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07:3007:30, 6 September 2026 diff hist +8‎ m Sergeant Issac Rayner aged 30 ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
07:2807:28, 6 September 2026 diff hist +8‎ m Private Willie Uttley aged 33 ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
07:2707:27, 6 September 2026 diff hist +17‎ m Chaplain Wilfred John Harding aged 31 ‎No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
07:2407:24, 6 September 2026 diff hist +10‎ m Private Sam Binns aged 33 ‎No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
07:2307:23, 6 September 2026 diff hist +8‎ m Private William Noel Ackerley aged 18 ‎No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
07:2207:22, 6 September 2026 diff hist +4‎ m Private Matthew Ackroyd aged 21 ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
07:2207:22, 6 September 2026 diff hist +4‎ m Rifleman Edwin Ackroyd aged 20 ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
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07:1607:16, 6 September 2026 diff hist +1,897‎ N Private Albert Ogden aged 24 ‎ Created page with " === Private Albert Ogden aged 24 In 1911, === Private Albert Ogden lived at 4 North Ive House with his parents Joseph and Mary Ellen Ogden, he had three brothers and one sister. His younger brother Jesse was also a casualty of the war and died in 1919. He was a wool spinner and worked for RT Riley & Sons at Peel House Mills. His parents were still living in the village in 1930’s, the electoral register for 1939 shows them living at 18 Applehouse Terrace with their son..." Tag: Visual edit
07:1507:15, 6 September 2026 diff hist +2,978‎ N Chaplain Wilfred John Harding aged 31 ‎ Created page with " === Chaplain Wilfred John Harding aged 31 === Wilfred Harding was born in Battersea, London on 2nd December 1885 and was educated at St Paul's School, Hammersmith and Christ's College Cambridge. He was Curate at St Mary’s Luddenden from 1912 to 1914 and enlisted with the Royal Army Medical Corps on 17th October 1914. For a short while in the early 1900’s he was based in Luddenden. He married Mary Riley of Luddenden in May 1916. She was the daughter of RT Riley of Th..." Tag: Visual edit
07:1507:15, 6 September 2026 diff hist +1,505‎ N Private Leonard Brooksbank aged 27 ‎ Created page with " === Private Leonard Brooksbank aged 27 === Leonard Brooksbank was born in September 1889 in Ovenden and lived with his widowed mother Grace. By 1901 they had moved to Illingworth along with two Mitchell children (his half brother and sister) including Willie who gave his life in April 1917. In 1911 they were at 1 Bank Bottom (now called Spring Bank, High Street). Aged 21 he was, like Edith and Willie, a Blanket weaver. He joined the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding)..." current Tag: Visual edit
07:1407:14, 6 September 2026 diff hist +2,155‎ N Private Michael Roach aged 25 ‎ Created page with " === Private Michael Roach aged 25 === Michael Roach was born in 1892 in Liverpool. His mother, Ellen had two other sons, John (b.1894) and Francis (b.1901) and 2 daughters Ellen (b.1897) and Jane (b.1899). In the 1911 Census, the family was living in West Derby, Liverpool. Michael was a Private 8974 in the 12th Kings (Liverpool) Regiment. He joined up on 4th April 1915. He was at some point living at 32 Chapel Street with his mother Ellen. He is commemorated on the Camb..." Tag: Visual edit
07:1407:14, 6 September 2026 diff hist +1,837‎ N Private Gladstone Crowther aged 32 ‎ Created page with " === Private Gladstone Crowther aged 32 === Gladstone Crowther was born in 1885 in Boothtown to Annie (born Retford) and Bright Crowther (born Northowram) who was a Clogger. By 1901 they were living in Illingworth and Gladstone (16) was working as a warehouse boy in a woollen mill. In 1911 he was living in Mixenden and was a Blanket Finisher. The next year on 27 May he married Ruth Nattrass. Living at 6 Peel House Gate he signed up in Halifax on 17 November 1916. He was..." current Tag: Visual edit
07:1307:13, 6 September 2026 diff hist +621‎ N Private Rufus Yates aged 20 ‎ Created page with " === 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..." Tag: Visual edit
