​War Memorial in Burneston
 
The War Memorial in the churchyard of St Lambert's Church, BURNESTON is inscribed
 
THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918
IN MEMORY OF
LANCE CORPORAL WALTER BAINBRIDGE,         R NAV DIV
GUNNER ROBERT GREGORY,                              ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
PRIVATE CHRIS BOYNTON,                                   NORTHUMBERLAND FUSRS.
PRIVATE ERNEST W CLARKE,                               ROYAL FUSRS.
PRIVATE GEORGE BRADLEY,                                YORKSHIRE REGT
PRIVATE GEORGE DUNDERDALE,                        YORKSHIRE REGT
PRIVATE JAMES TWEEDY,                                     YORKSHIRE REGT
PRIVATE JAMES WILKINSON,                                ROYAL WEST KENT REGT
SERJEANT JAMES BEAMAN,                                  YORKSHIRE INFANTRY
LANCE CORPORAL GEORGE FOTHERGILL,        M G CORPS
PRIVATE FREDERICK KITCHING,                          AUSTRALIAN IMP FORCES
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.
 
OF THIRTY FOUR MEN FROM THE PARISH OF
BURNESTON WHO SERVED IN H M FORCES
 
THEY LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES.
 
 
Those who Fell in WW1
 
BAINBRIDGE, Walter
Able Seaman, Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division. RNVR no Tyneside Z/702.
He was killed in action on Monday 5 February 1917.
He is remembered on The Thiepval Memorial.
 
BEAMAN, James
Serjeant, Yorkshire Infantry.
I cannot trace anyone of this name who died in WW1 in the Civil nor the Military Records.
 
BOYNTON, Christopher known as Chris
Private, 1st/6th Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers, 149 Brigade, 50th Division. Army no 54593. He also served as Private, Army no 8744 with The Lincolnshire Regiment.
He was killed in action, presumed dead on the Somme battlefields, on Tuesday 2 April 1918. He was 26.
He was the son of William and Emma Boynton.
He is remembered on The Pozieres Memorial.
 
BRADLEY, George John
Private, 2nd Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment), 21 Brigade, 30th Division.  Army no 38100. He also served as Gunner, Army no 118119 with the Royal Garrison Artillery.
He was killed in action on 2 April 1917 during the German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line. He was 32.
He was the son of George and Jane Bradley, Carthorpe and the husband of Gertrude E Bradley, Carthorpe.
He is remembered on The Arras Memorial.
 
CLARKE, Ernest W
Private, Royal Fusiliers.
Awarded the Silver War Badge 17 July 1919 on the grounds of sickness. He had been serving as Private, Army no 352662 in the Labour Corps. This ties in with a death of Ernest W CLARKE, age 27, in Bedale Registration District in the quarter ending June 1920 but I cannot link this to the Royal Fusiliers.
However, there is a Probate Record which records that Ernest William Clarke, Gatenby, Bedale died on 24 April 1920 and his Estate was to be administered by Elizabeth Serwood, widow, and John Clarke, Farmer.
 
DUNDERDALE, George
Rifleman, 1st/8th (Leeds Rifles) TF Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), 146 Brigade, 49th Division.  Army no 48893.
He was killed in action on Tuesday 9 October 1917 during the Battle of Poelcapelle. He was 22.
He was the son of David and Mary A Dunderdale.
He is remembered on The Tyne Cot Memorial.
 
FOTHERGILL, George Edward 
Private, 24th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry).  Army no 85607.
He was killed in action on Thursday 21 March 1918. He was 23.
He was the son of Thomas and Margaret Fothergill, Burneston.
He is remembered on The Pozieres Memorial.
 
GREGORY, Robert
Gunner, 55th Battery, Indian Army Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.  Army no 186584.
He died of Pneumonia on Tuesday 6 February 1917. He was 20.
He was the son of John A and Margaret Gregory, Theakston.
He is buried in St. Andrew's and Jesmond Cemetery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
 
KITCHING, Frederick
Private, 49th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Forces. Army no 4823.
He died from natural causes on Wednesday 6 February 1918. He was 30.
He was the son of John and Eleanor Kitching.
He is buried in Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck.
 
TWEEDY, James
Private, 5th Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment), 150 Brigade, 50th Division.  Army no 204023.
He was killed in action on 28 October 1917 in the Battle known as 2nd Passchendaele. He was 20.
He was the son of Frederick W and Annie E Tweedy, Oak Tree Cottage, Burneston.
He is buried in Poelcapelle British Cemetery.
 
WILKINSON, James
I believe this is William Wilkinson – He is the only Wilkinson in the Regiment associated with the locality.
WILKINSON, William
Private, 8th (Service) Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), 72 Brigade, 24th Division.  Army no G/11327.
He was killed in action on Friday 1 September 1916 in the fighting at Delville Wood. He was 25.
He was the son of Elizabeth and the late Robert Wilkinson, Carthorpe. He was born in Carthorpe and lived in Hunslet, Leeds.
He is remembered on The Thiepval Memorial.
 
 
Not on the memorial            
 
FOTHERGILL Ernest 
Lance Bombardier, A Battery, 104th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Army no 44794.
Tuesday 20 May 1919. He was 29.
He was the son of Margaret and the late Thomas Fothergill, Burneston.
He is buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille and his headstone is inscribed Thy Will be Done.