Lance Corporal. 1/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment. No. 265502. Previous number 1361, with the 6th West Riding Territorials at Keighley. Early life: Arthur’s parents were James Henry Bamforth and Sarah Elizabeth Bamforth née Harrison who were married at St. Peter’s Church in Leeds on the 30th June 1889. James was aged 22 … Read more
VAD Jean Campbell Red Cross, St John Ambulance Brigade and Royal Army Medical Corps badges Surgical Nursing Duties Early life: Jean Sinclair Campbell was the youngest of four daughters of Henry Johnstone Campbell and Mary Campbell nee Sonnenschein, both of London. Mary’s father was from Moravia in what was then Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic) … Read more
VAD Clarice Wilcock Red Cross, St John Ambulance Brigade and Royal Army Medical Corps badges Surgical Nursing Duties Early life: Clarice Wilcock was born in Tanshelf, Pontefract on 23rd February 1895 to Thomas Henry and Jane Wilcock. She was baptised at St. Giles’ Church in Pontefract. Thomas was a grocer with his own business … 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
Emily Wilson Voluntary Aid Detachment: Nursing, Member St. John’s Ambulance Brigade Early life: Emily Wilson was born on 4th November 1876 to parents Joseph and Martha Wilson née Barton. Joseph was a plasterer, originally from Dolphinholme in Lancashire, Martha was from Liverpool. They had married in Preston in 1866, when Mary already had a son … Read more
Voluntary Aid Detachment page International Women’s Day Nurse. Voluntary Aid Detachment, St. John Ambulance Brigade. Early life: Annie Powell was born Annie Tate at Uttoxeter on the 12th of February 1886. We know little of her very early life. According to the Red Cross V.A.D. records 25 year old Annie lived at 7 John … Read more
Voluntary Aid Detachment page International Women’s Day Nurse. Voluntary Aid Detachment, St. John Ambulance Brigade. Early life: Born September 22nd 1881 the only child of Thomas and Priscilla Rycroft, Elizabeth Ellen was baptised August 12th 1883 in the Parish of St. John’s, Great Marsden in East Lancashire. Sadly Priscilla died aged 21 before her … Read more
Voluntary Aid Detachment page International Women’s Day Nursing Sister, St John Ambulance Brigade. Voluntary Aid Detachment. Early life: Susan was born Susan Wells Morfett in Cambridgeshire in 1856. Little is known of her early life, but we know she married Tom Hare Creek of Oakworth in 1875. The banns were read out here at … Read more
Voluntary Aid Detachment page International Women’s Day Nurse, Voluntary Aid Detachment, St. John Ambulance Brigade. Early life: Isabella was born on the 17th of January 1886 and her birth was registered in the first quarter of the year in Keighley. Her parents were Richard and Martha Ellen Waller. She was baptised on the 6th … Read more