The data is the editor’s interpretation of documents from:
- The National Archive
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- Find My Past (this can be viewed free of charge in local UK libraries if you are a library member).
- Ancestry.co.uk (this can be viewed free of charge in local UK libraries if you are a library member).
- Everyone Remembered.
AIREY William James
Died 14 Oct 1916 Age 20
Buried St John the Evangelist’s Parish Church, Yealand Conyers
Photograph of William J AireyAIREY W J
Service Record: Private 59005 21st Battalion Canadian InfantryHe was born on 14 November 1895 to James (born in Capernwray) and Gertrude (born Salford) Airey from Lancaster. He was married to Annie Walker.
He died of his wounds at Netley Hospital, Hampshire. His sister flew over from Canada and was with him when he died. As a former resident of Yealand he is buried in the churchyard.
Harold ESCOLME
Died 2 August 1917 Age 19
Remembered Menin Gate Memorial Panel 6 BelgiumHarold ESCOLME
Service RecordRifleman 242593 King’s Liverpool Regiment 1st and 6th Battalion.
Son of John and Elizabeth Escolme of Yealand Conyers, Lancashire.
William Henry FALLOWFIELD
Died 29 May 1917 Age 20
Buried St John’s Church Yealand Conyers Lancashire, EnglandWilliam Henry FALLOWFIELD
Service RecordPrivate M2/15388 2 Driver Army Service Corp 621st M.T. No 4 Motor Ambulance Convot, (British Expiditionary Force.
Injured in Belgium, amputation from thigh,
Baptised 28 Apr 1895 at Warton Church, Lancashire, Son of Richard and Julia Fallowfield
1901 Census shows William aged 6 was living in Yealand conyers with his parents both 36, and his siblings Agnes Annie aged 11 and John Thomas aged 9.
GASKELL Fred
Died 25 October 1918 Age 23
Buried St Johns Church, Yealand ConyersFred Gaskell
Service RecordPrivate 241380 King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1st Battalion. or Lance Corporal (shown on his gravestone)
Son of Margaret Gaskell of Yealand Redmayne. The 1901 census shows Fred is 6 years old and is living with Margeret Gaskell and his grandparents Matthew Gaskell (68) and Ellen (63). The 1911 census moved to a nearby property as a farm labourer (servant) and is shown as Frederick. He died of his wounds in Dover, Kent.
LUND Minnie Wesern
Died 16 March 1919 Age 24
Buried St John;s Church Yealand ConyersMinnie Western LUND
Service RecordForewoman 12180 Queen Mary’s Army Auxillary Corps
Daughter of Jane Lund of Yealand Redmayne. Minnie was born on 18 October 1894.
The 1901 census shows she was living at 2 Hill Street, Carnforth with her parents David (34), Jane (33) and her siblings Ruth (8) and Samuel David (3).
The 1911 census shows they had moved to Yealand Redmayne
1911 Census shows
Michael Richard NORTH
Died 24 May 1940 Age 25
Buried Pihen-Les-Guines 2 F 6 FranceNORTH Michael Richard
Service RecordLieutenant (A) Royal Navy Aircraft carrier HMS Glorious (which was sunk 8 June 1940 with the loss of over 1200 lives)
Son of Lt Col OH North DSO, FSA and Mrs ME North, husband of Joan Valerie North Yealand Conyers, Lancashire Father of Felicity North
Michael was the pilot of a Fairey Swordfish Mk1 which was shot down during a bombing mission southwest of Calais, France. He was killed along with his Air Gunner Leading Airman Cyril Arthur Chichester.
RAWLINSON Thomas George
Died 1 July 1918 Age 30
Buried Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery France
RAWLINSON Thomas George
Service RecordSapper 59682 Royal Engineers 70th Field Company
Son of John and Emma Rawlinson of Yealand Conyers, Lancashire. Born in 1888 in Yealand Conyers.
The 1911 census shows him still living with his parents in Yealand Conyers with his sibling Janet Elizabeth age 28. One of his siblings had died prior to 1911. His father’s occupation was coachman.
He signed up on the 30 December 1914 at Lancaster and was a joiner by trade
ROPER William Edward
Died 31 July 1917 Age 25
Buried Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, BelgiumPhotograph of the grave and William Roper
ROPER William Edward
Service RecordCaptain King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1st/5th Battalion.
Only son of the late William Oliver F.S.A (formerly Town Clerk, Lancaster) and Ada Jane Roper of ‘Beechfield’ Yealand Conyers, Lancashire who was the daughter of Edward Storey of Crosslands, Lancashire (now Cumbria).
William was born at Edenbreck, Lancashire, 14 April 1892. Educated at Seascale and Rugby where he gained a scholarship and Trinity College Oxford and in 1914 passed out with Third Class Honours in Science. He joined the Kings Own Royal Lancashire Regiment in September 1914. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant 10 November 1914 and promoted to Lieutenant 17 November 1914 and Captain 23 July 1917. He served with Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 28 April 1915, in the following September he was appointed Machine Gun Officer to his battalion, when the machine guns were formed into separate companies, he was entrusted by the Brigadier with the task of organising and training the 166th Machine Gun Corps. He was wounded on two occasions, on the 1st occasion a few days after he joined the front in the spring of 1915. The newspaper of 13 May 1915 shows his rank as Lieutenant and that his wounds were slight. The 2nd occasion in August 1916. He was killed in action at Wieltje near Ypres. An officer wrote “His courage was proberbial and the way he exposed himself in order ….
(the newspaper article cuts off at this point).Parents details
William Oliver died on 18th September 1908 at his home in Yealand Conyers and his wife Ada Jane (Monday March 10th 1930 Lancaster Daily Post) died in one of the leading hotels in Mentone, Nice in France. The article states that a few weeks ago a number of people at the hotel were taken ill, two have died including Mrs Roper formerly of Yealand Conyers. Further press coverage identified that she died of para poisoning.
SMITH Frank Hodgson
Died 22 May 1941 Age 20
Remembered Plymouth Naval Memorial Panel 60 Column 1Frank Hodgson SMITH
Service RecordPLY/X 3432 Royal Marine HMS Gloucester
Son of Edward and Bertha Blanche Smith. He was killed in the naval battle of Crete. He was born 5 December 1920 in Morecambe. In 1921 he was living at Yealand Redmayne with his parents Edward (23) Bertha (21) and his grandparents Moses Hodgson (59) Jane (59) and his uncles Thomas Garnett (25), Harold Edward (23) and Frank Bruman (19)
Harry Graham SMITH
Died 10 April 1917 Age 54
Buried Noordwijk General Cemetery C.43 NetherlandsPhotograph of his grave and photograph
Harry Graham SMITH
Service RecordCaptain Royal Army Medic Corp
Son of Dr John Smith MD and Elizabeth Smith, husband of M Graham Smith of Yealand Conyers, Lancashire, born in Edinburgh
