Agenda and minutes

Councillor Alexander will move the following motion:

“That, pursuant to its powers under Section 249(1) of the Local Government Act 1972, Council do confer the Freedom of Entry to the City of York upon the following York Normandy Veterans:

Albert Barritt - Private, 2^nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, 3^rd Division

Kenneth Bell – Corporal, 1^st Battalion Black Watch, 51^st Highland Division

William Carter – Private, 2^nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, 3^rd Division

Gordon Collinson – Trooper, 1^st Royal Tank Regiment, 7^th Armoured Division

Kenneth Basil Cooke – Private, 7^th Battalion Green Howards, 50^th Division

Tom Dixon – Able Seaman, HMS Vesper, Royal Navy

Douglas Haw – Lance Corporal, 739 Company, Royal Army Service Corps, 53^rd Welsh Division

Cyril Bernard Haworth – Captain, 69^th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 49^th West Riding Division

Dennis James Haydock – Guardsman, 1^st Battalion Coldstream Guards, 32^nd Guards Brigade

Frank Lodge – Bombadier, 324 Battery 94^th Light Ack Ack Regiment, Guards Armoured Division

George Meredith – 103^rd Field Ambulance, 11^th Armoured Division

Roy Rowbotham – Sergeant, 113 Battery 27^th Light Ack Ack Regiment, 30 Corps

Kenneth William Smith – Private, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, 43^rd Division

George William Witty – Sergeant, 503 Field Company Royal Engineers, 30 Corps

Arthur Wragg – Bombadier, 124^th Light Ack Ack Regiment, 3^rd Canadian Division.”

Councillor Gillies will second the motion.

The motion will be put.

The Lord Mayor declared the object of the meeting, under Section 249 of the Local Government Act 1972, which was to confer the Freedom of the City upon the York Normandy Veterans.

It was then moved by Cllr Alexander and seconded by Cllr Gillies:

“That, pursuant to its powers under Section 279(i) of the Local Government Act 1972, the Council do confer the Freedom of the City of York upon:

Albert Barritt

Kenneth Bell

William Carter

Gordon Collinson

Kenneth Basil Cooke

Tom Dixon

Douglas Haw

Cyril Bernard Haworth

Dennis James Haydock

Frank Lodge

George Meredith

Roy Rowbotham

Kenneth William Smith

George William Witty

Arthur Wragg

in formal recognition of the eminent service that they have rendered to the City.”

The motion was then put to the vote and declared CARRIED unanimously and it was

RESOLVED: that the above notice of motion be approved.¹