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Abbott Alfred |
Regiment: East Yorkshire Regiment (attached to 9th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry)
Born 15.4.1895 Thorne
Died: 26.4.1918 Age: 23
Parents: Tom & Miriam Abbott, 1, Waterside, Thorne
Memorial Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Previously a bricklayer
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Allan George William (W.G on memorial) |
Regiment: Cheshire 16th Battalion
Born: Doncaster, Enlisted: Sheffield. Moved to Thorne in 1912
Died: 22.4.1917 (killed in action)
Wife: Mrs. M. Woods, 105, Barrow Road, Wincobank, Sheffield (widow remarried)
Grave: Chapelle British Cemetery. Holnon, Aisne, France
Rank/Number: Corporal 21610
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Archbold John (Archbald on Memorial) |
Royal Navy HMTB No. 11 (Torpedo Boat)
Born: Anscroft, Northumberland 28.3.1892
Farm Labourer Joined RN 1908
Died: 7.3.1916 Mine Explosion North Sea
Parents: Andrew and Margaret Archbold, Bloomhill Terrace, Moorends
Father died 1893 Mother: Mrs. Usher (widow) at time of death
Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial Kent
Rank/Number: Able Seaman 236349
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Armstrong Edwin |
Regiment: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1/5th Battalion
Born: Skelton,
Enlisted: Doncaster
Parents: Robert and Mary Armstrong 19, St. Nicholas Road, Thorne
Wife: Elizabeth Armstrong, 6, Mark Street, Wallsend-on-Tyne (married 1907)
Died: 20.11.15 (killed in action) Age: 33
Grave: Hagle Dump Cemetery Ypres, Belgium
Rank/Number: Sergeant 2453
Railway Clerk GNR in Doncaster.
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Armstrong George |
Regiment: Australian Pioneers 2nd. Battalion
Born: Skellow
Parents: Robert & Mary Armstrong, 19, St. Nicholas Road, Thorne
Died: 18.12.1917 (in action) Age: 33 Carpenter/joiner
Grave: Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, Nord, France
Rank: Lieutenant Emigrated to Australia Sept. 1911.
Left Australia May 1915 served at Gallipoli, Egypt, Vimy Ridge.
Commissioned as 1st Lieutenant 1917
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Atkinson Boswell Fawcett |
Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers 20th (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion
Born: Huntingore,
Enlisted: Doncaster
Wife: Mrs. L. Metcalfe, 1, Claremont Terrace, Conisborough (widow remarried)
Died: 10.6.1917 (of wounds)
Grave: Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, Pas de Calais, France
Rank/Number: Sergeant 36218
Serving as policeman in Thorne before enlisting
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Barley Blucher |
Regiment: Leicestershire 2/5th Battalion
Born: Thorne
Enlisted: Mexborough
Parents: Thomas & Annie Barley, Cobs Yard, Thorne
Died: 26.9.1917 (killed in action)
Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium
Rank/Number: Private 241935
Adopted by John Ward (uncle), Master of the Keel 'Friends' registered in Thorne
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Barley Joseph William |
Regiment: Household Cavalry 2nd Life Guards
Born: Thorne
Enlisted: Doncaster
Parents: Joseph T. & Phoebe A. Barley of 4, Durham Avenue, Thorne
Died: 7.9.1914 illness at Windsor Never saw 'action' during wartime Age: 34
Grave: Windsor Cemetery, Windsor, Berkshire
Rank/Number: Trooper 2343
Worked at Doncaster Plant as engine cleaner. Joined up 1901.
Went into army reserve in 1909, worked as policeman in Luton.
Rejoined Guards in 1913
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Barley Thomas William |
Regiment: Essex 9th Battalion (formerly Lincolnshire Regiment)
Born: Thorne
Enlisted: Thorne
Residence: Thorne
Died: 18.10.1918 (of wounds)
Grave: Houchin British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Rank/Number: Private 50292
Worked on his father’s farm
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Barrass Samuel (Served as Pearson) |
Regiment: York & Lancaster 9th (Service) Battalion
Born:Stainforth
Enlisted: Doncaster
Parents: Mr & Mrs Pearson (formerly Barrass) of 21, Bentinck Street, Doncaster
Died: 7.10.1915 Age: 18
Grave: X Farm Cemetery, La Chapelle d' Armentieres, France
Rank/Number: Private 19096
Previously a farm hand (served under stepfather's name)
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Bayes Harry Lidster |
Regiment: West Yorkshire (Prince of Wales's Own), 9th Battalion
Born: Thorne
Enlisted: Hull
Mother: Mrs. Jane Bayes, 5, St. Nicholas Terrace, Kenyon Street, Thorne
Died: 9.8.1915 (killed in action) Gallipoli Age: 30
Memorial: Helles Memorial, Turkey
Rank/Number: Private 10393
Only Thorne casualty at Gallipoli
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Beardshaw George |
Royal Navy HMS Queen Mary
Died: 31.5.1916 Age: 20 (born 18.11.1896 Doncaster)
Mother: Mrs. Beardshaw (widow) 17, Upper Kenyon Street, Thorne
Grave/Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Portsmouth
Rank/Number: Stoker 2nd. Class SS/117043
Ship sunk in Battle of Jutland (only 20 survived out of ship's 1,286 crew)
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Beaumont John (Jack) |
Regiment: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1st Battalion
Born: Thorne
Enlisted: Doncaster
Father: Thomas John Beaumont, 33, South End, Thorne
Wife: Mrs. H. Grant, 47, South End, Thorne (Widow Remarried)
Died: 2.6.1917 (of wounds) Age: 20
Grave/Memorial: Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery, Thessalonika, Greece
Rank/Number: Private 26483
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Bell Charles |
Regiment: Middlesex (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
