Battle of Cambrai
These are the Sheffield Men who we know were killed between 20th November 1917 and 8th December 1917. This was the Battle of Cambrai. This battle marked the first large scale effective use of Tanks in warfare.
Currently there are 106 men recorded in our database
Further Information |
Date of Death |
Surname |
First Name |
Age |
Number |
Rank |
Regiment |
Battalion |
20/11/17 |
Aslin |
John Robert |
25 |
Z/969 |
Rifleman |
Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consorts Own) |
12th Bn |
|
26/11/17 |
Barber |
Maurice |
25 |
Captain |
York & Lancs |
2nd/4th (Hallamshire) (T.F.) Battalion |
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22/11/17 |
Barfoot |
Arthur Thomas |
20 |
242368 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2/5th |
|
30/11/17 |
Barton |
Jonathan |
325026 |
Private |
The Kings (Liverpool Regiment) |
12th Battalion |
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26/11/17 |
Beal |
Ernest |
24 |
201052 |
Lance Corporal |
York & Lancs |
2nd/4th (Hallamshire) (T.F.) Battalion |
|
27/11/17 |
Beedham/ Beedham-Whittle |
George William/ John W |
22 |
41074 |
Private |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
2nd/4th |
|
27/11/17 |
Blow |
Ernest |
204811 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2nd/4th (Hallamshire) (T.F.) Battalion |
||
26/11/17 |
Bolton |
Victor Richardson |
5814/203017 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2nd/4th (Hallamshire) (T.F.) Battalion |
||
1/12/17 |
Bosworth |
Joseph |
10627 |
Sergeant |
Grenadier Guards |
2nd Bn |
||
21/11/17 |
Bourne |
Arthur |
23 |
41166 |
Private |
South Wales Borderers |
2nd Battalion |
|
27/11/17 |
Bownes |
Andrew |
24 |
41355 |
Private |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
2/5th Battalion |
|
28/11/17 |
Brader |
Albert Edward |
26 |
405360 |
Private |
Royal Army Medical Corps |
2nd/3rd (West Riding) Field Ambulance |
|
20/11/17 |
Brown |
Arthur William |
33 |
42529 |
Private |
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers |
1st Battalion |
|
30/11/17 |
Butcher |
Charles Walter |
37 |
476009 |
Sergeant |
Royal Engineers |
455th Field Company |
|
30/11/17 |
Coddington |
William |
19 |
33365 |
Private |
Norfolk Regiment |
7th |
|
27/11/17 |
Cooke |
Willis |
5193/202300 |
Private |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
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30/11/17 |
Cowan |
Joseph |
B/200385 |
Corporal |
Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consorts Own) |
15th Bn |
||
30/11/17 |
Cuneo |
Nicholas |
19 |
154219 |
Gunner |
Royal Garrison Artillery |
431st Siege Battery |
|
1/12/17 |
Doolan |
John Henry |
15814 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2nd Battalion |
||
30/11/17 |
Edson |
Ernest |
27 |
86298 |
Private |
Machine Gun Corps |
141st Coy |
|
30/11/17 |
Feetham |
Frank |
425151 |
Private |
Labour Corps |
63rd Coy |
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1/12/17 |
Fisher |
Tom Brown |
16093 |
Private |
Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (incl Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps) |
6th Dragoons (Inniskilling) |
||
27/11/17 |
Fletcher |
George Edwin |
28557 |
Private |
Grenadier Guards |
3rd BN |
||
21/11/17 |
Fox |
George |
27672 |
Private |
Lancashire Fusiliers |
1st Battalion |
||
20/11/17 |
France |
Albert |
77394 |
Private |
Tank Corps |
C Bn |
||
27/11/17 |
Fuller |
Harry |
39 |
10251 |
Sergeant |
Scots Guards |
1st Bn |
|
20/11/17 |
Gibbons |
Joseph |
36 |
307792 |
Rifleman |
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales Own) |
2/7th |
|
30/11/17 |
Glossop |
Frederick |
300006 |
Lance Corporal |
The Kings (Liverpool Regiment) |
6th |
||
27/11/17 |
Godber |
Bernard |
41168 |
Private |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
2/5th Battalion |
||
20/11/17 |
Goddard/Sylvester |
Walter |
27714 |
Gunner |
Royal Field Artillery |
Y 36th T M Bty |
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30/11/17 |
Gosney |
Ernest |
27 |
R/38128 |
Rifleman |
Kings Royal Rifles Corps |
11th |
|
27/11/17 |
Graham |
Charles William |
19 |
39624 |
Private |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
2/5th |
|
20/11/17 |
Grayson |
John |
22 |
14351 |
Sergeant |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
7th |
|
