Leadgate Community History Club
LEADGATE MEN AT WAR 1918
The Final Days
News From The Front
Significant Engagements 1918
German Spring Offensive
First Battle of the Somme (1918) also known as the Battle of St. Quentin or the Second Battle of the Somme (to distinguish it from the 1916 battle)
Battle of the Lys also known as the Fourth Battle of Ypres and the Battle of Estaires
Third Battle of the Aisne
Battle of Cantigny
Battle of Belleau Wood
Second Battle of the Marne
Battle of Soissons (1918) ( on August 4th, Adolf Hitler is awarded the Iron Cross First Class during this battle)
Battle of Château-Thierry (1918)
Hundred Days Offensive (8 August to 11 November 1918)
Battle of Amiens
Second Battle of the Somme (1918),
also known as the Third Battle of the Somme
Battle of Saint-Mihiel
Battle of Epéhy
Battle of the Hindenburg Line
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
, also called the Battle of the Argonne Forest
Battle of Cambrai (1918)
Battle of the Sambre (1918)
, also known as the Second Battle of the Sambre
The 100 Day Offensive that led to end of World War One. A You Tube video by Hadesdaman published January 2017.
Western Battle Front Summer 1918
Distribution of German Forces October 1918
In Remembrance
The Leadgate men who fell in 1918
FRANCIS BORTHWICK
(215 Bottle Bank) b:1896 d:10/01/1918
9th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Buried / Commemorated
Vis En Artois Memorials: Consett: Methodists
ROBERT REYNOLDS
b:1884 d:12/01/1918
24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Buried / Commemorated Wancourt British Cemetery
Memorials: Ryton
ROBERT GEDLING
(11 Green Street) b:1897 d:21/03/1918
25th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Buried / Commemorated Arras Memorial Faubourg D'Amies Cemetery
Memorials: Pelton
ROBERT WHARTON YOUNG
(Richardson’s Yard Watling Street (52 Durham Road)) b:1898 d:21/03/1918
2nd/6th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment Buried / Commemorated Arras Memorial
Memorials: Durham Road: St Ives: Iveston
THOMAS TEASDALE
(16 West Street) b:1897 d:22/03/1918
J Special Company Royal Engineers Buried / Commemorated Arras Memorial
Memorials: Consett
HERBERT L WARBURTON
(228 Green Street) 1898 1918 22/03/1918
15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Buried / Commemorated Pozieres Memorial
Memorials: Durham Road: St Ives
JOHN OXLEY
(4 Church Street) b:1890 d:22/03/1918 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
Buried / Commemorated Pozieres Memorial
Memorials: Durham Road: St Ives
CHARLES J HODGSON (65 Bradley Bungalows) b:1895 d:25/03/1918 8th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment Buried / Commemorated Wimereux Communal Cemetery
Memorials: Leadgate Club: Medomsley
WILLIAM JACKSON
(27 North Cross Street (311 North Cross Street)) b:1896 d:25/03/1918
19th (Durham Bantams) Battalion Durham Light Infantry Buried / Commemorated Pozieres Memorial
Memorials: Durham Road: St Ives: Leadgate Club
GEORGE VEITCH
(60 Front Street (89 Front Street)) b:1898 d:29/03/1918 2nd/6th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Buried / Commemorated Pozieres Memorial
Memorials: Durham Road: St Ives
ROBERT F WANLESS
(Front Street) b:1895 d:09/04/1918 14th (Service) Battalion Durham Light Infantry
Buried / Commemorated Rue-David Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix
Memorials: Durham Road: St Ives
ARTHUR JAMES KENNEDY
(15 South Cross Street) b:1895 d:20/04/1918
23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Buried / Commemorated Ploegsteert Memorial
Memorials: Craghead
FREDERICK RIDLEY (17 West Street) b:1886 d:24/04/1918Royal Navy
- Served on Pembroke Buried / Commemorated Leadgate (St Ives)
Memorials: Consett
ALBERT TODD
(9 Church Street) b:1897 d:24/04/1918 19th (Service) Battalion Durham Light Infantry
Buried / Commemorated Pozieres Memorial
Memorials: Unknown
THOMAS EDWARD FENWICK
(Lived Low Bradley Farm) b:1890 d:28/05/1918 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
Buried / Commemorated Hermonville Military Cemetery
Memorials: Medomsley
PETER SLANE
(231 Green Street) b:1888 d:16/06/1918 13th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
Buried / Commemorated Montecchio Precalcino Communal Cemetery Extension
Memorials: Durham Road: St Ives: Brooms Calvary
JOHN GEORGE LAMB (9 Park Terrace (29, Ewehirst Rd., Dipton)) b:1899 d:20/06/1918
2nd/5th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Buried / Commemorated Loos Memorial
Memorials: Leadgate Club: Dipton
ALFRED HAGGERSTON
(19 North Cross Street) (Lived 308 North Cross Street )) b:1899 d:25/06/1918
22nd (Durham Pioneers) Battalion Durham Light Infantry Buried / Commemorated Marfaux British Cemetery
Memorials: Batley
ROBERT PEARSON
(37 GARDEN TERRACE) b:1885 d:11/08/1918
32nd Battalion Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Buried / Commemorated Vis-En-Artios Memorial
Memorials: Durham Road: St Ives
BASIL FORD
(1911 5 Park Terrace then Front Street)) b:1889 d:21/08/1918
12th/13th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Buried / Commemorated Vis-En-Artios Memorial
Memorials: Durham Road: St Ives
JOSEPH TURNER
(3 Garden Place) b:1881 d:02/09/1918 248
2nd Battalion Australian Machine Gun Corps Buried / Commemorated Dourlers Communal Cemetery Extension
Memorials: Durham Road: St Ives
JOSEPH F CRONEY
(37 Valley View (44 Plantation Street)) b:1889 d:14/09/1918 1st/9th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
Buried / Commemorated Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery
Memorials: Durham Road: St Ives: Brooms Calvary
THOMAS EDWARD ROWLAND
(239 Nelson Street) b:1899 d:23/09/1918 S.S.
