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
Lees, Cross Roads and Bocking war memorial Private. 1/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment. Service no. 1646. also Labour Corps no. 252064. Early life: Sam was born in 1883 and his birth was registered in Keighley in the third quarter of the year. His parents were Ben and Emma Rainford. In 1891 he … Read more
This is one of a series of posts about local men named on the Keighley Union Workhouse roll of honour. John and his brother James Helston were both under the care of the Keighley Guardians under the name Elston although various records show their surname as Helston. This may have been down to poor literacy. … Read more