Private, 4th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). Service no. 59030. [caption id="attachment_9069" align="alignleft" width="209"] Photo of Private Fred Frazer from the Keighley News dated 26 Jan 1918[/caption] Early life: Fred was born in Oxenhope on 25th December 1898 and his birth was registered in 1899 in Keighley. He was the son of…
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VAD Atkinson Sisters
Voluntary Aid Detachment page Edith, Mary Emily and Hannah Elisabeth Atkinson Edith – Nursing, St. John Ambulance Brigade Mary Emily – Nursing, St. John Ambulance Brigade Hannah Elizabeth – Nursing, St. John Ambulance Brigade Edith, Mary and Hannah were the three daughters of John Barraclough Atkinson and Mary Ann Atkinson nee Greenwood. They had married…
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VAD Beatrice Pickles
Voluntary Aid Detachment page Beatrice Pickles Surgical Nursing Duties Beatrice Mary was the youngest daughter of John Pickles, a stone merchant of Oxenhope, and Grace Ann Pickles nee Sugden of Keighley. Both were of farming stock in Oxenhope. They married at the Parish Church in Keighley on 23rd January 1877. Their older children were Rhoda…
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VAD Ethel Hey
Voluntary Aid Detachment page Ethel Hey Nurse Ethel was born 27th March 1891 in Oxenhope, Keighley to John Hey and Sarah Elizabeth Hey, nee Clapham. They had married in 1885 and had two older daughters Sarah Hannah and Mabel, and later had three more daughters Eleanor, Marion Ruth and Bertha. In 1891 the family lived…
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VAD Gladys W. Merrall
Voluntary Aid Detachment page Gladys Winifred Merrall General Service Gladys Winifred Merrall was born on 20th October 1886 in Keighley, to Arthur Gardiner Merrall, manager of a worsted mill and Susannah Elizabeth Merrall nee Heaton, who had married in 1884. She had an older brother, Reynold (who seems to have been known as Rennie at…
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