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The War Memorial for Leeds (Headingley)
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The War Memorial is located at the junction of Otley and St
Michael Roads in Headingley.
The memorial is a squared obelisk rising from a square plinth and shallow
octagonal three-stepped base. On the front face is a bronze sword, with bronze
plaques on each face of the plinth.
126 names of those who lost their lives in the First World War are commemorated on the memorial.
2 of those names commemorated were Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment.
2nd Lieutenant Lionel Adolf David David. 7th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of Alexander and Beatrice Marian David, of "Claremont,"
Monk Bridge Rd., Headingley, Leeds. Native of London. Killed 1 July 1916.
Aged 25.
Commemorated on the FRICOURT MEMORIAL.
Buried DANTZIG ALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY, MAMETZ.
The following additional biographical information is taken from Roberts Coulson's
Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"Lionel David was a London man being born in Kensington in 1892.
An original territorial officer of the 7th Battalion he landed with them on
July 14th 1915 at Boulogne.
They first went into the line at Voormezeele in August of 1915 and stayed
in this area for the rest of the year spending Christmas in Ypres.
February 1916 saw them in action at The Bluff outside Ypres when Lionel David
was wounded but he was fit again by June 1916 when the battalion moved south
to prepare for the Somme offensive.
Early morning July 1st 1916 found 2nd Lt David and his men in trenches facing
the German fortified village of Fricourt. The plan was for the battalion to
advance later in the day but for some reason never explained “A”
company advanced at 8-20 a.m. and were virtually wiped out. A message got
back that,
“Major Kent and Lt David were wounded and lying out in front of the
wire”
2nd Lt Lionel David died in front of the British wire at Fricourt on July
1st 1916 aged 25.
His body was recovered and his grave today lies in Dantzig Alley British Cemetery
at Mametz."
Captain Stanley Burnett Kay. ex-7th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Stanley Robert and Hetty Kay, of High Mead, Wood Lane, Headingley,
Leeds. Died 28 January 1918. Aged 26.
Buried at LEEDS (LAWNS WOOD) CEMETERY.
(A Leeds man, Stanley Kay was born in the city in 1892. He served with the
7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, first proceeding to the front in July 1915.
In February 1916 Lt Kay was wounded in action.
On 5 November 1916 Lt Kay was again wounded in action in an attack close to
the village of Le Transloy.
On recovery he was attached to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and died at
home on 28 January 28th 1918 aged 26.)
The
Plaque on the Leeds (Headingly) War Memorial which Includes the Name of L
A D David
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Photo by David Larkin of the War
Memorials On Line website
The Plaque on the Leeds (Headingly) War Memorial which Includes the Name of
S B Kay
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Photo by David Larkin of the War
Memorials On Line website
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