RICHARD NELSON
Born : 1898 in Starbeck, Yorkshire
Father & Mother : Richard & Emma Louisa Nelson.
1901 Census.
Living at 4, Elmwood Street, Harrogate, with his Mother Emma Louisa (40) who is now a widow, Richard who must of been named Richard after his father, who never saw him (Died 1897), and the rest of his brothers and sisters and Grandmother Hannah Phillips.
1911 Census.
Still at 4 Elmwood Street. he is a scholboy aged 13.
Joined the Army for the Great War.
RICHARD
Last name NELSON
Service number 29715
Rank PRIVATE
Regiment Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Battalion 10th Battalion.
Birth place STARBECK, YORKS
Residence OTLEY, YORKS
Enlistment place KEIGHLEY, YORKS
Death year 1917
Death day 7th
Death month June
Cause of death Killed in action
Death place France & Flanders
Theatre of war Western European Theatre
Pte. Richard Nelson .
British Army 10th Btn. Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment
from 13 Ramsay Terrace, Otley
(d.7th June 1917)
We found two first world war medals for Richard Nelson. He was my great grandfather's brother. I knew my great grandfather.
My mother, Shirley Nelson doesn't remember the family ever mentioning that they had a brother called Richard. He signed up in Halifax on 16th of October 1916 and arrived in Folkestone on 11th of January 1917. He arrived at Etaples on 12th of January 1917.
We have a copy of the battalion diary for 7th of June 1917 (the day he died) and around 20 documents showing his signing up and posting as well as being killed in action and the delivery of posthumous medals.
His name is commemorated on the Menin Gate, Ypres.
Written by Stephen Wallace.