20/11/17 |
Gregory |
Albert |
1064 |
Sergeant |
Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (incl Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps) |
4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish) |
||
1/12/17 |
Gregory |
Alfred |
25 |
9684 |
Sergeant |
York & Lancs |
2nd |
|
30/11/17 |
Gregory |
George Willie |
25 |
R/3184 |
Rifleman |
Kings Royal Rifles Corps |
10th |
|
20/11/17 |
Gregory |
William |
22 |
201402 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2nd/4th (Hallamshire) (T.F.) Battalion |
|
25/11/17 |
Hamer |
Walter |
19650 |
Private |
Coldstream Guards |
3rd |
||
20/11/17 |
Hamnett |
Fred |
19 |
35439 |
Private |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
7th Battalion |
|
30/11/17 |
Hancock |
Thomas Lewis |
17076 |
Private |
Coldstream Guards |
2nd Bn |
||
20/11/17 |
Hawksley |
John Reginald |
241949 |
Private |
West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellingtons) |
2/5th |
||
27/11/17 |
Helliwell |
Albert |
202471 |
Private ? |
York & Lancs |
2nd/4th (Hallamshire) (T.F.) Battalion |
||
2/12/17 |
Higginbottom |
Thomas Hastings |
21 |
306978 |
Private |
West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellingtons) |
2/7th |
|
27/11/17 |
Higgins |
Cornelius |
32 |
268149 |
Rifleman |
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales Own) |
2/8th |
|
28/11/17 |
Hill |
Albert |
20 |
306977 |
Private |
West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellingtons) |
2/7th D Company |
|
27/11/17 |
Holder |
Ernest |
38 |
241959 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2/5th |
|
27/11/17 |
Holland |
Frank Sidney |
23 |
Lieutenant |
West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellingtons) |
2nd/6th Bn |
||
30/11/17 |
Horrabin |
Maurice Pinney |
31 |
Second Lieutenant |
Royal East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) |
4th B Company attached 6th |
||
22/11/17 |
Howe |
Clarence Henry |
19 |
201353 |
Lance Corporal |
York & Lancs |
2/4th B Company |
|
27/11/17 |
Hughes |
Ernest |
1670/200235 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2/5th |
||
22/11/17 |
Hutchinson |
Henry Keeton |
202625/5217 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2nd/4th (Hallamshire) (T.F.) Battalion |
||
27/11/17 |
Johnson |
Edwin Arthur |
37588 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2nd/5th Bn |
||
27/11/17 |
Johnson |
Oliver Cromwell |
37 |
204908 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2nd/5th Bn |
|
27/11/17 |
Johnson |
William Edward |
24 |
8766 |
Sergeant |
Scots Guards |
1st BN |
|
30/11/17 |
Jowitt |
Ben |
24 |
41984 |
Private |
Essex Regiment |
1st Battalion |
|
30/11/17 |
Jowitt/Jowett |
James Abel |
895653 |
Gunner |
Royal Field Artillery |
169th Bde |
||
27/11/17 |
Kavanagh |
Harry |
203055 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2/5th (T.F.) Battalion |
||
22/11/17 |
Kershaw |
Percy |
201686 |
Corporal |
York & Lancs |
2nd/4th (Hallamshire) (T.F.) Battalion |
||
27/11/17 |
Matthewman |
William |
205286 |
Private |
West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellingtons) |
2/6th Battalion |
||
20/11/17 |
Mercer |
Ernest |
202905 |
Private |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
2/5th Battalion |
||
27/11/17 |
Midgley |
Arthur William |
29 |
26549 |
Lance Corporal |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
2nd/5th Bn |
|
1/12/17 |
Mitchell |
John William |
28 |
4805 |
Private |
Royal Army Medical Corps |
Att 1st Bn East Kent Regiment |
|
22/11/17 |
Moore |
Arthur |
20 |
242482 |
Private |
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales Own) |
2/6th Battalion |
|
27/11/17 |
Mottram |
Albert |
3328/201363 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
4th Bn |
||
30/11/17 |
Naylor |
Tom Henry |
25 |
41988 |
Private |
Essex Regiment |
1st Battalion |
|
30/11/17 |
Ogle |
Henry |
83606 |
Sapper |
Royal Engineers |
83rd Field Coy |
||
22/11/17 |
Oldfield |
Fred |
29 |
202358 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2nd/4th (Hallamshire) (T.F.) Battalion |
|
27/11/17 |
Palethorpe |
James/Jim |
21 |
26477 |
Lance Corporal |
West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellingtons) |
2nd / 5th Bn |
|
20/11/17 |
Pallett |
Percy |
202284 |
Private |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
