Son of Emil and Lilian Agerskow, of 153, Norwood, Beverley, Yorks.
AGERSKOW Emil Sergt 2512 - 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (Hull T.A) 150th Brigade 50th Division The Battalion spent a miserable time in waterlogged trenches and frozen mud , shell fire was constant around the area of Flers. Posted wounded Snapper June 1915 - Killed in Action 9/11/1916 aged 24 years Code Venners Minde ; Born South Newington Hull enlisted Hull abode Beverley Buried Warlencourt British Cemetery Pas de Calais grave VII.F.41, France; Son of Emil (Market Gardener – Trawler man/Skipper born Denmark naturalized Englishman 1895) & Lillian Agerskow Married 14/6/1887 Hull, of 153 Norwood Beverley late of Chomley Street Hull formerly c.1901 at 325 Boulevard Hull, the 3rd son of 6 children he was born in South Newington 5/11/1892 enlisted in Hull formerly employed with Messrs. Briton & Co. of Queen Street Hull. His brother Yens Christian Walter Agerskow (b.1888) served as A.B. in the Royal Navy lost at sea 31/8/1928 aged 39 years; Soren Gustav (b.2/12/1891) Sergt 1/4th EYR. Charles (b.1894) Merchant Navy, Christian (b.23/11/1896 died same year) Arthur (b. Sept. 1898) Kate Lilian (b.18/1/1900), His name appears on the War Memorial Hengate Beverley also all are Norwood Roll of Honour Norwood Beverley also St. Mary’s Church Roll of Honour Hengate Beverley. - Family grave Old Queensgate Cemetery Beverley; kerb stones only; In Memory of Emil Agerskow Husband of Lillian d.11/7/1921 aged 67 years also Lillian wife of the above d.21/2/1921 aged 63 years also Walter son of the above Lost at Sea 31/8/1929 aged 39 years also Sergt. Emil Agerskow 1/4th East Yorkshire Regiment Killed in Action in France 9/11/1916; Warlencourt, the Butte de Warlencourt and Eaucourt-L'Abbaye were the scene of very fierce fighting in 1916. Eaucourt was taken by the 47th (London) Division early in October. The Butte (a Roman mound of excavated chalk, about 17 metres high, once covered with pines) was attacked by that and other divisions, but it was not relinquished by the Germans until the following 26 February, when they withdrew to the Hindenburg. Line. The 51st (Highland) Division fought a delaying action here on 25 March 1918 during the great German advance, and the 42nd East Lancs Division recaptured the ground on 25 August 1918. The cemetery was made late in 1919 when graves were brought in from small cemeteries and the battlefields of Warlencourt and Le Sars. The largest burial ground moved into this cemetery was:-Hexham Road Cemetery, Le Sars, on the West side of the Abbey grounds. (Hexham Road was the name given to the road leading from Warlencourt to Eaucourt. Le Sars was captured by the 23rd Division on 7 October 1916, and again by the Third Army on 25 August 1918.) This cemetery was used from November 1916 to October 1917, and contained the graves of 17 soldiers from the United Kingdom and 13 from Australia. The cemetery now contains 3,505 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 1,823 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 55 casualties known or believed to be Emil with his mother and brother Walter buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 15 casualties buried in Hexham Road Cemetery, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.
