Category Archives: Research
After displaying our research on the six Canadian airmen of Wellington Bomber BK387 at the Haworth 1940s Weekend of 18th and 19th May 2019, we have decided to add this research to the website here: Tewitt Lane Canadian War Memorial. Despite these men not being from our area, they died here in whilst training for…
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The Slack Lane Baptist Church on Slack Lane, Oakworth has closed in July 2018 after 199 years as a religious chapel. We were contacted to see if we could help with regard to their war memorial which names fourteen men from the Oakworth area who died during the Great War and two men from the…
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We are organising a meeting of interested persons who'd like to get involved with the Project more closely. We know a lot of people have helped over the years and we're extremely grateful for that but we need to step up a gear if we're going to achieve the main aim of the Project which…
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One of the many questions we get is how to access service records. For Great War service records you can access these through Ancestry and Find My past but you have to subscribe to this service although it is usually available for free at most libraries. Bear in mind that Army service records from this…
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