Raymond Hudson 1899-1918

Raymond Hudson (from FP's great grandmother's photo album)

Born:
Twenty five minutes to twelve on Friday morning March 17th 1899
(According to the family bible)

Parents:
William Hudson died Oct 29th 1913 aged 59
Ann Hudson nee Haynes  1858 – 1943
(Her aunt was Sarah Newton who died in  the Huskar pit (Silkstone) disaster of 1838)

Siblings: 
1.    Martha Ann 1879-1957
2.    Edith 1881-1882
3.    Thomas Hudson 1882- 1942
4.    Clifford Hudson 1884- 1940/50s served in WWI
5.    William (Bill) Hudson  1887 -  1953 served in WWI
6.    Joshua (Joss) Hudson 1889 – 1977 (?) Local historian
7.    Walter 1891-1892
8.    Arthur 1893  died aged 7 months
9.    Evelyn 1897 – 1955
Evelyn  married WWI Veteran Arthur Robinson.  His brother C A Robinson perished in 1916.
named her second son Raymond after the brother she lost in the war
10.    Raymond 1899 - 1918

Home address:
69 Milton street
Wombwell
(This is now the site of Ship croft sheltered housing)

Marital status: He was a bachelor

Military Service:
Enlisted June 7th 1917
131440 25th machine gun corps
75th Coy. 25th Bn.Stationed with the 86 training reserves at Scalton camp, Catterick Bridge, York shire.  Throughout October 1917.
Arrived in France March 28th 1918
Admitted to No. 8 stationary hospital Wimereux  France on April 13th 1918 with gunshot wound to the left thigh & a fractured femur.

Death:  27th May 1918 aged 19
Buried at:  Eastern cemetery Boulogne
Grave Reference:  X. A. 86

Remembered:
Wombwell, Wesleyan Methodist Memorial Tablet, Park Street
Wombwell War Memorial, St Mary's Church,  Wombwell

Notes:
This above information was supplied by Raymond's great, great niece FP.  Our grateful thanks to her for such a thorough research effort and for sharing this information with us.  Her photograph album contains many other soldier's photos and she is in the process of researching them for us.

George William Kellett 1892-1916

George William Kellett's Memorial Plaque (photo from PK)
Thanks to MS, George's niece, sharing this.

Born:
19 August 1892 in Birdwell
Baptised 1892 at St Mary's Church, Worsbro' Village

Son of:
John Kellett, b.1868 in Birdwell (son of William, a miner and Ann)  d. 5 January 1925
1911:  Confectioner and Traveller, 63 The Walk, Birdwell 
married in the Barnsley Registration District in Q2 1890 (9c 322) to
Jane Kellett (nee Matthewman) b.1870 Staincross d.18 March 1955

Position in family: The second of 8 children, two had died before 1911.
1. Ethel Kellett, b. 12 Sept 1890
2. George William Kellett b.1892 d.1916 WW1 KILLED 
3. Raymond Kellett b.13 Nov 1894 WW1 SERVICE 3/5 KOYLI
4. Harry Kellett b.17 Mar 1897 d.24 May 1900
5. Colin Kellett b.6 Oct 1899
6. Clarice Kellett b.18 Dec 1903
7. Ida Kellett b.13 Apr 1907 d.15 Jul 1907
8. Ralph Kellett b.9 Dec 1910

Home address, age and occupation:
1901: 13 Birdwell Common aged 8
1911: 63 The Walk, Birdwell aged 18 a Student Teacher
191?: 79 The Walk, Birdwell (the address given by his brother Raymond on his enlistment in February 1916.

Marriage: George was unmarried, however he was engaged to Elsie Blackledge who married his brother Colin in late 1919 and had two children with him.

Military Service:
Enlisted: *date* in Sheffield at the age of **years
Regiment and Battalion:   !st Battalion Coldstream Guards
Service number and rank:  15913  Private
Awards: British War and Victory Medals

Death:     15 September 1916  aged 24
CWGC Remembered: Thiepval Memorial Pier and Face 7D and 8D

Information from Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
Son of Mrs. Jane Kellett, of 79, The Walk, Birdwell, Barnsley.

