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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" |
Taylor. George Henry
Was born in Elsecar, he enlisted at Barnsley and was killed in action on the 18th September, 1918, while serving on the Western Front.
From the book "Barnsley Pals" by Jon Cooksey,
George Henry Taylor's name appears on the nominal roll of the 13th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment, like many others in 1914 he joined the "Barnsley Pals" and trained at camps in Silkstone, Penkridge Bank at Rugeley, Ripon and Hurdcott on Salisbury Plain,
On Boxing day 1915 the Barnsley 13th and 14th Battalions left Hurdcott to board H.M.T. Andania on the 29th December, 1915, and eventually arrived in Port Said in January, 1916, they went on to El Ferdan to build defensive trenches along the western bank of the Suez Canal at Abu Aruk.
On the 8th March, 1916, they marched from Kantara to embark on the 10th March, aboard H.M.T. Briton and H.M.T. Megantic to arrive at Marseilles on St. Patrick's day 17th March, 1916, where they boarded cattle cars for a 50 hour journey north, to arrive in Pont Remy on the 19th March, 1916, and service on the Western Front.
The book also describes many first hand experiences of the "Barnsley Pals", their journey and the actions they were involved in from training through to their eventual return to Barnsley and the marching of the Battalions colours into Saint. Mary's Church on the 29th May, 1919.
Memorial Plaque, Holy Trinity Church, Elsecar
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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
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Elsecar Working Men's
Roll of Honour |
Postcard Discovered by David Laban
Elsecar Comrades who Diedin the Great War
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Fred Dickens 1st /5th Bn. York & Lancaster Regt. Died 4th December, 1915. John Peel 1st Bn. Kings Own Yokshire Light Infantry. Died 8th May, 1915. Frank H. Standish 1st Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers. Died 27th March, 1916. George H. Taylor 13th Bn. York & Lancaster Regt. Died 18th September, 1918. William Camplin 2nd/5th York & Lancaster Regt. Died 21st May, 1917. John Cope 111th Siege Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery. Died 16th October, 1918. Fred Kaye 9th Bn. Yorkshire Regt. Died 24th October, 1918. |
Postcard Discovered by David Laban
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George Henry Taylor's grave, Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, Nord, France. |
Picture by June & Peter Marsden