AGERSKOW Emil Sergt 2512 - 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (Hull T.A) 150th Brigade 50th Division The Battalion spent a miserable time in waterlogged trenches and frozen mud , shell fire was constant around the area of Flers. Posted wounded Snapper June 1915 - Killed in Action 9/11/1916 aged 24 years Code Venners Minde ; Born South Newington Hull enlisted Hull abode Beverley Buried Warlencourt British Cemetery Pas de Calais grave VII.F.41, France; Son of Emil (Market Gardener – Trawler man/Skipper born Denmark naturalized Englishman 1895) & Lillian Agerskow Married 14/6/1887 Hull, of 153 Norwood Beverley late of Chomley Street Hull formerly c.1901 at 325 Boulevard Hull, the 3rd son of 6 children he was born in South Newington 5/11/1892 enlisted in Hull formerly employed with Messrs. Briton & Co. of Queen Street Hull. His brother Yens Christian Walter Agerskow (b.1888) served as A.B. in the Royal Navy lost at sea 31/8/1928 aged 39 years; Soren Gustav (b.2/12/1891) Sergt 1/4th EYR. Charles (b.1894) Merchant Navy, Christian (b.23/11/1896 died same year) Arthur (b. Sept. 1898) Kate Lilian (b.18/1/1900), His name appears on the War Memorial Hengate Beverley also all are Norwood Roll of Honour Norwood Beverley also St. Mary’s Church Roll of Honour Hengate Beverley. - Family grave Old Queensgate Cemetery Beverley; kerb stones only; In Memory of Emil Agerskow Husband of Lillian d.11/7/1921 aged 67 years also Lillian wife of the above d.21/2/1921 aged 63 years also Walter son of the above Lost at Sea 31/8/1929 aged 39 years also Sergt. Emil Agerskow 1/4th East Yorkshire Regiment Killed in Action in France 9/11/1916; Warlencourt, the Butte de Warlencourt and Eaucourt-L'Abbaye were the scene of very fierce fighting in 1916. Eaucourt was taken by the 47th (London) Division early in October. The Butte (a Roman mound of excavated chalk, about 17 metres high, once covered with pines) was attacked by that and other divisions, but it was not relinquished by the Germans until the following 26 February, when they withdrew to the Hindenburg. Line. The 51st (Highland) Division fought a delaying action here on 25 March 1918 during the great German advance, and the 42nd East Lancs Division recaptured the ground on 25 August 1918. The cemetery was made late in 1919 when graves were brought in from small cemeteries and the battlefields of Warlencourt and Le Sars. The largest burial ground moved into this cemetery was:-Hexham Road Cemetery, Le Sars, on the West side of the Abbey grounds. (Hexham Road was the name given to the road leading from Warlencourt to Eaucourt. Le Sars was captured by the 23rd Division on 7 October 1916, and again by the Third Army on 25 August 1918.) This cemetery was used from November 1916 to October 1917, and contained the graves of 17 soldiers from the United Kingdom and 13 from Australia. The cemetery now contains 3,505 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 1,823 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 55 casualties known or believed to be Emil with his mother and brother Walter buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 15 casualties buried in Hexham Road Cemetery, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.
Son of Emil and Lilian Agerskow, of 153, Norwood, Beverley, Yorks.
AGERSKOW Emil Sergt 2512 - 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (Hull T.A) 150th Brigade 50th Division The Battalion spent a miserable time in waterlogged trenches and frozen mud , shell fire was constant around the area of Flers. Posted wounded Snapper June 1915 - Killed in Action 9/11/1916 aged 24 years Code Venners Minde ; Born South Newington Hull enlisted Hull abode Beverley Buried Warlencourt British Cemetery Pas de Calais grave VII.F.41, France; Son of Emil (Market Gardener – Trawler man/Skipper born Denmark naturalized Englishman 1895) & Lillian Agerskow Married 14/6/1887 Hull, of 153 Norwood Beverley late of Chomley Street Hull formerly c.1901 at 325 Boulevard Hull, the 3rd son of 6 children he was born in South Newington 5/11/1892 enlisted in Hull formerly employed with Messrs. Briton & Co. of Queen Street Hull. His brother Yens Christian Walter Agerskow (b.1888) served as A.B. in the Royal Navy lost at sea 31/8/1928 aged 39 years; Soren Gustav (b.2/12/1891) Sergt 1/4th EYR. Charles (b.1894) Merchant Navy, Christian (b.23/11/1896 died same year) Arthur (b. Sept. 1898) Kate Lilian (b.18/1/1900), His name appears on the War Memorial Hengate Beverley also all are Norwood Roll of Honour Norwood Beverley also St. Mary’s Church Roll of Honour Hengate Beverley. - Family grave Old Queensgate Cemetery Beverley; kerb stones only; In Memory of Emil Agerskow Husband of Lillian d.11/7/1921 aged 67 years also Lillian wife of the above d.21/2/1921 aged 63 years also Walter son of the above Lost at Sea 31/8/1929 aged 39 years also Sergt. Emil Agerskow 1/4th East Yorkshire Regiment Killed in Action in France 9/11/1916; Warlencourt, the Butte de Warlencourt and Eaucourt-L'Abbaye were the scene of very fierce fighting in 1916. Eaucourt was taken by the 47th (London) Division early in October. The Butte (a Roman mound of excavated chalk, about 17 metres high, once covered with pines) was attacked by that and other divisions, but it was not relinquished by the Germans until the following 26 February, when they withdrew to the Hindenburg. Line. The 51st (Highland) Division fought a delaying action here on 25 March 1918 during the great German advance, and the 42nd East Lancs Division recaptured the ground on 25 August 1918. The cemetery was made late in 1919 when graves were brought in from small cemeteries and the battlefields of Warlencourt and Le Sars. The largest burial ground moved into this cemetery was:-Hexham Road Cemetery, Le Sars, on the West side of the Abbey grounds. (Hexham Road was the name given to the road leading from Warlencourt to Eaucourt. Le Sars was captured by the 23rd Division on 7 October 1916, and again by the Third Army on 25 August 1918.) This cemetery was used from November 1916 to October 1917, and contained the graves of 17 soldiers from the United Kingdom and 13 from Australia. The cemetery now contains 3,505 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 1,823 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 55 casualties known or believed to be Emil with his mother and brother Walter buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 15 casualties buried in Hexham Road Cemetery, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.