Born: Wimbledon
Enlisted: Woolwich
Wife: Mrs. E. Bell, Mount Pleasant, Basingstoke
Died: 17.4.1917 (of wounds)
Grave/Memorial: Heudicourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France
Rank/Number: Private 17291
Mentioned in Wrigley's Thorne Almanac Roll of Honour
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Bell Henry |
Regiment: York and Lancaster 1st. Battalion
Born: Thorne
Enlisted: Pontefract (1907)
Residence: Doncaster Parents: Fred and late Emma Bell, 55, Church Street, (later at Waterside), Thorne
Died: 20.2.1915 (killed in action) Age: 29
Memorial: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium
Rank/Number: Private 8621
Joined army in 1907, much service in India
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Belton Walter Tom |
Regiment: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1st Battalion
Born: Tudworth
Enlisted: Doncaster
Parents: Late Mr. & Mrs. E. Belton, 18, Union Road, Thorne
Born 10.5.1882
Died: 8.5.1915 (killed in action) Age: 33
Memorial: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium
Rank/Number: Private 20478
Note: Went missing with Harold Hague Farm worker
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Bevitt Fred |
Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers 13th. Battalion
Born: Thorne
Enlisted: Ripon
Father: Mr. J S Bevitt, Orchard Street, Thorne Wife: Dorothy Bevitt, De Grey Street, Beverley Road, Hull
Died: 17.4.1917 (killed in action) Age: 27
Grave: Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty, Pas de Calais, France
Rank/Number: Private 32/435
Formerly clerk at Thorne NER station, then moved to Cottingham and Ripon stations
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Bevitt George |
Regiment: Lincolnshire 8th Battalion
Born: Thorne
Enlisted: Grimsby (Brother of Fred)
Died: 4.10.1917 (killed in action)
Father: John Swallow Bevitt, 6, Orchard Street, Thorne
Wife: Sarah Annie Bevitt, 266, Heneage Road, Grimsby
Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium
Rank/Number: Private 27405
Railway clerk in Grimsby before enlisting
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Boon Herbert |
Regiment: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 10th Battalion
Born: Thorne
Enlisted: Goole
Parents: John (farmer) & Edith Boon, Mooredges
Wife: Nellie Boon, 9, Belmont Terrace, Thorne (address after his death)
Died: 1.7.1916 (killed in action) Age: 31
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Rank/Number: Private 24365
Worked on father's farm
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Brewins John Alfred |
Regiment: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 2nd Battalion
Born: St. Austell
Enlisted: Doncaster
Parents: The late Rev. William & Lucy Ann Brewins
Died: 7.3.1917 (pneumonia following wounds) Age: 37
Grave: Cerisy - Gailly Military Cemetery, Somme, France
Rank/Number: Private 33233
Lived North Field, Thorne with mother. Was a Professional Photographer
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Broderick Albert |
Regiment: Lincolnshire 7th Battalion
Born: West Butterwick
Enlisted: Scunthorpe
Residence: Crowle Parents: Mr. J & Ada Broderick, The Poplars, Crowle (Farm Workers)
Died: 2.3.1916 (killed in action) Age: 27
Memorial: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium
Rank/Number: Lance Corporal 10932
(Crowle was part of the Thorne registration/census district)
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Burr Robert |
Regiment: Royal Engineers 2nd Special (Mortar) Company
Born: Thorne
Enlisted: Chester
Parents: Annie E. and the late Benjamin S. Burr, The Beeches, Thorne
Died: 17.6.1917 (of wounds) Age: 23
Grave: Pont-d'Achelles Military Cemetery, Nieppe, Nord, France
Rank/Number: Pioneer 209536
Robert worked for Chester Gas Works and became an 'expert' on poison gas etc.
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Burton Arthur |
Regiment: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 6th. Battalion
Born: Leeds
Enlisted: Pontefract
Died: 15.10.1917 (killed in action)
Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium
Rank/Number: Private 30126
Thorne connection is mention in Wrigley's Almanac
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Butler Albert |
Family Memories
Born: Thorne
Enlisted: Thorne
Parents: Mr & Mrs John Butler, Belmont Terrace, Thorne
Died: 1.7.1916 (killed in action)
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Rank/Number: Private 11888
Apprentice at Dunston's shipyard. 3 brothers also served Tom, Joe and John
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Butler Joseph |
Royal Navy
Doncaster Gazette 6.7.1917 (Roll of Honour) stated 'Joseph Butler A.B. who lost his life in an accident on hospital ship HMS China 3rd July 1916 aged 41'.
Born Thorne, brother of Albert, working in Hull as dock labourer when he enlisted. Joseph was buried at Western Cemetery, Hull
Joseph does not appear in CWGC records.
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Butler Thomas Ernest |
Tom, another brother of Albert, served in 'Ambulance Corps' attached to York & Lancaster Regiment 6th Battalion (Corporal 10957). He was invalided out of the army (11.3.1918) with 'blindness in one eye aggravated by active service' and died from pneumonia 22nd July 1918 at Glasshoughton. Tom was a miner at Glasshoughton Colliery before signing up. He was buried in Thorne Churchyard.
The CWGC has accepted that Tom's death was a result of his active service. He was placed in the United Kingdom Book of Remembrance in early November 2011. « Press Release »
Memorial: United Kingdom Book Of Remembrance
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