B Company. 2/6th Battalion. Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment. Regimental Number: 265947. Previous Regimental number 3082. Early life: George was the son of Charles Edward Athorn and Caroline Athorn née Jolliff who were married at Holy Trinity parish church of Armley Hall in Leeds on the 11th of June 1877. Charles was a bachelor … Read more
Private. 2/5th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. No: 29806. Early life: Norman was born in 1897, the birth registered in Keighley in the first quarter of the year. Parents John and Betty Powell. In 1901 he was three years old and living at 22, Vale Lane in Haworth with his parents, four sisters and two 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
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