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21 November 1917 : Pte George Wilson
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George worked on his father's dairy farm at Bank House, Steeton before the war. He enlisted into the West Riding Territorials in January 1915 and was sent overseas to join the 62nd Division on the Western Front in February 1917. After taking part in the Battles of Arras and the Hindenburg Line, he was posted as missing during the Cambrai Off…
14 December 1917: Pte James Ormerod Tattersall
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His father was a coal miner. James was a weaver. After enlisting into the West Riding Territorials in Barnoldswick, James was sent to France in September 1916 and served on the Somme and in Belgium before being wounded in July 1917, whilst serving as part of a Lewis Gun team. Sent back to the UK in October 1917 for recuperation, he married …
4 May 1915: Capt Godfrey Henry Ermen
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His father Francis Ermen was a cotton manufacturer born in Germany, died in 1896. His mother Johanna was also born in Germany. Both parents were 'naturalised British subjects' at the time of the 1881 Census. At the 1881 Census parents and two children, Walter (5) and Godfrey (3) lived at 76 Dumplington, Barton upon Irwell with a 17 year old nanny…