Private Arthur Hill, 1st Battalion Scots Guards. Service number 6762. Arthur was born on 16th October 1887, his birth being registered at Keighley in the third quarter of the year. His parents were Henry and Mary Hill. Father Henry was a striker (for a blacksmith). In 1891 Arthur was three years old and living with…
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James Birdsall
Private James Birdsall. 2nd Battalion, Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment. Service number 10541. Later 4601783. James was born on 24th February 1894, the youngest of William and Isabella Birdsall’s four children. His birth was registered at Keighley in the first quarter of that year. In 1901 he was six years old and living at…
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Keighley’s Old Contemptibles Association
We recently added a new page to the digital archive section, it concerns the men of the early British Expeditionary Force from the Great War, who became the 'Old Contemptibles' These men joined the Keighley Branch of the Old Contemptibles' Association in the late 1930s and we have a list of members on this page:…
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Captain Baker
Private Captain Baker, 1st Battalion, Prince of Wales' Own West Yorkshire Regiment. Service no. 7100. Later served as a driver with the Army Service Corps, no. 50718 and later, 288601. [caption id="attachment_5032" align="alignnone" width="194"] Private Captain Baker.[/caption] Captain Baker was born in Barnard Castle on December 22nd, 1884, the fourth child of Edward and Emma…
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