Craven's Part in the Great War

This volume of “Craven’s Part in the Great War” is a humble but sincere expression on the part of Mr. Walter Morrison, of Malham Tarn, of the gallant, heroic and self-sacrificing spirit shown by the sons of Craven in resisting the unscrupulous, malignant and prearranged design of Germany and her dupes to crush the British Empire and the civilised countries associated with her. Mr. Morrison’s anxiety to commemorate the part that Craven has played in the Great War, and to perpetuate the memory of those who have fallen or been otherwise stricken, found its solution in October, 1916, when, at a meeting at Mr. Morrison’s “mountain home” on Malham Moor, a board of trustees to see to the carrying out of the work was formed, consisting of Mr. Morrison (who has generously defrayed the entire cost), Col. John Birkbeck, J.P., Settle, and Mr. Thomas Brayshaw, J.P., solicitor, Settle. The task, which has entailed three years’ hard work in compiling what may, without egotism, be termed a unique record, was entrusted to Mr. John T. Clayton, editor of the “Craven Herald,” who has had the valued assistance of Mr. Brayshaw and his extensive local knowledge of the Craven district.

Everything that assiduous care and attention to detail could suggest has been done to make the record complete so far as the Skipton Parliamentary Division is concerned, and we are confident that the volume will be treasured as an honoured heirloom in every family whose representative has done his share in freeing our beloved Empire from the slavery of German hatred and military aggression.

J. T. C.

Skipton, October, 1919.

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Few people in these Islands knew in the early part of the summer of 1914 that Europe was on the verge of the greatest war in history. The few men who had foresight and courage enough to warn us of the German menace were ridiculed, and when the Archduke Franz Ferdinand (nephew and heir to the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria) and his wife were assassinated at Sarajevo, it was not realized that we had reached the opening stages of a long-drawn-out tragedy which would see Europe converted into a vast battlefield and cast a shadow over the whole world.

Austria, at the instigation of Germany, made the Sarajevo occurrence the pretext for beginning a war they had already planned and organized. Serbia was to be made a scapegoat, and Germany was to take advantage of the international situation thus created to launch her schemes for empire development. There was a month’s delay, probably to allow Germany to complete her preparations. On July 25th, Austria sent a note to Serbia charging her with complicity in the Sarajevo crime, demanding the suppression of all Serbian propaganda in the Dual Monarchy, and insisting that an investigation into the assassinations should be conducted on Serbian soil with the assistance of Serbian officials.

Serbia refused, and this was followed by a declaration on the part of Russia that she would permit no trifling in the Balkans. Meanwhile England was doing her utmost to pour oil on the troubled waters. One of her suggestions was a conference. This was turned down by Austria, who, on July 28th, declared war on Serbia. Thus began the hostilities which led to Armageddon. The challenge was taken up by Russia; in turn Germany declared war on both Russia and France; and finally Great Britain, determined not to tolerate the invasion of neutral Belgium, and refusing to contemplate the harrying of the French north coast, declared war on Germany. The fateful step was taken at 11 p.m. on August 4th.

Germany’s preparedness for war gave her a tremendous advantage at the outset. The first blow was aimed at Paris, and in attempting this coup the Hun armies over-ran Belgium, destroying and plundering some of its greatest treasures and committing crimes which horrified the world. For a time the advancing army was irresistible, but eventually the forces of Sir John French and General Joffre put a stop to the enemy progress and at the first battle of the Marne, commenced on September 6th, caused the Germans to retreat in disorder.

After the first onrush had been checked trench warfare was introduced, the line extending through Belgium, the north-east corner of France, Lorraine and Alsace, and thence to the Swiss frontier. Meanwhile, Lord Kitchener, realizing that the war must of necessity be a long and exhausting one, had commenced his great task of building up an army fit to take its stand with those of Continental Powers. There was a noble response and thousands of recruits were quickly trained and drafted out to play their part in the great adventure.

The relative positions of the Armies in 1915 altered little from those taken up after the battle of the Marne, but there were many historic events during that trying year—the capture by the British of Neuve Chapelle, the two battles of Ypres (in the second of which the Germans introduced poison gas), the heavy campaigning in the Argonne, the bombardment of Rheims, the French offensive in Champagne, and the British offensive at Loos.

During the winter of 1915-1916 Germany’s initial hopes of success began to grow less rosy. The British Army continued to grow; Italy and Rumania joined the Allies; and on almost every side the Central Powers began to feel pressure. The outstanding events during this period included the smashing by the British of an onslaught from Messines Ridge and the repulsing of an advance towards Albert. There was terrific fighting at Verdun (where the French displayed heroic qualities), and the great Allied offensive on the Somme. There was also a British victory on the Ancre, and “tanks” made their initial appearance.

One of the most tragic events of the war occurred on June 5th, 1916, Lord Kitchener being drowned while on his way to Russia. Politically there were happenings of great importance, one of the principal being the resignation of Mr. Asquith as Prime Minister and the acceptance of office by Mr. Lloyd George, whose work as Minister of Munitions had brought him into much prominence in matters relative to the conduct of the war.

Early in 1917 the United States, after long deliberation, threw in her lot with the Allied cause, followed by Central and South America. Later Greece, chiefly through the influence of Venezelos, compelled King Constantine, the friend of Germany, to abdicate and enter the war on the side of the Allies; while China and Siam followed the example of Japan and protested practically against German lust for world power. Throughout the year there was heavy fighting on the Western front. In April the British captured Vimy Ridge, in June they annexed Messines Ridge, and in November took part in a magnificent episode at Passchendaele. By these operations they became masters of commanding positions, and for the first time the feeling was encouraged that the Allies were on the way to victory.

One of the most noted successes in 1917 was that at Cambrai on November 20th, while in October the French brought the famous ridge road, the Chemin des Dames, within their lines. “Unrestricted” U-boat warfare was commenced by the Germans early this year, and was a source of considerable anxiety to the Allies. Internally Russia was in the throes of revolution. The Czar abdicated on March 15th and a republic was proclaimed on September 15th. This was followed by the Bolshevist coup d’état on November 8th, and an armistice on the Russian front on December 6th.

The winter of 1917-1918 was in the nature of the calm which precedes the storm. On March 21st, the Boche made his last desperate bid for victory, attacking on a 50-mile front between the Scarpe and the Oise. Results unlooked for by the Allies were the outcome. Peronne was captured in three days, and on March 25th the Germans had reached their original line of July, 1916, on this sector. This, for the Allies, was the blackest moment of the war, inasmuch as it brought within the range of possibility the achievement by the enemy of his original plan—the capture of the Channel ports and the consequent domination of British shores.

The Allies prepared for a great effort. In England the military age was raised to 51; General Foch was appointed commander-in-chief of the Allied armies; there were effective naval raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend; a million Americans were shipped to France; and by the beginning of June the German advance had been checked.

The last German offensive began on July 15th on a 50-mile front before Rheims. It failed and was converted into an Allied victory. Thenceforward the Allies achieved victory after victory. At every point the enemy was forced back, Flanders was evacuated, a wedge was driven into the Boche line at Sedan, and along the whole line from Ostend to Switzerland the German position was so desperate that the Kaiser, faced with disaster in the field and naval mutiny and revolution at home, asked for an Armistice on October 6th.

Austria sued for peace on October 20th and surrendered to the Allies on November 3rd, while Turkey, having been granted an armistice on October 30th, threw down her arms subsequently. Following the proclamation of Bavaria as a Republic, and the renunciation of his throne by the Duke of Brunswick, and the suspension of payment by the Berlin banks, the Kaiser sued for peace. On November 9th he and the Crown Prince abdicated and the armistice terms of the Allies were accepted by the Germans two days later.

Apart from the operations on the Western Front British troops figured in many historic battles in other theatres of war. In the ill-fated expedition to Gallipoli the soldiers of the Empire showed an undaunted spirit and came near achieving what was regarded by many as an impossible task. Much the same spirit under even more trying circumstances was displayed in Mesopotamia and other parts of the Far East, as is evidenced by the recapture of Kut and the taking of Baghdad. German influence in far waters was destroyed by the seizure of German New Guinea and Samoa; while a great blow to German colonization schemes was dealt by the conquest of East Africa and the Cameroons.

The record of Russia during the war and since provides one of the most tragic episodes of the great struggle. One of the first Powers to accept the challenge, Russia accomplished much in the early days of the war on the Eastern Front, and was of invaluable assistance to the British and French armies by engaging the attention of large numbers of German forces. Insidious treachery, however, brought about the downfall of what had hitherto been regarded as a mighty empire. During the winter of 1916-1917 the effect of this treachery began to be felt. The civilian population had for long suffered many privations, and the troops had been sent into battle badly armed and insufficiently fed. Demands for representative government were ignored by the Emperor, swayed by the pro-German Empress, who was under the influence of the notorious monk Rasputin. In December, 1916, the monk was murdered; on March 15th, 1917, the Emperor abdicated and was subsequently murdered; and the Empress and her children are said to have shared a similar fate. A new and democratic government with Kerensky at the head had a short reign, and ultimately, in November, 1917, Russia, under Trotsky and Lenin, who were, it is believed, in the pay of Germany, was given over to the horrors of Bolshevism.

Serbia was invaded by the Austrians and Germans in October, 1915, and the campaign was conducted by the Central Powers with characteristic ruthlessness. Rumania fought gamely, but eventually had to yield under the Treaty of Bucharest, and Montenegro was also quickly disposed of. The Austrians were thus established in Northern Albania and were led to take up an offensive in Trentino. This was begun in May, 1916, and honours were first with one side and then with the other until in October, 1917, with the help of the Germans, Austria forced the Italians to retreat to the line of the Piave. British and French troops were sent to the assistance of Italy, and the invaders were disastrously defeated, being swept back across the Piave.

The morale of the Austrian troops, except when aided by the Germans, was never satisfactory, and the condition of her home affairs became worse as the war progressed. The Emperor Francis Joseph died in November, 1916, and he was succeeded by the Emperor Karl, who was suspected of having strong leanings in the direction of peace. The food problem in Austria also became a very difficult one, and this, combined with industrial and political unrest, tended to undermine the Empire’s military efficiency until eventually the operations against Italy came to be regarded as of secondary importance, and overtures were made for peace.

The Allies recognised the Czeko-Slovaks as a separate nation; the Croatians recognised themselves; and a promise was made that Bohemia should be divided into national districts. Following unsuccessful attempts to obtain peace through President Wilson, the Austrians acknowledged the inevitable and asked for peace on October 27th, 1918. Bulgaria had surrendered on September 29th.

When war broke out the position of Turkey was an uncertain one, but she eventually fell a victim to German machinations and threw in her lot with the Kaiser. In the early days she gave shelter to the runaway German cruisers, the Goeben and the Breslau—and later both these vessels were used to bombard Sebastopol and Theodosia. The campaign against Turkey was in three sections—the attack on the Dardanelles, the expedition to Mesopotamia, and the preservation of Egypt and the advance through Palestine. Although the Dardanelles attack was not successful and we had a set-back at Kut, the British forces eventually broke the Turkish power in Mesopotamia and Palestine, and on October 30th, 1918, the Turks were granted an armistice.

One of the outstanding features of the war was the ruthlessness which marked German methods throughout. In the invasion of Belgium and Northern France no measure was too base to adopt in order that the spirit of the invaded countries might be broken. Looting on the part of officers and men was officially recognised, as also was the wholesale destruction of property, machinery and valuable works of art.

Later, the barbarity of the Hun method was demonstrated by the submarine campaign, in the course of which defenceless merchant and passenger vessels, and even hospital ships were “sunk at sight” and the survivors either shot or left to drown. German warships also bombarded such “fortified” places as Scarborough, Whitby, Lowestoft and Margate; while their Zeppelins, and subsequently their aeroplanes, visited England again and again, causing many casualties—a large proportion of them women and children—in a vain endeavour to create panic in this country.

Other methods by which the Germans revealed their inhumanity in warfare included the abominable treatment of prisoners of war; the deportation of thousands of the civilian population of France and Belgium to serve as slaves behind the German lines; and the execution of Nurse Cavell and Capt. Fryatt.

The operations of the British Navy were undoubtedly one of the dominating factors in the war. For more than four years the silent service watched unceasingly and offered an effectual bar to such naval enterprise as the Germans appeared capable of. The first naval engagement was off the coast of Chili in November, 1914, in which the Good Hope and Monmouth were sunk and Admiral Craddock lost his life.

This early disaster was retrieved on December 8th, when Admiral Sturdee annihilated a German squadron under Admiral von Spee off the Falkland Islands. For some time there was a good deal of activity on the part of commerce raiders, principally by the Emden and the Appam. On January 24th, 1915, there was a naval battle off Dogger Bank in which the Blucher was sunk, and six months later the Konigsberg, a German raider, which had taken refuge in the Rufigi River, was destroyed by British monitors.

The most serious naval engagement of the war took place off Jutland on May 31st, 1916. This proved to be the last attempt of the Germans to defy British sea-power. The enemy lost eighteen ships, and the British losses were by no means light, but the flight of the enemy fleet to the shelter of their mine fields left no doubt as to the issue. Probably the country will never know the extent of the navy’s work in maintaining the blockade, safeguarding our food supply from all parts of the world, and securing safe passage, not only for our own troops, but also for thousands of American soldiers.

Perhaps the most daring enterprise of the war from a naval standpoint was the raid on Ostend on April 22nd, 1918, which resulted in the destruction of the enemy’s submarine depots. The last act in the naval drama was the handing over of the German Fleet to Admiral Beatty, as part of the Armistice conditions, and the subsequent scuttling of it by the German crews while it was riding at anchor in Scapa Flow.

The peace treaty was signed on Saturday, June 28th, in the Galerie des Glaces, Versailles, by the German delegates and representatives of all the Allied Powers except China. The German delegates, in a statement to the Press, declared they had signed the Treaty without any reservations and in the honest intention of carrying out its provisions to the best of their ability. They hoped, however, that some of its provisions would in time be modified.

The signing was received with great rejoicing throughout Britain, a notable demonstration being made outside Buckingham Palace, where the King, the Queen, their three sons and Princess Mary appeared on the balcony and were enthusiastically greeted.

The Chinese refusal to sign was due to the fact that the Council of Four could not see their way to reserve the question of Shantung for future consideration instead of its being settled as provided for in the Treaty.

The scene in the historic chamber was remarkable for the absence of pomp or martial show. M. Clemenceau presided over the formal proceedings, and with him were the French delegation, MM. Pichon, Klotz, Tardieu and Cambon; President Wilson and the American representatives, Mr. Lansing, Col. House and General Bliss; the British delegation consisting of Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Bonar Law, Mr. A. J. Balfour, Lord Milner and Mr. G. N. Barnes; with the following representatives of the Empire: Canada—Sir George Foster, Mr. Doherty and Mr. Sefton; Australia—Mr. Hughes and Sir Joseph Cook; New Zealand—Mr. Massey; South Africa—General Botha and General Smuts.

Subsequent to the signing the King issued a formal message in which he stated that he shared the people’s joy and prayed that the years of peace might bring to them ever-increasing happiness and prosperity.

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War Record of the ⅙th Battalion Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding) Regiment.

In these few pages it is only possible to give in the barest outline the story of the part played by the Craven Territorials in the great war of 1914-1919. Time must necessarily elapse before any definitive history can be written, when events can be critically studied and full credit be given to all. The present sketch aims simply at recording how men of Skipton and Keighley, of Settle and Bingley, of Haworth, Guiseley and Barnoldswick, from the dales of Ribble, Aire and Wharfe, from the moors of Sedbergh and from the Forest of Bowland, left their peaceful avocations and went to war at their country’s call, as their fore-fathers had done before them. It will tell how their previous military training enabled them to go overseas and bar the road to the Channel while Britain was yet gathering her latent strength; of how they faced the Salient in its darkest hour, and of the parts they played in the great battle of the Somme, in the fighting among the sand-swept dunes of Nieuport, and in the grim tragedy of Passchendaele; and finally how, after foiling the last German onslaught in a quick series of desperate encounters, they took their full share in the swift, relentless attacks that ushered in the crowning victory.

No space can be given to the full list of honours won; they are already written in the official records. And when, here and there, a few names necessarily come into the story, it must be remembered that to every name mentioned a dozen more could easily be added of men who deserved equally well of their country.

On July 26th, 1914, the 6th Bn. Duke of Wellington’s Regt. went into camp near the little village of Marske for its annual training, and it was amid the peaceful moorlands of the Yorkshire coast that it heard the first rumblings of the storm to come. When the camp was suddenly broken up and the companies returned home on the fateful first Monday of August, there was a general feeling of tense expectation. They had not long to wait. At 6 p.m. the following day (Tuesday, August 4th), the orders for mobilization were issued from Skipton Drill Hall, and the Skipton men at once began to stream in. The outlying companies arrived during the night, and at noon next day the complete battalion, with a heterogeneous transport commandeered from willing neighbours, entrained for Immingham Dock under the command of Lieut.-Col. John Birkbeck, of Settle. The rapidity with which the change from peace to war conditions was effected is abundant testimony to the keenness of all ranks and to the practical character of the Territorial organization; but the chief credit of the successful move must be given to the sleepless labours of the three South African veterans, Capt. Sidney Marriner (Adjutant), Lieut. John Churchman, D.C.M. (Quartermaster), and Regimental Sergt.-Major Buckley.

Of Immingham, the Battalion has only confused memories of concrete floors as sleeping places, of endless tours of sentry-go, of its first experience of strict army rations, and of countless rumours to which unnecessary credence was given, since the troops had not yet learnt the tainted source from which such stories rise. Early one morning there was a particularly strong report of a great battle in the North Sea, and an officer asked a recruit just coming off duty if he had heard any firing in the night. “I’m very sorry, sir, it was me!” was the unexpected reply: “I let it off by accident.”

After about a week the battalion moved into billets at the pleasant and hospitable village of Healing, near Grimsby. Here they spent a happy and healthy month, and on Sept. 15th moved into camp in Riby Park, about four miles further inland. The weather was glorious and the physique of the battalion improved out of all knowledge. Faces and arms turned brown, packs and equipment felt lighter, and the marches over the Lincolnshire downs insensibly grew longer. During all this time both officers and men had been continually welcoming friends among the new recruits who came to take the places of those unfit for active service, under age, or whose circumstances prevented them from volunteering for work overseas. And when a cold wet spell at the end of October brought on a welcome move from tents into the warmer shelter of schools and other billets in Doncaster, it was a strong battalion of fit men, ready to go anywhere, that marched to the station.

At Doncaster the battalion settled down for the winter and made a vast number of firm friendships among the inhabitants, who had viewed the arrival of troops with some apprehension. The Christmas dinner, served in all the company billets, was a huge success, though there were already many who were sore that they were not yet in the trenches and feared that the war would be finished without them!

All this time progressive training had gone on. At Healing the battalion was alone in the village, and battalion and company drill were the usual order of the day. Riby was a Brigade camp, and the presence of the 4th, 5th and 7th Duke of Wellington’s and a battery of Artillery gave an added rivalry to the quest of military efficiency and to endurance in long marches. The harvest was now in and field manœuvres became possible, and the battalion received its initiation in trench digging. There was a good deal of musketry instruction and a little firing on an indifferent range. The signallers under Lieut. A. Slingsby and the machine-gunners under Lieut. B. R. Brewin improved enormously along their special lines; while the cyclists under 2nd Lieut. “Pedaller” Palmer tested their wind and muscles up the gradients of Swallow Downs. The Brigade was inspected at Brocklesby by Major-General Plumer, who was, in a few months’ time, to welcome them to his own particular salient of Ypres.

At Doncaster musketry practice was more seriously undertaken and, when the Cantley ranges overflowed, parties proceeded to all parts of Yorkshire. The field days, under the eye of Major-Gen. Baldock, commanding the Division, with an added force of Artillery, Royal Engineers and Divisional Cavalry, were on a larger scale, and the continual battles of Marr and Rossington Bridge taught officers to handle men, men to acquire something of an eye for country, and outposts to keep alert with eye and ear—particularly necessary if Lieut. Anthony Slingsby and his Scouts were on the opposing side. And if the night operations caused an annoying interference with more romantic engagements, they taught lessons in finding the way at night that proved valuable later on.

In the later stages trenches were dug, and one battalion relieved another in their occupation by night; billeting schemes were carried out in the surrounding villages, and the constant alarms of raids or invasion, which on one occasion brought the brigade scurrying back to billets from a field day, lent a feeling of reality to the training. About the same time the Machine Gun Section acquired for a few weeks an armoured motor-car of enormous dimensions, with which, after spreading terror and confusion among the children of the neighbourhood, they proceeded to patrol the East Coast from the Humber to Flamborough Head, to reassure the inhabitants who had been startled by the raid on Scarborough. As a fighting machine the vehicle might be open to criticism, but it possessed two Vickers guns and thus enabled the section to familiarize themselves with these weapons. It was a lucky chance, for they next met this gun when a number were dumped upon them, without further instruction, in the unspeakable trenches of Ypres, to make of them what use they could. The machine was finally handed over to a battalion of desolate cyclists, who, in their overflowing gratitude, addressed the second-lieutenant in charge as “Major” and took the whole outfit off his thankful hands without a murmur.

In December, 1914, the battalion had been reorganized upon a four-company, instead of the old eight-company system. The two Skipton companies (A and B) became A company: the two Keighley companies (D and E) became D company: Guiseley and Settle (C and F) united to form the new C company, and Bingley and Haworth (G and H) became B company. About the same time the cyclists left the battalion to form part of the new divisional cycling company. The battalion had got nicely settled into its new dispositions when in April it received the long deferred order to go overseas.

The first portion of the battalion, consisting of the Transport and Machine Gun section, left Doncaster on the night of April 12th, 1915, and crossed from Southampton to Havre on the night of 13/14th April. The remainder of the battalion crossed by a more direct route to Boulogne on the following day, and after a long and weary march joined the same train at Hesdigneul on the 15th. The re-united battalion travelled on by the sleepy little branch line through Lumbres to St. Omer and then forward to Merville where they detrained at 11-30 p.m. After unloading horses, mules and waggons, the whole battalion set off on a three-mile march to Neuf Berquin. What with the darkness and the unfamiliar language, the task of billeting was no easy one, but all the men were got under shelter before dawn and enjoyed a well-earned repose in their first French billets.

The names of the officers who went overseas with the battalion, noting the casualties which occurred among them, may be given here as some indication of the severe fighting through which the battalion passed. Many of the officers given as wounded were hit more than once: and the casualties among the other ranks were in much the same proportion:—

Lieut.-Col. J. Birkbeck, of Settle, commanding officer; Major C. P. Cass, of Keighley, second in command; Adjutant, Capt. S. F. Marriner. Company commanders—Major C. M. Bateman (wounded) (A), Capt. A. B. Clarkson (wounded) (B) Capt. N. B. Chaffers (C) and Capt. T. K. Wright (D), with Capt. H. Dixon, Capt. C. H. Sarsby (wounded), Capt. E. G. Whittaker and Capt. K. Nicholson as their respective seconds-in-command. The platoon officers were Lieuts. M. Law (killed), Supple (killed), H. Knowles (killed), C. H. Petty (wounded), C. Horsfall (killed), 2nd Lieuts. F. L. Smith (wounded), K. Ogston (killed), V. W. Greaves, T. S. Whitaker (killed), L. Jaques (wounded), N. Geldard (wounded), R. C. Barrett, T. Brayshaw (wounded) and Stuck (wounded). The quarter-master was Lieut. J. Churchman, D.C.M; Signalling officer, Lieut. A. Slingsby (killed); Transport officer, Lieut. S. H. Clough (wounded); Machine Gun officer, 2nd Lieut. R. M. Robinson, and Medical Officer, Lieut. A. C. Haddow (wounded).

2nd Lieut. G. Buxton (wounded) and 2nd Lieut. Coulthurst (killed), who were on the sick list at the time, followed the battalion a few weeks later, and Capt. M. Wright, who was left behind to organize a nucleus company to provide reinforcements, himself came out with a draft during the early autumn.

Major General Baldock was in command of the Division and Brig.-General E. F. Brereton of the brigade.

Arrived at Neuf Berquin the 6th Duke’s was not allowed to remain idle. After three days’ rest the battalion was taken up by detachments for trial trips to the trenches and on April 26th the brigade took over from the London Regiment a portion of the line in front of Fleurbaix. It was at this time that the First West Riding Division became the 49th; the 2nd West Riding Brigade, consisting of the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Duke of Wellington’s Regiments, became the 147th Infantry Brigade, the whole being attached to the Indian Corps in the First Army.

In after days men commonly looked back on the Fleurbaix era as a time of peace and plenty. It is true that the weather was good and the life not too strenuous. But the sniping was unusually severe. Few reliefs took place without a casualty and the shelling of billets was a far from comfortable novelty. The way the battalion settled down to work in its new surroundings augured well for the future.

On May 9th the men were spectators of one of those early attacks which cost so much and gained so little. The limit of the main attack was the right of the 6th Battalion; and if it had been successful the battalion was also to advance and take a part. But backed by insufficient artillery and faced by relentless machine gun fire, the attack failed to reach the foot of the Aubers Ridge, and the battalion was ordered to stand fast in its trenches. It was a day of tense anxiety and the battalion was lucky to have so few casualties. The signallers especially distinguished themselves, mending the lines back to the brigade as soon as they were cut by shellfire; and few will forget the picture of Lieut. Anthony Slingsby striding upright across the open, while he sternly commanded some diminutive signaller beside him to “keep his head down.”

Quieter days followed, and on June 26th the brigade left those trenches for the last time, handing them over to their gallant fellow-territorials of the 51st Division. The battalion was no longer raw: it had seen its dead. One officer (Lieut. Knowles) had been killed in a bombing accident, and two (Lieut. Petty and Capt. Sarsby) had been severely wounded. About twenty other ranks were among the casualties. And the old grey walls of the ruined abbey, with its little fishpond and the stately remnants of its tower, will always be remembered by those who helped to defend it.

