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Surname: GREENWOOD
Forename(s): Ira
Place of Birth: Stanbury, Yorkshire
Service No: 44984
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Durham Light Infantry
Battalion / Unit: 13th (Service) Battalion
Division: 23rd Division
Age: 19
Date of Death: 1917-12-23
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Plot 2. Row C. Grave 9.
CWGC Cemetery: GIAVERA BRITISH CEMETERY, ARCADE
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)
Additional Information:
Ira Greenwood (born 11 September 1898) was the son of Julian and Anna Bella Greenwood, née Driver. Julian was born at Stanbury and Anna at Oakworth, Yorkshire.
1901 Stanbury, Yorkshire Census: Upper Ponden - Ira Greenwood, aged 2 years, born Stanbury, son of Julian and Anna Bella Greenwood.
1911 Stanbury, Yorkshire Census: 46, Stanbury - Ira Greenwood, aged 12 years, born Stanbury, son of Julian and Anna Bella Greenwood.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Ira Greenwood, 44984, Durham Light Infantry.
Ira is commemorated on the Stanbury and Oldfield War Memorial.
Data Source: Craven Herald Article
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Durham Light Infantry
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 23rd Division
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18 January 1918
GREENWOOD – Killed in action in Italy, Pte. Ira Greenwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Greenwood, of Workhouse Farm, Stanbury, aged 19 years.
18 January 1918
CRAVEN AND THE WAR – KILLED IN ACTION IN ITALY
News was received on Friday of the death in action in sunny Italy of Private Ira Greenwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Greenwood, of Workhouse Farm, Stanbury. He is the first in that district to have laid down his life for his fellows in the British Expeditionary Force in Italy. Private Greenwood, who was 19 years old, joined up in February, 1917, and was in training at Hornsea and afterwards at Colchester, being drafted out to France on the 27th October, and from thence to Italy on the 8th November.
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