Places – Doncaster 1914-18

"Proud of his share"- Thomas Alfred Leggott died during the Battle of the Somme

Linked places: Sprotbrough and Cusworth

Thomas Alfred Leggott was a sign writer at the wagon works in Doncaster. He was wounded during the...

Linked places: Brodsworth Hall

Charles Grant-Dalton was born in 1884 in Southampton. Charles and his brother Stuart spent lots of...

Linked places: Atercliffe, Sheffield

Wifred (Billy) Tonks was a Sheffield lad. The son of a coal miner, he enlisted in the 1st Battalion...

Linked places: Campsmount Hall

(Mary) Violet Cooke-Yarborough lived with her siblings and parents at Campsmount. During the First...

Linked places: 63 Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough, 1 Grange Road West, Middlesbrough, 90 Jermyn Street, London, S.W., Dormansland, Surrey

Edward Ernest Craster, a surgeon from Middlesbrough, became the first Commanding Officer of the...

Linked places: 36 Upper Oxford Street Doncaster

Doncaster girl, Margaret, completes charity work alongside her job in munitions.

Linked places: Dunstan St, Netherfield, Deabill St, Carlton, Meadow Road, Colwick

Arthur Leslie Hornbuckle fought in France and carried the result in his head for the rest of his...

Linked places: 3 Auckland Road, Wheatley, Doncaster, Victorian Crescent, Doncaster, 55 Cadogan Square, London

Edward, son of draper Herbert James Plant, moved from the Royal Naval Air Service to the Royal Air...

Linked places: Nottinghamshire, Hunslet, Leeds, Carcroft, Doncaster, Ploegstreet Memorial, Berks Cemetery Extension, Hainault

Killed in trench warfare just 1 month after getting married.

Linked places: 29 Thorne Road, Doncaster, Arnold Auxiliary Hospital, Doncaster

Stanley William Milan was the first Doncaster man to be treated at the Arnold Hospital on Thorne...