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Brotherton War Memorial

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World War I Deaths

For more details of these specific names see the web sites of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the National Archives World War One Medal Cards. A second memorial to the same casualties is in St Edward’s Church, Brotherton. Also Captain Aldersey is recorded on the Aldersey village war memorial.

Rank - Name

Birth

Death

Notes

Lookup

Captain Hugh Aldersey

28-Dec-1888

10-Mar-1918

son of Hugh & Evelyn of Aldersey, Cheshire

 

Lance Corporal Richard Moody Bailiff

13-Feb-1895

19-Aug-1916

son of John & Ellen of Poole

 

Private William John Bramham

1-Apr-1884

29-Sep-1918

of Vicars Croft

 

Private George Dean

 

2-Aug-1915

Son of Mrs R Jolliffe of Marsh House

CWGC

Private Sydney Dudley

1890

24-Oct-1918

possibly son of George & Emma, born Fairburn

CWGC

Percy Fox

1884

 

son of Charles & Eliza

 

Stoker 1st Class William Hargreaves

26-Apr-1891

17-Mar-1917

of Austerbury Yard

 

Private Dennis Wilfred Hunter

1899

15-Apr-1918

of Low Street

 

Private George Henry Hunter

16-Feb-1890

29-Aug-1918

of Austerbury Yard

 

Gregory Hutchinson

16-Apr-1893

 

son of John & Eliza Ann

 

Private Tom Mattison

12-Jun-1879

26-Sep-1915

of Low Street

 

Private Walker Murray

1892

26-Apr-1918

son of Walker & Sarah of Low Street

 

John Palmer

 

 

 

 

Corporal Alma Matthew Pickering

1888

25-Sep-1916

of Low Street

 

Private Frederick Poulson

1886

22-Jan-1916

born Knottingley ?

 

Lance Corporal Claude Procter

1898

26-Feb-1917

son of Thomas & Jane Ann

 

Private Henry Thompson

1881

14-Dec-1915

son of John Henry & Jane of Mill Road

CWGC

Private George Robert Townsley

26-Feb-1892

26-Aug-1917

of Henry Street

 

Joe Wardle

1886

 

son of James

 

Private Sidney Watmough

22-Oct-1894

30-Sep-1916

 

 

Private Harry Wilson

1894

26-Aug-1918

 

 

Lance Corporal John William Wilson

1892

21-Mar-1918

 

 

Private Charles Woodhouse

1899

11-Oct-1918

son of Alfred & Amelia

 

World War II Deaths

Pilot Officer Charles Orpheus Bramham

1920

26-Mar-1943

Son of Herbert and Francis Ann; husband of Eva Mary of Stanley, Yorkshire

CWGC

Sergeant Joseph Roy Eaton

1922

07-Jul-1944

Son of Percy and Mary; husband of Barbara

CWGC

Captain Francis Frederick Fawcett

1907

26-Jun-1942

Son of Thomas Percy and Edith Mary (nee Gray); husband of Margaret Joan of Byram

CWGC

Sergeant Michael John Flaherty

1913

24-May-1943

Son of Michael and Lucy of Fairburn

 

Aircraftman 1st Class William Hodgson

1916

31-Oct-1944

Son of Jack and Mary; husband of Audrey Joyce

 

Private George Rockitt Hodgson

1914

03-Nov-1944

Son of Rockett and Harriet; husband of Mary Kathleen

CWGC

Corporal Ernest Milner

1916

01-Jun-1940

Son of Fred and Annie

CWGC

Able Seaman Victor Milner

1923

11-Mar-1943

Son of John William and Annie Rebecca; husband of Isabella Patterson Milner

CWGC

Sergeant (Flt Engr) Jack Murgatroyd

1922

12-Sep-1944

Son of John and Annie of Pontefract

CWGC

Gerald Smith

1918

10-Mar-1941

Son of Philip & Edith (recorded as - PTO, Y&L ?)

 

Lance Serjeant George Taylor

1909

19-Oct-1945

Son of George and Jessie; husband of Lottie

 

Serjeant Cyril Towell

1913

13-Jun-1943

Son of N and Mary E; husband of Helen H of South Croydon, Surrey

CWGC

Private Joseph Gregory Towell

1916

11-Jun-1944

Youngest son of Norman and Mary Elizabeth; husband of Edith

CWGC

Sapper Harold Towell

1897

17-Jun-1940

Eldest son of Norman and Mary Elizabeth

CWGC

Guardsman Cyril Vause

1915

30-Apr-1943

Son of Jesse and Florrie (nee Pickering)

CWGC

Warrant Officer Frank Wilkinson

1923

04-Mar-1945

Husband of Olive

 

Bombardier Tom Wright

1915

07-Sep-1944

Son of Tom and Sarah Jane; husband of Kathleen

CWGC

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