On leaving Fleurbaix the 147th Brigade moved north by rapid marches, and soon the whole Division found itself in the Second Army under Major-General Plumer. The last march, from the neighbourhood of Meteren to St. Jans-ter-biezen Wood, was particularly severe for troops that had just come out of trenches. It was a good fifteen-miles tramp over rough and hilly roads: it was undertaken at night when most men had been on their legs all day, and everyone had to carry all his belongings on his back. When the battalion finally halted in its allotted position in the wood, the men had no difficulty in sleeping where they lay.

Here the battalion bivouacked for a week and underwent inspection by various generals, renewing their acquaintance with the Army commander. On July 7th they moved forward and for the first time entered the never-to-be-forgotten salient of Ypres.

Northward from Ypres runs the Yser canal, and in insecure shelters scratched into the embankments the support battalions had their home. The bridges crossing the canal were enfiladed by the enemy’s machine guns and were constantly destroyed by shell fire: and the rain of shrapnel whistling through the distorted trees caused men moving up either bank to dodge like rabbits from shelter to shelter. But this was a haven of rest compared to the front line. In front of the canal was sheer desolation, with ridges sloping upwards towards the enemy. Wet weather turned the whole country into a quagmire and many were drowned in the mud. Across this waste stretched the trenches, formed of sandbagged breastworks, with arms and legs of dead Frenchmen projecting from them at intervals. The enemy was too close for rebuilding. The line was curiously irregular, as one side or the other had bitten off a piece of the opposing defences, and at more than one place our men were only fifteen yards from the enemy. In some parts the bombing was worst, in others the trench mortars, and in others again the shells: but none were healthy and all smelt abominably. As for retaliation, a few rounds of shrapnel were all the ammunition our artillery could spare in those early days. No regular division had stopped in the line for more than six weeks, even in summer, and the West Ridings looked hopefully forward to an early move. They held that line against shelling and gas, in deepening mud and rising water, for six long months.

The 49th Division had a stormy welcome. In the first few days the Divisional commander, Major-General Baldock, was wounded by shrapnel at the door of Trois Tours Chateau, and was succeeded by Major-General Perceval; and a shell through his bedroom caused Brig.-General Brereton to leave his cottage for safer quarters. Before the 6th Battalion had finished its first turn in the line it had grievous losses to deplore. Among them the gallant Lieut. Slingsby had been killed by a sniper; Lieut. Supple mortally wounded by a shell, and 2nd Lieuts. Jaques and Brayshaw severely wounded. It was then, too, that Pte. Bracewell, a stretcher bearer, himself wounded, won the first D.C.M. for the battalion.

As the autumn wore on and worse conditions supervened, the battalion still stuck to its work, making its regular trips to the front line and always leaving behind some of the best of comrades. At the end of October, Lieut.-Col. Birkbeck, who had already suffered from rheumatism, was invalided home. Of the battalion commanders who had come out with the Brigade he was the last remaining, and there was general regret that he had not had the chance of leading the battalion in open warfare in which he had trained them and for which his experience of African campaigns had peculiarly adapted him. “Honest John” the men called him, and they were all sorry to lose one who had always given them fair play. Major Bateman had already been wounded and Lieut.-Col. J. Adlercron, of the Cameron Highlanders, took over the command.

The men took a little time to understand their new commander and he probably thought them a queer lot. But his wide military knowledge, his boundless energy, and, above all, his absolute fearlessness, soon won their admiration and respect and established a satisfactory mutual understanding that lasted throughout his command. It has been said of some leaders that they never sent their men where they would not go themselves; if Col. Adlercron sent men to a particularly nasty post he would commonly go twenty yards further himself and inspect the enemy’s wire in front of them.

Conditions grew steadily worse. “Trench foot” made its appearance among the troops, and though many precautions were taken there was much painful suffering. The mud difficulty and the fall of the leaves made the work of the Transport increasingly arduous, and Lieut. Churchman’s stores at Hospital Farm became a favourite target for shells from either side of the salient. The death of Lieut. T. S. Whitaker, always most cheery when times were worst, was a serious loss to C company. But through it all the spirits of the battalion never flagged. Sergt. Bury, with a few fellow bombers, was holding a peculiarly noisome forward post within bombing range of the enemy when he received word that he was to go on leave. He protested indignantly. “Who’s to look after my sap?” he cried. And it was only when Lieut. F. L. Smith promised to give the sap his own special attention that the sergeant, with some misgiving, consented to return for five days to civilization. And a like feeling animated all.

At this time the ⅙th Duke’s had the French as their next-door neighbours, and at the bridge over the Yperlys stream, where the two Armies met, an international post was established, consisting of an officer and a few men from each army, specially selected for their knowledge of their allies’ language.

On December 19th, in the darkness of the early winter’s morning, the Germans made another desperate attempt upon the line after discharging the deadly phosgene gas from cylinders. It was the strongest concentration of gas sent over by the enemy during the war: the ground over which the cloud passed was covered with powdered crystals like hoar frost, and Canadians on parade at Bailleul, twelve miles back, felt the effects. The 4th Duke of Wellington’s was in the front line, the 6th had B company and the machine gunners on the Canal Bank and the remainder in ruined farms a short distance behind. At 6-30 a.m. the battalion received orders to move forward through the clouds of gas to support the 4th. All reached their positions in perfect order and the men of the 4th were astonished at the speed with which the much-needed succour had reached them. The Germans, though they inflicted heavy losses on the 147th Brigade, reaped no tactical advantage from the outrage. The 6th had many casualties both from gas and shelling. The machine gunners, worn out by a particularly arduous time in the line, suffered very heavily, and among the eight who succumbed to gas was that excellent soldier Lance-Cpl. J. W. Willan, of Skipton, who had refused a commission elsewhere to serve in the ranks of the 6th.

The battalion, sadly reduced in numbers, had a last turn in the line and lost 2nd Lieut. T. Carson, mortally wounded on patrol, and Lieut. Malcolm Law, an admirable bombing officer, who was killed in the act of handing over to the incoming division.

Getting clear of the line by dawn on the last day of the year, the battalion, now little more than 200 strong, travelled by motor-bus to the neighbourhood of Herzeele and Wormhoudt for a month’s rest and reorganization. The Machine Gun Corps had recently been formed as a separate arm of the service, and the machine gunners under Sergts. J. Watson and F. Stork, who had both done sterling work for the battalion, were transferred to the brigade company under the new corps. At the beginning of February, 1916, the battalion moved by train to the neighbourhood of Amiens. It was a welcome change and the clean fields and green hills were a grateful sight to Craven eyes after the shellmarked flatness of the Salient. Though the Division was by no means up to strength it had temporarily to take over the line at Authuille, north of Albert, during a snowy spell at the end of the month. The share of the 6th Battalion was limited to two or three unpleasant days. Water up to the knees was no novelty, but the men have vivid recollections of some lively trench-mortaring, and of the droves of enormous rats that scampered over the snow at night like flocks of sheep.

The great attack on the Somme had already been planned, and the 6th Duke’s were engaged for some months in digging assembly trenches, laying railway tracks, carrying material to the line, and generally assisting in the many preparations that had now become recognised as necessary to a successful offensive. They were quartered at different times in most of the villages from Toutencourt to the river Ancre, and in April and May went farther back to the pleasant village of Naours lying in a beautiful valley north of Amiens. Here vigorous training was carried on for the coming offensive, and replicas of the famous Thiepval defences were constructed and successfully attacked.

Conditions were now growing better. Expeditionary Force Canteens had come into being; Y.M.C.A. huts at times were encountered; organized entertainments were given. The general standard of living was much improved and wire beds were occasionally found in billets. The old days of scarceness had passed, and “rest areas” had become more worthy of the name and were visited with greater regularity.

But before the battle opened another change came in the command of the battalion. Lieut.-Col. Adlercron, D.S.O., received well-deserved promotion to the command of the 148th Brigade (in the same division), and Major C. M. Bateman, D.S.O., was appointed Lieut.-Colonel in his place. No more popular choice could have been made. Colonel Bateman had commanded the headquarters detachment of the Craven territorials for many years before the war and had already won golden opinions in France both as company commander and as second-in-command. Always cool in danger, and naturally endowed with a fine military judgment, he had a special asset in his intimate knowledge of his men, who would have followed him anywhere.

The great battle of the Somme, which was to last into November, opened at 7-30 a.m. on July 1st, 1916. On this day the 49th acted as reserve to two other Divisions in the 10th Corps, ready to exploit any success that might be won. The roar of the bombardment had been heard for some days and shells were singing overhead on the evening of June 30th as the 6th Battalion moved up from Warloy into the assembly trenches it had previously dug in Aveluy Wood. At 7-25 a.m. the trenches rocked as the mammoth mine went up at Beaumont Hamel. The roar of the heavies ceased for a moment, giving place to the rattle of machine guns as the British went over the top, to be succeeded by a terrific drumfire from the 18-pounders and French 75’s whose shells came swishing over the tree-tops.

Though the attack had been a success to the south, it made little headway against the powerful fortresses of Thiepval and Beaumont Hamel. The battalion crossed the river without loss and spent the night in the Crucifix dug-outs near Aveluy village. Next afternoon it received hurried orders to move to Thiepval Wood, prepared to attack at dawn next morning. It was an unpleasant march up the river valley, for this provided the only cover behind the line and the enemy’s artillery were giving it particular attention. At the North Bluff, Capt. Haddow, the popular medical officer, was wounded by a shell with some of D company, and Cpl. E. Briggs was killed while bringing up machine gun ammunition. In Thiepval Wood, reached in the darkness, there was little shelter and the battalion spent the night under heavy shelling and machine gun fire. What had been in the evening luxuriant woodland was found in the morning to resemble a group of clothes props. The attack, however, was postponed, and the battalion returned for a night of thunderstorms into Aveluy Wood. Next day it moved forward again and took over the line immediately facing Thiepval with headquarters at Johnson’s Post. Here the Brigade remained for forty-eight days, never moving further back than the support positions, some 800 yards from the German line. The trenches had been practically obliterated and had to be re-dug in close proximity to the enemy; there were many bodies to bury during the short hours of darkness, and rations and water were brought up with difficulty. In the first twenty-four hours the battalion, without making any attack, suffered over sixty casualties, and losses continued daily. At times the battalion had to make “Chinese attacks,” feints to hold the reserves opposite in their positions while other divisions were attacking to the south, and also threw out smoke bombs to obscure from the view of the Germans in Thiepval the flanking movement against them. This always drew a heavy bombardment. Meanwhile a good line was dug, and saps were pushed forward ever nearer to the doomed fortress.

At last towards the end of August the battalion moved out to Lealvillers for a week’s rest. Here Captain N. B. Chaffers, M.C., who had been adjutant since December, 1915, when Capt. Marriner had been promoted to a staff appointment, left the battalion to become second in command of the 3rd Worcesters. He was succeeded by Capt. F. L. Smith, M.C., who had won a great reputation as a company commander. Lieut. Robinson, whose notes on Lewis gun tactics, originally written for the 6th Battalion, had been adopted for use throughout the British Army, was ordered to G.H.Q., where he spent more than a year working at the organization of Lewis gun training before returning to the battalion.

In less than a week the battalion was back in the Thiepval area, but it did not take any active part in the attack on Sept. 3rd, in which the 49th Division was engaged. The 6th was in support, and suffered losses from shell-fire; Lieut. Gill was killed, Lieut. Jaques badly wounded, and a dug-out occupied by A company was knocked in. The 147th Brigade managed after heavy losses to capture most of their first objective, but their neighbours on either side made no headway and the attack was abandoned before the 6th was drawn in.

After ten days’ rest the battalion again returned near Thiepval, but this time it faced the village from the ridge to the south, instead of looking up at it from the valley to the west. The West Ridings were now in the old German lines in the “Leipzig salient,” which had been penetrated on July 1st, and occupied an extremely strong system of enemy trenches known as the “Wunderwerk” for the astonishing character of the defences. Though much damaged by our shells, the deep dug-outs and tunnels still remained to show how the enemy had been able to hang on in Thiepval through all our bombardments. From these lines the Division slowly crept forward, one battalion snatching a length of German trench one night and another the next. The 6th had to pay dearly for their successes. One night Capt. Cedric Horsfall was shot while making a reconnaissance in front of the line, and his death was a sad blow to all the battalion. As strong as a horse and a glutton for work, he was always ready to lend a hand with pick and shovel, and on a long march might be seen striding along carrying a couple of rifles for two of his weaker brethren. His shrewd leadership and unfailing kindness had endeared him to all ranks. Another gallant officer to fall was Lieut. W. B. Naylor, who was acting as Brigade bombing officer, and among other losses were Sergt. Marks, an excellent N.C.O., and Private Bottomley, whose unfailing humour had lightened many dark days for his comrades. Lieut. Clegg, who afterwards greatly distinguished himself with the Independent Air Force that bombed the German towns, was severely wounded.

After an attack in this sector a curious adventure occurred to that cheerful fighter, Sergt. Cecil Rhodes. Seeing a waterproof sheet stretched out upon the ground he stooped to pick it up, when to his surprise an unwounded German sprang from under it and bolted. The sergeant gave chase and soon had his man a prisoner.

The battalion was beginning to penetrate the inner defences of Thiepval when it was relieved by the 18th Division, who, with the assistance of tanks, finished off the task.

During September the battalion was sorry to lose its very popular Brigadier, Brig.-General E. F. Brereton, C.B., D.S.O., who had commanded them since the days of peace. When he returned home, Brig.-General L. G. Lewes, D.S.O., of the Essex Regt., took his place.

On leaving Thiepval the battalion at once marched northwards and took over the line near Fonquevillers, facing the German stronghold of Gommecourt, and for the remainder of the winter kept moving on from one bad line of trenches to another, working hard to drain and improve them for the benefit of their successors. At Fonquevillers the trench-mortaring was very heavy, and four N.C.O.’s in D Coy. were killed one night by a single shell. Here too 2nd Lieut. Wilson was mortally wounded by a chance bullet.

Shortly before Christmas the 6th moved out to rest at the little villages of Halloy and Grenas, near Doullens, and though the billets were not of the best the Duke’s were able to eat a good Christmas dinner without interruption from the enemy.

Early in the New Year, still moving slowly northwards towards Arras, the battalion went into a new line near Berles-au-Bois and then at last found some really good trenches in the solid chalk of Wailly. During this winter the game of “winkling” had come into vogue. The line on both sides was commonly held by detached posts, and small parties of resolute men would stalk one of these, surprise the sentry and then pick prisoners out of the dug-out behind him as one picks winkles out of shells. The 6th were never “winkled,” though they had to keep very alert, but at Wailly a small party of D Coy., headed by Sergt. Bury, D.C.M., took a hand in the game with great success. Raiding an enemy sap they inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. Pte. Scott, of Keighley, had the misfortune to lose his way when the signal was given to return and was captured. After being severely cross-questioned, about an hour later he took advantage of a moment’s inattention on the part of his captors and escaped back to his own lines with some useful information about the enemy’s dispositions. A raid on a grand scale was then planned and practised, but the battalion was again moved on before it could be brought off.

The next move was to a different area. The ⅙th (as it must now be called) was packed on to the railway at Doullens and, after a lapse of two eventful years, once again detrained at Merville, which it found in deep snow. The following day it moved into trenches at Neuve Chapelle. The historic redoubt of “Port Arthur,” so hotly contested in 1915, was in the battalion sector, and the famous La Bassée road ran through it. The Duke’s had an enormous stretch of line to look after and held it lightly in the outpost system; but, except for the trench mortars, which the enemy possessed in great numbers, their stay here was not an unpleasant one and they remained in the line for nearly three months.

At the end of March a raid was carried out by the battalion. The operation was carefully practised and on the night of March 28-29 the raiding party set off under the command of Capt. S. H. Clough, who was the first man to enter the enemy’s lines and the last to leave them. Strong opposition was encountered and no prisoners could be taken, but all ranks behaved with great gallantry. Capt. Clough and Lieut. J. W. Denison (afterwards killed while serving with the 9th Batt.) were both wounded; and 2nd Lieut. Butler and Pte. Pickup, D.C.M., were killed in the operation.

Two interesting events occurred during the stay at Neuve Chapelle. One was a visit from a special company of Royal Engineers, armed with a number of the new gas projectors, which discharged many large gas shells simultaneously into the enemy’s lines. To the great delight of the men, who remembered their own experiences at Ypres, from 200 to 300 of these shells were concentrated upon one sector of the enemy’s line and caused serious losses to the Germans. The other was the arrival of the 1st Portuguese Division which first came into the line in small parties to learn the art of war from the 49th, and finally, towards the end of May, took over the line from them.

After their long spell of trench work the battalion thoroughly enjoyed a fortnight’s rest at the aptly named village of Paradis. The quarters were excellent, and it was here that an officer of the battalion made his name famous throughout the B. E. F. by discovering a particular variety of billet. Brigade sports and a horse show were organized, in which the battalion more than held its own. In the latter it swept the board in the heavy draught section: and in the former it won the tug-of-war, and, largely thanks to the fine running of Pte. Carter, also did well in the field events. From Paradis the men could clearly hear the terrific shelling of the battle of Messines, when the new “creeping barrage,” employed thereafter with such great success, was first brought to perfection by our artillery.

The 147th Brigade was next lent for a fortnight to the 6th Division, old friends of the Salient days, to take the place of a brigade required elsewhere. The ⅙th Duke’s took over a sector opposite the famous quarries of Hulluch, towards the northern end of the battlefield of Loos. The defences occupied were of a remarkable character, for vast underground tunnels, large enough to take a battalion, stretched all along the line. In these secure quarters, fitted with electric light and other conveniences, the bulk of the troops passed the day. But on the surface the sniping was keen and the trench mortars, hidden in deep emplacements, were exceptionally active. 2nd Lieut. Darragh, a most intrepid officer who had lost two brothers earlier in the year, was wounded and died a few days later; and Sergt. Bell, of Haworth, was killed, again one of three gallant brothers who lost their lives for their country. In this sector, too, the battalion was called upon to assist an extensive raid carried out by the battalion on their right. A magnificent smoke screen was put up to hide the preliminary preparations from the enemy in Hulluch, while a plucky party under 2nd Lieut. J. S. Spencer created a spectacular diversion by exploding a Bangalore torpedo right under the German wire.

From Hulluch the ⅙th Battalion moved at once into quite a new type of country, for in the middle of July the Craven men found themselves encamped on the sandy dunes east of Dunkirk on the Channel Coast. Originally sent north to take part in a contemplated attack, they found on arrival that the situation had entirely changed. The Germans had clearly got wind of the affair, and, concentrating much heavy artillery and an unexpected division of sailors, had broken through the British lines, reaching the banks of the Yser from its mouth nearly to Nieuport and seriously threatening the important crossings about that town. To the 49th Division once again fell the rôle of Salvation Army and they threw themselves vigorously into their work, relieving the battered troops in front, straightening out the line and remaking the defences. The sector taken over by the ⅙th Duke’s was the ruined village of Lombaertzyde, immediately in front of Nieuport. Of trench system in the ordinary sense of the term they found none, and sheltered solely by hollows in the shifting sand they had to face continual bombardment. Here the ⅙th first made the acquaintance of shells filled with mustard gas, which caused most painful blisters to many of the men. To reach the front line was a matter of great danger and difficulty. The direct route, through the town of Nieuport, was always heavily shelled, and the three bridges across the river Yser were continually knocked in. Apart from the shelling these bridges were something of an obstacle. Formed of wooden frames filled with cork and lashed together they sagged greatly at low tide and the roadway stood at an alarming angle to the bank. Many gallant deeds were performed by the 49th Division during their stay, but none was more dashing and dangerous than the raid carried out by the ⅙th Duke’s on a pitch dark August night. Since the German attack no prisoners had been taken, and the higher command was anxious to know what forces the enemy had in the line against us. In this object the raid was a complete success. Led by that amiable desperado, Capt. Godfrey Buxton, a strong party of D company entered the enemy’s trenches. When the alarm was given the Germans laid down a terrific barrage on our lines and the ground in front, and there was general anxiety as to the safety of the raiders. Their return shortly after with five prisoners and a machine gun aroused great enthusiasm. In this raid Capt. Buxton, Corporal Driver and Private Bibby particularly distinguished themselves.

On August 17th the battalion was withdrawn for a very welcome month’s rest at Coxyde Bains and La Panne, two watering-places much favoured by wealthy Belgians in time of peace. At Coxyde Bains the men were quartered in empty villas and thoroughly enjoyed the experience; and the sea bathing was much appreciated, in spite of numerous casualties from small stinging jelly fish. The enormous shells of “Big Bertha,” the German long range gun, used to hum past on their way to Dunkirk, and their bombing planes sailed overhead most nights, but neither interfered seriously with the seaside holiday.

Here the Battalion lost the very valuable services of Regt. Sergt.-Major O. Buckley, M.C., who received a commission as quarter-master of the ⅐th Duke’s. He was succeeded by Coy. Sergt.-Major T. Richardson, D.C.M., who had come out as a sergt. with the battalion.

Leaving La Panne on Sept. 23rd, 1917, the battalion spent the next ten days in a most enjoyable march. Trekking by easy stages through rich agricultural country in perfect harvest weather, the men usually found good billets and good fare. St. Omer was passed on the 30th and on Oct. 3rd the battalion found itself once more near Poperinghe on the threshold of the Salient. The following day the battalion set off for the line and had a long and trying march. Moving from Poperinghe to Vlamertinghe in the morning, later in the day they again pushed on across the Canal and bivouacked at what had once been Spree farm, where the road came to an end in swamps that could only be crossed on duckboards. Next day they took over the line north of Zonnebeke from the New Zealanders.

The advance associated with the name of Passchendaele had been begun most successfully in July and August, when British troops under Major-General Rawlinson, with Belgians on their left, had attacked from the old trenches by the Yser canal and gained possession of the lower spurs in front of them. To complete the mastery of the topmost ridge the attack was continued through the autumn, when rain had turned the whole country into swamp. How far this perseverance and the enormous loss of life it entailed were justified by the military exigencies it must be left to later historians to decide, but certainly the conditions of the front line were not fully realised by commanders behind.

The high ground that separates Ypres from the main plain of Belgium resembles an enormous sponge. Even in hot summer weather bogs and ponds are found upon its summit, while numerous swampy streamlets wander down its sides. In October many stretches were impassable except by wooden tracks laid on brushwood which were only constructed with the greatest danger and difficulty. Bombarded for three and a half long years, over all this huge area the shell-craters nearly touched each other. Whole villages were entirely wiped out; of fine chateaux not a trace remained; roads were completely obliterated; and wide woodlands were only marked by misshapen stumps two or three feet high. With the enemy on higher ground, all preparations and movements of troops for an attack had to be made in the darkness, and a single false step off the prepared track meant loss of life or guns or rations.

Right in the centre of this desolation the ⅙th held the line for six days, soaked with rain, standing in water and suffering all kinds of discomfort, yet only two men went sick. A great attack had been planned for October 9th in which the ⅙th Batt. was to support the 146th (West Yorks.) Brigade. Late in the night a battery commander arrived at the battalion headquarters dead beat. Moving at all possible speed he had only just reached his position and half his guns had been bogged on the way; and many infantry battalions, picking their way through bottomless swamps in the dark, were quite unable to reach their jumping-off lines at the allotted time. Under such circumstances a sweeping success was impossible; many gallant deeds were done, a few pill-boxes were taken, and a party under Captain Buxton, M.C., seized and held some valuable ground; but it is doubtful if the results of the day were worth the very heavy price. The ⅙th was relieved by the Canadians the following day, and on coming out was highly congratulated by the Army and Corps commanders on the part it had played. Whatever may be the military verdict on the Passchendaele battle, it is certain that no other incident in the war tested so thoroughly the grit and fighting qualities of the British soldier and no victories were won in the face of greater difficulties; the ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s is justly proud of having taken a worthy part in this struggle.

The battalion went out for a short rest in the neighbourhood of Winnezeele and during this period Major-General E. M. Perceval, C.B., D.S.O., relinquished the command of the Division, which he had held for over three years and returned home to command the 68th Division on the East Coast. He was succeeded by Major-General N. J. G. Cameron, C.B., D.S.O., of the Cameron Highlanders. General Perceval had been very popular throughout the Division, but like General Baldock before him he was a gunner, and the infantry thought it only fair that an infantryman had now been selected for the command.

A fortnight later the battalion returned to the very tip of the salient. This time its line lay more to the south where the summit ridge had already been captured: and from their trenches at Broodseinde could look far down into the Belgian plain. The approaches again were very difficult and the men had to lay some miles of duckboards in the deep mud before they could be said to possess any communications at all. Soon after going in, the battalion lost a very promising young officer in 2nd Lieut. Rupert Atkinson, of Settle.

Christmas was spent in these desolate surroundings; the battalion was in the front line on that festive day, standing in deep mud and subsisting on such rations as had not been bogged on the long journey from Belgian Battery Corner. On Boxing Day the battalion had to deplore the loss of Sergeant Cecil Rhodes, M.M., who was killed by a shell. In the very early days he had made a great reputation as a fearless bomber; always cheerful himself, his gift of humour in the most disheartening circumstances was a real asset to the battalion, and he had won the lasting affection of both officers and men.

Relieved early in January by the 66th Division, the battalion was employed for nearly a month in constructing a reserve line on Westhock Ridge, a couple of miles in front of Ypres; but in January moved back to billets in Hondeghem, near Hazebrouck. Here, in February, the battalion had its Christmas dinner. There was one large room in the village and there each company in turn was regaled on beef and Yorkshire pudding, pork, cold ham, Christmas pudding and other seasonable fare. About a fortnight was spent at Hondeghem, companies going in rotation to Moulle, near St. Omer, for musketry practice.

At this time it was decided to reduce the number of battalions in an infantry brigade from four to three throughout the British army; as a result many battalions were disbanded and their men sent as drafts to other units. The ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s received about a dozen officers and 300 men from the 5th and 8th battalions of the Duke’s, and were thus brought up to strength.

