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| Major Alderson's CWGC headstone (from Lives of the First World War) |
Son of: Charles Sibbald Alderson, bank manager in 1911 visiting Whitehead family in Pickering, who was married at Wakefield Parish Church on 9 September 1879 to Emily Annie Brown
Position in family: The oldest of 4 children
1. Bernard Henry WW1 KILLED
2. Evelyn Sibbald born 31 October 1882, died 2 November 1957
3. Lionel William born 19 August 1885, died 1957. Possibly WW1 served Y & L Cycle Corps
4. Winifred Dykes born 14 November 1887. Married Alfred Dalton Bond WW1 served
Home address, age and occupation:
1891: 4 St Margaret's Terrace, Ilkley aged 9
1901: 4 Wellfield Road aged 19 2nd Lieutenant York & Lancs
1911: in India
Bernard Henry was unmarried
Military Service:
Enlisted: 1900 aged 18
Regiment and Battalion: York and Lancaster, then 34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse
Service number and rank: Major
Awards: Victory British and 1914-15 Star
Death: 2 September 1917 aged 36
Buried at: St Pol Communal Cemetery Extension
Grave Reference: G25
Remembered:
Barnsley, St George's Church, Memorial Plaque and Barnsley, St Mary's Church, Combined memorial
Notes:
Alfred Dalton Bond 5/York & Lancs TF 2nd Lieutenant 17070, died of pneumonia in Scarborough 22 May 1916. Alfred is named on the St Mary's combined memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Lives of the First World War
More information is available about this man on request.
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