Genealogy Junction
a subsite of Wakefield Family History Sharing
Little Smeaton War Memorial
in the grounds of St Martin's in the Parish of Womersley
In Memory of Those of Womersley who Fell in The Great War 1914 - 1918 |
| Names | Additional information where known |
| Bernard Moore Blakeston | |
| Sidney Buxton | |
| Bramley Dobson | Bradley was the son of William and Annie Dobson of Womersley. William worked in the local lime quarry. Bradley who in the 1901 census is transcribed as Bramby. The 1911 census shows Bramley with his 4 siblings. The two eldest boys, including Bramley, now worked in the lime quarry with their father as burners. The family were still in womersley where the family of 7 lived in a 5 roomed house. Bramley enlisted in Pontefract where he joined the WY Regt and became 21329, after 1916 transferring to the MGC and changing his army no. to 106609. Bramley died of wounds on 5th April 1918 aged 25. He rests in Varennes Military Cemetery. In the Pontefract area in 1916 Bramley married Annie Mitchell, who, c1920 was living in Jarrow. Additional information supplied by V Mullen |
| George Codbold | |
| Herbert Codbold | |
| Charles Jakeman | |
| Gwynn Lewis Broadhurst James | |
| Walter Markham | |
| William Edward 5th Earl of Rosse | William Edward Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse (1873 - 1918) was elected a Representative Peer in 1911. The famiy home of the Earl's of Rosse is Birr Castle in County Offaly, Ireland. |
| Philip Gamm Scott | |
| Ralph Scott | |
| Arthur Simpkin | |
| Walter Douglas Taylor | |
| William Henry Thompson | |
| Richard Croft Ward | |
| William Wheeldon |
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