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Driver James William Orton

Our main D-Day 80 page Driver. Royal Army Service Corps. 398 (Airborne) Composite Company. No. T/4623236. [caption id="attachment_12302" align="alignleft" width="202"] Driver James William Orton[/caption] Early life: James William Orton was born on 10th April 1912 in Middlesborough, to James William Orton and Elizabeth Orton nee Waterfield who had married the previous year. They do not…

5th June 2024

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Commemoration, D-Day 80, Keighley

6th Airborne Composite Company, D-Day, Driver James William Orton, RASC

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Why ‘Men’ of Worth?
When we started researching in 2001, we found only names of men on local memorials and as we felt their sacrifice had ‘worth’ and most of them lived around the river Worth we felt the name was apt. Also, Keighley’s motto is ‘By Worth’, which fits rather neatly with our name. We have since expanded our research to include everyone from Keighley and the Worth Valley who served in wartime and are currently focussing on women in the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment who were mostly nurses.
We are also researching conscientious objectors from the area.
Our Project researches local people from Keighley and the Worth Valley who served the country in wartime. Our earliest records are of soldiers who fought before the Battle of Waterloo!
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