AGERSKOW Emil Sergt 2512 - 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (Hull T.A) 150th Brigade 50th Division The Battalion spent a miserable time in waterlogged trenches and frozen mud , shell fire was constant around the area of Flers. Posted wounded Snapper June 1915 - Killed in Action 9/11/1916 aged 24 years Code Venners Minde ; Born South Newington Hull enlisted Hull abode Beverley Buried Warlencourt British Cemetery Pas de Calais grave VII.F.41, France; Son of Emil (Market Gardener – Trawler man/Skipper born Denmark naturalized Englishman 1895) & Lillian Agerskow Married 14/6/1887 Hull, of 153 Norwood Beverley late of Chomley Street Hull formerly c.1901 at 325 Boulevard Hull, the 3rd son of 6 children he was born in South Newington 5/11/1892 enlisted in Hull formerly employed with Messrs. Briton & Co. of Queen Street Hull. His brother Yens Christian Walter Agerskow (b.1888) served as A.B. in the Royal Navy lost at sea 31/8/1928 aged 39 years; Soren Gustav (b.2/12/1891) Sergt 1/4th EYR. Charles (b.1894) Merchant Navy, Christian (b.23/11/1896 died same year) Arthur (b. Sept. 1898) Kate Lilian (b.18/1/1900), His name appears on the War Memorial Hengate Beverley also all are Norwood Roll of Honour Norwood Beverley also St. Mary’s Church Roll of Honour Hengate Beverley. - Family grave Old Queensgate Cemetery Beverley; kerb stones only; In Memory of Emil Agerskow Husband of Lillian d.11/7/1921 aged 67 years also Lillian wife of the above d.21/2/1921 aged 63 years also Walter son of the above Lost at Sea 31/8/1929 aged 39 years also Sergt. Emil Agerskow 1/4th East Yorkshire Regiment Killed in Action in France 9/11/1916; Warlencourt, the Butte de Warlencourt and Eaucourt-L'Abbaye were the scene of very fierce fighting in 1916. Eaucourt was taken by the 47th (London) Division early in October. The Butte (a Roman mound of excavated chalk, about 17 metres high, once covered with pines) was attacked by that and other divisions, but it was not relinquished by the Germans until the following 26 February, when they withdrew to the Hindenburg. Line. The 51st (Highland) Division fought a delaying action here on 25 March 1918 during the great German advance, and the 42nd East Lancs Division recaptured the ground on 25 August 1918. The cemetery was made late in 1919 when graves were brought in from small cemeteries and the battlefields of Warlencourt and Le Sars. The largest burial ground moved into this cemetery was:-Hexham Road Cemetery, Le Sars, on the West side of the Abbey grounds. (Hexham Road was the name given to the road leading from Warlencourt to Eaucourt. Le Sars was captured by the 23rd Division on 7 October 1916, and again by the Third Army on 25 August 1918.) This cemetery was used from November 1916 to October 1917, and contained the graves of 17 soldiers from the United Kingdom and 13 from Australia. The cemetery now contains 3,505 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 1,823 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 55 casualties known or believed to be Emil with his mother and brother Walter buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 15 casualties buried in Hexham Road Cemetery, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.
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Serjeant, East Yorkshire Regiment. Age: 24.
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