Voluntary Aid Detachment page Samuel Brooksbank Transport of Wounded From Trains to Hospital Samuel Brooksbank was born on 30th November 1880 and baptised at St. John's Church in Ingrow, Keighley on 22nd April 1883. He was the oldest of eight sons and one daughter of Ramsden Brooksbank, a carter who was originally from Colne in…
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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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