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Private James Alfred Gleadhill, aged 24, was killed in action on 3 Oct 1918. He served in the 1st Battalion of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He enlisted in Hull. The 1st served on the Salonika Front in the Balkans from early Dec 1915 until Jun 1918, they arrived in France (via Taranto, Italy) on 2 Jul 1918. On 3 October the 1st were involved in an attack on the fortified German Hindenburg Line; it was the first day of the Battle of Beaurevoir. The actual circumstances of Alfred’s death are not known. He is buried at Guizancourt Farm Cemetery, Gouy, Aisne, France. He was awarded the War and Victory medals.
Alfred was born in Beverley the 5 Sep 1894 and baptised at Beverley Minster the 3 Oct 1894. He was one of six boys born to Elizabeth Hardy and James Henry Gleadhill, who married in 1882. The family lived at 13 Sloe Lane but earlier in the 1890s had lived in Grosvenor Place, off Cartwright Lane. With the exception of Robert Edgar, born in 1889, and working as a shepherd in north Nottinghamshire, all of Alfred’s brothers served in the war. Alfred is recorded in the 1911 census as a “milk boy”, the Beverley Guardian of 9 Nov 1918, states he was working for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Wakefield in an unknown capacity before he enlisted. He was unmarried
Alfred is remembered on the Hengate War memorial and on the East Riding memorial in Beverley Minster, he is recorded as “J.A.Gledhill
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