07:1307:13, 6 September 2026 diff hist +770‎ N Gunner Arthur Wilcock aged 25 ‎ Created page with " === Gunner Arthur Wilcock aged 25 === Arthur Wilcock was born in 1893 and christened at St Mary’s on 9th April of that year. In the 1901 census, he was the youngest of six children of Mark, aged 49 a stonemason and Annie aged 48. They were all living at 28 Duke Street. By 1911, three of the children had moved out and Arthur was working as a joiner. He signed up into the Royal Garrison Artillery in July 1916 and was sent to France in February 1917. In June that year he..." Tag: Visual edit
07:1207:12, 6 September 2026 diff hist +1,595‎ N Private Michael Kennedy aged 36 ‎ Created page with " === Private Michael Kennedy aged 36 === Michael Joseph Kennedy was born in 1879 in Halifax. His parents were James and Ellen Kennedy, both from Ireland. In 1891 the family was living on Garden Street, Northowram, three girls and two boys. Michael went to work for Crossley Carpets shortly after his tenth birthday! By 1911, his mother Ellen is widowed, living at 5 Halifax Lane Fold with son Thomas, two daughters Rosie and Susan and grandson James William. Both Thomas and..." current Tag: Visual edit
07:1207:12, 6 September 2026 diff hist +676‎ N Private Frank Hewitt aged 24 ‎ Created page with " === Private Frank Hewitt aged 24 === Frank Hewitt was born in 1894. The Family lived at 8 Chapel Street, Frank had 5 elder sisters including his twin. In 1911, the family were living at 19 Halifax Lane. Frank had been a grocer’s apprentice for the Coop before he signed up. We have little detail on his time in the Army. We know that he joined the Duke of Wellington Regiment but his war records have not survived. He died at the Casualty Clearing Station after being gass..." current Tag: Visual edit
07:1207:12, 6 September 2026 diff hist +2,150‎ N Private John Edward Roach aged 22 ‎ Created page with " === Private John Edward Roach aged 22 === John Edward Roach was born in Bradford on 27th March 1896. In the 1901 census, Father John, born in Manchester, and Mother Mary Elizabeth, born in Bradford, both aged 27 were living at 4 Paper Hall Square in Bradford. By 1911 he was no longer with his parents, who now had another son Philip (b.1906) and were living at Wilfred St, Bradford. John Edward would have only been 15 years old, so where was he? Well he was at a Roman Cat..." Tag: Visual edit
07:1107:11, 6 September 2026 diff hist +1,679‎ N Private Angus Robinson aged 18 ‎ Created page with " === Private Angus Robinson aged 18. === Angus was born in Hull in 1899 to Angus and Sarah Ann. By 1911 they had moved to 22 Thorney Lane, Midgley. He was then at school and his father was a Wool Comber. His three older siblings were also in Worsted. He also worked for Murgatroyd’s before he was conscripted into the Duke of Wellington’s in August 1917. By April 1917 he had transferred to the 11th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. The battalion diaries report that o..." Tag: Visual edit
07:1107:11, 6 September 2026 diff hist +597‎ N Lance Bombardier John Bolton aged 33 ‎ Created page with " === Lance Bombardier John Bolton aged 33 === John was the son of Thomas Mitchell Bolton and Jane Bolton of Brearley and was born on 1885. By 1911 he was living at Wheatley Royd and working on his father’s farm. In 1913 he married Annie (nee Bloomer), a teacher, of Lane House. When he signed up in 1916 they were living at Lane House, with two small children, and he was earning a living as a market gardener and cattle dealer. His wife later moved to Buttress. He is buri..." current Tag: Visual edit
07:1007:10, 6 September 2026 diff hist +559‎ N Gunner George Broadbent aged 24 ‎ Created page with " === Gunner George Broadbent aged 24 === George was born in Holmfirth. In the 1911Census he was living with his Father Luke and Mother Sarah Jane at 2 Scotland, Midgley. Luke was a delver in a stone quarry, as was their eldest son, John. George was aged 17 and a Woollen Mule Piecer. His service records still exist but his story is best told by an extract from the Hebden Bridge Times. He is buried in Jonchery-Sur-Vesle British Cemetary, Marne, France, and commemorated on..." current Tag: Visual edit
07:1007:10, 6 September 2026 diff hist +885‎ N Private Sam Binns aged 33 ‎ Created page with " === Private Sam Binns aged 33 === Sam was born in July 1884. In the 1891 census, he was at 10 Solomon Hill. In 1901 he was with his father, Charles Patrick, a Plasterer / whitewasher labourer, and mother Sarah Binns, at 2 Old Riding Head. He was working as a Paper Finisher. In March 1904 he was signed up for 6 years army service. He was 5ft 2 ¾ in tall, 34 in chest, with grey eyes and dark brown hair. It seems that somehow he bought himself out within days. In 1907 he..." Tag: Visual edit
