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Ambrose Bower (1885 1917)Ambrose Bower, one of six children, was born in Keighley and came from a military family. An apprenticed machine maker he married and lived in Keighley and Steeton, and had two children.Although not a Farnhill resident, his name was probably included on the list of Farnhill...
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Anthony Dean Hargreaves(1895 1975)Anthony Dean Hargreaves was one of three brothers whovolunteered to serve in WW1.Anthony attended Kildwick School and later worked in one of thelocal mills. He was a member of both Kildwick Old Boys FootballClub and Kildwick Albion Cricket Club.He saw active...
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Arthur Brown (1873 1939)Arthur Brown, one of six children, was born in Selby and lived as a child in Bradford and Keighley. Marrying when they were both 22, Arthur and his wife started their married life in Keighley and then moved to Farnhill.Although he would have been 41 years of age when war...
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Ben Hargreaves (1894 1926)Ben Hargreaves was born on a farm above Kildwick and was one of five children whose father was a fishmonger. By the time he was 16 he was working full time as a worsted spinner.Assigned to the Army Reserve he was mobilised in 1916 and, following training at camps in the...
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Benjamin Thornton Smith (1890 1967)Benjamin Thornton Smith was from a Farnhill family who lived in Starkey Lane. His father was a milk dealer and Benjamin himself was a wheelwright.Before joining the Royal Army Service Corps, where he rose to the rank of Sergeant, he was active in village life and...
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Cecil Green (1893 1968)Cecil Green was born into a Farnhill family of five children.He worked in the cotton industry and later as a chauffeur.During the war he served in the Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding) Regiment.Cecil was wounded, hospitalised in Penrith and Liverpool, and then discharged from...
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Cecil James Baugh (1897 1976)Cecil Baugh was only one year old when his father died. He and his mother then went to live with his mothers family in Main Street Farnhill. To provide for herself and her young son, Margaret Baugh worked in the local mills. In 1908, she married William Crossley two...
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Cecil Rhodes (1898 1962)Cecil Rhodes, whose mother died when he was not quite seven years old, was born in the Keighley area. After living with his family in Bradford and in Derbyshire he moved, with his father and younger brother, to the Farnhill area.Not much is known about his war service but it...
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Charles (Charlie) Hargreaves(1898 1981)Charles Hargreaves or Charlie as he was usually known was bornin Farnhill and was one of three brothers, and cousin to two others,who saw active service in World War 1. From a family of eight children,Charlie worked from a young age when he was aged 12 he...
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Charles (Charlie) Slack (1889 1965)Charlie Slack was born on Silsden Moor, an area in the hills between Silsden and Bradley, and was one of seven children.After the death of his father the family moved to Farnhill where, in 1911, Charlie was working as a temporary postman and was also a...
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Charles Green (1898 1972)Charles Green was born in Farnhill and had three brothers andthree sisters. He attended Kildwick school and later worked atWoodrows mill, at Junction.An active member of Kildwick Brass Band and the local ConservativeClub, he joined the Prince of Wales (West Yorkshire)...
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Ephraim Sharpe (1876 1945)Ephraim Sharpe, born in Halifax, lived with his widowed mother and siblings in the Sutton Mill area of the village of Sutton in Craven. By the age of 15 he was working in a local woollen mill.He married in 1902 and he and his wife would have seven children. They lived,...
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Eric Green (1898 1951)Eric Green was one of the sons of the Farnhill butcher, William Green. Akeen participant in village life and very much involved with Farnhill MethodistChapel, he followed his fathers profession before joining the Durham LightInfantry during WW1.He returned to Farnhill in 1918...
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Ernest Gibson (1896 1964)Ernest Gibson, born in Bowling, Bradford, was the illegitimate son of Jabez Gibson and Sarah Ann Barlow.The couple were never married and Ernests mother subsequently married William Bulcock, from Eastburn. William had two children of his own and the new family settled in...
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Ernest Thompson (1888 1957)Ernest Thompson was born in Skipton but on the death of his mother, when he was eight, he and his brother went to live with their uncle and aunt in Kildwick.He attended the village school and also worked part-time as a bobbin minder, and then as a joiners labourer.During...
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Frank Leese (1891 1975)Frank Leese, one of twins, was born into a large Skipton family. His father was a locomotive engine driver.After her husbands death, Franks mother had a small drapery business, and was later landlady of the Crown Inn in Cononley. On her remarriage the family moved to...
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Frank Pollard (1893 1932)Frank Pollard was one of ten children born to Theodore and Priscilla Pollard. He was not quite four years old when his mother died.He attended Kildwick School and then worked as a warp twister and was said to be very keen on sport.Called up almost immediately after he...
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Fred Hargreaves (1892 1975)Fred Hargreaves was born in Kildwick and attended Kildwick school. After working part time in one of the local mills, he became a weaver.Serving with the Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding) Regiment as did his brother he suffered trench fever. Towards the end of the war,...
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Fred Holmes (1881 1937)Fred Holmes was born into a large Farnhill family and his mother died when he was nine years old.After leaving Kildwick school, in his early teens he was working part-time and when he was 19 he was employed as a basket maker. Following his marriage Fred worked for a worsted...
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George Buck Holliday (1885 1982)George Hollidays early life is something of a mystery. Although hestated, in later life, that his father was a greengrocer, there is noconcrete evidence of this being the case. His mother Ellen KinghornHolliday, who worked as a hotel maid in the Harrogate area,...
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George Frederick Myers (1885 1962)George Frederick Myers, born in Bradford, was one of six children. His father owned a textile manufacturing company and employed his sons in the family firm. George would later run a textile firm of his own, in Keighley.Georges association with Farnhill began when...
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George Inskip (1893 1917)George Inskip, one of 11 children, was born into a musical family whoseforebears had been celebrated photographers. He worked at T. and M.Bairstows mill in Sutton in Craven and played in Kildwick Brass Band.Enlisting in September 1914 and assigned to a battalion of the Duke...
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Harry Barker (1891 1950)Harry Barker was born in Silsden and, together with his parents and elder brother, lived with his maternal grandmother and her second husband.His father was a self- employed saddler and, as a young man, Harry worked for him.Aged nineteen Harry married at Skipton Methodist...
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Harry Bulcock (1896 1963)Harry Bulcock lived in Farnhill and Eastburn as a child. He had a sister, nine years younger, and a step-brother, a month older than himself his father having remarried after the death of Harrys mother.On leaving school Harry worked in a woollen mill and entered the forces...