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. Tank Corps. Service number 307210. Previously Private. 1st Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Service number 21560. Note: Joseph’s surname in civil records is Philbin, in Army records it is Philburn. Early life: Joseph was born at 6, Mill Lane in Oakworth in 1892 and the birth was registered in the first quarter of … 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
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
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