The Fallen of 1917

Here are the names we have researched of those men local to Keighley and the Worth Valley, who died in 1917.

This list of names has been compiled from primary and secondary sources and each man named was either born, lived or worked in Keighley and the villages of the Worth Valley before or during World War One.
We believe that these are the same criteria used to create the original Rolls of Honour, the lists of our fallen which are kept in Keighley Library, and on local village war memorials.
If you know of anyone missing from this list of 1917 'fallen', please let us know.

Joseph Henry Bailey. 27th November.
Mawson Frank Bailey. 5th October.
Joseph James Bell. 23rd June.
George William Bellwood. 12th October.
Charles Bennett. 27th August.
Frederick Ulysses Carr. 10th November.
Nathan Coates. 3rd March.
Thomas Collier. 12th July.
Fred Davis. 8th September.
W. A. G. Dolby. 20th September.
James Garthwaite. 3rd May.
Fred Greenwood. 7th June.
James Harker. 9th October.
Willie Hollindrake. 27th November.
James E. Holmes. 26th November.
James Lynch. 20th November.
Joseph Merry. 31st July.
John Arnold Mitchell. 12th March.
Bertie North 5th August.
John E. Parker. 10th February.
George Peacock. 7th June.
Obadiah Peacock. 6th October.
Robert Peacock. 30th May.
Fred Palace Pickles. 11th December.
Harold Ratcliffe. 9th October.
Arthur Reddihough. 13th May.
Robert E. Scarborough. 12th May.
John Edward Siddle. 7th June.
Arthur Smith. 3rd May.
Jonas Snowden. 10th October.
Alfred Southam. 24th February.
Wright Stanley. 3rd May.
Timothy Todd. 27th April.
Young Waddington. 3rd July.
John Arthur Weller. 31st July.
Charley White. 14th June.
Thomas Whittaker. 15th October.
William H. Wilmot. 21st September.
Harold Wood. 1st June.
Haydn Wood. 13th September.

Eight Stanbury man died in 1917, their names read out on Remembrance Day at Haworth in 2017:

George William Bellwood. 12th October.
Lewis Butterfield. 29th May.
Ira Greenwood. 23rd December.
Jas Edward Heaton. 26th November.
Robert E. Scarborough. 12th May.
Luke Shackleton. 19th October.
George Robert Marmaduke Stanbury Taylor. 30th September. (Ponden Hall)
Thomas Toase. 21st January.

Seventeen Bocking, Cross Roads and Lees men died in 1917, their names read out on Remembrance Day at Cross Roads Park in 2017:

William Ackroyd. 1st May.
Fred Coates. 5th September.
Richard M. Davies. 15th November.
Nelson Dufton. 28th April.
Thomas Garforth. 9th October.
Jonas Gill. 4th July.
Samuel Arnold Gott. 4th April.
William Heaton. 30th August.
Herbert Nicholson. 3rd May.
Tom Nixon. 3rd May.
Norman Preston. 28th April.
Ernest Richmond. 10th October.
Charles Robertshaw. 27th March.
Wright Stanley. 3rd May.
Willie Walsh. 5th December.
George C. F. Wane 22nd September.
Horace Wood. 9th June.

Twenty-six Oakworth men died in 1917, their names read out on Remembrance Day at Oakworth in 2017:

Private John T. Alderson. Wounded and missing, presumed dead, 7th June. Menin Gate Memorial.
Private Clifford Baxandall. Missing presumed dead, 3rd May. Arras Memorial.
Private Ernest Byram. Killed in action, 16th September. Ypres Reservoir Cemetery.
Captain Arthur Norman Cousin. 7th December. Roclincourt Military Cemetery.
Lieutenant Allan Green. Killed by shrapnel, 19th August. St. Nicholas British Cemetery.
Corporal Herbert Heaton. Killed in action, 27th November. Cambrai Memorial.
Private Fred Moore. Died, 10th February. Bray Military Cemetery.
Private Allan Pickles. Died of wounds, 30th September. Canada Farm Cemetery.
Private Norman Powell. Killed in action 5th September. Wieltje Farm Cemetery.
Rifleman William H. Priestley. Shot by a sniper, 19th October. Tyne Cot memorial.
Lance-Corporal William Roe. Killed in action 17th January. Thiepval memorial.
Private Arthur Ryder. Died in hospital 29th March. St Paul's Churchyard, King Cross, Halifax.
Sergeant Arthur Smith. Died of wounds, 7th October. Oxford Road Cemetery.
Second Lieutenant John Paget Sugden. Killed, 8th August. Menin Gate Memorial.
Private Norman Walbank. Killed, 20th September. Tyne Cot Memorial.
Private Luther Wilkinson. Died, 16th March. Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.
Private Fred Coates. Died of wounds, 5th September. Grevillers British Cemetery, France.
Private John Arthur Cole. Killed in action, 20th November. Cambrai Memorial, France.
Private James Bertram Creek. Killed in action 28th August. Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
Private John Dunnett. Killed in action, 18th October. Buried in Potijze Chateau Lawn Cemetery, Belgium.
Private William Robinson Fletcher. Died of wounds, 28th April 1917. Merville Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Private George Hodgetts. Killed in action, 29th June. Arras Memorial, France.
Private William Norman Holt. Killed in action, 7th March. Basra Memorial, Iraq.
Private Fred Nixon. Died of wounds on 20th December. Etaples Military Cemetery, France.
Private Tom Nixon. Killed in action on 3rd May. H.A.C. Cemetery, Ecouste-St. Mein, France.
Private Arthur Percy Wakefield. Missing in action (presumed killed) 3rd May. Arras memorial, France.

Four hundred and sixteen Keighley men died in 1917, their names read out on Remembrance Day at Keighley in 2017: