10th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment.) Regimental number 13553. Early life William was born in Keighley during the second quarter of 1885. His parents were John Ackroyd and Mary Ann Ackroyd née King. They were married at St. Andrew’s Church on the 18th of May 1872. John was 19 and a mechanic living … Read more
Private. 10th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment. Regimental number 60058. Previously 8th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment. Regimental number 13242. Early life: William’s parents were Tempest Wigglesworth and Sarah Jane Wigglesworth née Wigglesworth, who were married at St John’s Church, Ingrow on the 16th of May 1896 They were both aged … Read more
Private. 10th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment. Regimental number 18103. Early life: John was born on 31st May 1894 at Oakworth. His parents were Harry Hodgson and Mary Alice Hodgson, née Smith. They had been married in Keighley in the third quarter of 1893. In the 1901 census they were living at Cure … Read more
Private. 10th Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Regimental number 37568. Previously, 1/5th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment. Regimental number 6081. Early life: Thomas’s parents were Ralph Robinson and Mary Emma Robinson née Elliott, who were married at the Primitive Methodist Chapel at Lane Ends in Oakworth on the 27th of February 1892. … Read more
Private, 10th Bn. West Yorkshire Regt. (Prince of Wales’s Own) Service No: 64176. Early life: Binns was born in Oakworth in 1886, registered in Keighley in the second quarter of the year. Parents Benjamin and Alice Wilkinson. In 1891 he was five years old and living at Lower Laithe Farm with his parents, three brothers … Read more
Stanbury and Oldfield Private. 10th Bn. Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment. Service No: 19278. Arthur was born at Driffield in 1894, registered there in the third quarter of the year. Parents George and Mary Elizabeth Julian. His father was the railway station master. In 1901 he was six years old and living with his … Read more