St. Edward The Confessor, Brotherton, and municipal cemetery

The churchyard here has no extant wargraves, but there is a prominent memorial close by. Across the road from the church is a very overgrown area of graveyard, but this again has no wargraves.

A little further up the hill from the church is the municipal cemetery. Here a single war grave can be located.


812793  L/Sjt  Taylor, G.
Royal Artillery
19th October 1945  Age 36

St, Jame's, Fairburn

Fairburn was once a little known hamlet passed by without notice by the many travelers on the A1, but since the rerouting of the A1 some years ago, it is a peaceful quiet village. The church has an information board with local history by the main gate. This board talks of a WW1 soldier killed in an accident near the local pub. Whether this is the same soldier Lazenby listed below is unclear.

Four graves can be seen in this churchyard

13106205 Pte  Rigby, A. W.
Pioneer Corps
20th November 1943  Age 40

1514792  Sgt  Barker, C. D.
W/T Navigator, RAF
7th July  1943  Age 22

999793  A/c 1st Class  Woolley, G.
RAF
7th April 1947

33975  Pte  Lazenby, A.
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
12th September 1916  Age 30