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7 September 1916 : Gnr George Butt
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George Butt was born in Hawes, Yorkshire in 1895, the first child of Frederick (a railway signalman from Somerset) and Mary. By the 1911 Census, George, a farm labourer, his parents and five siblings, were living in Long Preston, Hawes. The year before enlisting George's sister Elsie died of a short illness. In January 1916 he went to Settle t...
28 September 1917 : Pte John Dinsdale
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John Dinsdale was born in 1893, Hawes, Yorkshire, the son of stonemason, William and mother Ann (née Taylor). John was their only child until a second boy was born in 1906. John was a tailor's apprentice before the war. he enlisted in the Yorkshire Hussars (Alexandra, Princess' of Wales Own). He was sent to France in July. Invalided home il...
10 May 1915 : 2nd. Lieut. George Bargh
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George Bargh was born in Wray with Botton, near Lancaster in 1890, the son of Isaac Bargh and Helen (née Cumming). At the 1891 Census, George, age 1 was the youngest of Isaac and Helen's five children: Hannah (11), Samuel (9), Ben (6) and Sibella (4). They lived at Proctor's Farm, Wray with Botton with two servants: a farm and general servant....
22 May 1918: Gnr John Moore
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John was born at Hawes, Yorkshire in 1895. Growing up he and his brother Edward went on to help their father who was a Coal Merchant. By the 1911 Census parents Joseph and Elizabeth had eight children: Edward, Hilda, John, Mary Jane, Agnes, Joseph and Florence Marjorie. They lived at Lion House, Hawes. With the outbreak of war John attempted to...
29 October 1914 : Fred Cockett
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Frederick (Fred) was born in Hawes, Wensleydale, in 1886. He was the son of Elizabeth Cockett and (it is presumed) Joseph Moore (they married in 1891). Frederick was the eldest brother of Gunner John Moore, who is also recorded on this site, who died from his wounds in 1918. In the 1891 Yorkshire Census, Fred, aged 4 years, was living with his g...