2/4th Battalion |
||
2/12/17 |
Pinder |
Stanley |
23 |
93529 |
Driver |
Royal Field Artillery |
24th Bde |
|
20/11/17 |
Pinder |
William Henry |
30097 |
Private |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
2/5th Battalion |
||
30/11/17 |
Plant |
Arthur Ernest Biddulph |
37 |
371217 |
Sergeant |
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) |
1st/8th Bn |
|
26/11/17 |
Rhodes |
John William |
202360 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2nd/4th (Hallamshire) (T.F.) Battalion |
||
20/11/17 |
Roberts |
John Furness |
30 |
21310 |
Private |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
7th Battalion |
|
27/11/17 |
Roberts |
Walter |
202343 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2/5th (T.F.) Battalion |
||
20/11/17 |
Rodgers |
Fred |
19925 |
Private |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
2/4th Battalion |
||
1/12/17 |
Rodgers |
William Henry |
37671 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2nd Battalion |
||
23/11/17 |
Russell |
Ernest |
26 |
75236 |
Private |
Tank Corps |
B Bn |
|
27/11/17 |
Sanderson |
Frank |
21693 |
Private |
West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellingtons) |
2nd/6th BN |
||
27/11/17 |
Sanderson |
Lawrence |
20 |
241756 |
Corporal |
York & Lancs |
2/5th (T.F.) Battalion |
|
25/11/17 |
Savage |
Herbert Edwin |
45286 |
Private |
Welsh Regiment |
17th Battalion |
||
27/11/17 |
Scothern |
Ben Jn |
78684 |
Private |
Tank Corps |
|||
30/11/17 |
Senior |
Alfred Bertram |
25 |
11670 |
Private |
Coldstream Guards |
2nd |
|
1/12/17 |
Slack |
Albert Edward |
16388 |
Lance Corporal |
York & Lancs |
2nd Bn |
||
27/11/17 |
Smith |
Richard |
37 |
241900 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2nd/5th Bn |
|
27/11/17 |
Staley |
Leonard |
268848 |
Private |
West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellingtons) |
2/6th Battalion |
||
27/11/17 |
Sutcliffe |
Harold |
21 |
306956 |
Private |
West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellingtons) |
2nd/7th Bn |
|
22/11/17 |
Thackray |
Walter |
33 |
17559 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2nd/4th (Hallamshire) (T.F.) Battalion |
|
20/11/17 |
Thornton |
James Wm. |
200952 |
Lance Corporal |
York & Lancs |
|||
27/11/17 |
Thorpe |
Nathaniel |
23 |
203057 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2/5th (T.F.) Battalion |
|
20/11/17 |
Twomey |
William |
20 |
36132 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2/5th (T.F.) Battalion |
|
22/11/17 |
Vickers |
Charles Goldthorpe |
27 |
Captain |
York & Lancs |
4th (Hallamshire) (T.F.) Battalion |
||
1/12/17 |
Walker |
Herbert |
9065 |
Company Sergeant Major |
York & Lancs |
2nd Battalion |
||
20/11/17 |
Watling |
Harry |
31 |
27825 |
Lance Corporal |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
2/5th Battalion |
|
23/11/17 |
Watson |
Harold Gordon |
41703 |
Private |
Alexandra Princess of Wales Own (Yorkshire Regiment) |
13th Battalion |
||
30/11/17 |
Wharton |
William Raymond |
24 |
S/3348 |
Sergeant |
Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consorts Own) |
10th Battalion |
|
2/12/17 |
Wheat |
Harold Arthur |
22 |
12/1093 |
Second Lieutenant |
York & Lancs |
2nd Bn |
|
27/11/17 |
Whelpton |
William |
9349 |
Lance Corporal |
York & Lancs |
2/5th (T.F.) Battalion |
||
20/11/17 |
White |
William |
24 |
30841 |
Private |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
2/4th Battalion |
|
20/11/17 |
Whitehouse |
Edwin |
22 |
22540 |
Private |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
7th Battalion |
|
20/11/17 |
Whittles |
Charles Harold |
21 |
15719 |
Rifleman |
Kings Royal Rifles Corps |
12th Bn |
|
1/12/17 |
Wiggins |
George |
13137 |
Private |
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry |
7th Trench Mortar Bn |
||
30/11/17 |
Willford |
Reginald Woodliffe |
4900 |
Lance Sergeant |
Kings Royal Rifles Corps |
11th Bn |
||
27/11/17 |
Wilson |
Percy |
204778 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2/5th (T.F.) Battalion |
||
22/11/17 |
Wilson |
Walter |
29 |
200999 |
Private |
York & Lancs |
2nd/4th (Hallamshire) (T.F.) Battalion |
|
30/11/17 |
Wright |
Harry |
S/1249 |
Lance Corporal |
Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consorts Own) |
10th Battalion |
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