Remembered: 
Worsborough, Memorial Plaque, St Mary's Church, Worsbro' Village and on Barnsley, Holgate Grammar School Old Boys - WW1  and on the family gravestone in Worsborough St Mary's Church Burial Ground (see below)

Notes:
PK a relative of George William along with his niece MS, provided much of the information above plus the following additional details:

George went to Birdwell Elementary School, where he was a Monitor, until the age of 15.  He then attended the Holgate Grammar School in Church Street, Barnsley, for 3 years, from 1907 to 1910.  George was a County Continuation Scholar for 2 years, Bursar and Student Teacher.  He passed the Oxford Local Senior exam and went on to Sheffield Day Training College to become a Certificated Teacher.

George William Kellett remembered on his parents' gravestone
in Worsborough Cemetery (photo from PK)

IN / LOVING MEMORY OF / JOHN /
THE DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF / JANE KELLETT
WHO PASSED AWAY JAN 5TH 1925, AGED 67 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED / JANE KELLETT
WHO DIED MARCH 18TH 1966, AGED 85 YEARS
ALSO GEORGE WILLIAM, THEIR SON,
WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE
SEPT 15TH 1916, AGED 24 YEARS
AT REST

Memorial plaque and accompanying letter from King George V
(thanks to PK and MS)

Harry White 1895-1917

Harry White's Medal Card showing his 1915 star, the date he arrived in France
and the date he was assumed dead (from Ancestry)

Born:
4 February 1895 in Barnsley at 5 Watson Street.
Baptised 27 February 1895 at St Mary's, Barnsley
 
Son of:
George White b.1860 Wroot, Lincolnshire d.32 in Barnsley
1911: Blacksmith at Glassworks living at 9 Meadow Street, Barnsley
married at Barnsley in Q4 1888 to 
Clara White (nee Hodgson) b.1870 Westwoodside, Lincolnshire d.1941 in Doncaster

Position in family: The third son of five boys and a girl
1. George White b.11 August 1891 Barnsley d.1915 WW1 DIED OF WOUNDS
2. Arthur Percy White b.7 March 1893 Barnsley d.1918 WW1 DIED OF WOUNDS
3. Harry White b.4 February 1895 Barnsley d.1917 WW1 MISSING/KILLED IN ACTION
4. Harold White b.9 May 1897 Barnsley WW1 SERVICE
5. John William White b.1900 Barnsley
6. Lillian White b.1906 Barnsley

Home address, age and occupation:
1901: 3 Watson Street, Barnsley aged 6 a scholar
1911: 9 Meadow Street, Barnsley aged 16, a  Glass Worker at the Glassworks
1914: 30 Meadow Street Age 19 Gatherer at Redfearns Glass Works

Marriage: Harry was married to Clarice Mary Newbould on 23 September 1917 at Barnsley.

Military Service:
Enlisted: February 1914 at the age of 19 years
Regiment and Battalion:    York and Lancaster Regiment 5th (Territorial Force) Battalion
Service number and rank:  240250 Corporal
Awards: 1915 Star, Victory Medal, British War Medal

Personal information:   5' 5.5"  tall, ** chest, physical development - fair,


Death:     9 October 1917 aged 22 years
CWGC Remembered: Tyne Cot Memorial Panel 125 to 128

Information from Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
Son of George and Clara White, of 30, Meadow St.; husband of Clarice Mary White, of 15, Meadow St., Barnsley.

Remembered: 
Barnsley, St Mary's Church, Combined Memorial
Barnsley, Redfearn Brothers Glassworks & Aldham Works 
Barnsley Regent Street Congregational Church Memorial 

Notes:

A page about George and Harry White with pictures of their medals and various letters and other photographs collected by RP.

Father George and his sons all worked at Redfearn's Glassworks.