Aldershot Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Buried / Commemorated Chatham Naval Memorial
Memorials: Durham Road: St Ives: Leadgate Club: Methodists
JOHN GEORGE BEST
(410 Tin Street)) b:1899 d:01/10/1918 12th Battalion Royal Scots
Buried / Commemorated Dadizeele New British Cemetery
Memorials: Durham Road: St Ives: Leadgate Club
GEORGE BROWN
(165 Bottle Bank) b:1898 d:02/10/1918 4th Battalion Worcester Regiment
Buried / Commemorated Tyne Cot Memorial
Memorials: Durham Road: St Ives: Leadgate Club
HENRY GARTLAND (Golden Lion Yard (Lived Front St 1905 moved to Morley Leeds)) b:1895 d:05/10/1918
13th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Buried / Commemorated Beaurevoir British Cemetery
Memorials: St Ives: Brooms Calvary
WILLIAM ROBSON
(420 South Cross Street) b:1898 d:05/10/1918
13th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
Buried / Commemorated Prospect Hill Cemetery, Gouy
Memorials: Durham Road: St Ives
THOMAS MATTHEW TELFER
(10 Tindale Street (322 Tin Street)) b:1887 d:05/10/1918
12th/13th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Buried / Commemorated Berlin South Western Cemetery
Memorials: Durham Road:St Ives: Brooms Calvary: Leadgate Club
ROBERT McCREEDY
(171 Leadgate Bottle Bank) b:1896 d:17/10/1918
2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry Buried / Commemorated Vaux Andigny British Cemetery
Memorials: West Hartlepool
THEODORE EDGAR
(17 Hawthorn Terrace Derwent cottages) b:1896 d:23/10/1918
9th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Buried / Commemorated Amerval Communal Cemetery
Memorials: Medomsley
ERNEST CANT
(35 Bradley Cottages) b:1885 d:24/10/1918 1st/6th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
Buried / Commemorated Berlin South Western Cemetery
Memorials: Medomsley
GEORGE HENRY HOOPER
(8 Parkers Buildings Iveston) b:1897 d:27/10/1918 11th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Buried / Commemorated Tezze British Cemetery
Memorials: Medomsley
FREDERICK BARRON (1 Railway Street (274 Railway Street)) b:1889 d:27/10/1918
11th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Buried / Commemorated Giavera Memorial
Memorials: Consett Medal Roll
THOMAS LEE
(11 Bradley Cottages) b:1890 d:07/11/1918 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
Buried / Commemorated Dourlers Communal Cemetery Extension
Memorials: Medomsley
GEORGE ANTHONY CARR
(126 Front Street) b:1889 d:09/12/1918 Durham Light Infantry Buried / Commemorated Leadgate (St Ives)
Memorials: Durham Road: St Ives
Naming Conventions for Units in WW1
Units with a single Battalion number and no suffix would have existed in the Regular Army at the time of the outbreak of the War.
Amalgamated units (mainly Reserve Forces or Territorial Army) would be named for their original units e.g. 1st/6th Battalion. From late 1917 onwards some units were amalgamated in theatre, these amalgamated units would reflect all the units in their titles.
Units raised under Lord Kitchener's New Army were named as Service Battalions often referred to as Pals Battalions due to the fact that they would have been recruited in a small area, even sometimes from a particular trade.
Acknowledgements
Leadgate Community History Club would like to thank Andy Plant for his research in creating the original database.
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