In the middle of February the battalion was back again in the salient, taking over the Polygon Wood sector with headquarters in the conspicuous mound known as the Butte, one of the few recognizable landmarks in the area. The New Zealanders, whom the battalion relieved, had worked hard at the line and bequeathed to our men quite a respectable line of trenches and a light railway running to within 300 yards of battalion headquarters. In doing this they had suffered heavily, and a subaltern was commanding their brigade; but the ⅙th was very grateful for the shelter afforded, for the shelling all round was fierce and the German artillery had got a very accurate range on all the tracks. There was a good deal of raiding at this time and the battalion had to repulse two attempts upon their lines; they were also spectators of a most successful raid carried out by the 4th Duke’s at Polderhoek.

In this neighbourhood the battalion had three tours of duty in the front line and then moved back to Reninghelst, a village a short distance south of the Ypres-Poperinghe main road.

The Duke’s had already heard the news of the desperate German onslaught on the Somme where much ground had been lost by the Third and Fifth Armies, and as they marched to Reninghelst the rumbling of artillery could be clearly heard from the direction of Armentieres, which lay only some ten miles to the south, on the far side of the ridge running from Mont des Cats to Kemmel Hill and dividing the plain of Ypres from France. But no news of any offensive in that area had reached them, and the men took off their clothes and went to bed in comfort for the first time for several weeks.

But the battalion was not to enjoy an undisturbed night. Shortly after midnight (April 9-10) everyone was awakened and dressed hurriedly. Ammunition was made up to fighting scale, Lewis guns taken off the limbers, and two days’ rations served out. By 2 a.m. the battalion was on the road in motor buses. Crossing the ridge they descended at Trois Rois cross roads, north of the town of Nieppe, where the whole of the 147th Brigade (¼th, ⅙th and ⅐th Duke of Wellington’s) was concentrated. After a hasty breakfast the whole Brigade moved forward across the open fields and took up a line in front of the town of Nieppe, facing Armentieres and astride the main road leading from that city to St. Omer and the Channel ports. After working some hours on defences, at 1 p.m. bullets began to enfilade the line from the south, and the brigade fell back a short distance to an old trench line from which they could more securely watch the threatened flank.

Only now did the battalion learn more or less what had happened. On the morning of the 9th after a heavy bombardment the Germans had attacked and driven back the Portuguese, who were still holding the Neuve-Chapelle-Fleurbaix sector; following up their success they had crossed the river Lys near Bac St. Maur and had thus turned the flank of this valuable line of defence. When the 6th Battalion took up its line at Nieppe, the Germans were at no great distance from their right flank and later in the day captured Steenwerck, which was actually behind them. So far as was known a British division still held Armentieres but they were weak in numbers and hard pressed. The task of the 147th Brigade was therefore twofold: (1) to check any advance of new German forces from Armentieres; and (2) to prevent the enemy from continuing his enveloping movement from the south and capturing the valuable line of hills behind them.

The battalion remained in its new line all night, on the extreme right of the Brigade. Troops kept coming back from Armentieres and it was impossible to know whether there was any continuous line in front. Next morning the question was answered, for the Germans were in close touch all along our front and the trenches were subjected to a terrific machine gun fire. A German aeroplane which came over dropping stickbombs was successfully brought down; a few minutes later one of our planes was also brought down close behind the 6th, but luckily the pilot and observer escaped little hurt into the West Riding trenches. The position of the brigade was now a difficult one for the enemy was behind them on either flank—at Neuve Eglise to the north and at Steenwerck to the south—and their line was assuming a horseshoe shape. C company, on the extreme right, found Germans advancing against them up a trench leading into their own. Lieut.-Col. Bateman, D.S.O., who was making one of his frequent tours of inspection, at once gathered a small party of B and C Coy. men with a few machine gunners, and himself led a very successful little charge, accompanied by Captain Ogston, Lieut. Baker and 2nd Lieut. Whitehead. Many Germans were killed and one prisoner was taken. The ⅙th still stuck to their ground and barred the main road, till at 7 p.m. the order came to retire. It was none too soon, for the leading company had to bayonet Germans on the road behind them, and Very lights from either side were falling in their path. Passing through another division which was to take up the task of defence, the battalion moved to La Creche and bivouacked.

At noon next day they were roused by shelling and at once moved out to take up a new line a short distance in front of the town of Bailleul. During this advance A Coy. had to drive off a party of some thirty Germans with machine guns. In their new line they were attacked next day from two sides; the 7th battalion facing down the Armentieres road while the 6th faced south. C company, of the 6th, holding the angle, bore the brunt of the attack and inflicted heavy losses on the baffled enemy, but they suffered a serious loss in the death of the gallant Capt. K. Ogston, who had commanded them for many months.

Early next morning (April 14th) another retirement was ordered and the brigade fell back to a line on the outskirts of Bailleul. The Germans continued their usual programme—a bombardment at 1-30 p.m. followed by an attack from 3 p.m. till dark, and once again were driven off with great loss. During this attack the British right flank was in the air, and a party of Germans getting round it made straight for 6th Battalion headquarters. They were soon driven off with considerable loss by Lieut.-Col. Bateman, Lieut. A. S. Stewart and Regt. Sergeant-Major Richardson, with the officers’ servants and orderly room staff. On this day, too, Sergeant Whiteley, the medical sergeant, cycled to Steenmill, a mile to the south, to fetch dressings from the transport, which had been there the previous day. He found it occupied by Germans and had some difficulty in escaping, leaving his bicycle in their hands.

That night the brigade was relieved by another division and, retiring behind Bailleul, thought that their troubles were ended. But the following day’s attack was too much for the troops in front, who retired, and the 6th Battalion had to dig yet another line. On the 17th a fresh attack by strong forces was repulsed and in a gallant counter-attack A company, under Major Tanner, captured three machine guns and a few prisoners.

The following evening the brigade was relieved and retired slowly to reorganise in Poperinghe.

After three quiet days the battalion passed a disturbed night on the 24th-25th April. Heavy shelling began about teatime, several billets being hit, while all night long the town was bombed with gas bombs by relays of aeroplanes. One fell right on the stores and inflicted serious casualties, and several of the transport were killed and wounded in stables near by. But at mid-day on the 25th, the ⅙th was once more moving forward. Kemmel Hill, lately taken over by the French, had been surprised in the early morning mist and captured, and upon the new line running through Millekruise (which the 147th brigade now took over from the battered 9th division) the safety of Ypres lay. Digging their line under continual shell fire the battalion was not attacked till the 29th, when the Germans made desperate efforts to break the whole line from Dranoutre to Voormezeele. The shelling, mostly from big guns, lasted incessantly from 3 a.m. till 4 p.m. and was the heaviest ever experienced by the battalion. In the attack that followed, the enemy forced their way into the lines of the 7th battalion on the left and had to be driven out by bayonet charges; but the 6th had forward posts commanding the valley in front and with accurate Lewis gun and rifle fire stopped the attackers dead as they descended the lower slopes of Kemmel Hill. The German onslaught had been stemmed, and the ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s, relieved by the 39th French Division, retired to rest at Reninghelst, the village from which it had started on its eventful journey twenty-four days before.

During all these operations the ⅙th had never once been driven back by the enemy. All the retirements were made under orders from the higher command and were carried out without confusion; enormous losses had been inflicted on the enemy; and the whole brigade admitted that Lieut.-Col. Bateman had been the life and soul of the defence. But a sadly heavy toll had been paid for success. Besides Capt. Ogston, the battalion had to mourn many of its best fighters who had come out in the early days. Among these were Lieut. Norman Procter, M.C., who, after a long spell of sterling work as battalion signalling officer, had been promoted to the Brigade staff: Sergt. Bury, D.C.M., M.M., who had signally distinguished himself in many a hard fight: Sergt. Gibson, D.C.M., Sergt. Burrows and Sergt. Stott, of Skipton; Sergt. Harding, M.M. of Keighley, Corporal Tillotson, M.M., of Oxenhope, and Corporal Barton, M.M. of Hellifield, an admirable Lewis gun instructor. D company had also lost their devoted commander, Capt. Buxton, M.C., who was very seriously wounded.

The whole Division was now withdrawn from the line and spent some weeks in the neighbourhood of Proven and St. Jans-ter-biezen, resting, reorganizing, training, and working on reserve lines. It was at this time that the 147th Brigade started its own particular concert party, “The Ducks,” which became very popular. The general manager was Lieut. J. S. Spencer, of Keighley, while Private Morgan, of B company, with his wonderful soprano voice, made up into one of the most attractive “leading ladies” in France.

At the beginning of June the 49th Division once again staked out its claim to the proud title of “Garrison of Ypres” by returning to the line in front of that city. The trenches had now drawn very close to the town and battalion headquarters were often in the ancient ramparts. An attack was confidently expected and the order was that Ypres was to be “held at all costs.” However for some reason the attack never came off. Delayed by an epidemic of influenza, it was probably finally abandoned owing to the need of troops to meet Marshal Foch in the south. Here the battalion remained for the summer. Heavily shelled with gas on its first arrival, its stay on the whole was not an unpleasant one, in spite of shelling both on the front line and back areas, and constant visits from bombing aeroplanes.

The Belgians were on the left and their soldiers created a very favourable impression. Later the 1st American Division arrived and came into the trenches with the ⅙th Battalion for instruction, before taking over the line themselves in the latter half of August. They appeared to be excellent material, and were very eager to learn all they could.

The outstanding feature of the stay was a very successful raid undertaken one morning by a party of A company under Lieut. C. Lowther, M.C. and Lieut. Farrer. Many Germans were killed and four captured. The following day Company Sergt.-Major Wiseman, D.C.M., led another successful foray, inflicting casualties on the enemy.

The ⅙th Duke’s left Ypres for the last time on August 19th, and with the rest of the Division had gone back to a delightful rest area between Calais and St. Omer. They had just settled down to training in charming surroundings when they were suddenly ordered to move south. The First Army had begun its final offensive and the 49th was required to take a part.

After brief halts at Pierremont (near St. Pol), at Estrees-Cauchie, and at Ecurie, the battalion arrived on September 23rd, 1918, at Wilderness Camp, about two miles from Arras on the Cambrai road. During this period Brig.-General C. G. Lewes, C.M.G., D.S.O., was transferred to home service, and Brig.-General Morant, D.S.O., of the Durham Light Infantry, was promoted to the command of the 147th Infantry Brigade. At Wilderness Camp other changes occurred within the battalion. Major Tanner, after a long spell of arduous work with the 6th Battalion, returned to his original battalion (7th Duke’s) as second-in-command: and Major Hugh Dixon, who had made a great reputation both as a skilled instructor and a cheerful and tenacious leader, left the battalion on promotion to be second-in-command of the 9th Essex Regt.

Here the battalion remained a fortnight while the situation developed. The attack, as yet, had only been pushed forward south of the river Scarpe, and the Germans were known to have reserves in Douai, to the northward, which might be used against the flank of our advance. But on October 6th the order was given to move forward; the north was now secure. On the 9th, when Cambrai was captured, the 6th were close behind, and on the 10th moved up to Escadoeuvres in front of that city, and were in close support to the front line. The following day they were once again at grips with the enemy.

The southern half of the First British Army (south of the Scarpe) was at this time far in advance of the northern half, and the plan was formed to push forward by surprise attacks towards Valenciennes on the south, in order to cut off the German forces who were known to be holding out in the strongly defended neighbourhood of Douai.

For this difficult and hazardous task the 49th Division was selected. If a surprise was to be effected, no time was permissible in which to move up a full complement of artillery, and it was with a scattered barrage of 18-pounders that the 49th went over the top, over ground which they had had no time to reconnoitre.

The 146th Brigade (West Yorks.) was on the left and the 147th (Duke of Wellington’s) on the right. The 6th Duke’s, in support to the 4th and 7th Duke’s, moved out of Escadoeuvres at 11-45 p.m. on the night of Oct. 10-11th and dug in near the village of Naves. Advancing at dawn through the German barrage of gas shells they crossed the Erclin river without incident: but near the top of the ridge beyond found the front line coming back and themselves met with heavy machine gun fire. They were soon mingled with the front line on the top of the ridge and there saw four enemy tanks advancing through the division, causing many casualties. Lieut. H. Hopwood, with Corporal Ames and a party of D company Lewis gunners, opened concentrated fire upon the leading tank and caused them all to retire. The ridge was held, but the Division had suffered heavy casualties. The 6th, who had suffered less than some others, had lost three company commanders—Capt. Coulthurst, killed, and Capt. Clifford and Lieut. Grey wounded.

This line was occupied for the night. By next morning the enemy had retired, and the ⅙th led the way forward through the village of Villers-en-Cauchies without interference except from the machine guns of enemy aeroplanes. The next opposition was encountered at Saulzoir, on the Selle river, which was found to be strongly held. By vigorous patrolling the battalion gradually pushed their way into the village, where they found many civilians in cellars, who welcomed them affectionately and fed them with coffee, though themselves suffering severely from the enemy’s mustard gas. A large number of French civilians were removed to safety by night. By these advances, in which Lieut. Hopwood, M.C., Lieut. Farrar, 2nd Lieut. Bilham, Sergts. Best, M.M., Green, D.C.M., Calvert, D.C.M., Sykes, D.C.M., and Rosenthal, D.C.M., in turn did valuable work, the battalion had fought its way house by house practically up to the Selle river, where it was relieved on the night of October 18th by the 2nd Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regt., among whom the 6th Battalion found many friends.

In the week’s fighting the battalion had lost heavily. Besides Capt. Coulthurst, 2nd Lieut. Ricroft, a most promising young officer, had been killed; also Company Sergt.-Major McDermott, D.C.M., one of the best N.C.O.’s the battalion ever turned out; Sergts. Godwin, M.M. and Midgley, M.M., Corporals Haw and Stanley, and many other good fellows. On the night before the relief, a gas shell, falling on the roof of the cellar which served as orderly room, placed almost all our battalion headquarters hors-de-combat. Lieut.-Col. C. M. Bateman, D.S.O., with Lieuts. Stewart and Thrackray, was taken to hospital; Lieut. A. P. Smith, M.C., the Acting Adjutant, left alone in the cellar, was just able to hold on and give the necessary instructions before he, too, had to be helped out of the line. Major A. B. Clarkson, M.C., took over the command of the battalion and Major F. L. Smith, M.C., who had been attached to the Divisional Staff, returned as second-in-command, with Lieut. A. Lacy as adjutant.

After a short rest at Naves and Hordain the Battalion found itself again in the battle line on the night of Oct. 28th-29th, when it took over the front near Famars, south of Valenciennes. The floods to the west and north of Valenciennes prevented a direct attack upon that city; and the task set the 49th Division with Canadians on their left and the 4th Division on their right, was to break through the strong series of defences on the hills and valleys to the south and so render the city untenable.

The 49th Division attacked on a two battalion front. To the ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s was assigned the honour of leading the attack on the right, with the 7th Duke’s in support and the 4th Duke’s in reserve. The 146th (West Yorks.) Brigade attacked on the left in similar formation, and the 148th was held in reserve for a further push northwards the following day. Within the ⅙th Batt. A and B companies had to attack first; their task was to rush the German first line and the posts in front of it, descend into the valley, cross the river Rhonelle and ascend the opposite slope as far as a deeply sunken road on the next ridge. C and D companies were then to push through them and if possible reach the line of the Preseau-Marly road some 800 yards beyond. The whole arrangements were most carefully worked out and explained by Lieut.-Col. Clarkson, M.C., and a splendid supporting barrage was organized by Colonel Duncan, of Otley, who was in command of the artillery brigade covering the ⅙th front and had one 18-pounder gun for every twelve and a half yards of frontage, without counting those of heavier calibre behind.

The attack, which opened at 5-15 a.m. was a most successful one. The men were delighted to start a clean show of their own, planned by their own officers, instead of their usual task of going in to retrieve the fortunes of a day of failure: though they numbered little over 320, they captured about 600 unwounded prisoners (including twelve officers), a great store of machine guns and trench mortars, and left many hundred German dead upon the field.

A company on the left, under Capt. Farrar, M.C., went off with a rare dash and rushed a number of hidden machine gun posts found unexpectedly near their line; crossing the Rhonelle river by fallen trees and by footbridges placed in position by parties of the 19th Lancashire Fusiliers, they accomplished their task in spite of severe casualties, and came unexpectedly upon the sunken road, which was found full of surrendering Germans and of pack-horses which had just come up with their rations. B company on the right had an even stiffer time; all their officers had been put out of action within five minutes of the start, and flanking machine gun fire raked them all the way. Company Sergt.-Major T. Limmer, D.C.M., at once took charge and led the company with the greatest skill and gallantry to its objective, thus winning the only M.C. awarded to a Company Sergeant.-Major of the battalion during the campaign.

After a short pause C company, under Lieut. W. Spratt, M.C., who had taken command in place of Capt. Willink, wounded, moved forward from the sunken road and after stubborn fighting reached their furthest objective. D company under Capt. Hart, M.C., attacked on their right but soon suffered very heavy casualties, for the 4th Division, on their right again, had met with a severe check and had been driven back from Preseau. At the critical moment Capt. Hart and practically all his head-quarters staff were killed by a burst of machine gun fire, and the company was forced to dig in a few hundred yards short of their objective. As the West Yorks. were also unable to get quite to their objective, this isolated Lieut. Spratt, who was still holding his ground with Sergt. Woodhead, M.M., Sergt. Burns, M.M., Corporal Maude, M.M., and a handful of other stalwarts; and Lieut.-Col. Clarkson, who managed to visit the whole front line during the hottest fighting, ordered him to retire a short distance to make the line more secure. But the high ridge had been won and the enemy was forced to retire from his cunningly constructed defences. The 7th Battalion advanced next day with very little opposition and Valenciennes was restored to France.

The battalion had lost a big proportion of its small numbers. Besides Capt. Hart, M.C., 2nd Lieuts. Cartwright and Oughton had been killed and Capt. Willink succumbed to his wounds a few days later. Sergts. Upton and Davies and Corporal Maude, M.M., all of whom had done gallant work, were also among the fallen. Lieut. Claridge had been wounded shortly before the battle, and Sergt. Fredericksen, M.M., commanded the signallers most successfully throughout the attack.

On the night of November 2nd, the Battalion moved out of the line for what proved to be the last time. Taken in motor ‘buses back to the mining village of Auby, near Douai, they were engaged in reorganizing and training new drafts when news of the Armistice arrived. There was little material for any form of feasting, but a most successful concert was held and the Battalion store of S.O.S. rockets and flares was found to be lamentably deficient next morning.

There was plenty of good fare for the Christmas dinner, for which four live pigs were obtained, regardless of expense, from the other side of Arras. And shortly after, while football and education became main topics of interest, the battalion began to dwindle. Demobilized men began to go home and retainable men and volunteers were transferred to the 13th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regt. at Dunkirk. The numbers were already very small when the battalion moved into the city of Douai, on March 20th, and on June 7th, the cadre, consisting of four officers and twenty-three other ranks, left for Dunkirk, with colours and stores, on its homeward way.

On June 16th, Lieut.-Col. Bateman, D.S.O., who had returned to the Battalion early in the year, crossed the Channel with his small party, and on June 19th the cadre enjoyed a civic reception from the town of Skipton, before depositing in the ancient parish church the regimental colours, which had been taken to France after the Armistice. Later in the day the cadre, with Lieut.-Col. Birkbeck, Major Clarkson, D.S.O., M.C., and a number of other returned officers, was entertained at a late luncheon by the Skipton Urban District Council, with Councillor John Walker in the chair.

In this narrative of the fighting there has been little opportunity to do full justice to the stiff work gallantly done by the Transport Section and by the band of handy men collected under the Quartermaster’s command and commonly known as “the Stores.” Upon their efforts the comfort, well-being, and general fighting efficiency of a battalion in the field largely depend, and in the case of the ⅙th the companies in the line never lacked their hearty support.

When the cadre returned to Skipton it was only fitting that one of the officers to carry the colours should be Capt. John Churchman, D.C.M., for he holds a truly remarkable record. When he went to France he was by many years the oldest officer in the battalion, yet till the cadre was finally dispersed at Ripon, except for terms of short leave, he had never been off duty for a day. To him the battalion owes a deep debt of gratitude. He was well supported by Quartermaster-Sergt. Norton, M.S.M., who, coming to France with the 147th Brigade headquarters, rejoined the 6th in the early days at Ypres and also remained throughout the war. Much valuable work along various lines was also done by Corporal Ward, Corporal Aspinal, Lance-Corporal Jenkinson, Privates Newhouse, Walker and Maudsley in the Ration Dept.; Shoemaker-Sergt. Bulcock and Corporal Busfield (tailor) in the Repairs Dept.

The Transport section, ever most cheery when work was hardest, was given a good start by Capt. S. H. Clough, M.C., who took them to France and only left them on getting command of his company after a strenuous winter in the muddy salient. Lieut. Morgan Bevan had charge for a time and was then succeeded by Lieut. C. M. Perfect, who led them gallantly through the bad times of Passchendaele and the fighting round Bailleul. When he returned home after an accident, he was followed by Lieut. Sidebotham. But all would willingly acknowledge how much they owed to Sergt. Field, M.M., M.S.M., the transport sergeant. Sergt. Bryden, M.M., early distinguished himself, and with that genial giant, Corporal Kay, M.M., Privates Howard and Williamson, and a few more, was very prominent in the difficult nightly marches to the Broodseinde ridge with pack horses, when shells fell thickly all round and a single step off the narrow wooden track spelled disaster. In the desperate fighting at Nieppe, the 6th Batt. transport alone was able to get through the shell-swept street of the town and kept its record for always taking rations to the line. To the men of the Transport, too, belongs the main credit for a wonderful performance at Merville Station, when the whole battalion, complete with horses, mules, waggons, cookers, watercarts and everything else, was loaded on a train ready to start eighteen minutes after entering the station yard. Their genial kindliness always attracted to their lines a curious and devoted collection of stray dogs, goats, and children, and they will always be affectionately remembered by “the lads” in the companies, for whom they would always willingly undertake the most hazardous journey.

Of the Medical Section, largely recruited from the Barnoldswick branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, it need only be said that it played a prominent part in every action that has been mentioned, and the long list of honours that fell to its share is ample testimony to the excellence of its work. The standard set up by Capt. Haddow and Sergt. Garrett, D.C.M., in the early days was maintained throughout. When Capt. Haddow was wounded at the opening of the battle of the Somme, he was succeeded by Capt. Glover, who did admirable work through the Thiepval fighting, but was recalled soon after to an important post at home. For the remainder of the war the battalion enjoyed the valuable services of Capt. S. P. Stoker, M.C., who set his men a constant example of cheeriness and kindheartedness through the many dark days that followed. In addition to his skill as a doctor and assiduity as sanitary inspector he possessed distinct gifts as an after-dinner speaker, and when, after the Armistice, he was transferred to the Army of the Rhine, he took with him the good wishes of all ranks in his old battalion.

COL. JOHN BIRKBECK.

LIEUT.-COL. C. M. BATEMAN, D.S.O., T.D.

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NOMINAL ROLL of Officers who embarked with the ⅙th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment at Folkstone on 14th April, 1915.

• Lt.-Col. J. Birkbeck.
• Major C. P. Cass.
• Major C. M. Bateman.
• Capt. T. K. Wright.
• Capt. A. B. Clarkson.
• Capt. N. B. Chaffers.
• Capt. E. G. Whittaker.
• Capt. K. Nicholson.
• Capt. C. H. Sarsby.
• Capt. H. Dixon.
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• Lieut. W. A. Mackenzie.
• Lieut. M. C. M. Law.
• Lieut. S. H. Clough.
• Lieut. C. H. Petty.
• Lieut. A. E. K. Slingsby.
• Lieut. H. Knowles.
• Lieut. E. J. C. Supple.
• Lieut. C. F. Horsfall.
• 2nd. Lieut. F. L. Smith.
• 2nd Lieut. R. M. Robinson.
• 2nd Lieut. T. S. Whitaker.
• 2nd Lieut. V. E. W. Greaves.
• 2nd Lieut. L. Jaques.
• 2nd Lieut. N. Geldard.
• 2nd Lieut. T. Brayshaw.
• 2nd Lieut. R. C. Barrett.
• 2nd Lieut. K. Ogston.
• 2nd Lieut. P. F. Stuck.
• Capt. & Adjt. S. F. Marriner.
• Lieut. & Qt.-Mstr. J. Churchman.
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• Medical Officer—Lieut. A. C. Haddow (R.A.M.C. (T.)).

NOMINAL ROLL of Warrant Officers, N.C.O.’s and Men who embarked with the ⅙th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment at Folkestone on 14th April, 1915.

