14114 Corporal Randell Gaskell of "B" Company, 8th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment:

 

He enlisted in the army at Rotherham on the 2 September 1914 and he died of wounds on the 23 September 1915, aged 21 years (actually 20 years). He is buried in Sailly-sur-la-Lys Canadian Cemetery, France.

 

Randell Gaskell was born at Denton in 1895/96 to Edward Gaskell and Eliza Hannah Blackwell who were married at St Paul’s Church, Werneth, in 1893. His mother died at Denton in 1903, aged 28 years, and his father married Elizabeth Hannah Wood at St Anne’s Church, Haughton, Denton, in 1905. In 1911 he was resident with his father and stepmother on Park Lane, Whinney Hill, Thrybergh, Rotherham, Yorkshire, employed as a labourer at a coal mine.

Peter Whitehead