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/15088182.Replica_war_memorial_is_unveiled_in_Cross_Roads/
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