Harry is mentioned writing home about his brother George's death in a newpaper cutting reproduced here on George's soldier story page.

Link to blog post here about Harry and his family including a newspaper cutting reporting his brother Arthur's death and commenting on the deaths of his brothers.

Clarice Mary White, Harry's widow, was living in Torquay in 1919 when she completed the Next of Kin form for Harry's Memorial Plaque.  She remarried in 1921 to Fred Roebuck.  

George White 1891-1915

George White (photo from Memories of Barnsley issue 17)

Born:  
11 August 1891 in Barnsley probably at 5 Watson Street
Baptised 6 September 1891 at St Mary's, Barnsley (although the entry is annotated St John)

Son of:
George White b.1860 Wroot, Lincolnshire d.1932 Barnsley
1911: Blacksmith at Glassworks living at 9 Meadow Street, Barnsley
married at Barnsley in Q4 1888 to 
Clara White (nee Hodgson) b.1870 Westwoodside, Lincolnshire d.1941 Doncaster

Position in family: The eldest son of five boys and a girl
1. George White b.11 August 1891 Barnsley d.1915 WW1 DIED OF WOUNDS
2. Arthur Percy White b.7 March 1893 Barnsley d.1918 WW1 DIED OF WOUNDS
3. Harry White b.4 February 1895 Barnsley d.1917 WW1 MISSING/KILLED IN ACTION
4. Harold White b.9 May 1897 Barnsley WW1 SERVICE
5. John William White b.1900 Barnsley d.10 July 1918 Barnsley
6. Lillian White b.1906 Barnsley

Home address, age and occupation:
1901: 3 Watson Street, Barnsley aged 9 a scholar
1911: 9 Meadow Street, Barnsley aged 19, Blacksmith's Apprentice at Glass Bottle Works

Marriage: George was unmarried - but the newspaper cutting below mentions a Miss Jackson - fiance or girlfriend maybe?

Military Service:
Enlisted: *date* at the age of **years
Regiment and Battalion:    York and Lancaster Regiment 5th (Territorial Force) Battalion
Arrived in France: 13 April 1915
Service number and rank:  1110 Sergeant
Awards: 1915 Star, Victory Medal, British War Medal

Death:     10 September 1915 aged 24 years
Buried at: Ferme Olivier Cemetery
Grave Reference: Plot 1 Row G Grave 4

Information from Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
Son of George and Clara White, of Barnsley, Yorkshire.

Remembered: 
Barnsley, St Mary's Church, Combined Memorial
Barnsley, Redfearn Brothers Glassworks & Aldham Works 
Barnsley Regent Street Congregational Church Memorial 

Notes:

A page about George and Harry White with pictures of their medals and various letters and other photographs collected by RP.

From Memories of Barnsley issue 17 (presumably from the Barnsley Chronicle):

