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Private Smith Clayton

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Private, 15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Service number 47039. Previously West Yorkshire Regiment with the service number 76299. Early life Smith was born in Keighley in 1896, parents William Johnson Clayton, and Elizabeth Ann Clayton née Lindley who had been married in 1890, registered at Keighley in the last quarter of that year. Smith’s birth … Read more

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Corporal George Henry Buckley

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Corporal, D Company, 1/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment. Service number: 1473, later 265061. Early life: George was born on September 17 1893 and baptised 7 years later at St Andrew’s Church, Keighley. His parents were Ramsden (a mechanic), and Emma Buckley and they lived on Hainworth Lane. At the age of 7 … Read more

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