Private Rufus Yates aged 20

Rufus Yates lived at Paradise, Midgley in both the 1901 and 1911census, with his parents Harry, a Woollen Weftman and Grace and older brother Fred, a Woollen Spinner. He was aged 13 and a Presser for Ready Made Clothing. He later became a Railway Clerk at Eastwood station. He was shot in the head by a sniper and is buried in the Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich, Nord, France, where his headstone bears the inscription “In God’s Keeping He is safe”.

He’s also commemorated on the St James Roll of Honour. His story is best told from the Hebden Bridge Times: Go Back to World One Project