"George's brother, Harry White was in the same regiment as George.  Harry wrote home to his parents: 'I came out of the trenches with George and he was not long before he was being despatched to hospital.  They carried him out of the trenches as quickoy as they could after he had been wounded'.
Then followed the sadder news of the lad's death, and in his letter Harry says the authorities would not let him know how badly injured George was. 'Do try to take things as lightly as you can.  I know it is hard for you all, and I cannot keep my spirits up for thinking about my dear brother.  It has been a hard blow to me.  I am trying to get a pass for home for a day or two, for if I don't it will drive me mad.  May God bless you all.  May he give you courage and strength in this time of sorrow'.
George had recently written home: 'I can assure you that I say my prayers every day, for it seems hard to see our comrades falling.  I seem to think that I shall come through safely.  It makes a man think when he has so many narrow escapes.  I never flet better in my life and this too, after 15 days in the trenches and up to the thighs in mud.  Our Battalion haas been granted general leave and all being well I shal be home within a month.  I am pleased I have left such a good name behind me'.
One of George's friends, Lance Sergeant W Fletcher wrote to George's parents: 'Dear Mrs White, I hardly know how to commence this letter to you.  I am deeply sorry I have to convey such sad news.  Your son was with his Platoon in the trenches last Thursday night, when he was seriously wounded by a bullet which struck him in the stomach.  He was rendered unconsious.  His wound was speedily dressed and he was carried out of the trenches and taken to hospital with all speed.  Everything that was possible was done for him, but in spite of all medical attention, he died a few hours afterwards.  I hope you will accept my most sincere and deepest sympathy in your terrible loss.  I need scarely say how very sorry I am.  He was one of my dearest chums and I shall miss him more than I can say.  I was only speaking to him a few hours before he was wounded.  He told me he was looking forward to coming home on leave in about three weeks time.  He was then in good health and quite cheerful.  You can guess how shocked I was when I heard he was wounded.  I am very sorry I was unable to see him when he was brought out of the trenches. He is buried in a soldier's grave alongside many other brave fellows who have fallen.  It may be some consolation to konw that he gave his life for his countries cause and died a noble death.  He was a good soldier, thoroughly efficient in all his work, and was held in the highest esteem by all who come in contact with him.  My sympathy also goes out to Miss Jackson.  Please tell her how truely sorry I am at George's death and tell her to bear up under her most trying ordeal.  I pray God will give you all strength and courage to bear your irreparable loss'.
..........................................................

Father George and his sons all worked at Redfearn's Glassworks.

An aerial view of Redfearn Brothers' Glassworks with Meadow Street bottom left
and Watson Street top centre (from YOCOCO)

Link to blog post here about George and his family including a newspaper cutting reporting his brother Arthur's death and commenting on the deaths of his brothers.

George, Clara and their fifth son John William are all buried in the same plot in Barnsley Cemetery.  As John died aged just 18 in 1918 the obvious suspicion is that he died in the flu epidemic.

Arthur Percy White 1893-1918

1931 map snip showing Redfearn Brothers' Glassworks, with Meadow Street on bottom left
and Watson Street top right (from Old Maps)

Born:
7 March 1893 in Barnsley (9c 194) at 5 Watson Street
Baptised at St Barnabus, Barnsley on 30 March 1893

Son of:
George White b.1860 Wroot, Lincolnshire d.  
1911: Blacksmith at Glassworks living at 9 Meadow Street, Barnsley
married at Barnsley in Q4 1888 to 
Clara White (nee Hodgson) b.1870 Westwoodside, Lincolnshire d.

Position in family: The second son of five boys and a girl
1. George White b.11 August 1891 Barnsley d.1915 WW1 DIED OF WOUNDS
2. Arthur Percy White b.7 March 1893 Barnsley d.1918 WW1 DIED OF WOUNDS
3. Harry White b.4 February 1895 Barnsley d.1917 WW1 MISSING/KILLED IN ACTION
4. Harold White b.9 May 1897 Barnsley WW1 SERVICE
5. John William White b.1900 Barnsley
6. Lillian White b.1906 Barnsley

Home address, age and occupation:
1901: 3 Watson Street, Barnsley aged 8 a scholar
1911: 9 Meadow Street, Barnsley aged 18, a  Bottle Packer at the Glassworks

Marriage: Arthur was married to Selina Batty at St Mary's, Barnsley on 21 January 1918

Military Service:
Enlisted: *date* at the age of **years
Regiment and Battalion:    York and Lancaster Regiment 2nd/4th Battalion
Service number and rank:  240544 Private
Awards: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Death:     28 March 1918 aged 25 years
Buried at: Boulogne Eastern Cemetery
Grave Reference: VIII I 170

Information from Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
Son of George and Clara White, of 30, Meadow St., Barnsley; husband of Selina White, of 36, Windermere Rd., Barnsley.

Remembered: 
Barnsley, St Mary's Church, Combined Memorial
Barnsley, Redfearn Brothers Glassworks & Aldham Works 
Barnsley Regent Street Congregational Church Memorial 

Notes:

A page about George and Harry White with pictures of their medals and various letters and other photographs collected by RP.

