6. Sergeant Laurence VC M.M. died on 6th July 1964, Dagenham, Essex. He was cremated at South Essex Crematorium. #WW1 #yorkshireminers

4. He then again single-handedly attacked another machine-gun team and killed the crew. For gallantry in the face of the enemy, he was awarded the Victoria Cross on 15 November, 1918 and also made a Chevalier de l'Ordre de Leopold II of Belgium. #WW1 #yorkshireminers

1. Men from Yorkshire who were miners and went to the battlefields in WW1.
Laurence Calvert son of George Greenwood Calvert and Beatrice Stevenson, was born on 16th February 1892, Hunslet, Leeds. #WW1 #yorkshireminers

3. On 11th January 1916 he was killed in action aged 22. He is buried at Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery Armentieres, France. #WW1 #KOYLI #yorkshireminers

2. He lived with his family at 84 Concrete Road, Wombwell, Yorkshire.
George Dodds enlisted at Wath-on-Dearne and joined the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 9th Battalion. Rank Private. Service No. 15537. #WW1 #KOYLI #yorkshireminers

1. Men who were miners and sent to the battlefield WW1:
George Dodds was born in 1894, Brampton, Yorkshire. He was the son of Richard G and Jane Ann Dodds. In 1911 George’s occupation was a Coalminer Trammer Underground at Cortonwood Colliery aged 17. #WW1 #KOYLI #yorkshireminers

3. On 31st May 1917 Private Charles Exley was killed instantaneously by an Aerial Dart. Charles was part of the Arras Offensive aged 25. He is buried at Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France. #WW1 #yorkshireminers #barnsleycolliery

1. Men who were miners and sent to the battlefield WW1:
Tom Holmes was born in 1895, Gawber, Wath-on-Dearne, Yorkshire. He was the son of Hattil Holmes and Katie Howson.#WW1 #yorkshireminers #cortonwoodcolliery

4. George was killed in action on 7th July 1916, France, aged 29. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. #WW1 #yorkshireminers

3. George William Tabor enlisted on Wath-on-Dearne and joined the York and Lancaster Regiment, Battalion 1/5th (T.F), Rank Private, Service No. 2350. #WW1 #yorkshireminers

2. In 1909 he married Annie Wolsey at Barnsley, Yorkshire. In 1911 aged 24 he was a Coalminer, Trammer below ground at Cortonwood Colliery. He lived with his wife and daughter 49 Littlewood Terrace, Wombwell, Yorkshire. #WW1 #yorkshireminers

1. From Yorkshire miners to the battlefield in WWI:
George William Tabor was born in 1887, Hemingfield, Yorkshire. He was the son of Albert Henry Steven Tabor and Mary Ann Stacey. #WW1 #yorkshireminers

4. He died at 28 Field Ambulance, 26th November 1915 aged 30. He died of wounds he received in action in Ypres. He is buried at Hop Store Cemetery, West Vlaanderen, Belgium. #WW1 #yorkshireminers #yorkshire #history

3. John enlisted on 1st June 1915, occupation Miner, and joined the Seaforth Highlanders 7th Battalion. He served with the Expeditionary Force in France from 23rd September. #WW1 #yorkshireminers #yorkshire #history

2. John Collindridge was born in 1885, Wombwell, Yorkshire. He was the son of John Collindridge and Lavinia Morrison. He married Kathleen Bucktrout on 22nd July 1908, Barnsley, Yorkshire. They had two daughters. #WW1 #yorkshireminers #yorkshire

1. From Yorkshire miners to the battlefield in WWI: Men who worked at Cortonwood Colliery:
Private John Collindridge. No. S/8759. Unit Seaforth Highlanders. #WW1 #yorkshireminers #yorkshire