Places – Doncaster 1914-18

A Skellow man in Australia - George Armstrong

Linked places: Adelaide, Skellow, St Nicholas Road, Thorne, Trois-Arbres Cemetery

George Armstrong was born in 1885 in Skellow. Before the outbreak of war he had emigrated to...

Linked places: Bow Road. London, Acomb Street. Manchester.

Campion Grayston Wallis - A well travelled man

Linked places: Balby, Salonika

Frank Curtis, born in 1880 worked as a stockman on his father's farm in Balby before joining the...

Linked places: Windsor Barracks, Sprotbrough Hall

Redvers Bewicke-Copley was born September 1890 in London. He was educated at Eton and later joined...

Linked places: Hexthorpe, Gommecourt British Cemetery No. 2

Private Matthew Burton served several years in France before being killed in 1918.

Linked places: Swinton, Yorkshire, AWOINGT BRITISH CEMETERY

John Arthur Steel, of Swinton, Yorkshire had an enviable record of service during the First World...

Linked places: Lenton, Nottingham, Hunslet, Leeds, Carcroft, Doncaster, Adwick le street, Doncaster

From Iron Foundry to Coal Mine to the Somme

Linked places: Misson, Doncaster, Menin Gate War Memorial

Osbourne Atkinson was born in Misson, he served in France with the Sherwood Foresters.

Linked places: Brampton Hall, Old Brampton, 66 Cleveland Street, Doncaster, 1 Greenfield lane, Doncaster, St James British Churchyard, Porto

John Clayton Dixon grew up at Brampton Hall in Old Brampton. He apprenticed as an architect while...

Linked places: Bentley, Bronfray Farm Military Cemetery

Thomas Cooke left Bentley Colliery to fight and proved himself a most valiant soldier.