Sergeant, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner. Royal Air Force. Service Number 1128375. Lancaster III. 460 Squadron R.A.F. Binbrook. Bomber Command. Early life: George Edward was born on the 10th of August in 1918 at Fylde in Lancashire. His parents were George Cleverly and Dora Cleverly née Beale. George was a Police Constable. They were married at Fylde … Read more
Private. 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Regimental number 14555645. Early life: Jack’s parents were Summerscales Thornber and Lizzie Thornber née Norcross who had been married at Christchurch, Tintwistle in Cheshire on the 28th of January 1907. In the 1921 census they were living at Marchap Cottage in Silsden and Summerscales was aged 39 and an … Read more
Sergeant Navigator. 463 (R.A.A.F.) Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Service Number: 1624631. Early life: Cecil’s parents were Holmes Sunderland and Annie Sunderland née Hudson, who were married in Keighley, registered in the third quarter of 1911. Cecil was born in 1916 and his birth was registered in the first quarter of the year. In … Read more
Private. 7th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Regimental number 4351236. Early life: Wilfred’s parents were Herbert and Lily Green, who had been married around 1902. He was born on the 3rd of October 1905, registered in Keighley and he was almost certainly born at 19, Barrett Street at Park Wood Bottom. Wilfred was baptised at St. … Read more
Private. 12th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Regimental number: 36702. Previously, Northumberland Fusiliers. Regimental number: 29622. Early life: Arthur’s parents were William Walter Wakefield and Louisa Wakefield née Moody who were married in Brentford, Middlesex in the second quarter of 1881. Arthur was born in 1887 at Highworth in Swindon, Wiltshire, with his birth registered there … Read more
Lees, Cross Roads and Bocking war memorial Private. 2nd Battalion West Riding Regiment. Service number 24499. Previously served with the Yorkshire Regiment, Service number 32461. Early life: Robert and Selina Coates née Feather were married in 1880 and their marriage was registered at Keighley in the second quarter of that year. Their daughter Edith was … Read more
Lees, Cross Roads and Bocking war memorial Private. 1/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment. Service no. 1646. also Labour Corps no. 252064. Early life: Sam was born in 1883 and his birth was registered in Keighley in the third quarter of the year. His parents were Ben and Emma Rainford. In 1891 he … Read more
Local war memorials page Cross Roads gets a new(-ish) war memorial! After six years of searching, finding, badgering and begging, we finally managed to get the Cross Roads Primitive Methodist Sunday School war memorial in it’s new home next to the main Bocking, Cross Roads and Lees war memorial, which is inside the bowling club … Read more