• Pte. C. Ackroyd.
• Pte. W. Addyman.
• Pte. E. V. Ainsworth.
• Pte. J. Ainsworth.
• Pte. O. Ainsworth.
• Pte. E. Alderson.
• Pte. H. Aldous.
• Pte. W. Alison.
• Pte. S. E. Allen.
• Pte. J. Allison.
• Sgt. G. Allsopp.
• Pte. T. Allsopp.
• Pte. W. Allsopp.
• Act./Cpl. T. Ambler.
• Pte. A. Anderson.
• Pte. R. Andrews.
• Pte. J. Appleby.
• Act./Sgt. H. Armitage.
• Pte. J. Armitage.
• Pte. W. R. Armstrong.
• Pte. E. Askew.
• Pte. F. Askey.
• Pte. J. Asquith.
• Dr. A. Atkinson.
• Pte. M. W. Atkinson.
• Pte. H. Atkinson.
• Pte. B. Ayres.
• Pte. A. Bailey.
• Pte. J. Bailey.
• Pte. G. C. Bailey.
• Pte. F. Baldwin.
• Pte. P. Baldwin.
• Pte. H. Balmforth.
• Pte. J. Balmforth.
• Pte. J. H. Bamford.
• Pte. A. Bamforth.
• Pte. J. Bamforth.
• Pte. F. Banbury.
• Pte. F. Bancroft.
• Pte. J. G. Bancroft.
• Pte. S. Bancroft.
• Pte. A. Banks.
• Pte. J. Banks.
• Pte. C. J. Barker.
• Pte. E. Barker.
• Pte. H. Barker.
• Pte. J. W. Barnes.
• Sgt. W. Barnes.
• Pte. H. Barraclough.
• Pte. A. Barrett.
• Pte. F. Barrett.
• L./Cpl. G. H. Barrett.
• Pte. J. Barrett.
• Pte. A. Barron.
• Pte. W. P. Barry.
• Pte. R. Barson.
• Pte. P. Barton.
• Sgt. F. Barwick.
• Pte. R. Bass.
• Cpl. J. Bateson.
• Pte. W. Bateson.
• Pte. M. Baxter.
• Pte. S. Beard.
• Pte. F. Beckett.
• Pte. J. Beckwith.
• Pte. J. E. Beecroft.
• Pte. A. C. Bell.
• L./Cpl. E. Bell.
• Pte. F. Bell.
• Pte. G. H. Bell.
• Sgt. J. W. Bell.
• Pte. J. W. Bell.
• Pte. S. H. Bell.
• Pte. A. Benson.
• Pte. E. Benson.
• Pte. J. Bentley.
• Pte. W. H. Best.
• Pte. R. Bibby.
• Pte. E. Billows.
• Cpl. C. T. Binns.
• Pte. A. Binns.
• Pte. E. Binns.
• Pte. U. Binns.
• Pte. W. Binns.
• Pte. S. Bishop.
• Pte. W. G. Blackwell.
• Pte. P. N. Blenkarn.
• Pte. W. H. Bolton.
• Pte. T. Bonnick.
• Cpl. A. M. Booth.
• Pte. J. Booth.
• Pte. S. Booth.
• Pte. C. P. Boothman.
• Pte. P. Boothman.
• Pte. R. Borrissow.
• Pte. C. Bottomley.
• Pte. W. Bottomley.
• Pte. C. Bolton.
• Pte. A. Bower.
• Pte. S. Bower.
• Pte. A. Bowker.
• Pte. W. Bowker.
• Pte. F. Bracewell.
• Pte. J. R. W. Bracewell.
• Pte. H. Bradbury.
• Pte. J. E. Bradbury.
• Pte. J. T. Bradley.
• Pte. W. G. Bradley.
• Pte. J. E. Bradley.
• Pte. A. Bradwell.
• Pte. F. Brady.
• Pte. W. H. Brassington.
• Sgt. J. Brennand.
• Pte. H. Brentley.
• Pte. E. Briggs.
• Pte. J. Briggs.
• Pte. W. G. Briggs.
• Sgt. T. P. Brighouse.
• Pte. W. Broadfoot.
• Pte. A. Brook.
• Pte. T. Brook.
• Pte. C. Brooks.
• Pte. G. Brooks.
• Pte. H. Brooks.
• Pte. J. Brooks.
• Pte. R. B. Broster.
• Pte. W. Broster.
• Dr. A. Brown.
• Pte. A. Brown.
• Coy. Sgt.-Major A. H. Brown.
• Pte. E. H. Brown.
• Pte. C. Brown.
• Pte. E. Brown.
• Pte. F. Brown.
• Pte. H. Brown.
• Pte. J. Brown.
• Pte. J. J. Brown.
• Pte. J. W. Brown.
• Pte. N. R. Brown.
• Pte. S. Brown.
• Pte. A. Bruce.
• L./Cpl. P. Brundrett.
• Pte. W. F. Bryant.
• L./Cpl. H. Bryden.
• Pte. H. Buck.
• Reg. Sgt.-Maj. O. Buckley.
• Pte. G. H. Buckley.
• Pte. C. Bulcock.
• Pte. F. Bulcock.
• Pte. J. H. Bulcock.
• Pte. W. Burgess.
• Pte. C. Bunnett.
• Pte. T. H. Burnett.
• L./Cpl. H. Burns.
• Pte. J. Burns.
• Pte. M. Burns.
• Pte. R. Burns.
• Pte. H. Burnley.
• Cpl. L. V. Burrows.
• Sgt. F. Burton.
• Pte. H. Burton.
• Cpl. J. Bury.
• Pte. C. Busfield.
• Pte. W. Butcher.
• Pte. M. Butler.
• Pte. E. Butterfield.
• Pte. J. Butterfield.
• Pte. W. Bygrave.
• Pte. C. Calvert.
• Pte. G. E. Calvert.
• Cpl. H. Calvert.
• Pte. H. J. Capstick.
• Pte. J. H. Capstick.
• Pte. J. T. Cardus.
• Pte. R. Carr.
• Pte. S. Carr.
• Cpl. D. Carruthers.
• Pte. A. J. Carter.
• Pte. F. W. Cartman.
• Pte. J. Caulfield.
• Pte. W. Cawood.
• Pte. F. Chadwick.
• Pte. E. Champion.
• Pte. J. Chandler.
• Pte. S. Chandler.
• Pte. E. Chapman.
• Cpl. J. Chapman.
• Dr. T. Chapman.
• Pte. B. Chatburn.
• Pte. F. Chattaway.
• Pte. W. Chester.
• Pte. J. R. Chew.
• Pte. C. V. Child.
• Pte. W. Chisman.
• Dr. J. Churchman.
• Pte. J. W. Clapham.
• Pte. E. Clarke.
• Pte. R. Clark.
• Pte. H. Clarke.
• Pte. H. J. Clarke.
• Pte. W. Clarke.
• Pte. W. J. Clarke.
• Pte. L. Clarkson.
• Pte. H. Claughton.
• Pte. H. M. Claughton.
• Pte. A. Clayton.
• Pte. C. F. Clegg.
• Pte. A. H. Clegg.
• Pte. F. Close.
• Pte. J. Clough.
• Pte. C. Coe.
• Pte. P. Colley.
• Pte. R. A. Collins.
• Pte. R. W. W. Collyer.
• Pte. T. Conner.
• Pte. T. Connolly.
• Pte. G. Cook.
• Pte. J. W. Cook.
• Pte. J. Cooke.
• Pte. T. Cooper.
• Pte. F. Coppack.
• Pte. F. Coppack.
• Pte. D. Corcoran.
• Cpl. R. Cordingley.
• Pte. G. Corker.
• Pte. E. Corley.
• Pte. J. Corson.
• Pte. P. Coulson.
• Pte. F. Coulton.
• Cpl. C. Cousins.
• Pte. G. Cousins.
• Pte. W. H. Cousins.
• Pte. E. Cowgill.
• Pte. E. Cowgill.
• Pte. H. Cox.
• Pte. R. Cox.
• Pte. J. Crabtree.
• Coy. Qt.-Mstr.-Sergt. A. E. Craven.
• Pte. H. Craven.
• Pte. W. Craven.
• Pte. C. Crawshaw.
• Pte. E. Crichlow.
• Pte. T. Critcherson.
• Pte. W. Cronheimer.
• Pte. C. Crook.
• Pte. H. Crook.
• Pte. R. Crook.
• Sgt. B. Crosby.
• Pte. N. Crowther.
• Pte. F. Cryer.
• Pte. R. Cumberland.
• Pte. E. Cunningham.
• Sgt. A. Cutler.
• Pte. J. H. Dalby.
• Pte. H. Darnbrook.
• Pte. F. Davey.
• Pte. D. Davies.
• Pte. H. Dawson.
• Pte. H. Dawson.
• Pte. P. Dawson.
• Pte. S. Dean.
• Pte. C. Deighton.
• Pte. G. E. Deighton.
• Pte. H. C. Demaine.
• Pte. R. Dent.
• Pte. E. C. Dessent.
• Pte. E. Dickenson.
• Cpl. F. Dicken.
• Pte. A. Dinsdale.
• Pte. W. Dinsdale.
• Pte. T. Dixon.
• Pte. S. Dixon.
• Pte. T. Docksey.
• Pte. G. Docksey.
• Pte. J. R. Dodgson.
• Coy. Sergt.-Major F. Dodsworth.
• Pte. J. Donlan.
• Pte. E. Dove.
• Pte. H. Dove.
• Pte. W. Dove.
• Coy. Qt.-Mstr.-Sergt. R. Drake.
• Pte. H. Driver.
• Pte. G. Driver.
• Pte. T. A. Driver.
• Pte. W. S. Drummond.
• Pte. W. T. Duffy.
• Pte. H. Duncan.
• Pte. G. W. Dunhill.
• Pte. J. A. Dunlin.
• Pte. A. Duxbury.
• Pte. T. D. Eagles.
• Pte. W. Earnshaw.
• Pte. T. Earnshaw.
• Pte. W. Eccleston.
• Pte. H. Edmondson.
• Pte. E. Ellershaw.
• Pte. F. Elliott.
• Pte. H. Elliott.
• Sgt. A. Ellison.
• Pte. H. Ellison.
• Pte. J. W. Emmott.
• Pte. T. O. Emmott.
• Pte. W. Emmott.
• Pte. H. Exley.
• Pte. J. Falshaw.
• Pte. J. Farley.
• Pte. W. Farrer.
• Pte. F. Fawcett.
• Pte. S. Fawkes.
• Pte. W. J. Fearn.
• Pte. M. Fearnley.
• Pte. W. Feather.
• Pte. C. Fennerty.
• Pte. P. Ferrans.
• Pte. A. Field.
• Sgt. P. Field.
• Pte. G. Fielding.
• Pte. J. Filburn.
• Pte. P. Fletcher.
• Pte. T. J. Fletcher.
• Pte. J. R. Foster.
• Pte. T. Foster.
• Pte. T. Foster.
• Pte. T. Foster.
• Pte. W. Forster.
• Pte. R. Fowler.
• Pte. J. A. Fox.
• Pte. I. Foxcroft.
• Pte. K. Frame.
• Cpl. G. Frankland.
• Pte. R. Frankland.
• Pte. T. L. Frankland.
• Pte. E. Fredrickson.
• Cpl. E. Friend.
• Pte. E. Frobisher.
• Pte. F. P. Furness.
• Pte. F. Gallagher.
• Pte. S. Garnett.
• Pte. W. Garnett.
• Sgt. P. H. Garrett.
• Pte. J. H. Garwood.
• Pte. F. Gee.
• Pte. P. Gerrard.
• Pte. S. Gibson.
• Pte. W. D. Gibson.
• Pte. A. Gill.
• Pte. F. Gill.
• Pte. J. H. Gill.
• Pte. H. Gillibrand.
• Pte. J. Gilmour.
• Pte. A. Glasby.
• Pte. A. Godfrey.
• Pte. J. A. Goodall.
• Pte. W. Goodings.
• Pte. F. Goodwin.
• Pte. A. Gough.
• Pte. P. Goulden.
• Pte. J. Graham.
• Pte. K. Graham.
• Pte. C. E. Grainger.
• Pte. C. Grainger.
• Pte. H. Gray.
• Pte. W. Gray.
• Pte. T. A. Greaves.
• Pte. E. Green.
• Pte. R. W. Green.
• Pte. A. Greenbank.
• Pte. G. A. Greenwood.
• Pte. G. Greenwood.
• Pte. I. Gunning.
• Pte. A. Hailwood.
• Pte. J. W. Hainsworth.
• Pte. L. Hall.
• Pte. L. H. Hall.
• Pte. A. Hall.
• Pte. G. Halliday.
• Pte. W. Halliday.
• Pte. A. Halls.
• Pte. J. Halstead.
• Sgt. H. Hampton.
• Pte. B. Hancock.
• Pte. P. Happs.
• Cpl. H. Hardaker.
• Pte. C. Harding.
• Pte. C. Hardisty.
• Sgt. E. Hardman.
• Pte. S. Hargreaves.
• Pte. L. Hargreaves.
• Pte. G. Harrison.
• Pte. N. Harrison.
• Pte. A. Harper.
• Sgt. H. Hartley.
• Pte. J. H. Hartley.
• Pte. M. Hartley.
• Pte. R. Hartley.
• Pte. T. Hartley.
• Pte. W. Hartley.
• Pte. G. Harwood.
• Pte. C. Haslam.
• Pte. W. Hastings.
• Pte. W. E. Haxby.
• Pte. R. Healey.
• Pte. J. L. Heaps.
• Cpl. J. Heard.
• Pte. J. Heaton.
• Pte. H. Heaton.
• Pte. A. Hedges.
• Cpl. J. S. Hepworth.
• Pte. C. Hewlett.
• Pte. J. H. Hey.
• Pte. A. Hey.
• Pte. W. Hicks.
• Pte. A. Higgins.
• Pte. J. Hillary.
• Pte. G. Hinchcliffe.
• Pte. F. Hird.
• Pte. J. H. Hird.
• Pte. W. H. Hirst.
• Pte. H. Hodgson.
• Pte. H. Hodgson.
• Pte. J. Hodgson.
• Pte. J. Hodgson.
• Pte. M. Hodgson.
• Pte. W. A. Hodgson.
• Pte. J. Hogan.
• Pte. J. H. Holden.
• Pte. J. Hollingdrake.
• Pte. W. Hollings.
• Pte. F. Holmes.
• Pte. E. Holmes.
• Sgt. E. Hopkinson.
• Pte. H. Hopwood.
• Sgt. G. H. Horner.
• Pte. H. Horner.
• Pte. J. Horner.
• Sgt. W. Horner.
• Pte. H. Houldsworth.
• Pte. T. Howe.
• Pte. F. H. Howson.
• Pte. G. E. Hook.
• Pte. J. Hudson.
• Sgt. W. Hudson.
• Pte. J. Hudson.
• Pte. A. Hudson.
• Pte. J. Humphrey.
• Pte. S. Hunter.
• Pte. A. Ingham.
• Pte. H. Ingham.
• Pte. A. Ireland.
• Pte. T. Ireland.
• Pte. J. Ireland.
• Pte. W. Ireland.
• Pte. J. Irving.
• Pte. E. Isherwood.
• Pte. C. Ingleson.
• Pte. J. R. Jackman.
• Coy. Sergt.-Major A. Jackson.
• Pte. F. Jackson.
• Sgt. J. Jackson.
• Pte. W. Jackson.
• Pte. A. Jacques.
• Pte. H. Jarman.
• Pte. S. Jarvis.
• Pte. W. Jeffrey.
• Dr. E. Jenkinson.
• Pte. R. Jenkinson.
• Pte. J. Jennings.
• Pte. A. Johnson.
• Cpl. E. Johnson.
• Pte. G. Johnson.
• Pte. H. Johnson.
• Pte. W. Johnson.
• Dr. J. W. Jolly.
• Pte. H. E. Jones.
• Pte. A. Jowett.
• Pte. H. Jowett.
• Pte. W. Jowett.
• Pte. W. Joy.
• Pte. N. Judson.
• Pte. L. Kay.
• Pte. C. W. Kaye.
• Pte. H. G. Kaye.
• Pte. A. Kelly.
• Pte. E. Kelly.
• Coy. Qt.-Master Sergt. B. Kendall.
• Pte. J. G. Kendall.
• Pte. E. Kennedy.
• Pte. J. Kennedy.
• Pte. T. Kennedy.
• Pte. H. Kew.
• Pte. C. F. King.
• Pte. W. A. King.
• Pte. J. Kirkbright.
• Pte. A. Kirkbride.
• Pte. J. Kitts.
• Pte. J. W. Knipe.
• Pte. T. Knowles.
• Pte. J. H. Knowles.
• Pte. H. Lake.
• Pte. A. Lambert.
• Pte. A. Lambert.
• Pte. G. Lambert.
• Coy. Qt.-Master Sergt. J. W. Lambert.
• Sgt. W. Lambert.
• Pte. C. Lane.
• Pte. A. Lang.
• Pte. H. Lawson.
• Cpl. W. Lawson.
• Pte. E. Laycock.
• Pte. J. Laycock.
• Pte. J. Laycock.
• Dr. W. Laycock.
• Pte. A. Leach.
• Pte. H. Leach.
• Pte. R. Leach.
• Pte. H. Leaf.
• Pte. E. Ledger.
• Pte. J. W. Lee.
• Pte. R. Lee.
• Pte. S. Lee.
• Pte. W. Lee.
• Cpl. J. H. Lemmon.
• Pte. T. W. Lemon.
• Pte. T. T. Levitt.
• Pte. W. Lilley.
• Dr. B. Limmer.
• Pte. A. Linfoot.
• Pte. C. W. Lister.
• Pte. J. H. Lister.
• Qt.-Master Sergt. J. W. Lister.
• Pte. W. Lister.
• Pte. H. Little.
• Pte. J. Lofthouse.
• Dr. J. Lofthouse.
• Cpl. J. T. Lomas.
• Pte. R. S. Long.
• Pte. E. Longfield.
• Pte. S. Lonsdale.
• Pte. W. Lonsdale.
• Pte. T. Lord.
• Pte. C. Lowndes.
• Pte. H. Lowcock.
• Pte. J. Lund.
• Pte. A. MacDonald.
• Pte. W. MacGregor.
• Pte. W. Mackey.
• Pte. W. Maddocks.
• Pte. W. Mann.
• Pte. J. W. Maroney
• Cpl. H. Marriott.
• Pte. J. Marsden.
• Pte. T. Marsh.
• Pte. J. Marshall.
• Pte. S. Marshall.
• Pte. T. Marshall.
• Pte. H. Marshall.
• Pte. T. Marston.
• O. R. Sgt. F. Martin.
• Sgt. J. Martin.
• Pte. J. Martin.
• Pte. T. Martin.
• Pte. E. Mason.
• Pte. S. Matthews.
• Pte. G. Maude.
• Pte. G. Maudsley.
• Pte. J. Maudsley.
• Pte. W. Maunders.
• Pte. S. Mayes.
• Pte. L. McCann.
• Pte. C. McCann.
• Pte. J. McDermott.
• Cpl. J. McHugh.
• Pte. F. McKinley.
• Pte. D. McFarland.
• Pte. W. McShee.
• Pte. A. R. Metcalfe.
• Sgt. G. Metcalfe.
• Pte. J. Metcalfe.
• Pte. R. Metcalfe.
• Pte. W. Metcalfe.
• Pte. J. Middlebrook.
• Pte. J. Middleton.
• Pte. W. Middleton.
• Pte. J. Midgley.
• Pte. J. W. Midgley.
• Pte. C. Miles.
• Pte. R. H. Milne.
• Pte. G. Mitchell.
• Pte. F. Mitchell.
• Pte. A. Mitchell.
• Pte. T. Monk.
• Pte. J. H. Monk.
• Pte. J. Moore.
• Pte. W. Moore.
• Pte. A. Moore.
• Pte. J. C. D. Moore.
• Pte. W. Moorhouse.
• Pte. P. Morgan.
• Pte. W. J. Morrison.
• Pte. J. Nash.
• Sgt. J. Nelson.
• Pte. C. E. Newhouse.
• Pte. E. Nicholls.
• Pte. H. Nicholson.
• Pte. R. Nicholson.
• Pte. R. Noble.
• Pte. E. Norfolk.
• Pte. H. Norman.
• Sgt. J. Norton.
• Pte. W. D. Ogden.
• Pte. R. Oldfield.
• Pte. B. O’Neill.
• Pte. G. Page.
• Pte. A. Palmer.
• Pte. G. Palmer.
• Pte. C. Parker.
• Pte. E. Parker.
• Pte. G. W. Parker.
• Cpl. T. R. Parker.
• Pte. W. R. Parker.
• Pte. H. Pakes.
• Pte. C. Pass.
• Sgt. W. Pass.
• Pte. S. Patchett.
• Pte. J. Paterson.
• Pte. N. Patterson.
• Pte. C. Peachey.
• Pte. J. L. Peacock.
• Pte. W. H. Pearson.
• Pte. J. Peddley.
• Pte. A. Pendle.
• Pte. J. A. Penny.
• Pte. J. Petty.
• Pte. J. Petty.
• Pte. G. W. Phillips.
• Pte. A. Pickard.
• Pte. F. Pichard.
• Pte. H. Pickering.
• Pte. E. Pickles.
• Pte. F. Pickles.
• Pte. F. Pickles.
• Pte. J. Pickles.
• Pte. J. E. Pickup.
• Pte. J. Pickup.
• Pte. J. Pike.
• Pte. C. Pinder.
• Pte. C. Pipe.
• Pte. G. Pooley.
• Pte. L. Potter.
• Pte. D. Powell.
• Pte. A. Preston.
• Pte. C. Preston.
• Pte. E. Preston.
• Pte. F. Preston.
• Pte. R. Preston.
• Pte. W. Preston.
• Cpl. F. Procter.
• Pte. G. Procter.
• Pte. J. Procter.
• Cpl. G. Pullen.
• Pte. D. Quinn.
• Cpl. J. Quinn.
• Pte. S. Rainford.
• Pte. W. Raistrick.
• Pte. C. W. Ralph.
• Pte. T. Ralph.
• Pte. W. Rampling.
• Pte. J. Ramsden.
• Pte. H. Ratcliffe.
• Pte. J. Raw.
• Sgt. R. Rawdin.
• Cpl. D. Rawnsley.
• Pte. H. Rayner.
• Pte. C. H. Redhead.
• Pte. T. E. Redhead.
• Pte. H. Reed.
• Sgt. O. Rendell.
• Pte. T. Rencroft.
• Pte. C. Rhodes.
• Pte. J. Rhodes.
• Pte. J. W. Rhodes.
• Sgt. T. Richardson.
• Pte. W. Ridd.
• Pte. H. Ridding.
• Pte. B. Ridge.
• Pte. H. Riley.
• Pte. C. Riley.
• Pte. E. Riley.
• Pte. E. Rimmer.
• Pte. W. Rimmer.
• Pte. B. Roberts.
• Pte. H. Roberts.
• Pte. A. Robertshaw.
• Pte. A. Robinson.
• Pte. C. Robinson.
• Pte. C. P. Robinson.
• Pte. H. Robinson.
• Pte. H. Robinson.
• Pte. J. Robinson.
• Pte. J. W. Robinson.
• Sgt. W. J. Robinson.
• Pte. M. Rogers.
• Pte. A. Roe.
• Pte. E. Rosenthal.
• Pte. C. Rothery.
• Cpl. W. L. Routledge.
• Pte. J. Rudd.
• Pte. J. L. Ruddock.
• Pte. S. Rushworth.
• Pte. H. Rushworth.
• Pte. D. Russell.
• Pte. T. D. Sadler.
• Pte. I. Sanders.
• Pte. O. Sanderson.
• Pte. A. Saxton.
• Pte. E. Schofield.
• Pte. W. Schofield.
• Pte. A. H. Scott.
• Pte. W. Scott.
• Pte. C. Scott.
• Dr. A. E. Scully.
• Pte. C. R. Sears.
• Cpl. R. Seggar.
• Pte. G. Selwood.
• Pte. S. E. Senior.
• Pte. C. Shackleton.
• Pte. T. S. Shackleton.
• Pte. W. Shackleton.
• Pte. E. Sharpe.
• Pte. J. Sharpe.
• Pte. W. Sharpe.
• Pte. T. Sheldon.
• Pte. H. Shepherd.
• Pte. W. R. Shepherd.
• Pte. H. Shinn.
• Dr. H. Shires.
• Pte. H. Simpson.
• Pte. H. Simpson.
• Pte. H. Simpson.
• Pte. A. Simpson.
• Pte. G. Slight.
• Pte. E. Slinger.
• Pte. S. R. Slinger.
• Pte. V. Slinger.
• Sgt. W. Slinger.
• Pte. A. Smith.
• Pte. E. Smith.
• Pte. E. Smith.
• Pte. E. A. Smith.
• Pte. F. Smith.
• Pte. H. Smith.
• Sgt. A. Smith.
• Pte. H. Smith.
• Pte. F. Smith.
• Pte. E. M. Smith.
• Pte. R. Smith.
• Pte. E. Smith.
• Pte. H. Smith.
• Pte. H. Smith.
• Pte. H. M. Smith.
• Pte. J. Smith.
• Pte. J. Smith.
• Pte. J. Smith.
• Pte. J. A. Smith.
• Pte. J. D. Smith.
• Pte. J. H. Smith.
• Pte. J. J. Smith.
• Pte. J. W. Smith.
• Pte. M. Smith.
• Pte. N. Smith.
• Pte. W. Smith.
• Pte. W. Smith.
• Pte. W. Smith.
• Pte. W. Smith.
• Pte. R. Smith.
• Pte. F. Snowden.
• Pte. R. Snowden.
• Sgt. A. Southam.
• Pte. J. Southgate.
• Pte. R. Spence.
• Pte. J. E. Spencer.
• Pte. A. Spencer.
• Pte. P. Spencer.
• Pte. W. E. Staines.
• Pte. F. Standing.
• Pte. S. Stanley.
• Pte. H. Stansfield.
• Pte. W. Starkey.
• Pte. H. Stell.
• Pte. T. Stephenson.
• L/Cpl. A. Stephenson.
• Pte. J. H. Stewart.
• Pte. F. W. Stirk.
• Pte. T. Stone.
• Pte. W. F. Stoney.
• Pte. M. Stork.
• Pte. A. Stott.
• Pte. E. Stott.
• Pte. R. Stott.
• Pte. G. Stubbs.
• Pte. E. Sturdy.
• Cpl. G. Sturdy.
• Dr. A. H. Styler.
• Pte. H. Sunderland.
• Pte. S. Sunderland.
• Pte. A. Sutcliffe.
• Pte. T. Sutcliffe.
• Pte. W. Sutcliffe.
• Pte. J. E. Sutcliffe.
• Pte. H. Swindon.
• Pte. J. Swindlehurst.
• Pte. A. Syers.
• Pte. S. Tanner.
• Pte. A. Tattersall.
• Pte. J. Tattersall.
• Pte. J. W. Tatton.
• Pte. F. Taylor.
• Pte. G. Taylor.
• Pte. G. H. Taylor.
• Pte. H. C. Taylor.
• Pte. J. M. Taylor.
• Cpl. W. Taylor.
• Pte. J. Terry.
• Pte. C. Thomas.
• Pte. H. Thomas.
• Pte. H. Thomas.
• Pte. B. Thompson.
• Pte. E. Thompson.
• Pte. J. Thompson.
• Pte. W. Thompson.
• Pte. S. Thornborough.
• Pte. F. Thornton.
• Pte. G. Thornton.
• Pte. J. E. Tillotson.
• Pte. S. Tillotson.
• Pte. C. G. Tindall.
• Pte. C. E. Tomlinson.
• Pte. E. M. Tomlinson.
• Pte. J. Tomlinson.
• Pte. S. Tomlinson.
• Pte. K. Tomlinson.
• Pte. W. Toothill.
• Pte. A. E. Towler.
• Pte. J. Townson.
• Pte. A. Triffith.
• Pte. A. Turnbull.
• Pte. J. Turnbull.
• Pte. W. Turnbull.
• Coy. Sergt.-Major A. Turner.
• Pte. J. W. Turner.
• Pte. R. Turner.
• Pte. S. Twine.
• Pte. W. Tyrer.
• Pte. A. Uttley.
• Pte. C. Varley.
• Pte. J. Varley.
• Pte. J. Vickers.
• Pte. B. Vinnicombe.
• Pte. W. Waddington.
• Pte. J. Waddington.
• Pte. P. Wade.
• Pte. J. Wademan.
• Pte. S. Wademan.
• Pte. G. H. Wadeson.
• Pte. J. W. Wadeson.
• Cpl. D. Wagstaffe.
• Pte. W. Wainwright.
• Pte. E. Waite.
• Sgt. F. Waite.
• Pte. M. Waite.
• Sgt. R. Waite.
• Pte. R. Wakeley.
• Cpl. E. Wakeling.
• Pte. B. Walker.
• Pte. E. Walker.
• Pte. H. Walker.
• Pte. H. Walker.
• Cpl. T. Walker.
• Pte. H. Walker.
• Pte. T. W. Walker.
• Pte. W. Walker.
• Pte. R. Wallbank.
• Pte. W. Wallwork.
• Pte. A. Walmsley.
• Pte. C. Walmsley.
• Pte. E. Walsh.
• Pte. J. Walsh.
• Pte. T. A. Walton.
• Pte. J. Walton.
• Pte. C. J. Ward.
• Pte. M. Ward.
• Pte. J. Waring.
• Sgt. E. Waterhouse.
• Pte. J. Watmough.
• Pte. E. Watson.
• Pte. H. Watson.
• Pte. H. Watson.
• Pte. J. H. Watson.
• Pte. W. Watson.
• Pte. W. Watson.
• Pte. A. Wear.
• Pte. G. Webster.
• Sgt. J. Webster.
• Pte. A. West.
• Pte. F. West.
• Pte. J. West.
• Pte. T. West.
• Pte. L. Western.
• Pte. C. Whittaker.
• Pte. C. Whittaker.
• Pte. J. R. Whittaker.
• Pte. H. White.
• Pte. J. H. Whiteley.
• Sgt. W. Whiteoak.
• Pte. W. Whiteoak.
• Pte. C. Whiteoak.
• Pte. C. Whitham.
• Pte. F. Widdop.
• Pte. H. Widdop.
• Pte. H. Wimblett.
• Pte. J. Wiggan.
• Pte. F. Wilcock.
• Pte. H. Wiles.
• Pte. W. Wilkins.
• Pte. J. Wilkinson.
• Pte. N. Wilkinson.
• Cpl. F. Wilkinson.
• Pte. W. Wilkinson.
• Pte. C. E. Wilks.
• Pte. J. W. Willan.
• Pte. L. Williams.
• Pte. S. Williamson.
• Pte. J. Wilson.
• Pte. A. Wilson.
• Pte. A. Wilson.
• Pte. E. Wilson.
• Pte. G. W. Wilson.
• Pte. G. R. Windle.
• Sgt. E. Wiseman.
• Pte. J. Wiseman.
• Pte. J. Woffenden.
• Pte. J. Wood.
• Sgt. B. Woodcock.
• Pte. H. Woodhead.
• Cpl. W. Woods.
• Pte. A. Woodward.
• Pte. E. C. Wooff.
• Pte. G. F. Woollard.
• Pte. J. Wordley.
• Pte. S. Wright.
• Pte. W. Wright.
• Pte. W. Yates.
• Pte. F. Young.
• Pte. W. Young.
• Pte. J. H. Yoxall.
• Pte. J. Excell.
• Pte. W. O’Brien.
• Pte. J. Raistrick.
• Pte. J. W. Smith.
• A/Sgt. F. Harriman.

