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I'm trying to find The above person on a War Grave List. As a friend has found a grave, in Hull and thinks It should be on a War Grave List died 25 April 1916 Any Help He would help my friend sleep at night. Many Thanks His No. was 11460 17th West Yorkshire Regiment

Name: Laurence Steele
Birth Place: Hull, Yorks
Death Date: 25 Apr 1916
Death Place: France and Flanders
Enlistment Place: Hull
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment: Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment
Battalion: 17th Battalion
Regimental Number: 11460
Type of Casualty: Died of wounds
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre
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Dea x

This gives a little more info:

SerjeantSTEELE, LAURANCE

Service Number 11460

Died 25/04/1916

Aged 20

17th Bn.
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

Son of Thomas Robert Steele, of 369, Beverley Rd., Hull, and the late Mary Steele.

Inscription

CALLED TO HIGHER SERVICE

Dea x

He is buried in France, according to CWGC website:

Buried at MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Location: Nord, France
Number of casualties: 1276
Cemetery/memorial reference: VI. Q. 22.


Perhaps he was brought home to Hull at some later date ??

STEELE
Serjeant
11460
LAURANCE
Tuesday, April 25, 1916
Age 20
MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
United Kingdom

STEELE
BORN HULL 1896. SON OF THOMAS ROBERT & THE LATE MARY STEELE. HULL. UNDER THE TUITION OF THE REV. LEONARD SYKES. LAWRENCE STEEL WAS PREPARING TO BECOME A WESLEYAN MINISTER BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OUT WAR. HE ENLISTED IN THE WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT AND WAS PROMOTED TO SERGEANT. AFTER 10 DAYS IN THE TRENCHES HE WAS BADLY WOUNDED IN FRANCE. HE RETURNED HOME AND WAS OFFERED A COMMISSION TO WORK IN ENGLAND. HE DECIDED TO RETURN TO FRANCE WHERE HE THOUGHT HE COULD DO HIS BEST WORK. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON THE 25TH APRIL 1916. A MEMORIAL SERVICE WAS HELD FOR HIM IN HULL BY THE REV. SYKES. THE DETAILS WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 26TH MAY 1916. SGT. LAWRENCE STEEL IS COMMEMORATED ON THE HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE MEMORIAL. HIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 20TH AUGUST 1915. *

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You say your friend has found a grave.

Is Laurence perhaps just commemorated on his parents' gravestone ?

"Thank You all " I have passed you messages to my friend. He was astonished how quickly you found the info.

I think ArgyllGran is right - I have an ancestor who's gravestone inscription gives details of their son, KIA in 1917 and interred in Belgium as follows:

Nicholas Smith 13 june 1937 78, Mary his wife 3 octr 1922 62,and their son Sergt Harry Smith Killed in Action 1 augu 1917 29 years Interred near Bellewarde lake.

There's a photo of his headstone in Merville Communal Cemetery here-
https://www.twgpp.org/photograph/view/4204287

Thanks Flip and Detective. .Received and passed on.

It is not uncommon for soldiers who died abroad to be mentioned on family graves in local graveyards.
I am a member of a small team who tend War Graves in Bramley Baptist Churchyard. We started with 20 'official CWGC' war graves and now tend 70 graves, 50 of which are graves with a remembrance to soldiers who died abroad. One of the graves has remembrances to two of my mothers cousins, brothers who both died in France in WW1, both age 19 at the time of their deaths.

Thank You for that info IanPJS Sorry for your losses. May they All R.I.P. And "Thank You" for tending their graves
Regards
George