After six years of searching, finding, badgering and begging, we finally managed to get the Cross Roads Primitive Methodist Sunday School war memorial in it's new home next to the main Bocking, Cross Roads and Lees war memorial, which is inside the bowling club in their park. Men of Worth Director Ian Walkden left no…
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Recognising Gunner Gilbert Hardy Midgley: drowned 24th March 1916
There is a relatively simple process of supplying information to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to see if a man can be included to their Perpetual Roll of Honour for the war dead, if you feel they should be. You do have to prove the case of course and there has to be written proof…
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Private Ivor Tempest Greenwood’s new headstone
Private Ivor Tempest Greenwood [caption id="attachment_3349" align="alignleft" width="240"] Private Ivor Tempest Greenwood.[/caption] In 2012, Men of Worth Project Director Ian Walkden submitted Ivor Tempest Greenwood's name to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for consideration. Ivor died of pneumonia in hospital just three weeks after joining the army. This was documented in Keighley News reports at…
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Canadian airmen who died at Oakworth
Apart from our usual research into local men, I've been looking into the six Canadians who died on 2nd January 1944, when their Wellington Bomber crashed into the hillside at Tewitt Hall Wood near Oakworth. I first researched these men for Oakworth Village Society and came up against a bit of a brick wall because…
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