The Yorkshire Regiment, Local War Memorials

War Memorials Elsewhere, -
Bradford,
St. Peter's Cathedral Church

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The First World War Memorial in St. Peter's Cathedral Church, Bradford
Photo : Wendy Sutherland of the Imperial war Museum's Register of War Memorials website

The War Memorial inside St. Peter's Cathedral Church, Bradford, is a large elaborate wall tablet with arched capstone and flanking pillars. A small bronze figure of St George surmounts the capstone

The memorial commemorates the names of 68 men who fell in the First World War. A transcription of the names is on the Imperial War Museum's Register of War Memorials website.
Biographical information on the names of those commemorated is provided on the website for Bradford Cathedral.

1 of those commemorated was an Officer who served in the Yorkshire Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Harold Kitson. 5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Mary E. Sanford (formerly Kitson), of 113, Grange Rd., Horton, Bradford, Yorks. Killed 21 October 1918. Aged 30.
Buried BRILLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY.
(The following biographical information is provided on the website for Bradford Cathedral.
Harold Kitson was born in 1887 in Eastbourne and his parents were William KItson and Sarah Ann Shaw. He served as a 2nd
Lieutenant in the 5th Yorkshire regiment and married Mary Eleanor Curtis at Bradford Parish Church on 16th February 1918.)

St. Peter's Cathedral Church, Bradford St. Peter's Cathedral Church, Bradford
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