Peter Yaros
He was a tailor.
- Family History
- Military history
- Extra information
- Photographs
Peter Yaros was born in Poland in about 1877.
He married Catherine (Kate) Pike (b. 1888, Nottingham) in 1908 and they had four children, one of whom died in infancy: Peter Joseph (b. 1909), William Clifford (b. 1911), Eve (b. 1912, d. 1912) and Catherine Hilda (b. 1914).
Peter, a tailor (at home), Kate and their sons Peter and one month old Stanley (sic. registered 'William Clifford'), were living at 19 Matlock Street, Nottingham, in 1911. Also in the household on the night of the census was Kate's niece, Norah Pike (12).
At the time of Peter's death in 1918 the family was living at 4 Shakespeare Villas, Shakespeare Street.
Kate married Horace Young (b. 1861) in 1919 (OND Nottingham). Kate and her three children were living at 12 Rushcliffe Rise, Sherwood, at the time of the 1921 Census. Her daughter, Dorothea Young (later Hunter) was born in September the same year.
Horace has not yet been traced on the 1921 Census, but in 1939 when the England & Wales Register was compiled, he, Kate and their daughter Dorothea, a clerk (cycle factory), were living at 10 Dryden Street, Nottingham. Horace's occupation was given as 'traveller (Kelly's Directory)'.
Catherine Hilda, a typist (druggist) was sharing a house at 16 Vickers Street, Nottingham, with three single women, who were also office workers, in 1939. Catherine married Herbert S Wass in 1940. Peter Joseph has not yet been traced after 1921 apart from attestation records for the Royal Tank Corps in January 1927 (7878981) and Royal Artillery in 1938 (1479952), probably as a reservist in each case, and a registration of his death in April 1964. William Clifford emigrated to Canada in 1927 and served with the Canadian Armed Forces in the war. He died in 1978 (see 'Extra information').
Private Peter Yaros served with the 38th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. (CWGC, Royal Fusiliers, Depot).
He died at Salisbury Road Military Hospital, Plymouth, of double pneumonia on 24 January 1918 and was buried in Nottingham General Cemetery (grave ref. 4372).
Nottingham Evening Post, 'Roll of Honour', 25 January 1918: 'Yaros. On the 24th inst., in Military Hospital, Peter, the dearly loved husband of Kate Yaros, of 4 Shakespeare-villas, Nottingham. Deeply mourned.' Courtesy Jim Grundy facebook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918
Peter's widow was awarded a pension of 29 shillings and 7 pence a week for herself and her three children, first payment 29 July 1918.
Peter's second son, William Clifford, died at the Great War Memorial Hospital, Perth, Canada, on 18 November 1978 and was buried in St John's Parish Cemetery, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario. Newspaper report (extract): he was the husband of Verna Fournier and 'survived also by a sister [half-sister] Dorothea Austen and several nieces and nephews in England. Prececeased by his parents, a brother Peter and sister Hilda [Catherine Hilda]. Born in Nottingham, England, on February 23, 1911, he emigrated to Canada in 1927, settling in the Jasper Area and moved to Perth in 1968. He enlisted in the Armed Forces in 1941 with the Princess Louise Dragoon Guard and served in Italy, Sicily, Africa and the Netherlands.’ The funeral, with Requiem Mass, was held at St John’s Catholic Church on 21 November.
Peter Yaros
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone marking his grave in Nottingham General Cemetery. - courtesy of Peter Gillings