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The First World War Memorial on Clevedon Pier
Select the above image for a larger image which shows the name of the Yorkshire
Regiment soldier
Photo : Mike Guttridge of the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials website
The First World War Memorial for Clevedon (N Somerset) is a simple metal plaque (bronze?) mounted in a wooden frame. Engraved lettering, painted in black. The plaque is mounted on the railings at the far (seaward) end of the pier.
204 names are commemorated as having lost their lives in the First World War, shown in alphabetical order, across six columns.
1 soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on this memorial.
Captain Eric Noel Player. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Mrs. C. E. Player, of Osborne House, Clevedon, Somerset. Born at Winlaton,
Blaydon-on-Tyne. B.A. (Camb.). Killed 6 August 1916. Aged 28.
Buried BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY.
The following biographical information is taken from Roberts
Coulson's Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"Eric Player was born at Winlaton, Blaydon on Tyne in 1888.
A university man he gained a BA at Cambridge attending Fitzwilliam Hall in
1911 and is on the Army List for October of 1914 as a 2nd Lieutenant with
the 8th Yorkshires.
He landed at Boulogne with the battalion on August 27th 1915 and spent the
remainder of the year in the Bois Grenier sector south of Armentieres.
In late June of 1916 the battalion were moved down close to Amiens to prepare
for the forthcoming Somme offensive.
By now promoted to Captain, Eric Player fought with the battalion on July
5th at Horseshoe Trench and five days later at Contalmaison. After a brief
respite from the line they were ordered back up and at 4-00am on August 6th
Captain Player and his men attacked the German line at Munster Alley to the
north of Contalmaison where fierce fighting ensued lasting for most of the
day.
Captain Eric Noel Player was killed in this action on August 6th 1916 at the
age of 28."
Clevedon Pier
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The
entrance to Clevedon Pier on Marine Parade, Clevedon
Photo : Google Earth
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