm_source=Sharethis&utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=pudseyandfarsleyrblbranch&utm_campaign=pfp-email&utm_term=c0e32522172a405591b5ec1065b199f8. Our good friend and Gulf War Veteran Darren Walker, and his daughter Shannon, are also joining in and separately raising funds for their 14/20th Hussars Memorial, please also support them at: https://1420kh.uk/the-big-walk/?fbclid=IwAR28jOr2RDpzZgR5RHZqfIz9OSr3M2uVvnw2zcj_sGk0tavepofRAH4Na8s You can follow all, or part of our ‘Move to Remember’ route too visiting: START for Stage 1: • Bramley War memorial, Moorfields Bramley • Rodley War memorial, Town Street Rodley • Cross Bypass at Rodley Roundabout • Calverley Parish church yard CWGC • Calverley War memorial, Victoria Park • Brookfields War memorials 1&2, access via Brookfields Ave. Stage 2 • Cross Bypass at Rodley Roundabout > turn right onto Oaklands Rd shortcut • Springfield Mills Memorial Bagley Lane (in-between the main buildings) • Farsley Boer War memorial Bagley Lane • Farsley War Memorial Bagley Lane Stage 3 • Farsley Methodists memorial (building behind the Village wine bar) • St Johns Farsley CWGC Town Street • Pudsey Cemetery CWGC, Cemetery Road • Pudsey Parish Church Field of Remembrance, Radcliffe Lane • Pudsey Cenotaph, Chapeltown • Pudsey Cenotaph missing names • The Royal Hotel Remembrance mural, Station St Pudsey • Pudsey Bowling, Running & Table Tennis Club WW1 Memorial, Windmill Hill, off Smalewell Rd Recent updates from a wider search from the same Battalion, has yielded new information to the record of Private William Emsley. His details have been corrected on our Great War list, with his age and next of kin now confirmed.
Hopeful to make further announcements soon that 3 “lost” lads from Leeds, currently only named at Thiepval, are beginning the long journey out of obscurity - all thanks to a single spoon engraved with its owners service number. Private William Emsley. Service N°: 17/1593 Aged 30 of the 17th Bn. 2nd Leeds (Bantams) West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), died on Jul 17, 1916. Remembered at Thiepval Memorial Pier and Face 2 A 2 C and 2 D. France. Believed to be interred in an unmarked grave at Delville Wood Cemetery alongside 3 comrades who died on the same day. Son of William and Nancy Emsley, brother of Joseph (also served) of Watson's Square, Stanningley. Named at Trinity Wesleyan Church Memorial Board @ the Manor Hall. |
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