07:0907:09, 6 September 2026 diff hist +3,761‎ N Private Clifford Campbell aged 18 ‎ Created page with " === Private Clifford Campbell aged 18 === Clifford Campbell was born on 3rd Sept 1899 in Mirfield. The family relocated shortly after his birth and in the 1901 census the Campbells are living at 7 Duke Street. His mother died in 1906. His father Charles remarried and in the 1911 census, the family are still on Duke Street, Clifford with his 2 brothers Colin and Herbert and a sister Nellie. Clifford worked for R T Riley and Co at Peel House Mills. His father Charles, muc..." current Tag: Visual edit
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07:0407:04, 6 September 2026 diff hist +1,266‎ N Private John Patrick Kelly aged 25 ‎ Created page with " === Private John Patrick Kelly aged 25 === John Kelly was born in Liverpool, son of Joseph and Anne who were from Ireland. He had two sisters and one brother. The family moved to Luddenden in the early 1900’s and in 1911 they were living at 9 Providence Place. His sister who must have been listed as next of kin was living on Delph Hill Lane at the time of John’s death. He signed up for the 4th Battalion Duke of Wellingtons Regiment on 14th August 1914 only a week af..." current Tag: Visual edit
07:0407:04, 6 September 2026 diff hist +951‎ N Private Clarence Hebblethwaite Holt aged 35 ‎ Created page with " === Private Clarence Hebblethwaite Holt aged 35 === Private Clarence Hebblethwaite Holt was born in Leeds in 1883. The family moved around quite a lot, so in 1891 he’s living in Liverpool and by 1901 he’s at 22 Providence Place with his mother and three sisters. He was married at St Mary’s in 1907 to Fanny Smith at which time he was living on Apple house Terrace. In 1911 his mother and his four sisters and two brothers are living on Brook Terrace. The family moved..." current Tag: Visual edit
07:0307:03, 6 September 2026 diff hist +956‎ N Private Thomas Henry Sutcliffe aged 36 ‎ Created page with " === Private Thomas Henry Sutcliffe aged 36 === Thomas Henry Sutcliffe was born 9 September 1881. His mother Mary (nee Thomas) died that same year aged 38. His father Benjamin died in 1884. He was brought up by his grandmother Sarah (or Sally) Thomas and aunt Sarah Thomas who both lived to ripe old ages – Sally to 80 and Sarah to 74 (and never married). In 1891 they lived at Towngate and in 1911 lived at Springfield, with head of household Sarah, Woollen Weaver. Thomas..." Tag: Visual edit
07:0307:03, 6 September 2026 diff hist +952‎ N Private Karl Chapman aged 20 ‎ Created page with " === Private Karl Chapman aged 20 === Karl Chapman was born in 1896. In 1911, Karl lived at 2 Old Lane with his mother Ruth and father Edmund (both in their sixties) and was working (aged 14) as a Worsted Doffer. He was one of 9 children. In 1901 the family was at Halifax Lane Fold and 1881 on Church Hill. Karl attended both St James and Midgley Sunday Schools and had moved to Dove’s Rest, Midgley by 1916. He signed up in Hebden Bridge in January 1916 for the Kings Roy..." current Tag: Visual edit
07:0207:02, 6 September 2026 diff hist +2,659‎ N Lt Richard Bracken Farrer aged 37 ‎ Created page with " === Lt Richard Bracken Farrer aged 37 === Richard Bracken Farrer was born on the 12th April 1880 at “Woodlands”, Midgley, Yorkshire, Richard was the youngest son of Lt Colonel Arthur Farrer and Edith Annie Bracken. Richard had an elder brother, Arthur and two younger sisters, Edith and Hilda. In the 1891 census Richard and brother Arthur are at boarding school in Nottingham, Richard was also a boarder in 1899 at Rossall Boarding School, Lancashire before attending O..." current Tag: Visual edit
07:0207:02, 6 September 2026 diff hist +1,095‎ N Private Charlie Dewhirst aged 22 ‎ Created page with " === Private Charlie Dewhirst aged 22. === Charlie Dewhirst was one of ten children of Henry and Eliza Dewhirst. The family lived at 19 Pall Mall and Sunny Brink in Mytholmroyd before moving to 4 Lane Ends, Midgley where Charlie attended Midgley United Methodist Chapel and Sunday School. Aged 16 in 1911 he worked as a worsted weaver. He enlisted in the army at Hebden Bridge in October 1915 and joined the Yorkshire Dragoons, a territorial unit. He went to France in Decemb..." current Tag: Visual edit
