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1918
Lance Corporal Charles Samuel Hirst (s-f)
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Private Charles Avison
Private Arthur Redfearn
Gunner Ernest Newsome (s-f)
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Naval Engineer John Robinson (s-f)
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Able Seaman Farrar Hill (s-f)
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Sergeant George Sykes
Lance Corporal Edward Barron
Gunner James L Preston (S-F)
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Private Fred Hill MM
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Sapper Frank Jackson
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Private Willie Townsley
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Rifleman Godfrey Moore (S-F)
Private Israel Hey (S-F)
Rifleman Clifford Bennett Ineson (S-F)
Private Percy Bowden
Private Alfred Haggerston (S-F)
Sergeant William Pit Kitson (S-F)
Driver Harry Boyes
Private Arthur Berry
Private Fred Midgley MM
Private Harry Alderson
Gunner Arthur Wilson (S-F)
Private George Swift (S-F)
Driver Sam Dixon
Driver Sam Dixon
Private Sam Dixon (S-F)
Driver George Dobson (S-F)
Private George H Goodare
Private Allen Ainley
Private Clement Manning (S-F)
Private Thomas William Yates (S-F)
Driver Gilbert Wilson
Air Mechanic Alfred Helliwell
Private William Kelley
Private Tom Robinson Handley
Bombardier Albert Edward Illingworth (s-f)
Gunner James Albert Killingley (s-f)
Air Mechanic Harry Sykes
Private Arnold Howard Broadley
Private Tom Riley
Private Tom Riley (s-f)
Deck Hand Harold Gaunt
Private Wilfred Ernest Earnshaw
Private Wilfred Ernest Earnshaw (s-f)
Driver Ernest Platts (s-f)
Private Thornton Wood
Private Andrew Smith
Private Robert Ramsden Barber
2nd Lieutenant John Walter Hanstock
2nd Lieutenant John Walter Hanstock (s-f)
Lance Corporal Thomas Housecroft (s-f)
Private George Charles Francis
Private George Charles Francis
Gunner Willie Thwaites
Private George William Lees
Ex Able Seaman William Frederick Townsend
Ex Private John Bennett Talbot
Gunner Edward Chadwick
Ex Private Joah Mortimer
Sergeant Fred Greenwood
Private Charles Myatt
Private Clifford Bruce (s-f)
Sergeant Walter James Hughes (s-f)
Private Charles Myatt (s-f)
Private Arthur Walshaw (s-f)
Gunner Frank Clayton (s-f)
Private Arthur Walshaw
Private Clifford Bruce
Private Fred Arthur Mann
1917
Private Charles Orlando Thompson
Trooper Gilbert Thackray
Private Joseph Ward
Private Richard Tyler
Gunner James Arthur Waldy
Private Thomas Dolan
Private Arthur Collins
Signaller Clifford Wilson
Private Frank Pearson
Lieutenent John Herbert Blackburn
Private Joseph Gibson
Private Haydn Hirst
Private David Wilkinson
Private Harold Berry
Private John William Dean
Private Ernest Carter Holmes 1889-1917
Private Horace Waller
Corporal Harry Nettleton (s-f)
Signaller James Lyons (s-f)
Private Herbert Shires (s-f)
Private Charles William Day (s-f)
Private George Arthur Fox (s-f)
Gunner Harry Garside (s-f)
Private Freeman Wilson (S-F)
Private John Jackson (S-F)
Gunner Clarence Smith (S-F)
Private Harry Summers (S-F)
Private James Greenwood Stubley (S-F)
Private John Arthur Pickering (S-F)
Private George Wright (S-F)
Private Fred Webster (S-F)
Private Basil Hinchcliffe (S-F)
Private Arthur Redfearn S-F
Private James William Booth (S-F)
Private Harry Simon (s-f)
Private John Appleyard (s-f)
Gunner George Clifford Greenwood
Driver Clifford Frone
Private Edmund Broadbent (s-f)
Gunner Louis Charlesworth
Gunner Samson Goldthorpe
Private Percival Cahab Burnley (s-f)
Lance Corporal Alfred Watson (s-f)
Lance Corporal Alfred Wilson (s-f)
Private Reggie Craven (s-f)
Private Reggie Craven (s-f)
Gunner John Law (s-f)
Gunner John Law (s-f)
Harry Ackroyd
Private Harry Ackroyd (s-f)
Private Percy Thewlis (s-f)
Private Percy Thewlis (s-f)
Private Harry Ackroyd (s-f)