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NOMINAL ROLL.

• Pte. A. Arundale.
• Pte. T. Anderton.
• Pte. G. H. Alton.
• Sgt. H. Ayrton.
• Pte. A. Ackroyd.
• Cpl. H. R. Ackroyd.
• Pte. G. Abra.
• Pte. S. Atkinson.
• Sgt. T. E. Bosworthick.
• Pte. A. Bell.
• Pte. W. Barrett.
• Pte. G. Bell.
• Pte. H. Bray.
• Pte. F. A. Britton.
• Pte. G. Best.
• Sgt. A. Branker.
• Sgt. J. B. Bushby.
• Pte. H. Banks.
• Pte. H. Bottomley.
• Pte. B. Booth.
• Pte. J. Bates.
• Pte. S. Berry.
• Pte. W. Blackburn.
• Pte. A. B. Brown.
• Pte. W. H. Barrett.
• Pte. J. Birtle.
• Pte. W. Brookes.
• Pte. W. Breen.
• Pte. A. Busfield.
• Pte. A. Batley.
• Pte. J. Broadbent.
• Pte. S. Boothman.
• Pte. E. Beales.
• Pte. G. Bowman.
• Pte. E. Bishop.
• Pte. A. Barlow.
• Pte. J. H. Blackah.
• Pte. W. H. Boothman.
• Pte. G. Birch.
• Pte. R. Bateson.
• Cpl. F. A. Barker.
• Pte. J. R. Bowley.
• Pte. F. Blackey.
• Pte. R. Barker.
• Coy. Qt.-Mstr. Sergt. F. W. Beard.
• Pte. A. Bridge.
• Pte. J. Bunting.
• Pte. A. D. Blackburn.
• Pte. W. T. Bentley.
• Pte. W. H. Beck.
• Pte. J. Birkett.
• Pte. J. H. Black.
• Pte. A. N. Clayton.
• Pte. J. Cullam.
• Pte. R. Chapman.
• Pte. J. Cornall.
• Pte. A. Carey.
• Coy. Sergt.-Major A. Clarke.
• Pte. E. Calver.
• Pte. J. E. Crockford.
• Pte. G. E. Cousins.
• Pte. G. Cobb.
• Pte. W. Caton.
• Pte. J. E. Culbert.
• Pte. W. Cox.
• Pte. W. Chapman.
• Pte. W. Cook.
• Pte. T. A. Dobson.
• Pte. J. T. Deighton.
• Pte. E. Dawson.
• Pte. T. Downes.
• Pte. H. Davies.
• Pte. E. R. Dawson.
• Cpl. W. Dennard.
• Pte. A. Davey.
• Pte. J. W. Denton.
• Pte. E. Fawell.
• Pte. J. Fisher.
• Pte. S. E. Fern.
• Pte. T. Freeman.
• Pte. C. S. Fletcher.
• Pte. J. Foster.
• Pte. T. Foster.
• Pte. A. Flynn.
• Pte. H. Grimston.
• Pte. T. Geldard.
• Pte. J. Greenwood.
• Pte. J. Garrett.
• Sgt. J. Gibson.
• Pte. H. Graham.
• Pte. H. Green.
• Pte. J. Greenwood.
• Pte. E. Gothard.
• Pte. G. Guy.
• Pte. D. Gamble.
• Pte. J. Holdsworth.
• Pte. E. A. Hudson.
• Pte. F. Holmes.
• Pte. A. Hurst.
• Pte. G. W. Hirst.
• Pte. W. Harker.
• Pte. J. Hulme.
• Pte. T. Horner.
• Pte. H. Haworth.
• Pte. H. Horner.
• Pte. W. Haworth.
• Cpl. S. Hodgson.
• Pte. E. Hartley.
• Pte. E. Howarth.
• Pte. J. F. Hartley.
• Pte. B. Hawkins.
• Pte. S. J. Hargreaves.
• Pte. F. Ibbetson.
• Pte. A. Jacques.
• Cpl. P. W. Jolly.
• Pte. S. Jewitt.
• Pte. R. S. Johnson.
• Pte. R. Johnson.
• Pte. W. Jackson.
• Pte. W. Kelly.
• Sgt. R. E. King.
• Pte. G. Kendall.
• Pte. A. Key.
• Pte. C. F. King.
• Pte. J. Kirk.
• Pte. A. Lund.
• Pte. E. Laycock.
• Pte. G. T. Langford.
• Pte. E. Lund.
• Pte. J. Lynch.
• Pte. C. Lambert.
• Pte. M. Lund.
• Pte. E. T. Liggins.
• Pte. S. Lee.
• Pte. G. Morrell.
• Pte. A. Mitchell.
• Sgt. R. Mason.
• Pte. E. McLelland.
• Sgt. H. Morgan.
• Pte. T. Mellor.
• Pte. R. Metcalfe.
• Pte. W. Mudd.
• Pte. H. P. Moorhouse.
• Pte. R. Moore.
• Pte. A. Nutter.
• Pte. A. Norton.
• Pte. E. Overend.
• Pte. S. T. Oddie.
• Pte. A. Oddy.
• Pte. A. Preston.
• Pte. W. Park.
• Pte. J. Pateman.
• Dr. H. Pickles.
• Pte. J. L. Parker.
• Pte. T. Parrington.
• Pte. J. Parratt.
• Pte. J. T. Parker.
• Pte. J. B. Raynor.
• Pte. L. Riley.
• Sgt. T. J. Robinson.
• Pte. J. Rayner.
• Pte. C. C. Robinson.
• Pte. E. Russell.
• Pte. W. Royston.
• Pte. W. Scott.
• Pte. F. Spencer.
• Pte. R. Smith.
• Pte. J. Stephenson.
• Pte. J. W. Sugden.
• Pte. W. Smith.
• Pte. C. Smith.
• Pte. A. Steele.
• Pte. T. A. Shorter.
• Pte. H. A. Saxton.
• Pte. J. Smith.
• Pte. A. Spencer.
• Pte. H. Stott.
• Pte. B. K. Simpson.
• Pte. A. Sunderland.
• Pte. V. Shuttleworth.
• Pte. H. H. Smith.
• Pte. G. R. Smith.
• Dr. J. Stork.
• Pte. W. Smith.
• Pte. R. Smith.
• Pte. W. Shuttleworth.
• Pte. A. Stopp.
• Pte. J. Sweeney.
• A. L/Cpl. J. Smith.
• Cpl. H. Sharp.
• Pte. R. Swainbank.
• Cpl. W. H. Spedding.
• Pte. J. A. Smith.
• Pte. G. R. Smith.
• Pte. W. Southwell.
• Pte. J. W. Spencer.
• Pte. W. Stutes.
• Pte. L. Shaw.
• Pte. F. M. Sharpe.
• Pte. F. Shaw.
• Pte. P. T. Tillotson.
• Pte. N. Taylor.
• Pte. W. Thompson.
• Pte. H. Thompson.
• Pte. A. Thompson.
• Cpl. C. Vollentine.
• Pte. H. Vaughan.
• Pte. T. H. White.
• Pte. L. W. Wood.
• Pte. H. Waddington.
• Pte. T. Whitehead.
• Sgt. M. B. Windle.
• Pte. R. West.
• Pte. T. H. Watson.
• Pte. T. Wilkin.
• Pte. R. Wane.
• Pte. J. Walker.
• Pte. T. Walker.
• Pte. F. Whittaker.
• Pte. J. S. Whitham.
• Pte. P. L. Windle.
• Cpl. H. Wilson.
• Dr. J. Wilson.
• Pte. E. Wilson.
• Pte. T. Wilkinson.
• Cpl. J. Woodhead.
• Pte. H. White.
• Pte. J. Yeadon.
• Sgt. F. Yates.
• Cpl. A. F. Atkinson.
• Pte. A. E. Alton.
• Pte. E. Alton.
• Pte. G. Athorn.
• Pte. W. Brook.
• Pte. W. Banks.
• Pte. G. Barker.
• Pte. G. Barker.
• Pte. M. Barker.
• Pte. N. Barker.
• Pte. C. Beaumont.
• Pte. S. Bebb.
• Pte. C. H. Beevers.
• Pte. G. Belcher.
• Pte. J. Bennett.
• Pte. M. Benson.
• Pte. S. H. Bentley.
• Pte. D. Binns.
• Pte. F. Bracewell.
• Pte. J. Brooks.
• Pte. B. Brotherton.
• Pte. W. Broughton.
• Pte. C. E. Brown.
• Pte. C. W. Bryan.
• Pte. M. Buckley.
• Pte. J. Butterfield.
• Pte. G. Bygrave.
• Pte. F. M. Ball.
• Dr. W. Convine.
• Pte. F. Cardwell.
• Pte. T. Carter.
• Pte. I. Catherall.
• Pte. A. W. Chester.
• Pte. W. R. Child.
• Pte. I. A. Clarkson.
• Pte. W. Clough.
• Pte. A. Cocksedge.
• Pte. H. Cooke.
• Pte. R. Coulthard.
• Pte. J. H. Cowgill.
• Pte. G. E. Crook.
• Pte. W. Crossley.
• Sgt. A. E. Dawson.
• Pte. T. Dearden.
• Sgt. E. Driver.
• Pte. T. Dobson.
• Pte. H. Drake.
• Sgt. F. Eals.
• Pte. H. Edmondson.
• Pte. R. Edwards.
• Pte. G. Fawcett.
• Pte. E. Feather.
• Pte. T. W. Fenwick.
• Pte. H. Fortune.
• Pte. T. Fortune.
• Pte. H. Furness.
• Coy. Sergt.-Major C. H. Gartside.
• Cpl. G. Golding.
• Cpl. A. E. Green.
• Pte. T. W. Garner.
• Pte. H. R. Gilman.
• Pte. W. Goodall.
• Pte. R. Greenwood.
• Coy. Qt.-Master Sergt. W. Horsfield.
• Cpl. W. Hudson.
• Pte. F. Hadfield.
• Pte. G. Hadfield.
• Pte. J. Haigh.
• Pte. W. Haigh.
• Pte. L. Hall.
• Pte. G. F. Hammond.
• Pte. A. Hanson.
• Pte. C. Harbinson.
• Pte. L. Hardwick.
• Pte. S. Hardwick.
• Pte. C. A. Hargreaves.
• Pte. R. W. Hargreaves.
• Pte. F. Harper.
• Pte. A. Harrison.
• Pte. J. Harrison.
• Pte. J. T. Harwood.
• Pte. T. Hawker.
• Pte. H. Haworth.
• Pte. H. Heaton.
• Pte. F. Hedges.
• Pte. A. Hey.
• Pte. J. Hickey.
• Pte. W. Hodgkinson.
• Pte. I. Higgs.
• Pte. B. Hill.
• Pte. J. H. Hiles.
• Pte. J. W. Hindle.
• Pte. C. E. Hirst.
• Pte. W. H. Hodkinson.
• Pte. A. Holdsworth.
• Pte. D. Hollingsworth.
• Pte. W. Hopkins.
• Pte. J. Howarth.
• Cpl. T. Johnson.
• Pte. G. Inskip.
• Pte. J. H. Jackson.
• Pte. T. G. Jackson.
• Pte. H. Kempton.
• Pte. H. Kitson.
• Sgt. C. Lee.
• Cpl. S. R. Lane.
• Dr. F. Lyons.
• Pte. J. Lawson.
• Pte. A. H. Lovell.
• Pte. E. Lund.
• Pte. J. Lund.
• Pte. J. H. Lund.
• Sgt. J. T. McLeod.
• Cpl. G. Mason.
• Cpl. R. Mason.
• Cpl. S. Mitchell.
• Pte. G. Miller.
• Pte. H. W. Marshall.
• Pte. F. S. Mason.
• Pte. J. H. Mawson.
• Pte. W. R. McCall.
• Pte. E. Metcalfe.
• Pte. G. Metcalfe.
• Pte. W. Metcalfe.
• Pte. J. Midgley.
• Pte. T. Miller.
• Pte. T. Moreland.
• Pte. G. Moore.
• Pte. H. Moulds.
• Pte. J. H. Mudd.
• Pte. C. Murphy.
• Sgt. C. W. Newns.
• Pte. J. Nelson.
• Pte. R. Nutter.
• Sgt. W. Petty.
• Sgt. A. Pollard.
• Pte. H. Parker.
• Pte. T. Parkinson.
• Pte. J. Partridge.
• Pte. J. Pattison.
• Pte. F. Percival.
• Pte. N. Pilling.
• Pte. W. Pickup.
• Pte. T. Pitt.
• Pte. J. Plews.
• Pte. W. Powell.
• Pte. F. Pratt.
• Pte. A. Priestley.
• Pte. A. Pybus.
• Pte. W. Petty.
• Pte. C. Rawlings.
• Pte. T. Read.
• Pte. A. Richardson.
• Pte. C. Ridehalgh.
• Pte. J. Riley.
• Pte. A. Robinson.
• Pte. J. Robinson.
• Pte. A. Rushton.
• Pte. E. Ryder.
• Sgt. A. Smith.
• Pte. W. Saddington.
• Pte. H. Sargent.
• Pte. A. Saxton.
• Pte. T. L. Scott.
• Pte. H. Sedgewick.
• Pte. A. C. Sharpe.
• Pte. M. Sherlock.
• Pte. T. Sherlock.
• Pte. E. Simpson.
• Pte. W. Smales.
• Pte. A. Slater.
• Pte. A. Smith.
• Pte. F. Smith.
• Pte. J. W. Smith.
• Pte. L. Smith.
• Pte. M. Smith.
• Pte. F. Spencer.
• Pte. M. Spencer.
• Pte. J. T. Spencer.
• Pte. W. Stanley.
• Pte. J. Stead.
• Pte. E. Stell.
• Pte. J. Stephenson.
• Pte. A. Stoney.
• Pte. H. Storey.
• Pte. J. Sturdy.
• Pte. H. Sutcliffe.
• Pte. E. Thompson.
• Pte. H. Taylor.
• Pte. J. C. Taylor.
• Pte. T. Taylor.
• Pte. E. Teale.
• Pte. H. Tillotson.
• Pte. W. Toothill.
• Pte. D. Threlfall.
• Pte. E. Thwaites.
• Pte. W. Tuer.
• Pte. S. Turner.
• Pte. T. Turner.
• Pte. T. E. Vickers.
• Sgt. J. T. Walton.
• Cpl. A. West.
• Dr. F. Watkinson.
• Pte. D. Walkington.
• Pte. D. Walsh.
• Pte. R. J. Waterworth.
• Pte. E. Watson.
• Pte. F. Watson.
• Pte. J. A. West.
• Pte. D. Whittaker.
• Pte. W. Whittaker.
• Pte. R. Whiteley.
• Pte. H. J. Whiting.
• Pte. J. W. Wilkinson.
• Pte. W. Wilkinson.
• Pte. A. G. Wilson.
• Pte. C. B. Wilson.
• Pte. G. Wilson.
• Pte. H. Wilson.
• Pte. T. Willoughby.
• Pte. T. Wood.
• Pte. E. Woodhead.
• Pte. T. W. Woof.
• Pte. E. Wrathall.
• Pte. J. Wright.
• Pte. H. Wrigglesworth.
• Pte. H. Young.
• Pte. M. Alderson.
• Pte. P. Allott.
• Pte. J. R. Atkins.
• Pte. E. C. Atkins.
• Pte. W. Atkinson.
• Pte. J. W. Bailey.
• Pte. W. Bailey.
• Cpl. A. N. Barrett.
• Pte. W. J. Branker.
• Pte. C. Bainbridge.
• Pte. H. Bancroft.
• Pte. J. H. Beard.
• Pte. T. F. Bellerby.
• Pte. S. Bentley.
• Pte. W. Binns.
• Pte. H. Boyd.
• Pte. H. Boocock.
• Pte. E. Bowker.
• Pte. J. C. Bowker.
• Pte. W. Bracewell.
• Pte. W. Bramall.
• Pte. J. H. Brayshaw.
• Pte. A. Briggs.
• Pte. H. Brotherton.
• Pte. C. S. Brooks.
• Pte. J. W. Brown.
• Pte. E. Brown.
• Pte. B. E. Brown.
• Pte. W. Bruce.
• Pte. H. Bulcock.
• Pte. W. C. Burnett.
• Cpl. G. Burrow.
• Pte. J. Breare.
• Cpl. T. Bownass.
• Pte. N. V. Capstick.
• Pte. H. Capstick.
• Pte. W. Cartledge.
• Pte. M. Cartwright.
• Pte. W. Cawdrey.
• Pte. H. Chester.
• Pte. R. Clapham.
• Pte. T. Clemmett.
• Pte. T. Coates.
• Pte. A. E. Crabtree.
• Pte. F. T. Crowe.
• O.R.-Sgt. E. Cooper.
• Pte. S. W. Dean.
• Pte. H. Dixon.
• Pte. H. Dobson.
• Pte. G. Downie.
• Pte. E. Drake.
• Pte. F. Dugdale.
• Sgt. E. Dewhirst.
• Pte. M. Egan.
• Pte. H. Emmott.
• Pte. D. Everitt.
• Pte. A. Exley.
• Pte. J. A. Fender.
• Pte. L. Fieldsend.
• Pte. S. G. Fisher.
• Pte. H. B. Forrest.
• Pte. A. Ford.
• Pte. T. Foster.
• Pte. L. W. Fox.
• Pte. R. J. Goodwin.
• Pte. F. Green.
• Pte. A. Greenwood.
• Pte. J. E. Greenwood.
• Pte. J. T. Gilbert.
• Pte. E. Gill.
• Pte. E. Gill.
• Pte. E. Gornall.
• Pte. W. Greenacre.
• Dr. J. Godfrey.
• Cpl. S. Gardiner.
• Sgt. R. V. Gee.
• Cpl. A. Hebden.
• Dr. J. Haworth.
• Cpl. A. Haworth.
• Pte. A. D. Hargreaves.
• Pte. J. Harper.
• Pte. W. Hall.
• Pte. E. Herrington.
• Pte. T. E. Hewitt.
• Pte. S. Hird.
• Pte. T. Hawxwell.
• Pte. A. Holgate.
• Pte. J. Horner.
• Pte. A. Horseman.
• Pte. L. W. Hopkins.
• Pte. J. Hobson.
• Pte. W. R. Hull.
• Pte. R. Howell.
• Pte. H. Huby.
• Pte. A. Ingham.
• Pte. J. Jowett.
• Sgt. J. B. Jackson.
• Pte. J. Kaye.
• Pte. J. A. Keay.
• Pte. W. Kew.
• Pte. W. Kershaw.
• Pte. A. Lawson.
• Pte. R. Lawson.
• Pte. R. Leadbetter.
• Pte. W. J. C. Letheron.
• Pte. S. Little.
• Pte. T. Lobley.
• Pte. H. Lund.
• Pte. J. Lupton.
• Pte. I. Marshall.
• Pte. L. W. Marshall.
• Pte. W. A. Marshall.
• Pte. N. S. Metcalfe.
• Pte. A. E. Mills.
• Pte. F. Mitchell.
• Pte. L. P. Mitchell.
• Pte. M. MacDonnell.
• Pte. J. McGlynn.
• Pte. H. MacNulty.
• Pte. J. T. Moorby.
• Pte. E. Moorhouse.
• Pte. S. T. Moon.
• Pte. J. Mosley.
• Cpl. G. Mudd.
• Pte. J. Moran.
• Pte. C. H. Myers.
• Sgt. F. T. Metcalfe.
• Sgt. J. S. Mooney.
• Dr. W. Marshall.
• Pte. C. Neal.
• Pte. E. Nixon.
• Pte. C. Norfolk.
• Coy. Qt.-Master Sergt. E. J. Norton.
• Pte. W. Organ.
• Pte. H. Omerod.
• Pte. S. Ormondroyd.
• Pte. P. Overend.
• Pte. H. Pike.
• Pte. T. Parker.
• Pte. J. Parkinson.
• Pte. J. Pass.
• Pte. A. Pighills.
• Pte. T. Preston.
• Pte. H. Ralph.
• Sgt. H. Roo.
• Pte. E. R. Raine.
• Pte. J. Reynard.
• Pte. W. Ridge.
• Pte. A. Roberts.
• Pte. J. H. Robertshaw.
• Pte. A. Robinson.
• Pte. A. V. Robinson.
• Pte. C. Robinson.
• Pte. H. Ratcliffe.
• Pte. H. Rothwell.
• Coy. Sergt.-Major W. C. Rogers.
• Pte. A. Shackleton.
• Pte. H. Shackleton.
• Pte. M. Shannon.
• Pte. M. Sheriff.
• Pte. S. J. Siddall.
• Pte. H. Simpson.
• Pte. G. Singleton.
• Pte. A. Sherwin.
• Pte. T. M. Smales.
• Pte. A. V. Smith.
• Pte. A. Smith.
• Pte. E. Smith.
• Pte. H. Smith.
• Pte. I. G. Smith.
• Pte. Wm. Smith.
• Pte. Wa. Smith.
• Pte. R. Smith.
• Pte. W. H. Smith.
• Pte. W. B. Spencer.
• Pte. A. Stead.
• Pte. F. Stapleton.
• Pte. R. Stevens.
• Pte. R. W. Stewart.
• Pte. J. A. Stubbs.
• Pte. C. Sutcliffe.
• Pte. J. H. Swift.
• Pte. A. Sykes.
• Pte. C. Sugden.
• Sgt. A. C. Smith.
• Cpl. J. Smith.
• Pte. G. Talbot.
• Pte. T. Thackeray.
• Pte. W. Thompson.
• Pte. L. Throup.
• Pte. F. Tillotson.
• Pte. W. Tillotson.
• Pte. A. Tiffany.
• Pte. L. Tomlinson.
• Pte. G. Town.
• Pte. H. Turner.
• Pte. J. W. Turner.
• Pte. F. Tyrer.
• Pte. A. Watson.
• Pte. F. Waite.
• Pte. H. B. Waite.
• Pte. S. Weavers.
• Pte. J. Walker.
• Pte. R. Walker.
• Pte. B. Walls.
• Pte. F. White.
• Pte. H. Whipp.
• Pte. P. Whitehead.
• Pte. H. Wilde.
• Pte. H. Wilkinson.
• Pte. R. Windle.
• Pte. A. Winn.
• Pte. C. Wilde.
• Pte. C. Wood.
• Pte. H. Wray.
• Pte. H. Wright.
• Pte. G. Wroe.
• Pte. J. T. Willmore.
• Dr. W. Walker.
• Cpl. J. W. Whitham.
• Cpl. W. Winterburn.
• Cpl. H. Wesson.
• Sgt. J. M. Walker.
• Sgt. R. E. Walker.
• Pte. H. Yeadon.
• Pte. H. Anderson.
• Pte. N. Ambler.
• Pte. J. W. Altoft.
• Pte. J. Armitage.
• Sgt. W. Butler.
• Cpl. E. W. Birchenough.
• Cpl. J. Buckley.
• Pte. F. Beaver.
• Pte. H. Bell.
• Pte. S. E. Briggs.
• Pte. J. Brigg.
• Pte. H. Brown.
• Pte. H. Binns.
• Pte. J. H. Bailey.
• Pte. W. Barber.
• Pte. J. M. Bankcroft.
• Pte. J. Brown.
• Pte. G. Butler.
• Pte. E. Breekes.
• Pte. A. Burrill.
• Pte. W. L. Birch.
• Pte. E. Billinger.
• Pte. N. Brook.
• Pte. I. Bower.
• Pte. A. Beecroft.
• Pte. W. E. Burdett.
• Pte. W. Cason.
• Pte. H. Chester.
• Pte. G. Cook.
• Pte. T. W. Costello.
• Pte. J. Cowgill.
• Pte. J. Cowley.
• Pte. A. Crowther.
• Pte. B. Cockerill.
• Pte. W. Cathey.
• Pte. S. Catlow.
• Pte. W. Cook.
• Pte. T. Constantine.
• Pte. J. Cowling.
• Pte. J. Cookson.
• Pte. C. Cryer.
• Pte. G. Coy.
• Pte. P. Calligan.
• Pte. E. Clarke.
• Pte. H. Carr.
• Pte. P. Doherty.
• Pte. A. Doyle.
• Pte. E. Drake.
• Pte. W. Duckworth.
• Pte. F. Dalton.
• Pte. W. Duckett.
• Pte. R. Duxbury.
• Pte. H. Driver.
• Pte. W. Dawson.
• Pte. W. Eccles.
• Pte. R. Ellison.
• Pte. J. Entwistle.
• Pte. J. F. Emsley.
• Pte. S. P. Earle.
• Pte. C. England.
• Regt. Sergt.-Major G. Finding.
• Pte. H. Fairclough.
• Pte. H. Faux.
• Pte. A. Foulds.
• Pte. J. W. Fozard.
• Pte. H. Flesher.
• Pte. C. Fairburn.
• Pte. A. Forman.
• Pte. P. Gath.
• Pte. N. Gledhill.
• Pte. J. Greenbank.
• Pte. W. Greenbank.
• Pte. L. Graham.
• Pte. H. Gowers.
• Pte. B. Graham.
• Pte. H. Green.
• Pte. N. Geldard.
• Pte. L. Greenwood.
• Sgt. J. W. Holmes.
• Sgt. N. Holmes.
• Sgt. T. R. Heaton.
• Cpl. A. Heaton.
• Cpl. G. Haywood.
• Pte. H. Haigh.
• Pte. Halliday.
• Pte. T. Hardy.
• Pte. T. W. Harris.
• Pte. A. Hartley.
• Pte. T. Hird.
• Pte. A. Hodgson.
• Pte. J. Hunter.
• Pte. J. Hindle.
• Pte. W. E. Heslop.
• Pte. J. Hayhurst.
• Pte. T. M. Horner.
• Pte. S. Hodges.
• Pte. E. Hardisty.
• Pte. H. Holmes.
• Pte. H. Hogan.
• Pte. F. Hargreaves.
• Pte. J. R. Hardwick.
• Pte. W. Henderson.
• Pte. J. Hudson.
• Pte. H. Herringshaw
• Pte. B. Imeson.
• Pte. J. Inman.
• Pte. E. Ibbetson.
• Sgt. J. W. Jessop.
• Pte. G. Jeffries.
• Pte. M. Jones.
• Pte. C. Johnson.
• Pte. W. Knowles.
• Pte. H. Keighley.
• Pte. A. Kitson.
• Pte. H. Kearns.
• Pte. J. Lang.
• Pte. W. Leach.
• Pte. E. Longbottom.
• Pte. A. H. Lupton.
• Pte. R. Lambert.
• Pte. H. Lambert.
• Pte. F. Lambert.
• Pte. P. Livesey.
• Sgt. J. Maude.
• Sgt. H. Mattison.
• Cpl. W. Mitchell.
• Pte. E. Marcham.
• Pte. G. A. Marshall.
• Pte. W. Masey.
• Pte. J. E. Midgley.
• Pte. M. Mortimer.
• Pte. C. Metcalfe.
• Pte. W. B. Mason.
• Pte. J. Metcalfe.
• Pte. G. Mounsey.
• Pte. F. McDermott.
• Pte. R. Morton.
• Pte. A. Murphy.
• Pte. T. Nichol.
• Pte. H. Nunn.
• Pte. J. Nicholson.
• Pte. J. T. Nussey.
• Pte. W. Oversby.
• Pte. H. Oldham.
• Pte. A. Ormerod.
• Sgt. E. Peacock.
• Cpl. J. Pickles.
• Pte. E. Parrington.
• Pte. J. Peel.
• Pte. A. Ponder.
• Pte. W. Petty.
• Pte. H. Phillips.
• Pte. R. Pearson.
• Pte. P. Pickering.
• Pte. G. Peacock.
• Pte. H. Pickles.
• Pte. V. W. Phillips.
• Pte. R. N. A. Payne.
• Pte. S. Peace.
• Cpl. J. R. Robinson.
• Pte. F. D. Ramsden.
• Dr. W. Redman.
• Pte. A. Robinson.
• Pte. W. Rodgers.
• Pte. C. Rowley.
• Pte. E. Riley.
• Pte. F. L. Richardson.
• Pte. G. Reynard.
• Pte. F. Rooke.
• Pte. J. R. Roll.
• Cpl. W. Simpson.
• Pte. H. Speight.
• Pte. C. Smith.
• Pte. G. R. Smith.
• Pte. H. Smith.
• Pte. J. W. Smith.
• Pte. W. Smith.
• Dr. W. Spencer.
• Pte. F. H. Stork.
• Pte. R. H. Steele.
• Pte. J. N. Slee.
• Pte. A. Shackleton.
• Pte. W. Sanderson.
• Pte. G. Sutcliffe.
• Pte. J. A. Smith.
• Pte. A. Stapleton.
• Pte. A. Smithson.
• Coy. Sergt.-Major H. Thrasher.
• Pte. J. Taylor.
• Pte. G. Terry.
• Pte. Y. Tuley.
• Pte. C. Turner.
• Pte. J. Thwaites.
• Pte. W. L. Tyson.
• Pte. A. Titchmarsh.
• Pte. J. C. Turner.
• Pte. N. Teal.
• Pte. J. Thompson.
• Pte. G. E. Trigg.
• Pte. F. H. Veale.
• Reg. Qt.-Mstr. Sergt. T. Wilkinson.
• Coy. Qt.-Mstr. Sergt. W. A. Winter.
• Cpl. W. Waite.
• Pte. C. Watson.
• Pte. H. E. Webster.
• Pte. F. Whitfield.
• Pte. J. Winterburn.
• Pte. J. Williams.
• Pte. J. Watson.
• Pte. H. Wilson.
• Pte. S. Widdup.
• Pte. G. Wright.
• Pte. H. Watson.
• Pte. A. Wood.
• Pte. H. Whiteoak.
• Pte. H. L. Wigglesworth.
• Pte. J. Whitehead.
• Pte. F. Wright.
• Pte. F. Williams.
• Pte. A. Wilcox.
• Pte. W. Wickwar.
• Pte. F. Wilkes.
• Pte. A. Kirk.
• Pte. T. Lamb.
• Pte. L. Porrit.
• Cpl. R. Topham.
• S/Sgt. E. Campbell.
• Qt.-Mstr. Sgt. J. Banks.
• Pte. J. Clapperton.
• Pte. J. R. Frankland.
• Pte. J. Town.
• Pte. W. Hope.
• Pte. C. Stables.
• Pte. J. W. Bell.
• Pte. S. Brown.
• Pte. R. Charlton.
• Cpl. E. Crowther.
• Pte. B. B. Coates.
• Pte. H. Falkingham.
• Pte. L. Feather.
• Cpl. H. Green.
• Pte. H. Riley.
• Pte. N. Reedy.
• Pte. T. Wood.

