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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Leeds (Beckett Street) Cemetery |
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Leeds (Beckett Street) Cemetery, with the headstone for Private Thompson in the centre foreground
Photo : Mike Berrell
During the First World War, the major hospitals in Leeds were the 2nd Northern General with 1,800 beds and the East Leeds War Hospital with 1,900. Leeds was also one of the principal hospital centres in Yorkshire during the Second World War.
Leeds (Beckett Street) Cemetery contains 67 scattered burials of the First World War and 4 from the Second World War. One soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is buried in this cemetery.
We are extremely grateful to MIke Berrell for providing the photographs of the headstone and of the cemetery.
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Private Joseph P Thompson. 7610. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Edward Barr & Jessie Thompson. Died at home 17 March 1918. Buried LEEDS (BECKETT STREET) CEMETERY. (Additional information : Enlisted 5 January 1904. Served with the 2nd Battalion at the 1st Battle of Ypres. Discharged 20 July 1916 because of wounds.) (CWGC records show him as being "T P Thompson") |