Category:West Yorkshire Regiment
A selection of individuals who served in the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own).
Prior to the First World War, the regiment consisted of two Regular battalions (1st & 2nd) and two Reserve battalions (3rd & 4th). During the war, the 1st & 2nd Battalions were deployed on the Western Front and around 20 additional battalions were raised, mostly in Leeds and York.
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"Yorkshire" Regiments in the First World War
The other infantry regiments with York or Yorkshire in their names were:
- East Yorkshire Regiment
- King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
- York and Lancaster Regiment
- Yorkshire Regiment (aka Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
Pages in category 'West Yorkshire Regiment'
The following 237 pages are in this category, out of 237 total.
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B
- Leonard Bailey (c.1886-1918)
- Walter Percival Bailey (1884-1917)
- George Baines (c.1886-1915)
- Norman Lockwood Bamforth (1885-1917)
- Benjamin Barrowclough (c.1891-1918)
- Arthur Batley (c.1893-1917)
- Joe Baxter (c.1900-1918)
- George Henry Beaumont (?-1918)
- Harry Beaumont (c.1891-1918)
- Tom Beaumont (c.1888-1917)
- Edgar Berry (1880-1917)
- Lewis Booth (c.1882-1918)
- Wilfred Booth (c.1894-1917)
- John Bowker (c.1887-1917)
- Crowther Spencer Bradley (c.1878-1918)
- Fred Bray (1896-1918)
- Willis Bray (c.1889-1918)
- William Brier (1892-1917)
- George Henry Broadbent (c.1890-1917)
- Charles Brook (c.1886-1917)
- Frederick William Brook (1888-1918)
- Harold Brook (c.1899-1918)
- James Brook (1896-1918)
- William Brook (c.1895-1918)
- Joshua Brooke (c.1893-1916)
- Herbert Burnley (c.1889-1916)
- Norman Burton (c.1894-1916)
C
- David Caine (?-1916)
- Ernest Chapman (c.1892-1917)
- Thomas Henry Clegg (c.1896-1918)
- William Codd (1884-1917)
- Josiah Coker (c.1896-1918)
- William Bertram Coldwell (c.1898-1918)
- Stanley Cooper (c.1899-1918)
- Henry Coulter (1891-1916)
- Fred Cox (1893-1917)
- Edgar Crabtree (c.1882-1917)
- Lawrence C. Crabtree (1896-1918)
- Willie Crosland (1897-1917)
- William Jones Crossley (1897-1918)
- Arnold Crowther (1892-1917)
- Irving Crowther (1887-1918)
D
- Charles Dalby (c.1869-1918)
- Joe Dawson (1886-1918)
- Vincent Dawson (1885-1918)
- John Dean (c.1892-1917)
- Arnold Dearnley (1897-1918)
- John Whittell Denton (c.1858-1918)
- Reynold Donkersley (1894-1918)
- Wilson Downs (c.1887-1917)
- Clifford Duffy (1893-1916)
- Charles Dyson (c.1881-1917)
- Franklin Dyson (1888-1917)
- Samuel Dyson (c.1887-1917)
E
F
G
- George Galloway (c.1893-1918)
- George William Garrington (1893-1918)
- Edgar Garthwaite (c.1885-1917)
- Fred Gatehouse (1896-1916)
- Charles Gledhill (1886-1917)
- John Taylor Gledhill (c.1884-1917)
- Lewis Goldthorpe (1898-1917)
- John Charles Gomersal (1889-1918)
- Norris Grange (c.1898-1917)
- Norris Green (1891-1916)
- Walter Green (1887-1916)
H
- Ben Haigh (1895-1917)
- George Haigh (c.1892-1918)
- Harold Haigh (c.1883-1918)
- James Haigh (c.1896-1918)
- James William Haigh (c.1886-1918)
- Robert Firth Haigh (1891-1918)