Father George White, and his four soldier sons all worked at Redfearn's Glassworks.

Link to a blog post here about Arthur and his family including a newspaper cutting reporting his death and commenting on the deaths of his brothers.

George, Clara and their fifth son John William are all buried in the same plot in Barnsley Cemetery.  As John died aged just 18 in 1918 the obvious suspicion is that he died in the flu epidemic. 

Selina White remarries in 1929 to Clifford Farnsworth at St Peter's, Barnsley.

John Geoffrey Fallas 1899-1918

Inscription from the Memorial Window in St Peter's Church, Barnsley

Born:
Q3 1899 in Cawthorne (9c 293)
Baptised 16 July 1899 All Saints, Cawthorne (John Jeffrey son of Harry and Elizabeth Ann Fallas [father's occupation] Butcher)

Son of:
Harry Fallas b.1863 Holmfirth d.1920 1911: Journeyman Butcher Fearnought, Thongsbridge
married at All Saints, Cawthorne on 19 October 1885 to
Elizabeth Ann Fallas (nee Crossland) b.1863 Cawthorne d.1953 Sheffield

Position in family: The youngest child of 2
1. Lucy Mabel Fallas b.1887 (lived with her father)
2. John Geoffrey Fallas b.1899 WW1 DIED OF WOUNDS (received in action in the field)

Home address, age and occupation:
1901: Cawthorne aged 9 months (living with his mother Elizabeth Ann Fallas aged 37 and grandmother Elizabeth Crossland aged 81)
1911: Cawthorne aged 11 years (living with Mary Harrison his aunt, a widow aged 70
1917: 24 Windermere Road, Barnsley, aged 18, a Grocer's Assistant

Marriage: He was unmarried

Military Service:
Enlisted: 9 May 1917 at the age of 17 years 10 months
Regiment and Battalion:    11th Bn Durham Light Infantry 
(previously West Riding Regiment No.38820)
Service number and rank:  81923 Private
Awards: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Personal information:   5' 10" tall, 37" chest, 

Death:     19 September 1918 aged 19 years
Buried at: Sucrerie Cemetery, Ablain, St. Nazaire, France
Grave Reference: IV F 15

Information from Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
Son of Elizabeth Ann Fallas, of 24, Windermere Rd, Barnsley, Yorks.

Remembered:
Cawthorne War Memorial, Cawthorne Museum, Taylor Hill, Cawthorne
Barnsley, St Peter's Church, Doncaster Road
Barnsley, St Peter's Church, John Geoffrey Fallas Window  
 
Notes:

His parents only appear together on one census return, the 1891.
Afterwards Lucy lives with her father and John with his mother.
Elizabeth Ann Fallas is the only person listed on his next of kin form after he died.  

When Harry (or Henry) Fallas dies in 1920 Elizabeth is not mentioned in the Probate entry - his executors are his sister and his daughter.

His personal effects were returned to his mother in August 1920.
Disc, Letters, Photos, Pipe, Wallet, 2 Religious books, Cards, Registration card, Cigarette case, Handkerchief, Rosary, Pencil, Paper, Cuttings, Watch, Savings book

See Genealogy Junction here for his listing on Cawthorne War Memorial
See Durham Light Infantry Roll of Honour here for his listing

Darton Men who Fell - From A History of All Saints Church, Darton

In Barnsley Archives - Reference B283.

The Church of All Saints Darton, History and Description
By James Dearnley (completed 1946 – he began writing in 1935)

This book contains a history of the church and descriptions of its features including a page concerning the War Memorial and one with lists of the men who would have been named on it, except it seemed the organisers of the memorial did not have a definitive list at the time.  Mr Dearnley appears to have compiled his own list from a variety of sources. The following is a transcription of that second page.  Blue lettering indicates a link either to a page about a particular memorial or a page about the man himself.