07:0107:01, 6 September 2026 diff hist +1,006‎ N Private Herbert Murgatroyd aged 25 ‎ Created page with " === Private Herbert Murgatroyd aged 25 === Herbert Murgatroyd was a Private in the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own). He has no known grave but is commemorated on the Arras Memorial in France. Before he enlisted in Halifax, Herbert lived with his parents (his father Eli being a Worsted Overlooker) and two sisters, Edith and Liza, at 3 Bethel Terrace and he worked as a clerk at Brookes of Lightcliffe, Stone Merchants. He had attended Luddenden Wesleyan Ch..." current Tag: Visual edit
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06:5806:58, 6 September 2026 diff hist +590‎ N Private Matthew Ackroyd aged 21 ‎ Created page with " === Private Matthew Ackroyd aged 21 === Matthew Ackroyd was born in Barrow in Furness. He worked at Maude’s Clog Factory and lived with his parents at 17 Halifax Lane. His older brother Edwin had lost his life in September 1916. He like fellow villager Tom Summerscales was in the 27th Northumberland Fusiliers (aka Tyneside Irish). He died on the first day of the Battle of Arras. He has no known grave, but is commemorated on the Arras Memorial in France as well as in I..." Tag: Visual edit
06:5806:58, 6 September 2026 diff hist +1,340‎ N Private Harold Greenwood aged 24 ‎ Created page with " === Private Harold Greenwood aged 24 === Harold was the only child of Fred and Mary Greenwood. He was born in Ovenden, but by 1911, the family was in Luddenden living at 5 Ive House. Father Fred (45, a stone bearer), mother Mary (48, woollen weaver) and Harold aged 17 working as a woollen piecer. His Father Fred was in the Pioneer Corps, but was discharged on April 18th 1918, so at the time of Harold’s death, mother Mary would have been on her own with both her men fi..." current Tag: Visual edit
06:5706:57, 6 September 2026 diff hist +813‎ N Gunner John Joseph Corboy aged 27 ‎ Created page with " === Gunner John Joseph Corboy aged 27 === John Joseph Corboy was the son of Maurice and Margaret Corboy, both originally from Ireland, and who by 1911 were living at Solomon Hill with seven children (his brothers James, then aged 32 and a third brother, William aged 16 both also served in the war, but survived). At age 18, in 1904, John was working as a textile labourer at Crossley Carpets at Dean Mill. Sometime later, he left home and enlisted in Halifax and in 1911 he..." current Tag: Visual edit
06:5706:57, 6 September 2026 diff hist +708‎ N Rifleman Edwin Ackroyd aged 20 ‎ Created page with " === Rifleman Edwin Ackroyd aged 20 === Edwin Ackroyd was born in Barrow-in-Furness in 1886. His family moved to Luddenden and in the 1901 census, they are living on Applehouse Terrace. By the time of his enlistment in 1915 was living at 17 Halifax Lane and working at Watson’s Mill in Sowerby Bridge. Following basic training with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps was sent to France. In September 1916, during the terrible chaos of the Battle of the Somme, he was severely w..." Tag: Visual edit
06:5506:55, 6 September 2026 diff hist +1,373‎ N Private Harry Patrick aged 39 ‎ Created page with " === Private Harry Patrick aged 39 === Harry Patrick, the youngest of seven children was christened at Saint Mary’s as Henry Patrick on 21st February 1883 The christening was a job lot alongside his brother Herbert and sister Emma Jane, Harry was born on 22nd October of the previous year. His parents were John and Hannah Patrick. John and John’s father Samuel were joiners and cabinet makers and the Patrick family is living at Pepperhill in the first national census i..." Tag: Visual edit
06:5506:55, 6 September 2026 diff hist +2,032‎ N Pioneer William Ackerley aged 48 ‎ Created page with " === Pioneer William Ackerley aged 48 === William Ackerley was born in Wrenbury in Cheshire around 1872 to William and Betsey. His father was a Cow Keeper. The family, 3 boys and one girl moved to Kirby, Liverpool in the 1880’s where they had a cattle farm. He married Ellen Dugdale in 1895 and the couple, still living in Liverpool, had by 1911 five daughters and three sons. William is working as a carter of mineral water, which I think my generation would describe as a..." current Tag: Visual edit
