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Surname: EASTWOOD
Forename(s): Young
Place of Birth: Barnoldswick, Yorkshire
Service No: 204559
Rank: Gunner
Regiment / Corps / Service: Royal Field Artillery
Battalion / Unit: 'A' Battery 180th Brigade
Division: 16th (Irish) Division
Age: 21
Date of Death: 1918-05-05
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: II. H. 31.
CWGC Cemetery: AIRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: BARNOLDSWICK, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Young Eastwood was the son of Sam and Louisa Eastwood, née Matthews. Sam was born at Walsden, Lancashire and Louisa at Kenwyn, Cornwall.
1901 Barnoldswick, Yorkshire Census: East Hill Street - [Y?]anny Eastwood, aged 6 years, born Barnoldswick, son of Sam and Louisa Eastwood. [The census entry amended to Fanny and from son to daughter.]
1911 Barnoldswick, Yorkshire Census: 12, East Hill Street - Young Eastwood, aged 16 years, born Barnoldswick, son of Louisa and stepson of Thomas Frederick Sutcliffe. [Louisa had married Thomas in 1906.]
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Gnr Young Eastwood, 204559, Royal Field Artillery.
A short biography of Young is included in: ‘Barnoldswick – A small Town’s part in conflicts 1800 to 2014’ by Peter Ian Thompson (2014).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
EASTWOOD, Gunner Young, aged 23 years, R.F.A., 12, East Hill Street, [Barnoldswick], died of wounds May 5, 1918.
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Gunner Young EASTWOOD
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Royal Field Artillery
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 16th (Irish) Division
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15 December 1916
PETTY SESSIONS - SKIPTON
BARNOLDSWICK YOUNG MEN’S DISGUSTING BEHAVIOUR
William Holloway, weaver; Young Eastwood, carter; and James Pickles, weaver, all of Barnoldswick, pleaded guilty to making use of obscene language in the presence of young girls in Skipton Road, Earby, on November 26th, and were each fined 20s. The Chairman said the language uttered by defendants was the filthiest he had ever come across and told the young men they ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. “You ought to be flogged,” he added, “but unfortunately we cannot order you to be flogged. I never heard such beastly and horrible language in all my life. For goodness sake keep a clean tongue in your head in future.”
17 May 1918
Gunner Young Eastwood, Barnoldswick
Gunner Young Eastwood, R.F.A., died of wounds at a Casualty Clearing Station in France on May 5th. His mother (Mrs. T. Sutcliffe), who resides at 12 East Hill Street, Barnoldswick, had received a telegram from the Artillery Records Office, Woolwich, stating that her son was dangerously wounded by gunshot in the abdomen and that permission to visit him could not be granted. He was 23 years of age and the younger son of the late Mr. Samuel Eastwood. He was gassed last year after six months’ service at the Front, whither he only returned just before Easter. Prior to enlisting he was employed by Mr. P. D. Bilbrough as a coal carter.
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17 May 1918
EASTWOOD – Died of wounds May 5th, Gunner Young Eastwood, R.F.A., son of Mrs. T. Sutcliffe, 12, East Hill Street, Barnoldswick, aged 23.
17 May 1918
Gunner Y. Eastwood, Barnoldswick
Gunner Young Eastwood, R.F.A., died of wounds at a Casualty Clearing Station in France on May 5th. Two days later his mother Mrs. T. Sutcliffe, who resides at 12, East Hill Street, Barnoldswick, received a telegram from the Artillery Record Office, Woolwich , stating that her son was dangerously wounded by gunshot in the abdomen and that permission to visit him could not be granted. He was 23 years of age, and the younger son of the late Mr. Samuel Eastwood. He was gassed last year after six months’ service at the front, whither he only returned just before Easter. Prior to enlisting be was employed by Mr. P. D. Bilbrough, as a coal carter.
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