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    Arthur Aaron
    City of Leeds
    V.C. Holders
    Lawrence Edward Grace Oates
    English Civil War Memorial
    Leeds Roman Catholic Cemetery




    Aberford
    Allerton Bywater - opposite Church Main Street, Station Road
    Armley - Armley Park
    Barwick - by the Maypole
    Beckett Street - in the cemetery
    Beeston
    in the cemetery
    bottom of Dewsbury Road
    Boston Spa - Main Street
    Bramham - by Main Street
    Bramhope
    Calverley - Main Street, near Car Park
    Chapel Allerton -100 yards past old Police Station
    Leeds Parish Church
    Clifford - Main Street near to church
    Collingham - Main Road by Memorial Hall
    East Keswick - Main Street, opposite top bus stop
    Farnley - Chapel Lane/Lawns Lane
    Farsley - bottom end of Main Street
    Gildersome - 100 yards past cemetery on left
    Great Preston - Main Street, opposite Wood Lane
    Guiseley
    St Oswald’s Church
    The Cross, by the stocks on the roundabout
    Harehills - in the cemetery
    Headingley
    outside St Chad’s Church
    outside St Michael’s Church
    Horsforth
    Ring Road, opposite the 11th Earl pub
    Stanhope Drive
    Hunslet
    St Mary’s Church, Church Street
    Hunslet Cemetery
    Kippax and Ledston Luck
    Kirkstall
    Lawnswood
    Ledston Luck - see Kippax
    Masham (Leeds Pals), Masham, North Yorkshire
    Meanwood
    Moor Allerton
    Morley - Scatcherd Park
    Morley - Churwell Hill, halfway up, right hand side near fish shop
    Otley
    Pool Road, near to church
    2 Bondgate
    Ilkley Road, in park by roundabout
    Oulton - near the roundabout between garage and Kwik Save
    Pool - Main Street, opposite the garage
    Pudsey - opposite St Lawrence
    Rawdon - before lights, corner of Micklefield Road
    Robin Hood - 100 yards before half way house, right turn on left
    Rothwell
    near the health centre, back of Morrisons
    past the park at junction at the end of road opposite Abbey House
    Scholes - Main Street, on the sharp bend by library
    Stourton and Thwaite Gate.
    St Peter - Dewsbury Road
    Temple Newsam
    Thorpe Arch - on the green past prison
    Tingley - off Tingley roundabout on the right
    Wetherby - on the bridge as you go into Wetherby, on the right
    Whitkirk - 100 yards past the cemetery on the right
    Yeadon - inside the Town Hall
     
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    Arthur Aaron, D.F.M., V.C.:
    Location
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    Wiki Page.

    CWGC

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    Arthur Aaron, D.F.M., V.C. 1922 - 1943

    "FOR OUR TOMORROW HE GAVE HIS TODAY"

    The V.C. is on display at Leeds City Museum.

    Arthur Aaron is buried in Bone cemetery

    The London Gazette of 5th November, 1943, gives the following details in the citation. On the night of 12th August, 1943, Flight-Sergeant Aaron was captain and pilot of a bomber detailed to attack Turin. When approaching its target, the aircraft was hit by fire from an enemy fighter, which caused it to become unstable and difficult to control. Flight-Sergeant Aaron was wounded in the face and lung, and his right arm was rendered useless. After a rest, he made determined efforts to take control again - persuaded to desist, he wrote instructions with his left hand, and guided the bomb-aimer in the hazardous task of landing the damaged aircraft at Bone in North Africa. Nine hours after landing, he died of exhaustion. In appalling conditions he showed the greatest qualities of courage, determination and leadership, and though wounded and dying, he set an example of devotion to duty which has seldom been equalled and never surpassed.

    The Statue:
    The five-metre bronze sculpture by Graham Ibbeson takes the form of Aaron standing next to a tree, up which are climbing three children progressively representing the passage of time between 1950 and 2000, with the last a girl releasing a dove of peace, all representing the freedom his sacrifice helped ensure.
     

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    Aberford
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    1914 - 1918
    GEORGE GARBUTT
    WILFRED DAVISON
    JOHN DAVISON
    ALFRED BISHOP
    JOSEPH DAVIS
    HENRY CHAPMAN
    GEORGE ACOMB
    WILLIAM HUNTER
    PHILIP HUNTER
    WILLIAM RHODES
    WILLIAM LOCK
    ALBERT WATSON
    ARTHUR REED
    BENJAMIN DICKENON
    JOHN HENRY WILSON
    WILLIAM COCKREM
    RICHARD HEARD
    HUGH HINTON
    MORRISON BLAKEY
    THOMAS CLINTON
    WILLIAM SHEPHERD
    WALTER JAMES FISHER
    WILLIAM JACKSON
    WILFRED WILSON


    1939 - 1945

    JACK BULMER
    Hon. MICHAEL JOHN RANCE DE COURCY
    FRANCIS FREDERICK FAWCETT
    DOUGLAS WILDER GASCOIGNE
    LEONARD HUDSON
    LESLIE RICHARD KEMP
    WALTER LOCK Jnr.
    PHILIP OVEREND SIMPSON
    ARTHUR LESLIE WORSLEY
    FRED SNOW
     
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    Allerton Bywater

    1939-1945

    E. Atkinson
    A. Claybrough
    A. Firth
    W. E. Gill
    D. Goodall
    W. Harding
    R.H Kent
    J. Longley
    A. Merchant
    K. Mennell
    S. Milner
    W. Milner
    J.I Morris
    R. Parkinson
    R. Prince
    H. Smith
    S. Stewardson
    R. Stockdale
    J.E Walker
     
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