The above men lost their lives by the sinking of the “Rohilla” on the East Coast, off Whitby, 30th October, 1914, while on her way from Leith to Dunkirk, to bring soldiers from the Front.

The Wreck of the “Rohilla.”

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Perhaps one of the most poignant tragedies of the early stages of the War was the sinking of the hospital ship “Rohilla” on the East coast near Whitby. It was a disaster which will long be remembered by the Craven district generally and Barnoldswick in particular, inasmuch as the splendidly appointed ship of 7,000 tons had on board fifteen Barnoldswick members of the Naval Sick Berth Reserve. Of these only three were saved, the remainder being reported dead or missing.

The men concerned were:—

Pte. W. Eastwood, married, two children, 8, Powell Street.

Pte. F. Rediough, single, 13, Ribblesdale Terrace.

Pte. Anthony Waterworth, single, North View Terrace.

Sergt. A. Petty, married, one child, 2, Bracewell Street.

Cpl. M. Birtwhistle, married, one child, 19, Clifford St.

Cpl. W. J. Daly, married, six children, 32, Westgate.

Pte. H. Barter, married, no children, 41, Skipton Road.

Pte. T. Petty, married, three children, 11, Coronation Street.

Pte. T. Horsfield, married, seven children, 33, Heather View.

Pte. W. Horsfield, single, 7, Essex Street.

Pte. Alfred Elsworth, single, 32, Wellington Street.

Pte. J. T. Pickles, married, one child, Federation Street.

Pte. H. Hodkinson, single, 14, Bank Street.

Pte. W. Anderson, single, 20, School Terrace.

Pte. F. Dunkley, married, one child, 9, Bairstow Street.

The “Rohilla” was on her way to Dunkirk to bring back the wounded, and at ten minutes to four on the morning of October 30th, 1914, she struck on submerged rocks in the vicinity of Whitby. Within half a mile of land she broke in two, and was battered to pieces in the presence of thousands of spectators, who, for the most part, were helpless. The dangerous proximity of the vessel to land was first noticed by a sentry on night duty on the pier head at Whitby, who was astonished to see a large vessel loom up out of the darkness and pass silently within a few yards of the pier.

Almost simultaneously a coastguard sighted the vessel and recognised her peril as she skirted the submerged rocks which stretch from the foot of the south cliff. Half a mile further on, within a few hundred yards of a curious promontory known as Saltwick Nab, the vessel struck the rocks with a grinding crash. Rockets were at once sent up and the alarm raised. The vessel was about 500 yards from the cliff and in as helpless a position for rescue as could be imagined. It was impossible to launch the larger of the two lifeboats from Whitby Harbour or to drag it under the lee of the cliffs to a more favourable position, and all attempts of the Rocket Brigade to establish communication with the vessel were unavailing.

The smaller lifeboat was, however, dragged along the beach towards Saltwick Nab and a favourable position found for launching. Meanwhile one of the “Rohilla’s” boats had been lowered, and after a severe buffeting, reached the shore with the second officer and five of the crew. The rescue of the remainder seemed assured as the boat had brought a line from the steamer, but to the dismay of the onlookers this snapped before any use could be made of it.

Then an attempt was made with the lesser of the Whitby lifeboats. In spite of the very heavy sea they reached the wreck, and, thanks to the admirable seamanship of the coxswain, took off seventeen of the survivors, including the whole of the women on board—five. In this boat were Privates Rediough and Waterworth. A second trip was made and eighteen more were rescued and safely landed, but the boat was found to have been so battered by the double journey as to render her unseaworthy, and further attempts were impossible.

Word was sent for the Upgang lifeboat, but before this arrived it was clear the “Rohilla” was breaking up. About 10 a.m. an unusually large wave swept the wreck and when the foam had cleared away it was seen that the stern had turned turtle, and there was no trace of a number of men who, a few minutes before, had been clinging to that portion of the ship. The bows were also settling down and all the men left alive on the vessel were clustered on the bridge.

The Upgang lifeboat, which had been dragged through the town, was lowered over the cliffs, but it was then deemed impossible to launch her. Darkness fell at 5 o’clock. It was a night of horror. Saturday morning saw the superstructure of the “Rohilla” still above water with its tragic load. Attempts were made by several—among them, it subsequently transpired, one or two of the Barnoldswick men—to swim ashore, but few succeeded. An attempt by the Upgang lifeboat to reach the wreck failed, and the continued inability of the Rocket Brigade to do anything effective was most disheartening.

When it drew towards evening on Saturday scarcely a flicker of hope remained. About 10 p.m., however, a message was sent to Capt. Neillson urging him to hold on till morning, news having come through that the Tynemouth motor lifeboat was coming down the coast during the night and would attempt a rescue the following morning. Oil was poured on the water near the wreck. The motor boat arrived in the early hours and stayed in Whitby harbour until dawn, when it made towards the wreck. Amid scenes that will never be forgotten by those watching from the beach, all the survivors were taken off and landed safely. Pte. Eastwood was the only Barnoldswick man to be taken off in the motor boat; Pte. Waterworth and Pte. Rediough had previously been taken ashore by the Whitby lifeboat.

There were few towns more sad than Barnoldswick when the news of the disaster came through. Flags were hoisted half mast on the public buildings, feeling references were made from the pulpits of the town, an impressive memorial service was held, and letters of sympathy received from the Admiralty, the Medical Department of the Admiralty, and from many ambulance divisions and brigades in Yorkshire and Lancashire. A fund was started for the erection of a memorial hall, but this has since been merged in the Barnoldswick War Memorial.

A handsome monument has been erected in Whitby Cemetery by the owners of the “Rohilla” (the British India Steam Navigation Co.). As the outcome of the disaster a movement for equipping Whitby with a motor lifeboat has been successfully carried through, with the assistance of the Royal Lifeboat Institution. The new boat was launched in June, 1919.

One of the outstanding features of recruiting in Craven in the early days of the war was a unique and entirely successful effort by Mr. H. G. Tunstill, of Otterburn, who at that time represented the Settle district on the West Riding County Council.

Mr. Tunstill arrived home from Russia on August 20th, 1914, and very shortly afterwards issued a stirring appeal for ninety-nine men to join him in making a company of one hundred for enlistment in Lord Kitchener’s army. The appeal was addressed more particularly to Mr. Tunstill’s constituents in the neighbourhood of Settle, and a series of meetings were arranged. At many of these enthusiastic scenes were witnessed, and after a campaign extending from the 7th to the 18th of September close upon one hundred men had been obtained, and they paraded at Settle on the 19th. After going through the usual attestation formalities they were royally entertained at the Ashfield and Golden Lion Hotels, Mr. W. Morrison presiding at the former place, and Mr. W. Simpson, Catteral Hall, at the latter. Subsequently there was an entertainment at the Victoria Hall where clothing, comforts and fruit were distributed.

The men left for their depot at Halifax amid memorable scenes. They assembled in Settle Market Place at 7 a.m., and, after a parting speech by Mr. Morrison, were marched to the station headed by the Brass Band and accompanied by a large crowd. The train steamed out of the station amid cheering, the detonation of fog signals and much waving of handkerchiefs.

At Silsden, Mr. Tunstill’s men were met by another batch of recruits and marched into Keighley. It was something in the nature of a triumphal progress, followed by an inspection on the Town Hall Square by the Mayor (Mr. W. A. Brigg) and other local gentlemen. They departed for Halifax in the afternoon by special train and were inspected by Col. Thorold, the officer commanding the depot, who publicly thanked Mr. Tunstill for his services in obtaining such a fine body of men. Two days later they were drafted to Frensham, near Aldershot, and ultimately became “A” Company of the 10th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. Then followed a period of rigorous training in which the men acquitted themselves very creditably.

Meanwhile Mr. Tunstill had been offered and accepted a commission and was gazetted Captain in November, 1914. The Battalion went to France in August, 1915, and Captain Tunstill remained with the Company until October, 1916, when he was sent to England with a damaged knee and ankle. He became unfit for active service, but performed valuable work in connection with the training of recruits in England. He was mentioned in dispatches in December, 1916. The Company saw much fighting in France and also served with distinction in Italy.

Captain Thomas Howarth Preston, East Lancashire Regiment, the only surviving son of the late John Preston and Mrs. Preston, of Mearbeck, Longpreston. He served through the South African War, receiving the Queen’s Medal with three clasps, and was mentioned in despatches. He was awarded the Royal Geographical Society’s Diploma in 1913. His only brother, 2nd Lieut. J. S. Preston, 1st Bn. Royal Scots, died at Dewetsdorp, during the South African War. Captain Preston was killed in action in Flanders on November 17th, 1914, and was 34 years of age.

Captain William J. Stackhouse, eldest son of the late Major Stackhouse, J.P., of Ingfield Hall, Settle, and Mrs. Stackhouse, of the Grange, Casterton, Kirby Lonsdale, and husband of Theodora Charlotte Stackhouse, of “Laguna,” Suffolk Rd., Bournemouth. This gallant officer, the owner of a considerable estate in the Settle district, was killed in action in France on March 12th, 1915, aged 32 years, and his death plunged one of the oldest families in the neighbourhood into mourning. Captain Stackhouse was born in 1883, educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, whence he gained a commission in the 4th Lancashire Fusiliers, and when the latter Regiment was disbanded in 1906, he was offered a Lieutenancy in the 2nd Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby). He received his captaincy in 1913. Prior to going to the front in October, 1914, the deceased officer was Adjutant to the 10th Bn. Of a cheery and kindly nature, he was extremely popular with his men, ever ready to help and encourage them, and his delightful personality made him a host of friends. He was a keen sportsman, polo, shooting and motoring being his favourite recreations.

2nd Lieut. Gerald Kirk (The King’s Own Lancaster) Regiment (Territorials) a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Kirk, of Greenwood Leghe, Ingleton. When the war broke out, Gerald Kirk joined the King’s Own Lancashire Territorials as a private. He was quickly marked out for promotion, and a commission was offered to him before he had completed his training and embarked for the front. He met his death in the fierce fighting in France on April 24th, 1915, and the news was received with general regret in the Ingleton district, where he was a popular figure and a general favourite. He was a clean and clever sportsman. In particular, he loved Association football, and was identified for many years with the Ingleton Football Club as Captain, in which capacity he frequently led his men to victory. At the invitation of the Bradford City Club he played with that combination as an amateur at centre half; later he played for Leeds City, after which he again threw in his lot with the Ingleton Club and remained with them after taking up his residence at Warton. The deceased officer was one of the original promoters of the Ingleton Conservative Club, and acted as its first Hon. Secretary until his removal to the Carnforth district. The same qualities he exhibited on the football field were prominent on the field of battle. On March 9th, 1916, at St. Mary’s Church, Ingleton, a memorial tablet to the deceased officer’s memory was unveiled by the Vicar (the Rev. J. Llewellyn). It bears the following inscription:—“In loving memory of Gerald Kirk, 2nd Lieut., 5th Bttn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., son of Alfred S. and Isabella Kirk, of Greenwood Leghe, Ingleton. Born July 14th, 1883; died at Poperinghe, Belgium, April 24th, 1915, of wounds received at St. Julien the previous day. This tablet is erected by his wife.”

Captain T. M. Ellis, son of Dr. W. H. Ellis, formerly of Ravenshaw, Carleton, Skipton, was killed in action in France on April 18th, 1915. Captain Ellis, who was unmarried, saw service in the South African War in the 33rd Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment. In 1909, he returned to Bradford and acted as Adjutant to the 6th Bn. West Yorkshire Regt. (T.). At the expiration of his term of office, he rejoined the 2nd Bn. Duke of Wellington’s, then stationed at Dublin. At the outbreak of war, the “Duke’s” had a rough experience, and at the battle of Mons, Captain Ellis and a few others penetrated right through the German lines and were unable to retrace their steps, being posted by the military as missing. For days, Captain Ellis and his companions were befriended by Belgian peasants, being disguised and hidden in straw in barns. They were conducted across country by night, and eventually reached the coast. Captain Ellis embarked at Ostend and reached England in safety, subsequently enjoying a brief furlough at his father’s house, Oak Avenue, Manningham. When next he crossed to France, he was attached to the West Yorkshire Regiment, with which he was serving when he met his death.

Captain G. H. Ermen, of the ²/₆th Bn. Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, of Milton House, Gargrave, who, in civil life, was general manager of the Belle Vue Mills of the English Sewing Cotton Company at Skipton, died at his residence on May 4th, 1915, aged 38 years. At the outbreak of war, Captain Ermen relinquished his position to take up military duties. He had previously held a commission in the 6th Bn. Manchesters, with which regiment he saw service in the South African War. He was gazetted Captain in the first Reserve Bn. of the 6th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, which was raised at Skipton under Colonel R. E. Williamson, V.D., and remained at Headquarters until the battalion was transferred to Derby. While stationed at Doncaster, Capt. Ermen was appointed Adjutant to the Battalion, but had not long enjoyed this distinction before he was compelled to return home on sick leave and died, as stated, to the sincere regret of many sorrowing friends. Capt. Ermen took a keen interest in the National Reserve Movement, and was Officer Commanding the Skipton Companies, in the organization of which he took a prominent and useful part.

Lieut. Hedley Knowles, ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, the first Skipton officer to give his life for King and Country. Lieut. Knowles was the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Knowles, The Arches, Skipton. The news of his death was received with very deep regret, for he had, by his geniality of disposition, earned the affection of a wide circle of friends. The deceased officer, who was twenty-two years of age, was destined for the legal profession, and had before him a career of much promise. The outbreak of war saw him, with typical British patriotism, eager to take his part in the momentous struggle. He had joined the 6th Bn. Duke of Wellington’s Regiment in 1913, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. It was while training in camp at Marske that the Territorial Force was ordered to mobilize, and he went with his Bn. to Immingham, where they went into training, and accompanied them later to Healing, Riby and Doncaster. Later he accompanied his Battalion to France, where he proved himself a thorough and capable officer. It was while acting as instructor to a school of bomb throwing that he met his sad end, being killed by the premature explosion of a rifle grenade on May 30th, 1915. Death was instantaneous, and the whole regiment sincerely grieved the loss of one who had made himself a general favourite with both officers and men. As one of the officers, in communicating the painful news to his parents, said, “He was an excellent soldier and a thorough sportsman. He had no fear, his only wish being to serve his King and Country, for which he has given his life.”

2nd Lieut. George Bargh, the King’s Liverpool Regiment, son of Mrs. Bargh, of Procter’s Farm, Wray, near Lancaster, reported killed in action on May 10th, 1915. News reached Mrs. Bargh from Col. Wallace, 1st Suffolk Regt., who was a prisoner of war in Germany, that on that date her son was shot in the head, just before the Germans took the trenches, as he was bandaging a wounded soldier, and was killed instantly. Lieut. Bargh received his early education at Halifax, and subsequently obtained his B.Sc. at University College, Reading. He afterwards became a teacher at Hawes Council School. He accepted his commission in the King’s Liverpool Regiment early in 1914.

Lieut. R. F. Morkill, East Lancashire Regiment and Royal Flying Corps, second son of Mr. J. W. Morkill, J.P., of Newfield Hall, Bell Busk, met his death on June 22nd, 1915, following injuries received in a flying accident at Gosport, and the sad event cast a deep gloom over the Craven District, where the family is well known and highly respected. Lieut. Morkill, who was attached to the East Lancashire Regiment, went to the front in Sept. 1914, and was on active service continuously up to February, 1915. On returning to England, he was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as a probationer and qualified as an aviator only a week before he met his untimely end. Two years previously, Lieut. Morkill had obtained a Pilot’s Certificate at the Eastbourne Flying School. On June 22nd, he was ordered to make the flight from Gosport to Shoreham and back. The machine was certified to be in perfect order. According to the evidence at the inquest Lieut. Morkill was preparing to start on the return journey from Shoreham. The engine was running satisfactorily, but a leak was observed in the oil cistern. After a new pipe had been fitted the journey was commenced. When up about 200 feet, the engine missed once or twice and appeared to stop, due, as was subsequently ascertained, to a mechanical fracture. The aeroplane came to the ground and Lieut. Morkill was found to have been crushed by the wreckage. He died as the result of his injuries in his 23rd year. He married in Sept. 1914, Ellen Mary, youngest daughter of the late Mr. T. L. Wilkinson, Neasham Abbey, Darlington.

2nd Lieut. Nelson Widdup Petty, Lancashire Fusiliers, brother of Mr. James Petty, Gordon Street, Sutton. Lieut. Petty enlisted nearly eleven years before the war as a private in the Lancashire Fusiliers, and had seen service in Malta, Egypt, Aden, South Africa and India. When war was declared, he returned from India as a sergeant, but was promoted in January, 1915, to the rank of 2nd Lieut. After a short stay in training he went out with the British Forces to the Dardanelles, where he met his death on the 28th June, 1915.

Lieut. Anthony E. K. Slingsby, ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, son of Mr. J. A. Slingsby, J.P., and Mrs. Slingsby of Carla Beck, Carleton, Skipton, was killed in action in France on July 14th, 1915. Lieut. Slingsby, who was well-known and very popular in the Craven district, was first at School at St. Edmunds, Hindhead, Surrey, and subsequently at St. Peter’s College, Radley, near Oxford. He then won an Exhibition at Exeter College, Oxford, where he remained in residence four years. During his stay, Lieut. Slingsby was Captain of Boats and President of the College Committee. Returning to Carleton, he interested himself in the Boy Scout movement; became, subsequently, a District Scout Commissioner, and later was attached to the Headquarter Staff. The interrupted manœuvres at Marske in July, 1914, were the first Lieut. Slingsby attended as a Territorial Officer. Lieut. Slingsby, who was 26 years of age, was one of five brothers serving their King and Country in the great war, two of whom afterwards gave their lives in the same great cause.