06:5306:53, 6 September 2026 diff hist +1,040‎ N Private Tom Summerscales aged 25 ‎ Created page with " === Private Tom Summerscales aged 25 === Tom Summerscales worked as a blanket finisher, farm labourer and then as a driver for Greenwoods, cabinet makers in Halifax and had attended Warley Congregational Sunday School, living with his parents and 4 siblings at North Clough Head then Raw End. He married Eliza Jane Broadbent of South Ive House at St Mary’s Church in May 1915 and they had a son, John. Their home was at Lower Stubbings. Like Matthew Ackroyd, he was a Priv..." Tag: Visual edit
06:5206:52, 6 September 2026 diff hist +1,378‎ N Private Willie Mitchell aged 29 ‎ Created page with " === Private Willie Mitchell aged 29 === Willie Mitchell was a Private in the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment and had enlisted in Derby. Like many of those who fought in the Battle of Arras (April to June 1917) he has no known grave, but is commemorated on the Arras Memorial in France. He’s also commemorated on the church window, the St James’s Chapel Roll of Honour and the Working Mens’ Club Roll of Honour (now in the Lord Nelson Inn). Willie was bor..." current Tag: Visual edit
06:5206:52, 6 September 2026 diff hist +1,686‎ N Private John Murgatroyd aged 29 ‎ Created page with " === Private John Murgatroyd aged 29 === John Murgatroyd was a Private in the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment and had enlisted in November 1914, being sent to France in January 1917. Like many of those who fought in the Battle of Arras (April to June 1917) he has no known grave. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial in France. He’s also commemorated on the window inside St Mary’s Church. John started his life with his parents John William (a bootmake..." current Tag: Visual edit
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06:4806:48, 6 September 2026 diff hist +2,027‎ N Private Alfred Holmes aged 30 ‎ Created page with " === Private Alfred Holmes aged 30 === Alfred was born on 11th August 1888 in Ovenden to William and Kezia Holmes. He was the third of 7 children, with brothers John, James and Harry and sisters Margaret, Mary and Eliza Jane. The family moved to Brown Hill Farm on Thorney Lane in the 1880’s and in the 1891 census his father William is listed as a Wool sorter and farmer. In 1911 Alfred is working as a Quarryman having formerly been a worsted doffer. Alfred’s three bro..." current Tag: Visual edit
06:4806:48, 6 September 2026 diff hist +2,164‎ N Private Jesse Ogden aged 22 ‎ Created page with " === Private Jesse Ogden aged 22 === Jesse Ogden was born on 10 May 1896 to Joseph and Mary Ellen Ogden and was christened at St Mary’s on 9 August of that year. He had one elder brother Albert who died at Passchendaele in October 1917 (also commemorated on the war memorial), a younger brother Allan and a sister Rhoda. The family lived a 4 North Ive House and Jesse’s father was a railway signalman. Both Albert and Jesse worked as Woollen piecers. Jesse’s parent wer..." Tag: Visual edit
06:4706:47, 6 September 2026 diff hist +1,393‎ N Gunner John Ogden Horsfield aged 27 ‎ Created page with " === Gunner John Ogden Horsfield aged 27 === John Ogden Horsfield was born in 1892 to Alfred and Elizabeth Hanna Horsfield. He was one of four children, he had an older brother Ernest and two sisters Ruth and Janet. In 1911, the family was living at 19 Goitside, John is a grocer’s assistant, his father Alfred is working at Bracken’s Paper Mill, The two girls are both making clothes and his older brother Ernest is a police Constable in the Lancashire Constabulary work..." current Tag: Visual edit
06:4706:47, 6 September 2026 diff hist +2,417‎ N Sergeant Issac Rayner aged 30 ‎ Created page with " === Sergeant Issac Rayner aged 30 === Isaac Rayner was born on 20 May 1888 to Thomas and Fanny Rayner. He had one younger sister Evelyn. The family lived for many years at Broadfold where his father was the Coachman for the Murgatroyd family. At the age of 13 Issac was working as a worsted spinner but by 1911 like his father, he is working with horses as a groom, for another textile mill owner in Tottington near Bury. His sister Evelyn was married at St Mary’s in July..." Tag: Visual edit

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