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Drax Grammar School.
Drax Grammar School.
"The names of the Men from this School who hazarded their lives in the Great War for the cause of Righteousness and Civilisation". 75 names, 13 of whom lost their lives, who served King and Country from the School in Drax, Selby, Yorkshire. With thanks to Rona Dickinson of the Marshland History Group.
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Born 1893
Died 1988
British Army 474135 Sapper Royal Engineers
British Army (T) 328 Sapper Royal Engineers
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Born 1895
Died 1940
British Army 1867 Private East Yorkshire Regiment
British Army 200329 Serjeant East Yorkshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Yorkshire Regiment
More about Edgar Heron Warham -
Born 1888
Died 1915
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 13/466 Trooper Auckland Mounted Rifles
More about Lewis Cuthbert Turton -
Born 1894
Died 1986
British Army 1330 Private East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry
British Army 50203 Private East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry
More about William Hudson Hairsine -
Born 1896
Died 1954
British Army 19907 Private Royal Fusiliers
British Army Second Lieutenant Northumberland Fusiliers attached Hampshire Regiment
More about Clifford Stuart Dickinson -
Born 1896
Died 1916
British Army 17034 Private Yorkshire Light Infantry
British Army 17034 Private King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 10th Bn.
More about Wilfred Dilcock -
Born 1897
Died 1970
British Army 10987 Corporal Royal Army Medical Corps
British Army 10987 Private Royal Army Medical Corps
More about Harold Sydney Brewins -
Born 1895
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Somerset Light Infantry
More about William George Leathley -
Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army R 28326 Rifleman King's Royal Rifle Corps
More about Charles Singleton Bland -
Born 1896
Died 1936
British Army Second Lieutenant Yorkshire Regiment
British Army Acting Captain Yorkshire Regiment
More about David Bruce Almgill -
Born 1885
British Army Captain Yorkshire Light Infantry
More about William Braithwaite Armstrong -
Born 1885
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant South Staffordshire Regiment attached Machine Gun Corps
British Army Second Lieutenant South Staffordshire Regiment
More about Charles James Wright -
Born 1889
Died 1917
British Army 68738 Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery
More about William Hugh Pear Spencer -
Born 1894
Died 1916
British Army 3736 Private Royal Fusiliers 24th Battalion
More about George Harrop Fish -
Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 761928 Private London Regiment
British Army 7707 Private London Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant General List Royal Flying Corps
More about Thomas Edmund Smith -
Born 1891
Died 1972
British Army Second Lieutenant West Yorkshire Regiment
More about John Edward Hubie -
Born 1888
Died 1914
British Army 4762 Sapper Royal Engineers 5th Company
British Army 21762 Sapper Royal Engineers 5th Company
More about Norman Harrop Fish -
Born 1896
British Army 78064 Private Royal Army Medical Corps
More about Edward Appleyard -
Born 1899
Died 1972
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 178670
More about Thomas Rodgers Bayston -
Born 1895
Died 1916
British Army 12269 Private King's Royal Rifle Corps 21st Bn
British Army C/12269 Serjeant King's Royal Rifle Corps 21st Bn
British Army C/12269 Corporal King's Royal Rifle Corps 21st Bn
More about Arthur Percy Stones