First World War…..Dedication of a memorial

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At 14..00 hrs on 10th November 2023 a plaque will be dedicated to the four Sheffield Pridmore Brothers at Sheffield Station…..all were killed on active service during the Great War.

Three were members of the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. The eldest ,aged 37 ,was killed on 14/10/14……another brother 4 days later and the youngest who, after receiving a Commission ,transferred to the Prince of Wales Regiment and was killed just a month before the Armistice. One brother served in the Yorks and Lancs Regiment and was killed in 1917.

Not all of those who served during that conflict were young….as witness the age of the first brother!

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Private John Thomas Pridmore, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI)

Pridmore was killed in action, 14 Oct 1914. He is commemmorated on the Le Touret Memorial in Le Touret Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

Image from Sheffield Independent's War Album 'Our Boys at the Front', part 6, 1914 (Local Studies 940.5341 

 

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Sergeant Arthur Edward Pridmore, of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI)

Killed in action, 18 October, 1914. Arthur was the 33 year old son of William and Sarah Jane Pridmore, of Sheffield; husband of Annie Elizabeth Pridmore, of Bishopthorpe, York. He is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial in France.

Image from Sheffield Independent's War Album 'Our Boys at the Front', part 6, 1914 (Local Studies 940.5341 SST)

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Article in The Star, November 2018 about the Pridmore Brothers killed WWI

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/family-mourned-four-brothers-219139

 

 

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Pridmore Brothers

https://www.sheffieldsoldierww1.co.uk/YourSoldier/Pridmore.html