The Yorkshire Regiment, WW1 Remembrance

Remembrance - The Yorkshire Regiment, First World War
Photos, - Individuals, Surname "E"

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Private Albert Prattley EMMITT, 242552. 5th Battalion.

Son of Francis George Prattley, of Hutton-le-Hole, Kirkby Moorside, Yorks, and the late Hannah Prattley. Killed 26 March 1918. Aged 27.
Enlisted Malton, Resided Kirbymoorside.
Commemorated Panels 31 and 32, POZIERES MEMORIAL.

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Private Tom EVERITT, 7706. 2nd Battalion.

Tom Everitt was one of the soldiers who embarked for Belgium witht he 2nd Battalion in October 1914.

He was wounded on 30 October 1914, and was treated behind enemy lines after being captured.
He spent over two years in captivity, before being transferred to internment in Switzerland in 1916.

Tom Everitt was discharged from the Yorkshire Regiment in 1919, and was a worker in a colliery on his return to civilian life. He died in December 1953, aged 70 years.