Here is a list of the fallen who were members of the Well’s Street Club:

Richard Allott,
Andrew Bennett,
Wilfred Chalkley,
Ernest Dearnley,
Charles Denton,
Cyril Burton Dixon,
George Wm Ellis,
Gordon Gray,
George Gibson,
Ernest Jones,
J E Percy Joiner,
John Marchbanks,
Aquilla Mitchell,
Herbert Mottram,
Victor Oddy,
Thomas Henry Peace,
Samuel Procter,
Timothy F Simpson,
Walter Wiles.

Other men from Darton and Bloomhouse Green were:

Alfred Braithwaite,
Alexander Braithwaite,
Reggie Harper,
John Mellor,
Edwin Pogson,
Arnold Taylor,
Leonard Wakelyn,
Harry Wood,

The names of Haigh soldiers not on the club list are:

Arthur Sharpe,
Wilfrid Millar,
John James Robbins,
Reginald E Harman,
Arthur Shearman.

The Kexboro’ fallen not on the Darton Club list were:

Albert Cooper,
Thomas R Allott,

There is a list of fallen men on a memorial in the Barugh Mission Church.  The names are:

* William Milner,
* Edward Milner,
Ernest Ives,
G F Field,
W H Lacy,
* J Hy Milnes,
Norman Lambert,
W A Priest,
Horace Pickering,
Edward Launders,
* William Taylor,
George Harrison,
* Charles J Clegg,

Five of these men, who lived before the war on the Swallow Hill side of the river, are also found on the Mapplewell war memorial.  They are marked *.

The Woolley Colliery Church list is:

Wilfred Chalkley,
B Croft,
J E Percy Joiner,
Fred W Lott,
Aquilla Mitchell,
Wilson Mitchell,
Walter Wiles,

Four are on the Darton list.

Charles John Wintour 1871-1916

HMS Tipperary (from the memorial page for a sailor who lost his life
in the same action as Captain Wintour)

Born:  
December 1871 at High Hoyland, West Yorkshire
Baptised 25 February 1872 at Clayton West with High Hoyland

Son of:
Reverend Fitzgerald Thomas Wintour b.1830 at Great Gransden, Cambridgeshire d.Q3 1898 at High Hoyland.  1891: The Rectory High Hoyland, Rector of High Hoyland.
who was married at St James, Thornes on 7 May 1854 to
Isabella Milnes Wintour (nee Gaskell) b.1835 at Thornes, Yorkshire d. June 1916

Position in family: The third son and tenth child of 12 children
1. Mildred Wintour b.1856
2. Mary Wintour b.1858
3. Isabel M Wintour b.1859
4. Fitzgerald Wintour b.30 December 1860 d. 18 June 1950 WW1 SERVICE
5. Francis Wintour b.1863
6. Evelyn Wintour b.1864
7. Violet Wintour b.1866
8. Anna Mabel Wintour b.1869
9. Kathleen Wintour b.1870
10. Charles J Wintour b.1871 WW1 KILLED
11. Margaret Wintour b.1873
12. Ulick Fitzgerald Wintour b.1877

Home address, age and occupation:
1881: The Rectory, High Hoyland, Scholar aged 9
1891:  HMS Volage at Spithead, Midshipman aged 19
1901: *not found*
1911: HMS Forward at Chatham Dockyard, Commander aged 39

Marriage: He was married to Katherine Mary Keyes, daughter of General Sir Charles Patton Keyes,  at Holy Trinity, Brompton on 3 October 1900.

Children:
1. Rosemary Wintour b.1906
2. John Milnes Wintour b.1909

Military Service:
Enlisted: He appears in the Navy List in 1888 as Midshipman with seniority from 15 Nov 1887
Regiment and Battalion:    Royal Navy HMS Tipperary (at death)
Service number and rank:  Captain
Awards: 1914 Star, Victory Medal, British War Medal

Death:     1 June 1916  aged 44 (although it says 31 May on his memorial)
CWGC Remembered: Portsmouth Naval Memorial

Information from Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
Son of the Rev. Fitzgerald Wintour and Mrs. Wintour, of High Hoyland, Barnsley, Yorks; husband of Katherine Mary Wintour, of Pickering Cottage, Loose, Maidstone.