Private Harry Ackroyd (s-f)
Private Willie Coates (s-f)
Private Willie Coates (s-f)
Private John William Poskitt
Private John William Poskitt (s-f)
Private Robert Smith (s-f)
Private Robert Smith (s-f)
Private Robert Smith (s-f)
Gunner Fred Delmere-Griffiths (s-f)
Private Fred Delmere Griffiths (s-f)
Lieutenant Edward Brooke Longbottom
Lieutenant Edward Brooke Longbottom (s-f)
Private James Wilson Inwood (s-f)
Gunner Thomas Erskine Kershaw (s-f)
Corporal William Brooke Ineson (s-f)
Private Edward Hartley (S-F)
Private Frank Brook Roebuck
Private Horace Rhodes
1916
Private Albert Arthur Smithson 1892-1915
Sapper William McManus (1884 – 1916)
Private Stanley Goodall 1893-1916
Private Harold Moss
Private Thomas Hirst (1892-1917)
Rifleman Joseph Foggitt Hare (1890-1916)
1915
Corporal Gilbert Pattison 1893-1915
Private Ernest L Eastwood 1886-1915
Private Ernest L Speight 1886-1915
Private Edmund Battye 1892-1915
Private Albert J Roberts 1889-1915
Private George Roberts 1892-1915
Private Arthur Eagleton 1878-1915
Private Harry Simpson 1881-1915
Private Charles W Major 1882-1915
Private James A Greenhough 1893-1915
Private Joe Woodhead 1892-1915
Private Herbert Hardy 1880-1915
Private Joseph Crabtree 1875-1915
Lance Corporal Henry Field 1890-1915
Private Herbert Priestley 1893-1915
Private Joseph H Truelove 1887-1915
Able Seaman Herbert A Croft 1895-1915
Lance Corporal Willie Phelps 1890-1915
Private Fred Moody 1897-1915
Lance Corporal Ambrose G Preston 1885-1915
Able Seaman Thomas Lee 1897-1915
Able Seaman William C Pearce 1879-1915
Private Tom Eastwood 1884-1915
Private William S Parrington 1879-1915
Private Fred Labourn 1898-1915
Able Seaman Joseph W Dews 1895-1915
Lance Corporal Albert H Houlbrook 1886-1915
Sergeant Alfred Terry 1882-1915
Second Lieutenant Percy Alexander Margetts 1888-1915
Private Orlando Morrison 1871-1915
1914
Private Austin Nolan 1895-1914
Private Alfred Dyer 1882-1914
Private George H Thompson 1885-1914
Private Robert Cleasby 1886-1914
Private George Whittaker 1895-1914
Private Wallace Booth 1884-1914
Private Charles Fenton 1891-1914
Private William Bennett 1895-1914
Private William Higgins 1889-1914
Private John W Firth 1893-1914
Private Alfred Grundell 1892-1914
Private Reginald Roberts 1885-1914
Private Ernest Teale 1883-1914
Private Joseph King 1895-1914
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Private George Hewitt Townsley
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Corporal Gilbert Pattison 1893-1915
Private Lawrence Ryan 1896-1915
Corporal Percy William Crowther 1875-1916
Corporal William Balmforth 1889-1915
2nd Lieutenant Edward Irish 1893-1915
Private John Henry Wilcock Rhodes 1881-1915
Lance Corporal Charles Norman Watts 1894-1915
2nd Lieutenant Percy Alexander Margetts 1888-1915
Private Orlando Morrison 1871-1915
Private George Herbert Wood 1875-1916
2nd Lieutenant Clifford Walker Ellis 1897-1916
2nd Lieutenant Frederick Bertram Key 1895-1916
Rifleman Edward Leonard 1895-1916
2nd Lieutenant James Critchley Jubb 1884-1916
Corporal Robert Stuart Hawcridge 1887-1916
Private Joseph Sheard Jubb 1888-1916
2nd Lieutenant Alfred Edison Hirst 1882-1916
Private Eric Johnson 1897-1915
2nd Lieutenant Richard Hartley 1886-1917
Sub Lieutenant Owen Jardine Hobbs 1889-1916
Private Arthur Sheard 1897-1916
2nd Lieutenant Thomas Oates Holiday Bates 1884-1916
Private Fred Knowles 1890-1917
2nd Lieutenant John Herbert Blackburn 1895-1917
Private Edward Whitworth 1896-1917
Private Horace Waller VC 1896-1917
Lance Corporal Horace Kingsley Stedeford 1893-1916
Lance Corporal Ernest Broadhead 1896-1917
Corporal George Carnes 1879-1917
2nd Lieutenant William Heaton 1892-1917
Trooper John William Taylor 1889-1917
Private Archibald Edward Jones 1884-1917
Corporal Rhodes Lister DCM 1891-1917
2nd Lieutenant Edward Ernest Laing 1891-1917
Private Joseph Boothroyd 1892-1917
