Lieutenant Hugh Brooksbank
Remembrance - The Yorkshire Regiment, First World War
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Lieutenant Hugh Brooksbank
Private Robert Henry TAYLOR Private James Henry THOMAS Lieutenant Arthur Temple THORNE Captain Geoffrey Arnold TUGWELL
Private Robert Henry TAYLOR
No photo available yet. 		  Private Robert Henry TAYLOR, 8100.

2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Edward and Martha Ann Taylor, of 19, Westfield Terrace, Tadcaster, Yorks. Killed 22 October 1914. Aged 28.
Born Tadcaster (Yorks), Enlisted Tadcaster.
Commemorated Panel 33, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial


John Sly (<sly211@btinternet.com>) has researched the career of Private Taylor in connection with Private Taylor's medals. John has written a short biography of Private Taylor, and this may be read by selecting the link below.
   
Private James Henry THOMAS
Select the above thumbnail image for a larger sized imaged. Click anywhere inside the window that opens to close it.		   Private James Henry THOMAS, 1631. 4th Battalion.

Died at home 11 September 1915.
Born Brotton (Yorks), Enlisted Skelton, Resided Brotton (Yorks).
Buried BROTTON CHURCH CEMETERY.

This photograph has been kindly provided by Bill Danby (<bandl.danby@ntlworld.com>). The photograph is on one side of a postcard, on the other side of which is written;-
"Give this card to Melly, with kind regards from Pte J Thomas D Coy 4th Batt Yorks Regt, Hummersknott Camp, Darlington."

James Thomas will have trained at Hummersknott Camp. He will have been wounded in action earlier in 1915, and would have died at home from the wounds recieved earlier.
   
Lieutenant THORNE
Photo from that of 2nd Battalion Officers, 1914		   Lieutenant Arthur Temple THORNE

Survived the War, but there are no details of him in the book "Officers of the Green Howards 1688 - 1931" by M L Ferrar.
Shown in the Green Howards Gazette database as having been wounded in October 1914.

John Sly (<sly211@btinternet.com>) has researched the career of Lieutenant Thorne in connection with his medals. John has written a short biography of Lieutenant Thorne, and this may be read by selecting the link below.
   
Captain GEOFFREY ARNOLD TUGWELL
Select the above thumbnail image for a larger sized imaged. Click anywhere inside the window that opens to close it.		   Captain Geoffrey Arnold TUGWELL

The photo of Captain Tugwell, and the information from the Roll of Lancing College, have been provided by John Hamblin (<jc.hamblin@btopenworld.com>).

4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Frank and Louisa A. Tugwell, of 40, Esplanade, Scarborough. Previously wounded. Killed 23 April 1917. Aged 24. Commemorated Bay 5, Arras memorial.

From the Roll of Lancing College, where he went to school and where he was in Olds House from 1906 to 1909;-
"Son of F. A. Tugwell of Scarborough Mentioned in despatches twice wounded at Ypres and on the Somme. Killed in action in France on the 23rd of April 1917"