Remembered:
Clayton West and High Hoyland Memorial, Church Lane/Holmfield Road, Clayton West
Clayton West, Capt C J Wintour Memorial in All Saints' Church, and on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial

Notes:

More information about Charles John Wintour:

The Dreadnought Project 

The Peerage 

Dungannon War Dead - Writer 3rd Class James Gayton Maclean

Barnsley Chronicle 10 May 1919
(thanks to Barnsley Archives)

Memorial to a Gallant Officer

Son of a Former Local Vicar

At Clayton West Parish Church on the 17th inst., Admiral Tyrwhitt will unveil a memorial to the late Capt. Charles John Wintour, the leader of the fourth flotilla at the Battle of Jutland, who was killed on his ship, the Tipperary, while gallantly leading his group of destroyers in a successful night attack on the German Fleet.

Capt Wintour was born in the parish of High Hoyland, and his father was the Vicar of Clayton West for some years.  The memorial is in the nature of a family tribute, and among the family who will be attending its unveiling will be the late officer's widow, and his two brothers, General Wintour and Mr Alec Fitzgerald Wintour.  The monument has a marble base, and is classically moulded on a pedestal standing about 4ft 6in high, and containing on its central panel an inscription commemorative of the manner of the flotilla leader's death.  On the pedestal is a monumental urn, having on the face a representation of the destroyer Tipperary, carved in low relief.  This is surmounted by an elaborately carved shield bearing Capt. Wintour's arms.  The design is by Sir Charles Allom.

William Kerry 1894-1915

William Kerry (photo from his great niece JR)

Born:
10 June 1894 in Castleford, Yorkshire

Son of:
John Kerry b. Swanwick, Derbyshire c1836. d. 70 Church Street, Jump 19th May 1905. Occupation miner.
Catherine (nee Pilkington) Kerry. b. Wigan 1860 daughter of a cabinet maker. d. 1923, Jump.

Position in family: The sixth of 8 children
1.John Pilkington b. Wigan 1880 (later took the name Kerry after his step-father)
2.Lydia b. 1884 Castleford and d. 11.11.1957 Leeds
3.Joseph b. 1886 South Kirby
4.Charlotte b.7.8.1887 Castleford d.19.1.1959 Hoyland Common m. Walter Hudson 20.2.1909 
5.Mary b. Castleford 1890 and d. Jump 1909
6. William b. Castleford 10.6.1894, WW1 KILLED
7. Alice b. Jump 1899 and d. 1911
8. Fred b. Jump 1903 

Home address, age and occupation:
1901: 36 Church Street, Wombwell, Jump. Aged 6
1911: 22 Kitroyd, Jump, trammer in coal mine.Aged 16

Marriage: He was unmarried

Military Service:
Enlisted: *date* at Leeds at the age of **years
Regiment and Battalion:    2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers
Service number and rank:  15551 Private
Awards: 1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Death:     28 September 1915 aged 21 years
CWGC Remembered: Panel 46 to 49, Loos Memorial Pas de Calais, France

Information from Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
Son of the late John Kerry and Catherine Kerry of 20 Kitroyd, Jump, Barnsley

Remembered:
Jump & Hemingfield War Memorial, Cemetery Road, Jump, Barnsley
 
Notes:
William's great niece JR writes, 
"A sad family. Sister Alice died of measles aged 10, sister Mary died aged 19. Mary was in service. [...] William of course was killed in 1915. Their father John was 20 years older than Catherine his 2nd wife. He suffered ill health and was unable to work. So as not to be a burden to his family and suffering from depression on 19th May 1905 he purchased some oil of vitriol from the chemist and drank it. By the time he was found it was too late to do anything to save him."

Thanks to JR for sharing her information about William with us.

A group of Royal Scots Fusiliers - William Kerry indicated (thanks to JR)