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