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War casualties
The following names have been found on the Commonwealth War Graves Commisson website.
William Beaumont
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: East Yorkshire Regiment
Unit Text: 11th Bn.
Date of Death: 27/03/1918
Service No: 26462
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Bay 4 and 5.
Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Husband of Eliza Beaumont, Father of Herbert William Beaumont from Carney Street, Boosbeck.
Roy Scollett
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: Yorkshire Regiment
Unit Text: 6th Bn.
Age: 18
Date of Death: 21/08/1915
Service No: 15444
Additional information:
Son of Clara E. Scollett, of 24, Cockburn St., Lingdale, Boosbeck, Yorks, and the late John Scollett.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 55 to 58
Cemetery: HELLES MEMORIAL
George Lewis Toes
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Unit Text: 10th Bn.
Date of Death: 25/09/1916
Service No: 34699
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. E. 4.
Cemetery: COMBLES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Thomas Issac Stiff
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: Yorkshire Regiment
Unit Text: 10th Bn.
Age: 31
Date of Death: 17/11/1915
Service No: 11274
Additional information: Son of the late George and Hannah Stiff, of Lingdale, Boosbeck. Previously wounded.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: C. B. 20.
Cemetery: BOOSBECK (ST. AIDAN) CHURCHYARD
C. R. Babb
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment: Yorkshire Regiment
Unit Text: 6th Bn.
Date of Death: 19/11/1918
Service No: 8784
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: C. M. 15.
Cemetery: BOOSBECK (ST. AIDAN) CHURCHYARD
W. Beeforth
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: Yorkshire Regiment
Date of Death: 23/09/1916
Service No: 4215
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: C. D. 13.
Cemetery: BOOSBECK (ST. AIDAN) CHURCHYARD
C. Bradley
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: 20th Hussars
Age: 26
Date of Death: 16/04/1918
Service No: 12455
Additional information: Son of Mr. J. W. Bradley, of 30, Carney St., Boosbeck.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: C. H. 15.
Cemetery: BOOSBECK (ST. AIDAN) CHURCHYARD
Robert Dove
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: Yorkshire Regiment
Unit Text: 4th Bn.
Age: 35
Date of Death: 20/02/1916
Service No: 3571
Additional information: Husband of Ada Naomi Smith (formerly Dove), of 16, Dale Terrace, Lingdale, Boosbeck.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: A. O. 5.
Cemetery: BOOSBECK (ST. AIDAN) CHURCHYARD
John Thomas Wilse Hodgson
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: Yorkshire Regiment
Unit Text: "G" Coy. 4th Bn.
Age: 25
Date of Death: 14/11/1918
Service No: 1612
Additional information: Son of Mrs. Maria Hodgson, of 6, Holden St., Grangetown, Yorks; husband of Annie Hodgson.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: C. J. 5.
Cemetery: BOOSBECK (ST. AIDAN) CHURCHYARD
W.V.M. Hutchinson
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Unit Text: 4th Bn.
Date of Death: 13/01/1918
Service No: 63527
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: C. G. 9.
Cemetery: BOOSBECK (ST. AIDAN) CHURCHYARD
Jesse Mudd
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: Yorkshire Regiment
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 11/11/1918
Service No: 25315
Additional information: Husband of J. Mudd, of 49, Musgrove Road, Boosbeck.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: C. H. 8.
Cemetery: BOOSBECK (ST. AIDAN) CHURCHYARD
John Robert Porritt
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: South Staffordshire Regiment
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 03/10/1920
Service No: 4904649
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Porritt, of 13, Oldham St., Lingdale, Boosbeck. Served in France, 1914.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: B. B. 14.
Cemetery: BOOSBECK (ST. AIDAN) CHURCHYARD
J. T. Sigsworth
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: Yorkshire Regiment
Unit Text: 4th Bn.
Date of Death: 12/12/1917
Service No: 2907
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: C. C. 20.
