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21 November 1917 : Pte George Wilson
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George Wilson was born in Steeton in 1894. He worked on his father's dairy farm at Bank House, Steeton before the war. George 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...
14 December 1917: Pte James Ormerod Tattersall
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James Tattersall was born in Stacksteads, Lancashire 1894. 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 bac...
4 May 1915: Capt Godfrey Henry Ermen
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Gordfrey was born at Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire in 1877. His father Francis Ermen was a cotton manufacturer born in Germany, 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 Dumpli...