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Men commemorated on the Arras Memorial

Private Thomas Callaby

201440. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Thomas R. and Charlotte Ann Callaby, of 30, Morris St., North Ormesby, Middlesbrough. Killed 23 March 1917. Aged 19.
Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided North Ormesby.

Private James Campbell

23408. 1st/6th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment, formerly 25570 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of James and Mary Alice Campbell, of 34, Hanson St., Redcar, Yorks. Killed 29 June 1917. Aged 22.
Born Redcar (Yorks), Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Redcar (Yorks).
Commemorated Bay 7 and 8, ARRAS MEMORIAL.

Private Francis Canavan

24496. 2nd Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), formerly 30844 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 3 May 1917.
Born Thornaby-on-Tees, Enlisted Stockton-on-Tees, Resided Thornaby-on-Tees.
Commemorated Bay 6, ARRAS MEMORIAL.

Lance Corporal Thomas Candler

200245. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 23 April 1917.
Born Northallerton, Enlisted Northallerton.

Private James Carr

. 36617. 5th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers. Formerly (24998) Yorkshire Regiment. Died 25 March 1918.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Commemorated Bay 5, ARRAS MEMORIAL.

Private Cliffe Carter

235204. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Benjamin and Annie Carter, of South End, Northallerton, Yorks. Killed 14 May 1917. Aged 24.
Enlisted Northallerton.

Private Tom Caygill

45346. 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 5/41822 80th T R Battn. Son of Edmund Caygill, of Leeming, Bedale, Yorks; husband of Ada Caygill, of 5, Yard, 126, Highgate, Kendal. Killed 24 April 1917. Aged 39.
Born Leeming Bridge, Enlisted Richmond (Yorks), Resided Gilling West.

Private Herbert Chapman

202319. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 4489 Northamptonshire Regt. Killed 23 April 1917.
Enlisted Northampton.

Private Tom Chatwood

25458. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Alfred and Hannah Chatwood, of 36, Kilburn's Yard Flats, Dewsbury, Yorks. Killed 12 May 1917. Aged 20.
Born Dewsbury, Enlisted Dewsbury (Yorks).

Private Harry Leader Chew

33851. 13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 039091 RASC. Son of Robert and Elizabeth Chew; husband of Agnes Gertrude Dazely (formerly Chew), of The Riddy, Bourne, Cambs. Killed 27 March 1918. Aged 29.
Born Bourne (Cambs), Enlisted Cambridge, Resided Bourne.

Lance Corporal Percy Clark

36298. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 659 East Yorkshire Regt. Killed 2 April 1917.
Born Southcoates (Hull), Enlisted Hull .

Corporal Ernest Clarke

201549. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Arthur and Martha Clarke, of 19, Victoria Rd., Middlesbrough; husband of the late Gertrude Clarke. Killed 23 April 1917. Aged 27.
Enlisted Middlesbrough.

Private George Clarke

260055. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of George and Eliza Clarke. Killed 13 May 1917. Aged 22.
Born West Hall (Suffolk), Enlisted Lowestoft, Resided Wangford (Suffolk).

Private Percy Charles Clarke

33770. 13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 315281 RASC. Son of Arthur John and Mary Clarke, of 43, York St., Bedford. Killed 22 March 1918. Aged 19.
Born Royston (Hertford), Enlisted Bedford.

Private William Ernest Clarke

203070. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Edgar and Ada Clarke, of I, Clarke's Court, North Walls, Stafford. Killed 23 April 1917. Aged 26.
Born Stafford (Staffs), Enlisted Stafford, Resided Doxey.

Private Charles Stead Clayforth

32491. 13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 22 March 1918.
Born Leeds, Enlisted Leeds.

Private John Cockburn

203069. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 23 April 1917.
Born Croxdale (Durham), Enlisted Houghton-le-Spring, Resided Fencehouses.
(SDGW has number as 203000)

Private Frederick Cockerill

27269. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mr. A. P. Cockerill, of Green End, Coathland, York. Killed 14 May 1917. Aged 23.
Born Goathland (Yorks), Enlisted Whitby, Resided Goathland (Yorks).

Private Fred Cocks

38231. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Fred and Elizabeth Cocks, of 17, Bridge St., Springhead, Oldham. Killed 25 April 1917. Aged 23.
Born Hey (Lancs), Enlisted Oldham, Resided Springhead.

Private Ernest Thomas Cole

203000. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 2621 Cambs Regt. Killed 23 April 1917.
Born Littleport (Cambridge), Enlisted Littleport, Resided Kedrington (Haverhill).

Lance Corporal George Coles

33898. 13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 02613 RASC. Killed 22 March 1918.
Born West Hatch (Somerset), Enlisted Taunton, Resided Broadway (Nr Ilminster - Somerset).

Private John Conroy

201252. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 23 April 1917.
Enlisted Middlesbrough.

