The Yorkshire Regiment, War Memorials Elsewhere

War Memorials Elsewhere, -
Ipswich (Suffolk)

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The Cenotaph, Ipswich (Suffolk)
Photo © Peter Clarke

The Ipswich Cenotaph is located in Christchurch Park off Fonnereau Road in Ipswich.
The Cenotaph commemorates 1482 names of those who lost their lives in the First World War, 660 from the Second World War and 6 from subsequent conflicts.
These names are commemorated on a series of metal plaques attached to a wall behind the Cenotaph.

We are extremely grateful to Peter Clarke for allowing this website to use his photographs of the Cenotaph.

Amongst those commemorated are 8 men who served with the Yorkshire Regiment. Their details are as below.
Peter Clarke has researched and posted a great deal of additional biographical information on the men shown as having served with the Green Howards, and on one former Yorkshire Regiment soldier.

Corporal Reginald Archibald Ager, MM. 33310. 8th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Ernest and Ellen E. S. Ager, of 167, Princes St., Ipswich. Killed 27 October 1918. Aged 20.
Born Ipswich (Suffolk), Enlisted Ipswich.
Commemorated GIAVERA MEMORIAL.

Private Frederick Dunnett. 33342. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 4279 Suffolk Regt. Son of Elizabeth Aldous, of 77, Great Whip St., Ipswich. Killed 1 January 1917. Aged 37.
Born Billingford (Nr. Diss - Norfolk), Enlisted Ipswich.
Buried ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN.

Private John Charles Farman. 33370. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 4379 Suffolk Regt. Son of John Anthony and M Farman of 63 Stoke Street, Ipswich, Suffolk. Killed 22 October 1917.
Born Ipswich, Enlisted Bury St. Edmunds, Resided Ipswich.
Buried IPSWICH OLD CEMETERY.

Private George Fuller. 260061. 7th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Maud Fuller, of 9, Dyke St., St. George's St., Ipswich. Killed 25 May 1917. Aged 25.
Born Ipswich, Enlisted Ipswich.
Buried DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY - ETRUN.

Private F William Scarlett. 33326. 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 3804 Suffolk Regt. Died of wounds 2 November 1916.
Enlisted Ipswich.
Buried ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY.

Private George Richard Stevenson. 47816. 13th Battalion Royal Scots, formerly 33333 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 16 May 1918.
Enlisted Ipswich (Suffolk).
Commemorated Bay 1 and 2, ARRAS MEMORIAL.
(Biographical information on George Richard Stevenson is shown on the Ipswich War Memorial website.)

Private William Whybrew. 34021. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 1418 Army Veterinary Corps. Killed 24 October 1918.
Born Colchester, Enlisted Colchester.
Commemorated on Panel 5, VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL.

Private Percy H Wollaston. 235340. 20th Battalion The King's (Liverpool Regiment), formerly 243121 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mrs. H. Wollaston, of 32, Felix Rd., Ipswich. Killed 31 July 1917. Aged 32.
Born Ipswich (Suffolk), Enlisted Hexham (Suffolk) sic, Resided Hexham.
Commemorated on Panel 4 and 6, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.
(Percy Wollaston is commemorated on the Hexham, Northumberland, War Memorial as "P Woolaston". His place of enlistment in SDGW would not have been "Hexham (Suffolk)" but Hexham (Northumberland).
A search of the 1901 Census shows him as being a Tailor, working in Ipswich. But he cannot be found in the 1911 Census, indicating that he may have been serving in the Army at that time.)
Peter Clarke (<peter.clarke42@ntlworld.com>) has provided the following information on Percy Wollaston;-
"Percy is on the 1911 Census of England & Wales, a 25 year old unmarried Tailor recorded as a Boarder at Rosemeath Cottage, 32 Battle Hill, Hexham and born Ipswich, Suffolk. As with many a boarder I've had cause to research over the years his landlord didn't know all the proper details, and so his surname is recorded as "Wallarston". "

The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) Names on the Cenotaph, - Cpl Skinner served in the East Yorkshire Regiment.
Photo © Peter Clarke

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