2nd Lieut. J. A. C. Spencer, 9th West Yorkshire Regiment, was reported missing in August, 1915. He was 24 years of age and was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Spencer, of Lydget, Keighley. Before joining the Army he was connected with the firm of P. W. Spencer, Lothersdale. He obtained a commission early in September, 1914, and in July, 1915, he left for Gallipoli, and took part in the landing at Suvla Bay in the following August. All hope of his safety was soon given up, as two brother officers, who were quite near him at the time, stated that at dawn on the 9th August, after leading his men up to the firing line, he was hit and fell without a sound and never moved again. These officers were certain that he was killed instantaneously: half an hour later the ground was given up and was never re-taken. Nothing further could be heard of him, and in July, 1916, it was officially reported that he was “killed in action.”

Lieut. E. J. C. Supple, ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, youngest son of Mr. E. K. Supple, late of the Irish Constabulary, was formerly a Master at Skipton Grammar School; he died of wounds received in action. Lieut. Supple joined the 6th Bn. in March, 1909, as a private. In 1911 he was promoted Lance Corporal and took his discharge in 1913. After the outbreak of war he obtained a commission and rejoined his old regiment. Lieut. Supple was a keen sportsman, and for some seasons played half-back with the well-known London Irish Team. Lieut. Supple was admitted to Wimbereux General Hospital on August 22nd, 1915, suffering from gunshot wounds through both thighs, and died the same day.

Lieut. The Hon. C. A. Lister, Royal Marines, of the Hood Battalion, was wounded in Gallipoli, August 24th, 1915, and succumbed to his injuries on August 28th, 1915. Lieut. Lister was the only surviving son and heir of Lord Ribblesdale, of Gisburne Park. His elder brother was killed in action at Vidballi in Somaliland in 1904. Lieut. Lister went to the Dardanelles in the Spring of 1915 to take up a post as interpreter on board one of the warships there. Formerly in the Diplomatic Service, his first position was in the British Embassy at Rome, whence he was transferred to Constantinople, where he was stationed at the outbreak of war. He joined the Royal Naval Division with which he went to the Dardanelles. His mother, the late Lady Ribblesdale, was a daughter of the late Sir Charles Tennant, Bart., a sister of Mrs. Asquith, wife of the Ex-Prime Minister.

Lieut. Surtees Sheffield, 2nd Hampshire Regiment, who was reported missing on August 6th, 1915, was afterwards officially reported to have been killed on that date. Lieut. Sheffield had only left hospital at Alexandria five days before he met his death. At the outbreak of war he was rubber planting in Malaga, and at once returned to England to take up his commission, which he had resigned after the South African War. For that campaign he held the Queen’s Medal with three clasps, and the King’s Medal with two clasps, the former being personally presented to him by King Edward at Buckingham Palace in July, 1901, in recognition of his distinguished gallantry at Retief’s Nek. Lieut. Sheffield was in his 38th year, and was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Sheffield, and brother of Mrs. Wayte Hicks, of West House, Dent.

Captain Morrison, 6th Bn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, formerly of Bentham, died of wounds received in the Dardanelles, August, 1915. For over twenty years, Capt. Morrison was a Presbyterian, but latterly became an earnest Churchman. He was studying for the Church when war was declared, under the Vicar of St. Margaret’s, Bentham, and he acted as Hon. Lay Reader for about five years at Sacriston, Durham. For a few months he acted at Bentham in the same capacity, and made many friends there. Capt. Morrison was 30 years of age, and came from Sacriston with Mr. Bartley, when the latter was appointed Vicar of St. Margaret’s Church.

Lieut. Leslie Brooks, 2nd Lincolnshire Regiment, the youngest son of Mr. J. B. Brooks, Finstall, Bromsgrove, who married, on November 14th, 1914, Blanche, elder daughter of Mr. A. J. Birley, J.P., of Throstle Nest, Thornton-in-Craven, was killed in action in France on September 25th, 1915. Lieut. Brooks was educated at Uppingham and Clare College, Cambridge. He joined the 4th West Yorkshire Regiment, Special Reserve, on the outbreak of war, was attached to the 2nd Lincolnshire Regiment in May, 1915, and then went to the front.

2nd Lieut. J. C. McIntyre, 2nd Yorkshire Regiment, son of Mr. A. McIntyre, of Ings Avenue, Skipton, was reported wounded and missing on September 25th, 1915, and died a prisoner of war in Germany. Lieut. McIntyre was a former Captain of Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton, and St. John’s College, York. He enlisted as a private in the Gordon Highlanders shortly after the outbreak of hostilities, and was first stationed at Aberdeen. Subsequently he transferred to the Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders, with which he trained at Stirling and Salisbury Plain. He attained the rank of sergeant, and also held a gymnastic instructor’s certificate, having passed through the school at Aldershot. Early in April, 1915, he was gazetted to the 11th South Lancashire Regiment, but was later transferred to the 2nd Yorkshire Regiment, with which regiment he went to the front.

Captain P. C. Preston, 7th Norfolk Regiment, of Shrublands, Swaffham, Norfolk, second son of the late Captain John Norcliffe Preston, Flasby Hall, Gargrave, was killed between the 12th and 15th October, 1915. Captain Preston had seen previous service in Lumsden’s Horse in the South African War and possessed two medals. He joined the Forces soon after war broke out and proceeded to France. For several years he lived in Swaffham, being head of the firm of Chamberlayne & Co., merchants. He interested himself in many branches of sport, and was an enthusiastic cricket and tennis player.

2nd Lieut. Basil Spencer Jennings, 14th West Yorkshire Regiment, son of Mrs. J. S. Jennings, of Cononley Hall, died from wounds received in action in Gallipoli, on the 7th November, 1915. Lieut. Jennings, who was 25 years of age, was in Morocco when the war broke out; he returned to England and enlisted in King Edward’s Horse, and was afterwards given a commission in the 14th West Yorkshire Regt. He went out to Suvla Bay in September, 1915, attached to the 6th Yorkshire Regiment. He gave his life in a noble deed. On the night of the 5th November, 1915, he went to the trenches to rescue a wounded soldier; he was sniped and died from his wounds two days later. Lieut. Jennings was for some years connected with the firm of P. W. Spencer, quarry owners, Lothersdale. He was educated at Sedbergh, and for a few seasons he played Rugby Union in the Skipton team. This officer and his cousin, Lieut. J. A. C. Spencer, of whom we give a portrait and biography in this book, were grandsons of the late Mr. Peter William Spencer, of Raygill, Lothersdale.

Lieut. T. S. Whitaker, ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, only son of the late Mr. Thomas Whitaker, J.P., and Mrs. Whitaker, Walton House, Burley-in-Wharfedale, was killed in action in France, on 7th November, 1915. Lieut. Whitaker, who was an old Sedberghian, obtained his commission in the ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s Regt. from the O.T.C. in August, 1914, and went to France with the Batt. in April, 1915. Originally he was Machine Gun Officer, but latterly had charge of the bombers.

2nd Lieut. T. W. Carson, ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, younger son of Mrs. Carson, Salisbury Street, Skipton, who was reported missing since December, 28th, 1915, was afterwards officially presumed killed. Lieut. Carson joined the ²/₆th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment in September, 1914, relinquishing an appointment with a firm of solicitors in North Wales. He went to France on November 1st, 1915, and for a time was attached to an Entrenching Battn. He had only joined the ⅙th Battn. about a fortnight prior to being reported missing. He was 31 years of age and educated at Lancaster Grammar School and the Merchant Tailors’ School, Liverpool. He was prominently identified with the Boy Scout movement.

Captain Arthur Morris Slingsby, M.C., 56th Punjaubi Rifles, second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Slingsby, of Carla Beck, Carleton, fell in action on March 8th, 1916, in Mesopotamia. Captain Slingsby was with General Aylmer’s force proceeding to the relief of General Townshend and his beleaguered army at Kut. Educated at Aysgarth School and Wellington College, Sandhurst, Captain Slingsby, who was 30 years of age, chose the Army as his profession, and passed into the Indian Army in February, 1904. He was a noted climber and a member of the Alpine Club, and did much survey work, particularly of virgin peaks in India, under Government orders. He was in India when war broke out, and his first experience of fighting was in Egypt, where he took part in the battle of Ismaliu.

2nd Lieut. Harry Thornton Pickles, 3rd Bn. Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment (S.R.). second son of Mr. Stephen Pickles, J.P., C.C., of Raysgill, Barnoldswick, was killed in action on April 26th, 1916. He was 26 years of age. Lieut. Pickles joined the army in September, 1914, enlisting as a private in the 10th Duke of Wellington’s Regt. After a period of training at Frensham Camp, he was promoted to the rank of 2nd Lieut. and transferred to the 3rd Res. Bn. at North Shields. He was drafted out to France in January, 1916. Educated at Silcoates School, near Wakefield, where he spent five years, leaving at the age of 17, he went to Victoria University, Manchester, taking his B.A. degree with honours before the age of 20. The M.A. degree was conferred upon him the following year. He was married at Lewisham the week before leaving England, his bride being Miss Ada Heuf, of New Eltham, Kent.

Lieut. Christopher W. Brown, Royal Scots Fusiliers, was killed in action in France on April 30th, 1916. Lieut. Brown was the youngest son of the Rev. C. V. and Mrs. Brown, of Embsay Vicarage, near Skipton, and grandson of the late Mr. J. R. Wilkinson, of Burnside, Skipton. He was born at Embsay on November 15th, 1892, and educated at Skipton and Pocklington Grammar Schools. At Pocklington, he gained a Dolman Exhibition tenable at St. John’s College, Cambridge. He entered St. John’s College in October, 1911, and three years later took honours in the Historical Tripos. On the outbreak of war, he at once volunteered for service and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Special Reserve of Officers, eventually being gazetted to the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He was wounded at Neuve Chapelle in March 1915, and again at Hooge in September, 1915. He was promoted Lieut. in the summer of 1915, and at the time of his death was in command of a company.

Lieut. Edmund Brownsworth, Leicestershire Regiment, youngest son of the late Mr. David Brownsworth, artist, and Mrs. Brownsworth, of Skipton, died in the 10th Casualty Clearing Station at Abule, on May 29th, 1916. He received the first rudiments of education under Mr. Alfred Hartley at the Skipton National School and, later, after a period of training, was apprenticed to the Merchant Service. After many extended cruises, he left the sea on account of ill-health. Later, he joined the army and rose to the rank of Sergeant in the Leicestershire Regiment, and in that capacity went out to France in November, 1914. He so distinguished himself that the Brigadier-General recommended him for a commission. He was gazetted to his old regiment in April, 1915, as a 2nd Lieut., being advanced in November to a Temporary Lieutenancy.

Lieut. Stephen Slingsby, H.M.S. “Defence,” fourth son of Mr. J. A. Slingsby and Mrs. Slingsby, Carla Beck, Carleton, was killed in action in the North Sea in June, 1916. The deceased officer was born on the 20th June, 1892, and was educated at St. Edmund’s School, Hindhead, and underwent training for his career in the Navy at the Royal Naval College at Osborne and Dartmouth, and on H.M.S. “Cornwall.” His ships included the “Warrior,” “Cochrane,” “Comet,” and the “Defence.” At the outbreak of war he was Sub-Lieut. on the “Comet,” a destroyer, and was posted to the “Defence” as Lieut. (E) in September, 1915. He was the holder of the Medal of the Royal Life Saving Society, which he won at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, in July, 1909.

Lieut. William Ellis Gomersall, 22nd Manchester Regiment, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Gomersall, of 69, Queen’s Road, Urmston, Manchester, and nephew of the late Rev. W. J. Gomersall, was killed in action on July 1st, 1916. Lieut. Gomersall was born at Hellifield and was 21 years of age. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and passed his Classical Matriculation in 1911. He was a member of the Grammar School O.T.C. and Lieut. in the Urmston (Manchester) Company of the Church Lads’ Brigade. He also held the certificate of the Royal Life Saving Society and St. John Ambulance Society. Soon after outbreak of war, he enlisted as a private in the Public Schools Brigade, Manchester Bn. After several months’ training at Epsom, he was selected for a commission in the 23rd Bn. Manchester Regiment, but was afterwards transferred to the 22nd Bn. After being promoted to full Lieut. on May 11th, 1915, he entered a course at the Royal Staff College, Camberley, and eventually accompanied his regiment to France where he met his death.

Major John Chayter Metcalfe, Cheshire Regiment, killed in action July 3rd, 1916. The deceased officer, who was 34 years of age, was the only son of the late Major John A. Metcalfe, of Ings House, Hawes, and resided at King Edward’s Place, Wanborough, Wilts. He served with the 3rd West Yorkshire Regiment during the South African War, where he was for some time temporary Aide-de-Camp to the late Lord Cloughton. He afterwards received a commission in the 13th Hussars. He left the army in 1906, took up racing, and was a successful amateur steeplechase rider and breeder of thoroughbred horses. When the war commenced, he enlisted in the Public Schools Corps, and in October, 1914, received a commission in the Cheshire Regiment, being gazetted Temporary Major in September, 1915. His grandfather, who resided at Hawes, was Chaplain to the Duke of Wellington, and his uncle, the late Dr. Parker, was for years the vicar of Hawes.

Lieut. Henry Bryan Fisher, 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, the younger son of Dr. G. E. Fisher, of Skipton, died in hospital from severe wounds in both thighs, in July, 1916. The deceased officer, who was only 20 years of age, was educated at Colwall School and Winchester College, and afterwards went to Canada, where he was engaged in farming with his uncle, Mr. Arthur Fisher. After the outbreak of war, he returned to England to enlist, and receiving a commission was gazetted to the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers.

2nd Lieut. Ernest Parsons, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment (attached 1st Welsh Regt.), died from fever in the Malaria Hospital, at Salonica, on July 24th, 1916. Lieut. Parsons left Chili in November, 1914, where he had an excellent railway appointment, with twenty-eight other Englishmen, who had come along with him 11,000 miles to offer their services to the country. They drilled daily on board ship, and on arrival in England enlisted early in 1915. Lieut. Parsons received his commission, and after being stationed at Woolwich, Aldershot and Basingstoke, he sailed for Egypt in November, 1915. In May, 1916, he was transferred to Salonica. Lieut. Parsons was the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Parsons, School House, Rathmell, where he was born. He was 25 years of age.

2nd Lieut. Frank Dinsdale, York & Lancaster Regiment, son of Mr. & Mrs. Jas. Dinsdale, Show Cote, Askrigg, was reported wounded and missing on July 1st, 1916, and afterwards officially presumed killed in action. Lieut. Dinsdale received his commission from the Leeds University O.T.C. in Sept. 1915, and went to France in June 1916.

2nd Lieut. James W. Fryer, Northumberland Fusiliers, only son of the late Major J. W. Fryer and Mrs. Fryer, now of “Kingarth,” Fenham, Newcastle, and formerly of Hawes, killed in action on July 1st, 1916. He joined the Northumberland Fusiliers shortly after the outbreak of war. Prior to joining the forces he was articled clerk to Messrs. Dickinson, Millar & Turnbull, Solicitors, Newcastle, and had successfully passed his first examinations, and was hoping to qualify his final when he joined the Colours.

Major S. Broadbent Maufe, West Yorkshire Regt., died of wounds on July 5th, 1916. The late Major Maufe was the eldest son of Frederick Broadbent and Helen Mann Maufe, of Warlbeck, Ilkley, and husband of Hilda Maufe, of Acomb, York. He was educated at Uppingham and Clare College, joined the army in 1910, and was mentioned in despatches.

Captain Cedric F. Horsfall, ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, eldest son of Sir John and Lady Horsfall, of Hayfield, Glusburn, was killed in action in France on September 18th, 1916. Captain Horsfall, who was a popular figure in Craven, joined the Army at the outbreak of hostilities. Prior to doing so, he was in partnership with his father at Hayfield Mills. When his regiment went to the front, he was a 2nd Lieut., and a few months’ service gained him his Captaincy, but not before he had been wounded twice. It was in May, 1916, that he returned to active service. Up to joining the forces he had taken a deep interest in politics. He was a member of the Sutton Baptist Church, and was 26 years of age.

2nd Lieut. Arthur C. Goodall, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards), nephew of Mr. and Mrs. J. Goodall, of “New Zealand,” Crosshills, killed in action in France, November 6th, 1916. Lieut. Goodall was a member of the Durham Light Infantry (T) when hostilities broke out. Shortly after the outbreak, he was promoted to non-commissioned rank and went to the Front in April, 1915. In December, 1915, he received a well-earned commission, but in March, 1916, he was invalided home. Lieut. Goodall was well-known in the Crosshills district, where he resided for some time.

Lieut. G. C. H. Cutliffe Hyne, Irish Guards, only son of Mr. C. J. Cutliffe Hyne, of Kettlewell, the well-known Yorkshire novelist, died on November 21st, 1916, at the home of the Hon. Mrs. F. Guest, used as a Military Hospital, in Park Lane, London. The interment took place on November 25th, 1916, with military honours, at Kettlewell. Lieut. Hyne, who was in his 19th year, figured in a notable deed of gallantry, which resulted in the saving of all his guns, but seventeen men out of twenty-five in his gun company became casualties. He was wounded about the middle of September, 1916, and taken to the hospital named above.

Lieut. Jasper Whitfield Snowden, Worcestershire Regiment, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Snowden, of the Garth, Embsay, and grandson of the late Rev. John Snowden, Vicar of Ilkley, was born at Bradford, in 1896. The deceased officer commenced his education at the Bradford Grammar School, and in 1909 went to Rossall School. He took a keen interest in sport and the study of natural history, and gained several prizes from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. From the very first he was an enthusiastic and active member of the Officers’ Training Corps, and was in Camp at Tidworth when war broke out. He volunteered for service and was given a commission in the above regiment, was sent to France on February 17th, 1915, and was wounded at St. Eloi, in May. In September he was sent to the Dardanelles where, owing to an attack of dysentery, he went into hospital. He soon rejoined his Bn. in Egypt, and later was drafted to Mesopotamia where he was again wounded on April 5th, 1916. He was afterwards sent to India where he was for some months on sick leave. He returned to the Tigris Line at the end of January, and fell in action on February 25th, 1917.

Lieut. Alec. Wilson, 1st Herefordshire Regiment (T.F.), son of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Wilson, J.P., of Lothersdale. Lieut. Wilson, whose stay at Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton, extended from 1906 to 1913, and included the honoured position of Captain, was articled in the estate office of the Marquis of Abergavenny. When war broke out he at once joined the above regiment as 2nd Lieut. He went out to the Dardanelles in August, 1915, and went through that trying and devastating campaign. Following the evacuation, Lieut. Wilson was sent to Egypt, where he was killed on March 26th, 1917.

Lieut. Frank Whaley, Yorkshire Regiment, the youngest son of the Rev. F. W. Whaley, Vicar of Horton-in-Ribblesdale, was killed in action on March 31st, 1917. He joined the Royal Fusiliers (Public Schools Battalion) as a private soon after the outbreak of war, and, after serving at the Front in France for six months in 1915-1916, was sent home to train for a commission, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. on 26th September, 1916. He joined his regiment in France early in November, 1916.

2nd Lieut. Thomas D. Broughton, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, son of the late Mr. Thomas Broughton and Mrs. Broughton, of Park House, Highfield Terrace, Skipton, died in hospital in April, 1917, from wounds received in action. After leaving school, Lieut. Broughton attended the Technical College, Bradford, for several years, and subsequently joined the firm of Messrs. H. A. Gray & Co., Valley Mills, Bradford. He joined the Artists’ Rifles in November, 1915, and after the usual training at Camberley Staff College, was given a commission in the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.

2nd Lieut. Eric G. Goodman, Dorsetshire Regiment, who was killed in action in France on April 12th, 1917, was a son of Dr. and Mrs. T. H. Goodman, 39, High Street, Haverhill, Suffolk, and a relative of Nurse Beresford, of Skipton. Twenty-two years of age, Lieut. Goodman received his education at Epsom College and Skipton Grammar School, being at the latter School Captain of the Rugby and Cricket teams and sports champion in 1910. In 1913, he joined the Civil Service Rifles, and on August 4th, 1914, he volunteered for service. He went to France in March, 1915, and was twice wounded.

Lieut. T. B. Bellamy, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Bellamy, Chapel Hill, Skipton, died from wounds received in action in Mesopotamia on April 30th, 1917. Formerly a traveller for Mr. John Mollet, ironmonger, Bradford, Lieut. Bellamy enlisted as a private in the R.F.A. a month after the outbreak of war, and in 1915 accepted the offer of a commission, and was posted to the regiment named. After taking part in the opening operations in Mesopotamia, he went to India on sick leave, but returned to the Near East at Christmas, 1916, and, along with two other officers of an advanced guard, was the first to enter Baghdad.

Captain Cyril Hook, Manchester Regiment, who was killed in action on April 23rd, 1917, was the second son of Sergt.-Major and Mrs. Hook (late of Bangalore), and grandson of the late Sergt.-Major Hook, of Settle. He was 21 years of age, and joined the Manchester Regiment as a 2nd Lieut. He went to the Front in November, 1915, being wounded in the July advance, but returned to active service again in November, 1916. Before the outbreak of war he was with Messrs. Mather & Platt, of Manchester, and a member of the Broughton Park Rugby Club.

Captain James Bruce Mackay, West Yorkshire Regiment, was the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mackay, 11, High Street, Skipton. Thirty-two years of age, he enlisted as a private in the Hussars during the month following the outbreak of war, and, after twelve months’ training at Colchester, accepted a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., being posted to the West Yorkshire Regt., proceeding to France in July, 1916. He took part in the battle of the Somme, and his promotion to the rank of Captain came on the battlefield. He was killed in action on May 3rd, 1917. He was educated at the Skipton Grammar School, and prior to enlisting was an Inspector in the London district for Messrs. Freeman, Hardy & Willis, boot manufacturers.

2nd Lieut. Eric Marlor, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, son of Mr. Frank Marlor, Close House, Settle. Joined the Artists’ Rifles, December 15th, 1915, as a private. He afterwards entered the Cadet School, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. of the ²/₆th Duke of Wellington’s Regt., in September, 1916. In December of the same year he was attached to the ²/₇th Duke of Wellington’s Regt., and went to France in January, 1917. He was reported missing May 3rd, 1917, in the attack on Bullecourt, and was last seen passing through the German wire at the head of his men. Neither 2nd Lieut. Marlor nor any of his men reported missing on that day have ever been traced or heard of, and the War Office has officially presumed their deaths.

Captain Claude D. Bennett, ²/₆th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, was the son of the late Mr. John Bennett, of Airedale Terrace, Skipton. The deceased officer was wounded in May, 1917, but he made a good recovery and returned to France on Wednesday, July 11th, 1917, exactly a week before he received the wounds which resulted in his death the same day. After leaving Skipton Grammar School, Captain Bennett served an apprenticeship to the teaching profession with the late Mr. W. H. Walker, of the Water Street Council School, Skipton, and later went to Westminster College to complete his training. Afterwards, for a time, he was a teacher at the Water Street School, where he remained about twelve months. From this school he was transferred to the staff of the Old British School at Skipton, and afterwards was for four years assistant master at the Brougham Street Council School, Skipton. Subsequently he was appointed headmaster of Langcliffe Council School. Captain Bennett, who was 30 years of age, started service in the Army as 2nd Lieut., and his promotion was rapid.

2nd Lieut. Frank Hubert Gill, West Yorkshire Regiment, met his death in action on August 16th, 1917. He was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gill, of Park Avenue, Skipton. Twenty-three years of age, deceased was educated at the Water Street Wesleyan Higher Grade School, and Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton. Before the war, he held a commission in the local Cadet Corps, but on the outbreak of hostilities, he joined the ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment as a private, with which he served in France for twenty-three months. Subsequently he was granted a commission, and returned home in the early part of 1917 to undergo the necessary training for his new duties in a school at Fleet. Afterwards he was attached to the West Yorkshire Regiment, and again proceeded to the front about five weeks before he met his death.

2nd Lieut. B. G. Lodge, Durham Light Infantry, was killed in action on August 24th, 1917. Deceased, who was 23 years of age, joined the Royal Fusiliers in December, 1914. After training at several camps, he went to France with his regiment in November, 1915, returned to England in April, 1916, and was gazetted on the 9th August, 1916, as 2nd Lieut. in the Special Reserve D.L.I. In September, 1916, he again went out to France, and after acting as Company Bombing Officer, he was Battn. Bombing Officer and Intelligence Officer until he was killed. He was educated at the Minster Yard School, York, Yorebridge Grammar School and Giggleswick School, where he was a member of the O.T.C.

Captain M. D. W. Maude, Yorkshire Regiment, younger son of Lt.-Col. and Mrs. Maude, The Fleets, Rylstone-in-Craven, died in a military hospital at Dover, on October 14th, 1917, from wounds received in action. Captain Maude went to France in 1914 with the seventh division, and was in the first battle of Ypres. He was mentioned in despatches after the battle of the Somme. He was 27 years of age, and was attached to the West Yorkshire Regiment (Special Reserve).

Capt. G. W. E. Maude, died of pneumonia at Peshawar, India, November 5th, 1919. Gerald William Edward Maude was the elder and only surviving son of Lieut.-Colonel W. W. and Mrs. Maude, The Fleets, Rylstone-in-Craven. Capt. Maude had served eight years in India with his regiment, the 1st Battalion, A.P.W.O., Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards), and in the spring of 1919 he was badly wounded by a bullet penetrating one of his lungs near Fort Dekka in Baluchistan. After three months sick leave in Kashmir, he recovered sufficiently to resume duty. On being granted a year’s leave he was hoping to embark for England on November 7th, 1919, but unfortunately he contracted a cold, which probably affected the injured lung. Pneumonia developed, and Captain Maude died on November 5th at the Military Hospital, Peshawar. He leaves a widow and one little son, and was 30 years of age.