Captain Arthur Francis Melton 1895-1917
2nd Lieutenant James Norman Ellis 1898-1917
Private James Arthur Roberts 1879-1918
Captain John Clifford Metcalfe 1889-1918
Private Lawrence Ellis 1899-1918
Lieutenant Robert Max Skelsley 1886-1918
Lance Corporal Arthur Knowles 1885-1918
Sergeant Louis Joseph Fox 1867-1918
Pioneer Gerald Kemp Coultas 1898-1918
Private Charles Clifford Ineson 1881-1918
Private Herbert James Fletcher 1898-1918
Private Haley Knowles 1890-1918
2nd Lieutenant Harold Cheeseborough 1892-1918
2nd Lieutenant Ingham Walker 1892-1918
Private Gilbert Hirst 1886-1918
2nd Lieutenant Arnold Senior Asquith 1893-1918
Private William Scofield Vero 1898-1918
Private Arnold Howard Broadley 1899-1918
Private Edwin Percy Stead 1879-1918
Lance Corporal William Arthur Sheard 1896-1918
Private Robert Ramsden Barber 1900-1918
2nd Lieutenant John Walter Hanstock 1899-1918
Lance Corporal Eric Fox Wharton 1899-1918
Private Clifford Speight 1895-1918
Private George Edward Lodge 1885-1918
Private James William Rothery 1876-1919
Private W Thackray
Drighlington Lads
Introduction
Rifleman Walter Metcalfe (1881-1914)
Private Francis Webster 1889-1914
Private John William Horsfall 1886-1916
Private Percy Simpson 1884-1916
Acting Bombadier Fred Speight (1898-1916)
Corporal Willie Thornton (1889-1916)
Captain William Liley Batty (1892-1916)
Private Edwin Clayton 1883-1916
Private Edward Naylor 1888-1916
Private John Robert Garforth 1896-1916
Private John George Johnson 1888-1917
Private John Henry Atack 1888-1917
Lance Sergeant Stanley Gibson 1896-1917
Harry Mortimer (1894-1917)
Able Seaman Harry Benton 1893-1917
Private Harry Collins 1892-1917
Private Levi Ramsden 1891-1917
Lance Corporal Harold Brown 1894-1917
Private John Gledhill 1893-1917
Private John Israel Green 1878-1917
Private Vincent Housecroft 1889-1917
Private Morris Lees 1894-1917
Private Sam Hemmingway 1897-1917
Gunner Charles William Wild 1895-1917
Private William Fletcher 1885-1917
Herbert Haley (1896-1917)
Private Walter Pells (1894-1917)
Private Clifford Gough 1896-1917
Private Clarence Smith (1897-1917)
Private Ernest Hartley (1888-1917)
Private Arthur Horrocks 1891-1917
Private James Andreson 1898-1917
Captain Arthur Francis Melton 1894-1917
Private Harold Poole 1891-1917
Private Albert Sykes 1878-1917
Sapper Dick Mitchell 1877-1918
Lance Corporal Edward Barron 1885-1918
Private Edward Holmes 1886-1918
Private Harry Potts 1892-1918
CaptainJohn McCammon Trew 1870-1918
Private James Hill 1893-1918
Private Frank Marlow 1894-1918
Corporal Harold Hainsworth 1895-1918
Private John Henry Reynolds 1882-1918
Private Edward ‘Ted’ Pell 1893-1918
Private Henry (Harry) Lilley (1878-1918)
Private Harold Freeman 1895-1918
Private Benjamin Charles Hamilton 1891-1918
Private George Hutchinson 1886-1918
Private Joseph Fearnley Wigglesworth 1890-1918
Private Harvey Green 1900-1918
Private James Ramsden 1893-1918
Corporal Thomas Edward Holliday (1880-1918)
Private Ernest Frankland 1891-1918
Private John Henry Newton 1890-1918
Sergeant Horace Osborne D.C.M. M.M. (1893-1918)
Gunner Harry White (1897-1918)
Harry Liley 1899-1918
Private Charles Myatt 1894-1918
Private Jeremiah Webster M.M. 1897-1919
Private Josiah Blackburn 1882-1919
Private Herbert Pape (1882-1919)
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Private Joseph Valarie Child (Batley)
Private Herbert Childe (Batley)
Private James William Debney (Batley)
Private George Arthur Hammond (Dewsbury)
Private Thomas James (Dewsbury)
Rifleman Walter Johnson (Batley)
Private Richard Pickard (Dewsbury)
Captain Robert Randerson (Batley)
Private Joseph Robinson (Dewsbury)
Private Frank Brook Roebuck (Batley)
Lance Corporal Albert Smith (Dewsbury)
Rifleman Jack Tindall (Batley)
Sergeant Walter Whitehead (Dewsbury)
Private Joseph Wilson (Batley)
Private John Wood (Dewsbury)
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