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WALTER YARROW
Walter was born in Kirklevington, near Yarm, in 1887 to John Robert and Elizabeth Yarrow. He grew up in Low Worsall and in 1907 married Edith Annie Cooper in 1907 at Auckland, County Durham.
At the time of the 1911 Census he was living at East Cowton with his wife Edith and a daughter Ivy. He worked as a gardener.Walter was conscripted into the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 10th.Battalion at Chisledon, Wiltshire and was promoted to Lance Corporal. He was Killed in Action on 22 March 1918 in the German " Michael Offensive." His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Arras Memorial France. Water was posthumously awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal and at the time of his death his wife was living at Hawthorn Cottage, Hartburn, Stockton.
JOHN GEORGE YELLOW
John was born on 2 July 1893 in Stockton to Thomas and Dinah Yellow. The family - John, his parents and his siblings Mary, Emma, Sarah and Edith lived at 12 Northall Street before moving to 6 Rupert Street, Portrack, Stockton.
John enlisted in the Royal Naval Reserve as a Stoker and was serving on the destroyer HMS "Ghurka" when it struck a mine off Dungeness, Kent. There were five survivors but 74 men lost. John's body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial . The wreck of the "Ghurka" is designated a "Protected Place".
CHARLES HENRY YOUNG
Charles was born in 1879 at Jarrow to John and Alice Young. On the 1881 Census he is resident at 284/286 High Street, South Shields with his parents and siblings Margaret, John, Alice, Robert and Ann. On the 1891 Census he is resident at 29 Light Pipe Hall Road, Stockton with his parents and siblings Alice, Robert, Ann, Joanne, George and Joseph. Charles enlisted at Stockton into the 1/5th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, service number 3587. He was Killed in Action, as a Private, on 16 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. He was posthumously awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
ROBERT CHESNEY YOUNG
Robert was born in Stockton in 1892 to Robert and Ellen Young, though by the time of the 1901 Census the family had moved to Lowestoft, Suffolk. On 16 November 1914 Robert enlisted, in Stockton, in the 1/5th. Battalion DLI at Stockton. The following year married Ada Dearsley.
Not much of his service history is known but Robert was discharged on 17 March 1917 through sickness. He was awarded the British War Medal, Victory Medal and Silver Sickness Badge. He died on 22 January 1918 and was buried in Durham Road Cemetery, Stockton. At that time Ada was living at Barnard Street, Thornaby -on-Tees.
WILLIAM YOUNG
William was born in Stockton in 1899 to William and Rosamond Minnie Jane Young. He enlisted in the DLI at Ferryhill in 1915 and was Killed in Action on 17 July 1916 at Pozieres in the Battle of the Somme. His body was never recovered. William is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial and he was posthumously awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.