2nd Lieut. H. T. Styles, M.C., Manchester Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. Styles, Harden Cottage, Austwick, was killed on October 2nd, 1917, aged 23 years.

2nd Lieut. Wm. Albert Rodwell, M.C., Royal Engineers, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Rodwell, of West Ville, Skipton, was killed in France on Nov. 9th, 1917. Twenty years of age, Lieut. Rodwell was educated at the Skipton Wesleyan Higher School. He was offered and accepted a commission in the army in October, 1915. He was then attached to the 20th Bn. Durham Light Infantry, and went to France in May, 1916.

2nd Lieut. Ralph O. Gladstone, Royal Engineers, of Holme Road, Crosshills, was killed in action on November 2nd, 1917, in France. Shortly before the outbreak of war, he was working in Spain for the British Thomson-Houston Co., of Rugby, and, immediately on the outbreak of hostilities he joined the Royal Engineers as a private, and went to France in 1914. He was wounded at the first battle of Ypres. He was 27 years of age.

2nd Lieut. G. W. A. Watson, Royal Air Force, eldest son of the late Mr. James Watson, Conistone-with-Kilnsey, was killed in action on March 7th, 1918. Lieut. Watson was only 20 years of age, and when war broke out he enlisted as a seaman in the Royal Naval Division. Later he joined the Royal Air Force, and went to France only a fortnight before he died. The deceased officer, who had a genius for invention, was formerly an engineering student at Leeds University, and a new fuse and engine have been made to his designs.

2nd Lieut. Victor R. Atkinson, ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, was killed in action in France on November 23rd, 1917. He was the son of Dr. and Mrs. Atkinson, of “Bowerley,” Settle, and grandson of the late Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Leeds and Harrogate. He was educated at the Giggleswick Grammar School, where he was in the O.T.C. He was 20 years of age.

Captain Willoughby John Littledale, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, only son of Mr. Willoughby Aston Littledale, formerly of Bolton-by-Bowland, was killed in action on March 23rd, 1918. Born in 1896, he was educated at Copthorne School and Eton, and was accepted for entrance at Trinity College, Oxford, but on the outbreak of war proceeded instead to Sandhurst, receiving his commission in December, 1914. He went to France in May, 1915, and was wounded in November, 1916. He afterwards rejoined his regiment and was killed, as stated above, when commanding his company in the front line.

Flight Lieut. R. B. Brookes, Royal Air Force, son of Mr. John Brooks, Greta Villas, Ingleton, officially presumed to have been killed on March 13th, 1918.

Major E. Walling, M.C., Croix de guerre, West Yorkshire Regiment, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Walling, Ferncliffe, Ingleton, was killed in action at Kemmel Hill on April 23rd, 1918. Major Walling, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches, had a brilliant scholastic career. Obtaining a County Minor Scholarship, he went to Giggleswick Grammar School, and there passed his Matriculation, 1st division, and took a County Major Scholarship and a Natural Science Exhibition at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was at Oxford four years, and was in the hockey and football teams. He was a keen golfer and a member of the Leeds and Ingleton Clubs. Leaving college he went as master at Dulwich, Oxford High School, Sheffield Grammar School, and Leeds Grammar School, where he was Senior Science Master. Prior to the war he held a commission in the Territorial Force (Leeds Rifles), and was in camp at Scarborough when war broke out. He joined his regiment in France early in 1915, and served there until he was killed.

Lieut. W. Pettitt, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, of Settle, was killed during April, 1918.

Lieut. George Procter, Lancashire Fusiliers, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Procter, Greystones, Gisburn, killed in action on April 7th, 1918, aged 24 years.

Lieut. C. C. Chorley, M.C., Lancashire Fusiliers, of Sedbergh, killed in France April 27th, 1918. Awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.

Lieut. J. W. N. A. Procter, M.C., ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Procter, Manor House, Rylstone, died from wounds on May 2nd, 1918, aged 23 years. From a letter read by the bereaved family from Brigadier General Lewes, commanding the 147th Brigade, it appears that Lieut. Procter, who possessed a loveable and winning personality, was wounded in battle on April 29th, 1918, and he died at one of the base hospitals to the deep regret of his fellow officers and men. The Brigadier General added: “Your son was a model of an English officer and gentleman. As regards his work, I cannot speak too highly of him; he was most able and devoted to his duty; he was of the greatest assistance to me and my commanding officers, and I shall be quite unable to replace him.... Your son died doing his duty in a way that could not have been done better. We sadly mourn his loss.”

2nd Lieut. Tom D. Stocks, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. James Stocks, of Airedale Villa, Silsden, died from wounds received in action on April 16th, 1918. Educated at the Bradford Grammar School, Lieut. Stocks, who was 21 years of age, was formerly an assistant scoutmaster of the Silsden Parish Church Troop. Joining the Westmoreland and Cumberland Yeomanry as a private in April, 1915, he afterwards successfully undertook a course of training for higher rank.

Lieut. John Illingworth, M.C., West Yorkshire Regiment, of Skipton, formerly assistant to Mr. E. G. Whittaker, registration agent for the Skipton Division Conservative and Unionist Association, was killed on June 3rd, 1918, aged 26 years.

Lieut. E. J. C. Kidd, Royal Air Force, son of Mr. W. Kidd, head-master of the National School, Addingham, was fatally injured on April 9th, 1917, while acting as observer.

2nd Lieut. J. G. Campbell, Yorkshire Regiment, officially reported missing since an engagement on May 7th and 8th, 1918, was the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Campbell, Town Head, Austwick. He enlisted in May, 1915, in the West Yorkshire Regiment (Bradford Pals), and went to Egypt in December the same year. He was transferred to France the following March, where he joined the cyclist section, in which he stayed up to about November, when he came home to take up a commission. He had only returned to France three weeks when he met his death. Prior to the war he was a clerk in the employ of the Midland Railway Co. He was 24 years of age.

Captain Norman Muller, West Yorkshire Regt., younger son of Colonel G. H. Muller, of Park Grove, Frizinghall, Bradford, was killed in action on the Western front, on July 28th, 1918. Capt. Muller married in January, 1915, Miss Doris Spencer Jennings, only surviving daughter of the late Mr. J. S. Jennings, formerly of Keighley and Harrogate, and Mrs. Jennings, of Cononley Hall. At the outbreak of war he was a Lieut. in the West Yorkshires, and went to France shortly after his marriage in charge of the transport of the ⅙th West Yorkshire Regt. After service on the Ypres front he was invalided home, but returned to France, and for a time was acting Major of his Bn. In August, 1916, he was again invalided home, and for a time was given duty in England, but in the spring of 1918 he was once again given orders for service abroad. He was killed while reconnoitring. He was 32 years of age.

2nd Lieut. C. F. Butler, Royal Field Artillery, of Huddersfield, a former three-quarter back for the Skipton Rugby football team, and an “Old Boy” of Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton, was killed in action during July, 1918.

2nd Lieut. H. Allen, Royal Air Force, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Allen, Gayle, Hawes, missing since August 10th, 1918, after bombing the German lines.

2nd Lieut. J. V. Lee, Royal Air Force, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lee, Belmont Bridge, Skipton, was killed in action in August, 1918, aged 22 years.

Lieut. Thomas Fattorini, Royal Air Force, second son of Mr. T. Fattorini, “Rockwood,” Skipton, fell in action on August 13th, 1918, whilst flying over the enemy’s lines on a voluntary photographic reconnaissance, aged 19 years.

Lieut. William Patrick Barry, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Barry, 29, Bright Street, Skipton, was killed on August 28th, 1918, aged 23 years. Had been awarded the Certificate of Merit in recognition of conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on the night of September 6th, 1917, and had been recommended for the Military Cross. He was an “Old Boy” of Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton.

Lieut. J. R. Jackman, Royal Air Force, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jackman, Hughenden, Long Preston, reported missing June 17th, 1918, since presumed killed. Educated at Sedbergh, he was in business with his father as a wool merchant when the war broke out. He volunteered and joined the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, going to France in April, 1915. He was transferred to the R.F.C. in 1917.

Lieut. W. H. Brassington, M.M., Tank Corps, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Brassington, Ribble View, Settle, killed in action near Bapaume on August 23rd, 1918.

2nd Lieut. L. V. Burrows, Sherwood Foresters, was the first to enlist from the office staff of Belle Vue Mills, Skipton. Killed in action September 1st., 1918, aged 26 years.

2nd Lieut. J. H. B. Thornton, Labour Corps, of Keswick, who was classical master at Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton, from September, 1914, to March, 1917, was killed in action on the Western front on September 28th, 1918. He frequently acted as instructor to the Skipton V.T.C. in its early days.

2nd Lieut. Harley Bentham, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, of Hellifield, died in France from wounds received in action on September 13th, 1918.

2nd Lieut. Joseph Bryan Bushby, South Staffordshire Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bushby, Schoolhouse Farm, Marton, died on October 9th, 1918, from wounds received on the Western front on October 4th, 1918. He was 26 years of age, and an “Old Boy” of Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton, and St. John’s College, York. He was a teacher at the Brougham Street School, Skipton, at the time he joined the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment as a private, in September, 1914.

2nd Lieut. Norman Crowther, Cheshire Regiment, only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Crowther, “Brooklyn,” Grassington, was killed in action in France on October 14th, 1918, only two days after his return from leave, aged 27 years. Educated at Pannal Ash College, Harrogate, he left there to enter the banking profession, and when war broke out had secured a good position in the chief office, at Leeds, of the National and Provincial Bank of England. Enlisting in 1915, he joined the 5th Bn. The Buffs, was granted a commission in June, 1917, and transferred to the 3rd Cheshire Regiment, and afterwards sailed for Egypt, being one of the expedition that went to Palestine. Had it not been for sickness, he would have been with General Allenby at his entry to Jerusalem. He was recalled to France in May, 1918, and saw much severe fighting in the neighbourhood of Merville, being with the Division which was mentioned for gallantry in action. At the time of his death he was attached to the 15th Suffolk Yeomanry. He and one of his men were sheltering in a shell hole when a shell buried them. When help arrived both were dead. Lieut. Crowther was buried in a cemetery near Chateau-de-la-Valee, about 12 miles from Lille.

2nd Lieut. Richard Welbury Shuttleworth, Royal Air Force, son of Mrs. Shuttleworth, Beech Cliffe, Earby, was accidentally killed whilst flying in England, on August 24th, 1918, aged 24 years.

Lieut. J. W. Lumb, M.C., ¼th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, of Skipton formerly in practice as a solicitor in Barnoldswick, died of wounds in France on October 30th, 1918, aged 34 years.

Lieut. T. F. H. Torney, son of Captain Hastings Torney, R.A.M.C., was a nephew of Mrs. Sam H. Walton, Skipton, and was killed in action September 3rd, 1918.

2nd Lieut. Lawrence Matthaus, Royal Field Artillery, formerly engaged in farming with Mr. Jas. Gill, Yarlsber Farm, Ingleton, was killed in action on October 16th, 1918.

Lieut. Gordon Sanderson, 2nd Gurkhas, Machine Gun Section, only son of Mr. William Sanderson, of Rathmell, Settle, was killed in action in France. The deceased officer was 28 years of age. At the outbreak of war, he was offered an appointment as A.D.C., but refused it, and took charge of the Machine Gun Section of the 2nd Gurkhas. Lieut. Sanderson was a clever architectural draughtsman, being formerly engaged in Government work in Egypt. He subsequently worked in Edinburgh, and later was appointed superintendent of the Archæological Survey of the North East Provinces of India. Prior to going to India, Lieut. Sanderson was married to Miss Cowie, daughter of the late Mr. A. Cowie, of Mentone Gardens, Edinburgh.

2nd Lieut. J. Leslie Berry, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. Berry, 48, Broughton Road, Skipton, who enlisted in September, 1914, at the age of seventeen, as a private, fell in action on October 12th, 1918.

Lieut. John Bartley Glibbon, Canadian Mounted Rifles, died of wounds in France. He was the only son of Mr. A. E. Glibbon, who was manager of the Old Bentham Mills Spinning Co., and also manager at Bentham Mills for the Hemp Yarn Cordage Combine before its liquidation, and a well-known figure in Bentham. The late Lieut. Glibborn was born at Bentham House in 1887. His mother was Miss Baldwin, a member of as well-known Scotforth family. He emigrated to Canada, and married a French Canadian lady who belonged to an old French Republican family. The deceased officer obtained his early education at Miss Wilson’s private school at Bentham, after which he went to Ackworth Friends’ Schools, near Wakefield.

Lieut. Gordon Carruthers, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Carruthers, of Skipton, died of wounds received in action in France on November 20th, 1918. Lieut. Carruthers, who had been in France about three years, was, prior to the war, assistant master at Glusburn Council School.

Captain Robert Clement Perks, D.S.O., Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, of Hebden, killed in action on October 27th, 1918, on the Italian front.

Dr. Phillip D. Pickles, H.M.S. “Russell,” and formerly of Earby, died in hospital at Malta as the result of injuries received during the sinking of his ship in the Mediterranean. A son of Dr. J. J. Pickles, Camp Road, Leeds, he was the eldest of six brothers, all trained in the medical profession. Deceased was a member of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and was called up for duty on the “Russell” on August 2nd, 1914. As Surgeon in the R.N.V.R., he took part in the grand review at Spithead, and joined H.M.S. “Russell” on August 2nd, 1914. Dr. Pickles was one of five brothers who joined H.M. Forces—three in the Army and two in the Navy—four of them being medical officers. He was 33 years of age and unmarried.

Lieut. H. W. Edwards, West Yorkshire Regiment (Bradford Pals), killed in action in France, resided at Manor Hill, Sutton, for a few years, and was very well-known and popular in the village. He formed an excellent troop of Boy Scouts in connection with St. Andrew’s Church, Kildwick, devoted his spare time to furthering the Boy Scout movement in the district, and for a time was District Commissioner. For over ten years he was on the staff of the Bank of Liverpool at Keighley, and was also manager of the Crosshills branch for a few years. At the outbreak of hostilities he joined the ranks of the West Yorkshire Regiment, rising to the rank of Sergeant. After about twelve months’ foreign service with the “Pals” in Egypt and France, he was promoted to commissioned rank. His father was a Vicar of Nelson.

2nd Lieut. John Granville Berry, M.C., West Yorkshire Regiment, officially reported missing on the 16th August, 1917, was the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Berry, of Hawthorn House, Earby. 2nd Lieut. Berry was only 20 years of age, and was educated at Skipton Grammar School. He was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry and devotion to duty in taking command of his Company, when his company commander had become a casualty, and leading them for two days, during which time he displayed most remarkable initiative and determination. He attained all his objectives in the face of heavy fire, and was repeatedly to the fore in repelling counter-attacks. His personal gallantry won the admiration of all ranks. Lieut.-Col. Jefferies wrote to Lieut. Berry’s father as follows:—“He was one of my very best and trustworthy officers. He was commanding a company and would have been a Captain had he remained with the Bn. I always knew that when he undertook a job it would be carried out to the letter, and this is one of the very highest recommendations it is possible to give a soldier. The Regiment could ill afford to lose him, as officers of his type are far from being common.”

Major Mostyn E. Cookson, of the Royal Sussex Regiment, was the first Officer connected with the Skipton Parliamentary Division to give his life for his country’s honour. His name was in the official casualty list issued by the War Office on Sept. 18th, 1914, and he was classed among those who were missing. It was hoped that he might have become detached from his Regiment, but on the 23rd September, the official intimation was that he had been killed in action in France on September 14th, 1914. The son of the late Major Cookson, of Skipton and Settle, who was for many years Adjutant of the 3rd Vol. Bn. Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, the deceased officer—a typical Britisher in every sense of the word—was educated at the Skipton Grammar School, and was one of a family held in deep respect in this part of Craven. His youngest sister was the late Lady Holden, who, previous to her marriage, resided with her sister at Gargrave. Major Cookson was 46 years of age.

2nd Lieut. Harry Rishworth, ²/₆th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, son of Mr. C. F. Rishworth, Moorfield, Utley, Keighley, died on September 15th, 1918, from injuries received in a motor accident in the Sheffield neighbourhood. Lieut. Rishworth was 22 years of age, and joined the 6th Duke of Wellington’s. He obtained a commission in 1915, and was for some time attached to the ³/₆th Duke of Wellington’s Regt.

Lieut.-Col. J. R. E. Stansfield, D.S.O., 2nd Gordon Highlanders, died from wounds received in action in France, on September 28th, 1915. He was the son of the late Rev. J. B. E. Stansfield, Knightsbridge, London, a nephew of Captain Stansfield, of Field House, Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, and brother to Mrs. Yorke, Halton Place, Hellifield, and was 35 years of age. In 1914, he returned from Egypt with the 1st Gordon Highlanders, and was slightly wounded at Ypres. He served through the South African War, was twice mentioned in despatches, and received the D.S.O. and two medals, with eight clasps. In 1904, he married a French lady, Yolande, daughter of the late Major-General Marquess de Bourbel, R.E.

2nd Lieut. J. Hodgson, 12th Bn. Durham Light Infantry, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Hodgson, Castleberg House, Settle, was killed by machine gun-fire in 1918, whilst gallantly leading his men into action at the crossing of the Piave on the Italian Front. Lieut. Hodgson was on leave only a short time before his death, and had only rejoined his Bn. a few days before, volunteering to go up the line when he could have remained at the base. He was an “Old Boy” of Giggleswick Grammar School.

Captain John Maughan, 4th Bn. The Yorkshire Regiment, T.F., killed in action near Ypres on February 17th, 1916, was the eldest son of John Maughan, of Abbey Hill, Jervaulx, Middleham, Yorks. Educated at Marlborough College, he joined the Regiment in 1909, and was gazetted Captain in November, 1914. He went to France with his regiment in April, 1915, and was in action at Ypres a few days after landing, and took part in all the subsequent engagements. He was mentioned in General French’s Despatches.

Lieut. Harry R. Thelwell, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, died in hospital in France from wounds on July 8th, 1916. When war broke out Lieut. Thelwell joined the Queen Victoria Rifles, in which regiment he had already served for four years as a private, and went to France in October, 1914. He took part in the attack on Hill 60, following which he was given a commission in the Duke of Wellington’s Regt., and was again sent to France where he received his second star. He was the only son of Mrs. Thelwell and the late Mr. Geo. Thelwell, of Commercial Street, Leeds, and formerly of Long Preston. He was 23 years of age, and was educated at St. Cuthbert’s College, Worksop.

2nd Lieut. Gilbert W. Waterhouse, who fell in action on April 9th, 1917, was the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Waterhouse, of Huntsville, Canada, and grandson of the late Mr. Wm. Hartley, of Catteral Hall, Settle. Aged 20 years, he was educated at Toronto, Canada, and at Cranleigh School, Surrey. He joined the Artists’ Rifles in November, 1915, and obtained his Commission early in 1917.

2nd Lieut. Basil Tempest, Manchester Regiment, died of wounds received in action April 25th, 1917. He was the son of Dr. and Mrs. Tempest, Whalley Range, Manchester, and nephew of Mr. A. Tempest, The Grove, Ilkley (formerly in business in Keighley Road, Skipton), and grandson of the late Mr. James Tempest, of Aireville, Cononley. Before the war he was for four years a student apprentice with Messrs. Mather & Platt, Ltd. In 1914 he gained a Manchester University Scholarship, and on the outbreak of hostilities he joined the University O.T.C. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in November, 1914, and served in France and Macedonia.

2nd Lieut. George Cork Dalgoutte, Rifle Brigade, a son of ex-P.C. Dalgoutte, at one time stationed at Skipton, was reported as having been killed in action on May 3rd, 1917. He formerly lived at Keighley and was an “Old Boy” of the Trade and Grammar School. He enlisted in August, 1915, and obtained his commission about December, 1916.

Colonel J. W. Lodge, Yorkshire Regiment, died at the Rookery, Bishopdale, Aysgarth, on August 24th, 1917. Colonel Lodge had been connected with the Yorkshire Regiment for over 43 years. He served with the 3rd Bn. throughout the South African War, and was in possession of the Queen’s Medal with three clasps, the King’s Medal with two clasps, and the Coronation Medal. From June, 1906, to August, 1912, he commanded the 3rd Bn. and then retired. At the outbreak of the present war, he volunteered for service, and was appointed as second in command of a Bn. of a Yorkshire Regiment, and afterwards was given the command of a Special Reserve Bn., a post which he held until his death. He was the only son of Mr. Robert Lodge, of Bishopdale, and was born in 1853. He was educated at St. Peter’s, York, and took his M.A. at Cambridge, and was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple in 1883.

2nd Lieut. C. H. Lee, Royal Garrison Artillery, was killed in action on September 20th, 1917. Thirty-three years of age, deceased was the son of the Rev. G. S. Lee, Rector of Benniworth, Lincolnshire, and was formerly a mathematical master at the Skipton Grammar School. He enlisted at the end of the summer term of 1916, and was in France about six months. He was on the staff of the Skipton School about eighteen months, and was previously mathematical master at Parkstone, Dorset.

Captain Wm. Henry Pollard, died at sea on October 9th, 1917. Captain Pollard was an old Skipton Grammar School boy, and was afterwards apprenticed with Messrs. T. & J. Harrison, ship owners, Liverpool. He obtained his master’s certificate when twenty-four years of age. During 1916, he was at Archangel, the ship being icebound. He left there in May, and was on his way home when he died.

2nd Lieut R. Hall Watt, Grenadier Guards, son of the late Mr. E. R. B. Hall Watt, of Bishop Burton, Beverley, and of Carr Head, Cowling, was killed in action on October 13th, 1917. Deceased was educated at Eton and Sandhurst, and was posted to the Grenadier Guards in the early part of 1917, leaving for France in August. He was 19 years of age.

Captain F. M. Twisleton, M.C., New Zealand Forces, eldest son of the late Mr. Twisleton, of Menstone, and formerly of Settle, died on November 15th, 1917, from wounds received in action in Palestine. Leaving England twenty years ago, he went to New Zealand. He served through the South African War, and then returned to New Zealand. At the outbreak of war, he came out with the Otago Mounted Rifles. He fought through the Gallipoli campaign, where he won the M.C. He then went to France, and afterwards to Palestine, where he met his death.

2nd Lieut. William H. Coles, Yorkshire Regiment, son of Mr. Wm. Coles, Station Master, Skipton. Twenty-eight years of age, Lieut. Coles was prior to the war attached to the West Riding Territorials, and afterwards served for five years in the Yorkshire Hussars, attaining the rank of Quarter-master Sergeant. In November, 1916, he was offered and accepted a commission, and was posted to the Yorkshire Regiment. He was killed in action on December 28th, 1917.

Major Lees, President of the Bentham Agricultural Society, was killed on July 31st, 1918.

Lieut. B. Ramsbottom, son of the Rev. W. H. Ramsbottom, a former vicar of St. Margaret’s Church, Bentham, was killed in action on August 19th, 1918.

2nd Lieut. W. G. Barraclough, M.C., Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, elder son of Supt. H. Barraclough, West Riding Constabulary, formerly stationed at Ingleton, was killed in action on September 29th, 1918, aged 23 years. Had been recommended for the M.C.

2nd Lieut. S. A. F. Pilgrim, Tank Corps, who was mortally wounded on September 24th, 1918, was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Pilgrim, Noyna Mede, Foulridge, and was just 20 years of age.

The Rev. Theodore Baily Hardy, V.C., D.S.O., M.C., a former headmaster of Bentham Grammar School and domestic chaplain to the King, died in hospital in France in October, 1918, from gunshot wounds.

2nd Lieut. Norman P. Clark, Munster Fusiliers, killed in action, was a nephew of Mr. Edgar Wood of Skipton. After being invalided from Gallipoli, he spent a good deal of time with Mr. Wood and his family at Skipton. Only 23 years of age deceased was the second son of Councillor W. Clark, of Regent Square, Doncaster (a former Mayor of the Borough), and was articled to a firm of accountants. When the war broke out, he immediately joined the North Staffordshire Regiment (T.F.), and afterwards received a commission in the West Yorkshire Regt. Subsequently, he saw service with the Munster Fusiliers, and was in the Gallipoli campaign where he was wounded and invalided home with dysentery. Deceased’s forefathers were Quakers, and his grandfather, the late Mr. R. E. Clark, was one of the first County Aldermen of the West Riding.

Lieut. R. Forrest, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, was the son of Mr. T. Forrest, dental surgeon, of Clitheroe and Long Preston. He was killed in action on the Western Front. He had been employed as Intelligence Officer. His death was caused by being struck by a piece of shell. He was 26 years of age.

Lord Lucas, who was killed while on active service in France, was an enthusiastic and generous supporter of the Ribblesdale Buckhounds, and he gave his friend and neighbour, Lord Ribblesdale, all the support and help in his power. In the times before the war, of such days as he could spare from the duties of his office, which he filled with such advantage to agriculture, many were spent in the Ribble Valley. In the hunting season, whenever in residence at Sawley or Wigglesworth, he was never absent from a meet. He was a noble, chivalrous and courteous gentleman.

Major Vivian Novell Kidd, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, son of the late Mr. William Kidd, of Otley, and a grandson of the late Rev. P. C. Kidd, who was Rector at Skipton for many years. Major Kidd, who was well-known in Rugby Union Football circles at Headingley and Otley, joined the army from Sandhurst, and entered the Duke of Wellington’s Regt. He was second in command of a Service Battn. of the Regiment, and was expecting his promotion to Lieut.-Colonel. He was with the Battn. at the landing at Suvla Bay as Captain and Adjutant, and when his superior officers became casualties, he took command. At the commencement of the war, he was Adjutant at the Regimental Depot at Halifax. He was a son-in-law of Major Cecil H. Taylor, O.C., 13th Bn. West Riding Volunteers, and was in his 30th year.

Captain G. C. Turner, West Yorkshire Regiment, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. John Turner, Newlands, Ilkley, was killed in action on the Western front. Captain Turner was 32 years of age, and was educated at the Ilkley Grammar School, Sedbergh, and Leeds University. He was a civil engineer by profession, and had spent three years in British Columbia. On outbreak of war, he joined the Leeds University O.T.C., and obtained a commission in the West Yorkshire Regiment in February, 1915.

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