Stafford Pogson

Private 42617. 8 Battalion. The Yorkshire Regiment.

Previously Yorkshire Hussars. (Alexandra Princess of Wales Own.)

Born 1884 in Golcar.

Son of the late James and Maria.

Brother of Emma.

Occupation: Weaver at B. & J. Whitwam& Sons, Golcar.

Address: 15 Slantgate, Linthwaite.

Enlisted: June 1916. Embarked for France, January 1917.

Died of wounds: 2nd July 1917. Aged 33.

Buried at Lijssenthoeke Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 15, Row C. Grave 3.

Stafford's mother died when he was only 8 years old. He then lived in lodgings with his father first at Scapegoat Hill, then at Headwell Green in Golcar. His sister Emma was married in 1894 and when his father died in 1911 he went to live with her in Linthwaite. He attended Scapegoat Hill Baptists Church and was a member of Smith Ryding Working Men's Club.

He was wounded in June 1917 and admitted to No. 56 Casualty Clearing Station from where he wrote to his sister that a shrapnel bullet had entered his right breast and he had undergone an operation. He said she was not to worry because they had some very clever doctors out there.

The cemetery contains 9,877 casualties and lies 8kms west of Ypres (leper)