- John Hall (c.1900-1918)
- Walter Hall (1896-1918)
- George Halstead (c.1886-1917)
- Percy Halstead (c.1887-1916)
- Edgar Hanson (c.1897-1918)
- Lewis Haywood Harrison (1893-1916)
- Philip Haywood (1891-1917)
- Charles A. Head (c.1872-1915)
- Allen Healey (?-1916)
- Jack Hellawell (1896-1918)
- Joe William Hepworth (1884-1918)
- Joseph Albert Hepworth (1899-1918)
- Charles Albert Wilmotte Hill (1892-1916)
- Ernest Hill (1890-1917)
- James Hill (c.1887-1916)
- John Hinchliffe (1878-1918)
- Louis Hinchliffe (?-1917)
- Hildred Hirst (c.1900-1918)
- Willie Hirst (c.1898-1918)
- John Robert Hobson (?-1916)
- Charles Cecil Holtom (1885-1917)
- John Hopkinson (1893-1915)
- Cecil John Howitt (c.1894-1918)
- Albert Hoyle (c.1898-1918)
- George William Hoyle (1878-1917)
- Harry Hoyle (1896-1918)
J
K
L
M
- Frank Baxter Mallinson (c.1894-1917)
- Norris Mallinson (1897-1918)
- Willie Mallinson (1889-1917)
- Thornton Marsden (1891-1918)
- Thomas Crossley Marshall (c.1888-1917)
- Willie Matley (c.1892-1917)
- John McGuire (?-1915)
- Henry Macintosh Irvine (1889-1918)
- Lindley Mellor (c.1886-1916)
- Arthur Mettrick (c.1886-1918)
- Sykes Mettrick (1883-1917)
- Frank Milnes (c.1891-1917)
- John William Mitchell (1880-1916)
- Squire Mitchell (?-1917)
- Willie Morton (1889-1918)
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O
P
R
S
- James Sallis (c.1897-1916)
- Amos Senior (c.1890-1918)
- Hilbert Senior (c.1897-1916)
- Norman Senior (1898-1918)
- Lewis Sewell (1899-1918)
- Lewis Seymour (c.1885-1918)
- Merle Sharratt (c.1882-1918)
- Charles Shaw (c.1889-1917)
- Frank Shaw (c.1899-1918)
- Fred Shaw (c.1879-1917)
- Laurence Shaw (c.1893-1917)
- Arthur Henry Sherwood (1889-1915)
- Dodson Shires (c.1889-1918)
- Lewis Shore (c.1883-1917)
- Fred Singleton (?-1916)
- William Tedmas Skinner (1897-1918)
- Beaumont Smith (c.1880-1917)
- Edward Smith (c.1890-1916)
- Walter Spivey (c.1900-1918)
- Charlie Starkey (c.1883-1918)
- Luther Steel (c.1882-1918)
- Harry Stembridge (1895-1915)
- Ernest Stocks (1898-1918)
- Mellin Swaine (c.1895-1918)
- George Sykes (1880-1917)
- Harold Sykes (c.1893-1918)
- Joe Sykes (c.1900-1918)
- Leslie Frederick Wardle Sykes (1916-1940)
- Willie Sykes (c.1883-1916)
T
- Arthur Albert Tatham (1887-1918)
- Arthur William Taylor (c.1888-1918)
- Fred Taylor (1895-1917)
- George Taylor (c.1885-1918)
- Harry Taylor (c.1892-1918)
- Henry Thewlis (c.1884-1916)
- Ernest Thompson (c.1886-1916)
- Albert Thornton (c.1893-1918)
- Percy Thornton (1897-1918)
- Henry Hayes Tinsley (c.1883-1917)
- Sydney Francis Tinsley (1884-1915)
- Robert Huntriss Tolson (1884-1916)
- John Townsend (c.1893-1916)
- Alfred Toyne (1893-1916)
- Harold Turner (c.1887-1918)
- Fred Turton (c.1879-1919)
- Ernest Tyas (c.1887-1917)
W
- Arthur Wade (1899-1918)
- Lister Wade Walker (c.1882-1917)
- Harry Walton (c.1895-1917)
- Ralph Webster (1896-1918)
- Willie Dyson Whiteley (c.1895-1918)
- Albert Edward Wider (c.1880-1918)
- Felix Wilkinson (c.1881-1917)
- George Williamson (1884-1917)
- Gilbert Wilson (1887-1917)
- Archie Wood (1899-1918)
- Hubert Wood (1890-1917)
- Joe Wood (c.1891-1917)
- Teddy Wood (1885-1917)