Alf Cooke Ltd WWI

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Reference WMO/149237

Address:

Leeds Minster Church of St Peter

Kirkgate

Leeds

LS2 7DG

England

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Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Unknown
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Timber plaque. Originally located at the premises of printers Alf Cooke Ltd in Leeds but relocated to the church for safe keeping during the redevelopment of the former printers building. Rectangular plaque on a wooden backboard with a nowy head and a pillar each side and a cast wreath at the top. The names are in a single column in raised lettering.
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IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE EMPLOYEES OF/ ALF COOKE LTD/ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN/ THYE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918/ (Names)

All information is provided in good faith but, on occasions errors may occur. Should this be the case, if new information can be verified please supply it to the author and corrections will then be made. This memorial has been compiled with additional information by kind permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and from Ancestry.co.uk WAR MEMORIAL Alf Cooke Ltd War Memorial This memorial is in St Peters Church (Leeds Minster) Leeds, Yorkshire. http://www.wopc.co.uk/alfcooke/index In honoured memory of the employees of ALF COOKE Ltd (Produced playing cards) who laid down their lives in the Great War 1914 - 1918. ALDERSON G BAILEY H DIXON F DIXON G GARDNER J HINCHCLIFFE George William. Gunner 108957, 138th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery died 27th November 1918 at 53 Casualty Clearing Station. His father Ben was granted a war gratuity on the 8th July 1919. At rest in Le Cateau Communal Cemetery, France. O'GRADY T PAGE H SKIRROW Arthur. Lieutenant, 13th York and Lancaster Regiment died 28th March 1918 aged 28. Son of William and Emily Skirrow, of Leeds; husband of Nellie Dora Skirrow, of 34, St. Michaels Lane, Headingley, Leeds. At rest in Bienvillers Military Cemetery, France. SMITH H TODD C TOWNSLEY A WARR George Harrington Gerald. Private 407040, 7th Casualty Clearing Station, Royal Army Medical Corps died of Lobar Pneumonia at No 30 Casualty Clearing Station, France on the 7th November 1918 aged 23. Son of George Moss Warr and Mary Ann Beaumont Warr, of 22, Bond Road, Barnsley, Yorkshire, native of Andover, Hampshire. At rest in Ligny-St. Flochel British Cemetery, Averdoingt, France. WHITAKER S WILKINSON A WOOD Benjamin Frederick. Private 15/1011, 15th West Yorkshire Regiment died 1st July 1916 aged 21. Son of Benjamin and Sarah Ann Wood, of 12, Beckett Street, Burmantofts, Leeds. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

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