Private. 2nd Battalion. West Yorkshire Regiment. Regimental number 270021. Early life: Richard’s parents were Henry Lindsay and Martha Hannah Lindsay née Slinger who were married in the parish church at Kildwick when Henry was 26 and Martha was 28. Henry was a Police constable, first appointed on 4th October 1888. He transferred to Keighley on … Read more
Private. 5 Company, 3rd Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment. Service number 19463. Early life George was born in Oxenhope in 1887 with his birth being registered in Keighley in the last quarter of that year. His parents were Frederick and Clara Greenwood and his father was a Joiner. By the 1891 census George … Read more
Private. 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Regiment. Service number 7724. Early life: Fred was born on August 7, 1882 and baptised in 1887, at St Peter’s Church. Parents Frederick and Martha Binns. His father was employed as a moulder and they were living at Calton Street, Keighley at this time. By 1891 they had moved to … Read more