Voluntary Aid Detachment page International Women’s Day Nurse. Voluntary Aid Detachment, St. John Ambulance Brigade. Early life: Annie Powell was born Annie Tate at Uttoxeter on the 12th of February 1886. We know little of her very early life. According to the Red Cross V.A.D. records 25 year old Annie lived at 7 John … Read more
Voluntary Aid Detachment page International Women’s Day Nurse. Voluntary Aid Detachment, St. John Ambulance Brigade. Early life: Born September 22nd 1881 the only child of Thomas and Priscilla Rycroft, Elizabeth Ellen was baptised August 12th 1883 in the Parish of St. John’s, Great Marsden in East Lancashire. Sadly Priscilla died aged 21 before her … Read more
Stanbury and Oldfield Private. 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Service number: 24897. Early life: George was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1894, registered in the second quarter of the year. His parents were William Bellwood, and Annie Bellwood née Missin. William was a traction engine driver and later a farmer. In the 1901 census, George was … Read more
Voluntary Aid Detachment page International Women’s Day Nurse. Voluntary Aid Detachment, St. John Ambulance Brigade Early life: Lily Wildman was born on 17th June 1873 in Bingley, the sixth of eight children to Walter and Elizabeth Wildman. Walter was a wool comber. In 1881 seven year old Lily lived at 2 Crescent Place, Bingley … Read more
This is one of a series of posts about local men named on the Keighley Union Workhouse roll of honour. Arthur’s mother Margaret was in the workhouse in 1911 and we think Arthur spent time there as well, although he does not appear in any census for the workhouse. Private. 1/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s … Read more
Private. Royal Army Medical Corps. Service number 115666. Private Samuel (Harry) Lund Early life: Harry was born on 8th June 1892 at Slippery Ford, Oakworth. His father was Samuel Lund, a sheep farmer and his mother was Sarah Ann Berry who died in 1914. He had an older brother John Thomas and an older sister … Read more
Private. 15th Battalion, Prince of Wales’ Own West Yorkshire Regiment. (1st Battalion, Leeds Pals) Service no. 15/1137. Early life Arthur Binns was born in Oldfield, Oakworth in 1894. Parents Walter Atkinson Binns and Sarah Binns née Jones. In 1901 he was seven and living at 4, Oldfield which is close to the school, with his … Read more
Private. 15th Battalion, Prince of Wales’ Own West Yorkshire Regiment. (1st Battalion, Leeds Pals). Service no. 1138. Later served with 9th Battalion, Princess Victoria’s Royal Irish Fusiliers, Service no. 40054. Early life: Thomas was born in Oakworth on June 14, 1895, his birth was registered in Keighley in the third quarter of the year. His … Read more
Corporal. 268th Siege Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery. No. 88518. Early life: Alfred was born in early 1880 and registered at Knaresborough. Mother Sarah Denison who was a housemaid/servant. He was baptised at St Robert’s church, Pannal on June 13 of the same year. He was 1 year old in 1881 and living at 3, Burn … Read more
Voluntary Aid Detachment page International Women’s Day YMCA Volunteer. Served overseas. Early life: Margaret was born on March 11, 1869 and her birth was registered in Keighley by her parents Joseph and Margaret Ann Scaife née Carr. Her father Joseph was a heald and reed maker. She was baptised Margaret Ann Scaife at St … Read more