Cross Roads Primitive Methodist Sunday School War Memorial, nr Keighley, Yorkshire.

In 2011, the ‘Men of Worth Project’ carried out a survey of all war memorials in the Keighley area which had been removed from churches and other buildings because of their closure.

One of these was from Cross Roads Primitive Methodist Sunday School, and was known to have been given to Keighley Reference Library, but had gone missing since.

The Men of Worth discovered photographs of the original memorial which, when magnified, showed up details of each man. They re-created the memorial, which was officially unveiled on February 11, 2017, at the Memorial Hall in Cross Roads Park.

Andy Wade has kindly provided a list of the names on the memorial as follows.

Private Aspinall, Asa  – Royal Fusiliers

Private Binns, Arthur – 8th Divisional Company, Army Service Corps

Private Bowker, John R. – Somerset Light Infantry

A/Bombardier Boyes, Wilfred – 349th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery

Private Brearley, Herbert – 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers

Private Carr, William – 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment

Private Dawson, Wilfred – 2/6th Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment

Private Dinsdale, Arthur – 6th Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment

Private Dodgson, Albert – Royal Engineers

Private Edmondson, Arthur – Northumberland Fusiliers

Private Farrar, Allan – Northumberland Fusiliers

Private Feather, Arthur – 21st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment

Sergeant – Feather, George  – 9th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment

Private Feather, William – Durham Light Infantry

Private Firth, Alfred – 2nd South Staffordshire Regiment

Corporal Gott, Sam A. – 21st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment Pioneers

Trooper Greenbank, William – Scottish Horse

Private Greenwood, Harold – 1/7th Northumberland Fusiliers

Private Haigh, Edward  – Machine Gun Corps

Corporal Haigh, Percy  – Royal Field Artillery

Private Leach, Harry  – King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Private Leach, William – 10th Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment

Private Pickles, Fred A. – 1/6th Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment

Private  Shoesmith, Wilfred – 51st Garrison Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment

Stoker Shread, Herbert – Royal Navy HMS Tristram

Private Southern, Henry  – 1/6th Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment

Private Sunderland, Michael – 5th Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment

Private White, Arthur  – 5th Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment

Private White, Herbert – 1/6th Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment

Private Wilkinson, Fred  – Army Veterinary Corps

Private Williams, Samuel -10th Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment

References

http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/15011333.Keighley_historians_recreate_lost_Cross_Roads_war_memorial/

http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/15088182.Replica_war_memorial_is_unveiled_in_Cross_Roads/