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Surname: MORTIMER
Forename(s): Rufus
Place of Birth: Shipley, Yorkshire
Service No: 268661
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 1/7th Battalion. (Leeds Rifles)
Division: 49th (West Riding) Division
Age: 40
Date of Death: 1918-10-15
Awards: M.M.
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: IV. D. 22.
CWGC Cemetery: ST. AUBERT BRITISH CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: SKIPTON, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Rufus Mortimer was the son of William and Ann Mortimer, née Wilkinson. William was born at Windhill, Yorkshire and Ann at Bradford, Yorkshire.
1881 Shipley, Yorkshire Census: 44, Briggate, Windhill - Rufus Mortimer, aged 3 years, born Windhill, son of William and Ann Mortimer.
1891 Shipley, Yorkshire Census: 44, Briggate, Windhill - Rufus Mortimer, aged 13 years, born Windhill, son of William and Ann Mortimer.
1901 Shipley, Yorkshire Census: 48, Fairbank - Rufus Mortimer, aged 22 years, born Shipley, son of William and Ann Mortimer.
Rufus was married to Ann Elizabeth Jackson in 1904.
1911 Shipley, Yorkshire Census: 35, Fairbank, Windhill - Rufus Mortimer, aged 33 years, born Shipley, husband of Ann Elizabeth Mortimer.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Rufus Mortimer, 8154 & 268661, West Yorkshire Regiment.
Rufus is commemorated on the Shipley, Saltaire and Windhill War Memorial.
Data Source: Local War Memorial
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 49th (West Riding) Division
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Marriage Register of Christ Church, Windhill, Yorkshire
Entry for the marriage of Rufus Mortimer to Ann Elizabeth Jackson, 31 December 1904
Courtesy of West Yorkshire Archive Service
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