Hirst. Wilfred

Was born in Conisborough and lived in Elsecar, the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Hirst, he enlisted at Sheffield and died of wounds on the 2nd April, 1918, while serving on the Western Front.

Memorial Card saved by family friends,

Card reads,

For God

For King and

Country.

Memorial card saved by Keith and Mavis Robinson

1st Batt. West Yorks. Regt.

In Ever Loving Memory of

Wilfred Hirst,

Who Died of Wounds at Epionay,

April 2nd. 1918,

Age 21 Years.

May Heaven's gates be open wide
For one who for our sakes has died.

Mr, and Mrs. G. H. Hirst and
Mr. and Mrs. John Hirst (Grandparents),
and Family, are deeply grateful
and desire to thank their many
friends who have shown their
sympathy to them in their great
sorrow.

Church St.,
Darfield.

Memorial card saved by Peter Hirst

Mexborough and Swinton Times, 31st August, 1918.

DARFIELD

Pte. Wilfred Hirst -

Councillor G.H. Hirst, Church St., Darfield, prospective Labour
candidate for the Wentworth Division, has received official notification
of the death of his son, Pte. Wilfred Hirst (West Yorks) from wounds
whilst a prisoner in the hands of the Germans. He was missing on
March 21, and subsequently reported to be a prisoner. Now the sad
intimation as been received that he died in hospital on April 2.
Mr. Hirst has another son serving in the Navy, and a daughter who
is a V. A. D. nurse.

Newspaper remembrance saved by Peter Hirst

Memorial Plaque, Holy Trinity Church, Elsecar

Plaque reads,

In most Grateful Memory of

the undermentioned

Parishioners of Elsecar

who laid down their lives

in the Great War 1914 - 18

"Faithful Unto Death"

Picture by George Horner

Wilfred Hirst's grave,

Ontario Cemetery,

Sains les Marquion, Nord, France.

Picture by June & Peter Marsden

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