Private Albert Constable

203192. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of George and Mary Constable, of 25, Minster Moor Gate, Beverley, Yorks. Killed 26 June 1917. Aged 24.
Born Barton (Hull), Enlisted Beverley.

Private Thomas Conway

14155. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Patrick and Frances Conway, of 31, Highmarkland St., Bank; husband of Sarah Ann Conway, of 29, Upper Cavalier St., Bank, Leeds. Killed 25 April 1917. Aged 31.
Born Leeds, Enlisted Leeds.

Serjeant Ernest Cook

20563. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Henry and Grace Cook, of East Hesterton, Yorks. Killed 9 April 1917. Aged 22.
Born East Hesterton (Yorks), Enlisted Beverley, Resided East Hesterton.

Private William Cook

243460. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 23 April 1917.
Born Murton Colliery (Durham), Enlisted Sunderland, Resided Murton Colliery.

Private Arthur Cooper

201615. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 23 April 1917.
Born Walton (Essex), Enlisted Northallerton, Resided Horden (Durham).

Lieutenant Eberhardt George Steuart Corry

5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 26 June 1917.
(There is some difficulty with the correct name for Lieutenant Corry. In the 1901 Census he is shown as "Everhard G S Corry". In the 1911 Census he is shown as "George Eberhardt Steuart Corry". His Medal Rolls Index card has him as "E G Steuart Corry". In "Baptism of Fire" by Mark Marsay he is shown as "Steuart Eberhardt George Corry".
His birth, in Pickering - Q2 1892, was registered as "Eberhardt George Corry.)

Private William Costigan

. 39052. 25th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, formerly 15760 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 21 March 1918.
Born Sunderland, Enlisted Houghton-le-Spring (Durham).
Commemorated on Bay 2 and 3, ARRAS MEMORIAL.

Private Bertie Coulson

35999. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 12 May 1917.
Born Pickering (Yorks), Enlisted Malton, Resided Thornton Dale (Pickering).

Private Charles Henry Cowens

27911. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Elizabeth Mary Cowens, of Laburnum Cottage, Robin Hood's Bay, Yorks. Killed 13 May 1917. Aged 23.
Born Sneaton (Yorks), Enlisted Whitby, Resided Sneaton.

Private Stanley Cowperthwaite

28266. 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 4789 Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 12 May 1917.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Commemorated Bay 4 and 5, ARRAS MEMORIAL.

Corporal Albert Ernest Coxon

20935. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Emma C. Coxon, of "Wave Crest", Shipley Terrace, Marske-by-the-Sea, Yorks. Killed 11 April 1917.
Born Stiilington (Durham), Enlisted Middlesbrough.

Private Robert Cracknell

235044. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 23 April 1917.
Born Enfield, Enlisted Mill Hill, Resided Enfield.

Private Thomas Crelly

38012. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 12 May 1917.
Born Bishop Auckland, Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided South Bank (Yorks).
(Thomas Crelly's widow was Agnes Crelly. They had one daughter, Mary Agnes. In 1911 they were living at 19 Frederick St, Middlesbrough. This was near St. Patrick's RC Church (which has been demolished).
He was a general labourer in an iron works.There is no record of Thomas Crelly in the 1901 Census.
In the BDM records a Thomas Crelly was born in Q3 1876 in Lanchester. There is no record of a Thomas Crelly born in Bishop Auckland.)

Private Walter Cridland

. 202644. 2nd/4th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, formerly 25900 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 28 March 1918.
Born Hull, Enlisted Hull.
Commemorated on Bay 8, ARRAS MEMORIAL.

Private Arthur Croft

260053. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Florence Mabel Pratt (formerly Croft), of 9, Lankester Rd., Royston, Herts. Killed 25 April 1917. Aged 25.
Born Great Wymondley (Herts), Enlisted Hitchin, Resided Stevenage (Herts).

Captain Randal William Shuckburgh Croft

7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 12 May 1917.

Private Harold Cross

30222. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 44572 Notts and Derby Regt. Husband of Evelyn Cross, of Wilford Rd., Ruddington, Notts. Killed 25 April 1917. Aged 26.
Born Ruddington (Notts), Enlisted Nottingham, Resided Ruddington.

Private Clifford Crowther

25802. 13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Joseph and Sarah Elizabeth Crowther, of 57, Dover St., Burley Rd., Leeds. Killed 2 October 1916. Aged 18.
Born Gomersall (Leeds), Enlisted Leeds.

Private Colin Cundall

26713. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William and Elizabeth Cundall, of Madona Cottage, Haxby Moor, Haxby, Yorks; husband of Beatrice May Marsh (formerly Cundall), of 5, Albert Terrace, Saltaire, Shipley, Yorks. Killed 25 April 1917. Aged 22.
Born Haxby (Yorks), Enlisted Haxby.