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    • 1919
      • Private Alfred Ineson
      • Lance Corporal James Douglas Lyon
      • Driver Alfred Handley
      • Senior Reserve Attendant Albert Edward Pickles
      • Sergeant John Fawcett Cookson
    • 1918
      • Lance Corporal Charles Samuel Hirst (s-f)
      • Private John Commons (s-f)
      • Deck Hand Harold Gaunt (s-f)
      • #2761 (no title)
      • Private Charles Avison
      • Private Arthur Redfearn
      • Gunner Ernest Newsome (s-f)
      • Private Donald James Watson (s-f)
      • Naval Engineer John Robinson (s-f)
      • Rifleman Albert Edward Barber
      • Able Seaman Farrar Hill (s-f)
      • Private George Arthur Hargreaves (s-f)
      • Sergeant George Sykes
      • Lance Corporal Edward Barron
      • Gunner James L Preston (S-F)
      • Lieutenant John Henry Kitson (S-F)
      • Private John Walker Wilson (S-F)
      • Private Leonard Smith
      • Private Leonard Smith (S-F)
      • Private Horace Naylor MM (S-F)
      • Private Horace Naylor MM
      • Private Thomas Smith
      • Lance Corporal Percy Richardson (S-F)
      • Private Fred Hill MM
      • Private Fred Hill MM (S-F)
      • Sapper Frank Jackson
      • Ex Private Frederick Avison
      • Private John Bailey Dixon MM
      • Private Willie Townsley
      • Private Willie Townsley (S-F)
      • 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
    • Those Who Came Back
      • Private George Hewitt Townsley
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    • Batley Lads
      • Introduction
      • 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
      • Heber 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)
      • Appendix
    • Rugby Players
      • 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)
    • Batley Carr Trinity Church
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        • Private John William Marsden
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← Wreath Ceremony for Private George STEPHENSON of the Northumberland Fusiliers on September 10th 2019 at Batley Cemetery. Meet at
Wreath Ceremony For Private Leonard Ashton of the Royal Defence Corps. To be held at Batley Cemetery at 10:30am →

Wreath Ceremony for Corporal James William GAY of the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment on October 10th 2019 at Batley Cemetery. Meet at

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