Cemetery: BOOSBECK (ST. AIDAN) CHURCHYARD
Ernest Edward Tuckett
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment: Royal Naval Reserve
Unit Text: H.M.S. "Cyclops II."
Age: 27
Date of Death: 11/10/1918
Additional information: Husband of Edith Tuckett, of 55, Charlotte St., Redcar, Yorks.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: C. K. 17.
Cemetery: BOOSBECK (ST. AIDAN) CHURCHYARD
J. Wilding
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: Yorkshire Regiment
Unit Text: 3rd Bn.
Age: 46
Date of Death: 22/11/1918
Service No: 18679
Additional information: Husband of M. Wilding, of 126, Allenby Crescent, New Rossington, Doncaster.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: C. H. 10.
Cemetery: BOOSBECK (ST. AIDAN) CHURCHYARD
Thomas H. Wood
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Unit Text: 6th Bn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 29/09/1916
Service No: 25642
Additional information: Son of Thomas Wood, of 14, Oxford St., Boosbeck.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: C. D. 22.
Cemetery: BOOSBECK (ST. AIDAN) CHURCHYARD
John Henry Wood
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: Yorkshire Regiment
Unit Text: 4th Bn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 02/05/1915
Service No: 1711
Additional information: Son of Richard and Mary Hannah Hood, of 18, Moorcock Row, Lingdale, Boosbeck, Yorks.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 33.
Cemetery: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
James Foster
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: South Staffordshire Regiment
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 03/10/1920
Service No: 4904649
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Porritt, of 13, Oldham St., Lingdale, Boosbeck. Served in France, 1914.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: B. B. 14.
Cemetery: BOOSBECK (ST. AIDAN) CHURCHYARD
David Borrow
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Yorkshire Regiment
Unit Text: 7th Bn.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 09/07/1916
Service No: 12570
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. James Borrow, of 21, Scarth St.,Lingdale, Boosbeck, Yorks.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 3 A and 3 D.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
William Allan Hill
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Sergeant
Regiment: Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)
Unit Text: 6th Bn.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 06/06/1944
Service No: 4389766
Additional information: Son of John William and Ida Hill, of Lingdale, Yorkshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: X. L. 5.
Cemetery: BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Noel Marsay
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 833533
Date of Death: 23/11/1941
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
60 Field Regt.
Grave Reference: 1. B. 3.
Cemetery: KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA, Tobruck
Additional Information:
Husband of Elsie Marsay, of Coventry.
Image contributed by Colin Hefffer & Julie Riddiough
letter sent by Edwin Hood
William Allan Hill was killed in Action on D Day 6/6/1944, I remember him coming home on what was probably embarkation leave 1944. I was 13 at the time, and I am nearly certain that his parents lived in Coral Street. I would imagine of joining the Army he would go into the 4th battalion which had always been the local one, then transferred to the 6th Battalion when it was being reformed. A very interesting fact is that he would probably be alongside C.S.M./ Stanley Hollis who was the only soldier to win the Victoria Cross on D.Day.
Incidentally C.M.S. Hollis was born in Loftus and ran a pub at Liverton Mines after the war.
Lance Sergeant Hill or Allan as I think he was called was to the best of my knowledge the only soldier from Lingdale to be killed in the 2nd World War.
Edwin Hood
Harold Moody
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Pte Moody Harold.
Date of Death: 27th April 1915
Age: 19
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He is buried at Longuenesse Military [Hospital] Cemetery, St Omer.
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Home at Lingdale North Yorkhire.
Born at Eston, Yorkshire and enlisted at Skelton in Cleveland, North Yorkshire.
Died of wounds, presumably received days on the 24th April.
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Information kindly contributed by Peter Green
William Russell
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Pte Russell, William.
Date of Death: 19th May 1918
Age: 19
Serivce number 46345
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Regiment.
York and Lancaster Regiment
13th Bn.
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Burried at Hamburg Cemetery, Germany
Son of George & Sarah Mary Russell of 14 Scarth Streeet, Lingdale
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Information kindly contributed by Jo Jesson (April 2021)
