The Le Touret Memorial - Surnames P
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The names of those men of the Yorkshire Regiment with a surname beginning with “P” listed on the Le Touret Memorial are recorded below.
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Men commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial
Private Maurice Palmer
7534. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 15 June 1915.
Born Sheffield, Enlisted Sheffield
Private Albert Parkes
9807. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 15 June 1915.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Private Robert Paul
8182. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 13 March 1915.
Born Strensall (Yorks), Enlisted Leeds.
Private Ralph Pearson
16618. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Anthony and Ellen Pearson, of 9, Heaton Terrace, Station Town, Wingate, Co. Durham. Killed 15 June 1915. Aged 18.
Born Wingate (Durham), Enlisted Sunderland, Resided Wingate.
Private Robert Pennock
. 3/9484. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 15 June 1915.
Born Richmond (Yorks), Enlisted Richmond, Resided Bedale.
Private John Darlow Pindard
3/7329. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 15 June 1915.
Born Spalding (Lincs), Enlisted Richmond (Yorks), Resided Darlington.
(Shown as "John Pindard" in the CWGC Register)
Lance Corporal Albert Pollard
5878. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Father of Mrs. R. Rawnsley, of Morton Lane, Bingley, Yorks. Killed 12 March 1915.
Born Bradford, Enlisted Richmond (Yorks), Resided Bradford.
Private Tom Potter
6141. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 15 June 1915.
Born Leeds, Enlisted Leeds, Resided Burnley.
Private Joseph Powson
3/7134. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 12 March 1915.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Private Ernest Pretty
3/7468. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 12 March 1915.
Born Birmingham, Enlisted Leeds.
Lieutenant John Oscar Pritchard-Barrett
3rd Battalion attached to 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 15 June 1915.
The following brief biography is provided by Robert
Coulson;-
“John Pritchard-Barrett was first commissioned in August of 1914 and was promoted to Lieutenant in February of 1915 joining the 2nd Battalion at
Rouge Croix on April 10th of that year.
The following month he saw action at the Battle of Festubert and on the afternoon of June 14th the battalion moved into trenches close to Givenchy and prepared
to assault the German line the following day.
At 6-00 a.m. on June 15th a mine was exploded under the German trenches and in spite of a regular hail of bullets and continuous shelling the men
most gallantly led by their officers rushed out to the attack”.
Lt John Oscar Pritchard-Barrett was killed in this advance leading his platoon at Givenchy on June 15th 1915.
John Pritchard-Barrett was the son of Mr J Pritchard-Barrett and stepson of Lt Col Sir Neville Gunter of the Yorkshire Regiment's 3rd Battalion.
Lieutenant Allan Pyman
3rd Battalion attached to 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 15 June 1915. Aged 19.
Resided Seaton Carew.
Commemorated on Panel 12, LE TOURET MEMORIAL.
Further information from
1. Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
PDF file with details of Alan
Pyman's Family History
and
2. John Sly, - “Stand To” No 99, published by the Western Front
Association;-
Educated at Heddon Court and Leys School and Clare College, Cambridge, 1913.
Second Lieutenant 3rd Battalion 15 August 1914. Lieutenant 2 February 1915.
Attached to 2nd Battalion 10 April 1915. Killed at Givenchy when acting as
Machine-Gun Officer.
Photographs of the Le Touret Memorial Yorkshire Regiment Commemorative Panel and the Memorial
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