The Loos Memorial - Surnames P
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The names of those men of the Yorkshire Regiment with a surname beginning with “P” listed on the Loos Memorial are recorded below.
Commemorative Panels on the Loos Memorial and Headstones in Dud Corner Cemetery can be viewed by selecting here.
Men commemorated on the Loos Memorial
Private Alfred Parker
10167. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 25 September 1915.
Born Bethnal Green (London), Enlisted Stratford, Resided London.
Private John Peacock
16753. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John and Sarah J. Peacock, of 10, Marshall Wallis Rd., South Shields. Killed 26 September 1915. Aged 21.
Born South Shields, Enlisted South Shields.
Private William Frederick Hill Pearson
3/7543. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Frederick and Elizabeth Pearson, of 18, Buxton St., Middlesbrough. Died 26 September 1915. Aged 21.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Private Walter Pellett
15080. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the late Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Pellett. Killed 26 September 1915. Aged 19.
Born Nunhead (London), Enlisted Lambeth, Resided Dulwich.
Serjeant John Pettit
886246. 173rd Tunnelling Coy. Royal Engineers, formerly 7903 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 24 January 1916.
Born Clay Cross (Derbyshire), Enlisted Clay Cross (Derbyshire).
Commemorated Panel 4 and 5, LOOS MEMORIAL.
Private Alfred Arthur Pickard
33170. 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 19987 East Surrey Regiment. Killed 23 May 1918.
Born Kentish Town (London), Enlisted London, Resided Kentish Town.
2nd Lieutenant Alfred James Pickup
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 26 September 1915.
The following notes are from Robert Coulson's Biographies of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
“Alfred Pickup was born in Croydon in 1888, the younger son of James Pickup of Beechcroft, Beckenham in Kent.
After the outbreak of war he went to France as a private soldier with the Artists Rifles in October of 1914.
He gained his commission on November 14th 1914 joining the 2nd Yorkshires shortly afterwards.
2nd Lt Pickup fought in the early 1915 battles at Neuve Chapelle where he was wounded and also at Festubert and Givenchy.
He was promoted to Lieutenant on June 15th 1915 and when the Battle of Loos opened was with “B” company of the 2nd Battalion. On September 26th in the early hours of the morning Lt Alfred James Pickup was killed in action aged 27 as the battalion moved out south towards the Hulloch road.”
The 1911 Census showed Alfred James Pickup living with his parents at 79 Albemarle Road, Bbeckenham, Kent. His father, James Pickup, was a Barrister.
Private Wilfred Plews
27356. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Jacob R. and Abigail Plews, of 5, Wharf St., Stockton-on-Tees. Killed 18 August 1916. Aged 20.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Stockton.
Private Harry Price
10490. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Harry and Ellen Price, of "New Inn", 183, Duke St., Park, Sheffield. Killed 26 September 1915. Aged 19.
Born Sheffield, Enlisted Sheffield.
Commemorative Panels on the Loos Memorial and Headstones in Dud Corner Cemetery
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