This is a post connected with our work on 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 will explain the reason for adding more names and…
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VAD Sarah Pagdin
Voluntary Aid Detachment page Sarah Pagdin Nursing, First Officer St. John's Ambulance Brigade Sarah Pagdin was the daughter of Edmund Pagdin, an engine tenter from Ackworth near Wakefield, and Elizabeth Pagdin nee Hardaker from Leeds. Sarah's birth, on 10th February 1887, was registered in Ackworth, and she was baptised there at St. Cuthbert's Church on…
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VAD Mary Longsdon
Voluntary Aid Detachment page Mary Longsdon Assistant Nurse, Surgical Nursing Duties Early life: Mary Frances Longsdon was born on 12th March 1896 and baptised on 13th April that year at St. Andrew's Church in Keighley. [caption id="attachment_9303" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Mary's baptism record[/caption] Her parents were Henry Crofts Longsdon, a machine maker originally from Seacroft, and…
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VAD Marie Clad
Voluntary Aid Detachment page Marie Clad Nursing Member, Surgical Nursing Duties Marie Clad was born on 24th April 1893 in Bradford to Alphonso Francis Joseph Clad, a wool merchant who was a British Subject but was originally from Leipzig in Germany and Sarah Albinia Clad nee Bowman, from Tanfield in County Durham. They married in…
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VAD Esther Brown
Voluntary Aid Detachment page Esther Brown Clerk Esther Brown’s birth was registered in the second quarter of 1891 in Keighley, however at the 1891 Census, taken on 5th April, she was one month old. Her parents were John and Sarah Jane/Sarah Anne Brown. Her father was a plasterer labourer. Esther had two brothers, Frank…
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