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Service number 35481 Private James William laws of The 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. [caption id="attachment_9845" align="alignright" width="217"] James William Laws in British Army uniform and wearing the badge of the West Yorkshire Regiment.[/caption] Early life: James was born in 1899, his birth was registered in the Pontefract district in the third quarter of that year.…
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Rail Travel for soldiers during the Great War.
How did soldiers get to Halifax Barracks during the Great War? [caption id="attachment_9774" align="alignleft" width="295"] An ovegrown Ingrow East Railway Station after it's closure in the 1960s.[/caption] The majority of Keighley soldiers joined the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment during the Great War and would have gone to the Duke of Wellington's Regimental barracks…
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New grants and equipment for 2023
We've recently had confirmation of two new grants from local councils to help us continue our work. First up is Bradford Council's Keighley Area Committee, who gave us a small grant of £255 to purchase a H5 Zoom Recorder [caption id="attachment_9654" align="alignnone" width="225"] Our new Zoom H5 Handy Recorder[/caption] We can use this to record…
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Gallipoli letters home
One of the things we come across on occasions are letters sent home by soldiers. We have been lucky in finding several of these printed in the local newspaper. In this case, The Keighley News. Many of them are usually quite short quotes and later on in the war, censorship restricted quite a lot of…
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Craftsman Fred Hobson
Craftsman Fred Hobson, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Royal Artillery. Service Number: 251451 [caption id="attachment_9177" align="alignleft" width="152"] Fred's photograph from the Keighley News[/caption] Fred Hobson was born in Barnsley on 13th August 1920. He was one of ten children and he lived at 11, Birch Grove, Ingrow with his parents William and Annie (née Wood.)…
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Recent Comments by Andy Wade
- 7th January 2024 on Keighley’s Gallant Sons
- 20th December 2023 on Red Cross V.A.D.s
- 20th December 2023 on The Fallen of 1915
- 7th November 2023 on Temple Street
- 4th November 2023 on Lance Corporal Michael Degnan