| James Pickard Bell |
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153353
17 July 1888, Aysgarth
08 October 1916
28
43rd Bn. Canadian Infantry
Vimy Memorial, France
Son of William and Barbara Bell, nee Pickard. |
| William Hemsley |
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20542
abt. 1897, Aysgarth
04 October 1917
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10th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium
Son of John and Alice Hemsley, nee Nevison. |
| John Percival |
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M/279604
abt. 1896, Aysgarth
08 April 1918
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M. T. Army Service Corps
Aysgarth (St. Andrew) Churchyard, Yorkshire, England
Son of William and Mary Percival, nee Sayer,
of Hazel House, Aysgarth. |
John's father, William Percival, was born at Woodhall, Askrigg, in 1854. He married Mary Sayer, a Carperby girl, and with William working as a general labourer, they settled first at Drummond Cottage and then by 1914 at Hazel House, Aysgarth. Children John, Tom, William, Annie and Margaret were born.
Leaving school at 14, John had a number of jobs before becoming chauffeur to a local landowner. On
enlistment in 1916 he joined a motorised section of the Royal Army Service Corps, where his days were spent delivering
ammunition and rations to the dumps on the front line.
At the beginning of 1918 he suffered a severe dose of phosgene gas when a gas shell exploded nearby. He was brought back to England and discharged from the army but tuberculosis had set in and after some months of illness he died on 08 April 1918.
John Percival was interned in the churchyard of St. Andrew's Church on 12 April. |
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