This man was a candidate for addition to Keighley’s Supplementary Volume under the proposal to add further names in 2024, the centenary of the original roll of honour. Click here to go to our main Heritage page Supported by the National Lottery’s Heritage Fund, our project submitted 103 names for peer review to add them … Read more
Private, 4th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own). Service no. 59030. Early life: Fred was born in Oxenhope on 25th December 1898 and his birth was registered in 1899 in Keighley. He was the son of Bertram George and Ada Frazer. In 1901 the family were living at Uppertown in Oxenhope and his … 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