This man is a candidate for addition to Keighley's Supplementary Volume under the proposal to add further names in 2024, the centenary of the original roll of honour. Click here to go to the Main page Supported by the National Lottery's Heritage Fund, our project intends to submit about 120 names for peer review to…
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Private William Mather
Private. B Company, 3/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) Service No: 4637. [caption id="attachment_12049" align="alignleft" width="241"] Private William Mather. Bradford Daily Telegraph, 1916.[/caption] Early life: William was born in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire on 25th March 1887 and his birth was registered in Wolstanton in the second quarter of the year. His parents were Henry…
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Thomas Shellabear, first man to die
British Army war diaries. For the infantry, these were written by battalions from each regiment during the Great War. They usually follow a fairly strict format and contain information relevant to the operations of the battalion on each day. However, during the first couple of weeks of the Battle of Mons, the people who would…
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