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Derrick Francis Childe

Rank & Name	Second Lieutenant Derrick Francis Childe
Unit	1st/5th Bn., York and Lancaster Regiment
How & When Died	Killed in Action, 19 December 1915
Age, if known	19 years
Next of Kin details	Son of H.S. and Kate Childe, of Potterton Hall, Barwick in Elmet, Leeds.
Commemoration Details	Buried in Bard Cottage Cemetery, Belgium. Plot I, Row I, Grave 12.
Other Information / Remarks	Derrick Childe was commissioned into the York and Lancaster Regiment on 26 March 1915, the notification being made in the London Gazette dated 18 May 1915. Henry Childe was a mining engineer who was obviously in a senior position and paid well. In the Childe household at the time of the 1901 census there was the family of Henry and Kate Childe with their only child, Derrick. A visitor, one Edith Brook was also in the house. Lastly, and possibly the best indicator of the family's wealth was the presence of four servants. One was a cook, two were housemaids and the fourth was a governess (school), presumably to educate the four years old Derrick. At this time the family was living at Holingarth, Blenheim Road, Normanton. Henry Childe was the chairman of the War Memorial Committee in Barwick after the Great War. His wife Kate unvieled Barwick War Memorial when it was dedicated in 1920. She and her husband also placed a plaque to their son's memory in All Saints Church, Barwick.
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