Private. Y Company, 8th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment. Regimental number 11892. Early life: James’s parents were James McParland and Mary McParland née Sheridan who were married at a Roman Catholic Church at Halifax on 10th July 1891. James was born at Wigan in 1895 and his birth was registered there in the … Read more
Private. ‘C’ Company, 1st/7th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment. Service number 307737. Early life: James was born in 1890, registered at Keighley in the third quarter of the year. Parents Wilson and Ruth Whitaker. In the 1891 census he was six months of age and living at 134, Lidget in Oakworth with his … Read more
Private, 271 Company, Machine Gun Corps. Service number 86221. Early life: Arthur was born in Oakworth on May 2, 1891 and baptised at Christ Church on June 14 the same year. His parents were James and Betty Brown and they lived at Goodley, just across the road from the church. James was a cloth dresser. … 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