The Guiseley Terriers – 1914/1918 War Graves

The two Stained Glass Windows central to this group are in the South Aisle in the Church.  Perhaps unnoticed??

These windows depict the Warrior Saints : St. Martin and St. George both in acts of kindness and of war.

Commissioned by the family of Lieutenant Malcolm Colin McGregor Law, in remembrance of him and the men who served in the 6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment 49th and 62nd Division who fell in the Great War.

For decades after the end of the 1914-1918 War, Locals from Guiseley would have looked upon these windows and the Roll of Honour carved in the Lychgate and known or been related to most of the men who served and died for their Country in this Regiment.  Their Graves are listed below courtesy of information provided by Stephen Barber – Author of Guiseley Terriers, A Small Part in the Great War without whose input, this information would have been lost to the people of Guiseley.

‘LEST WE FORGET’ 

1. William DARNBROUGH (not on St Oswald’s ROH)

Rank: Private

Service No: 202399

Date of Death: 31/07/1917

Age: 19

Regiment/Service: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) 1st Bn.

Panel Reference: Panel 39 and 41. Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

Additional Information: Son of Joseph Arnold and Emily Darnbrough, of 3, Victory Rd., Ilkley, Yorks.

Born in Guiseley, he enlisted at Keighley. In 1901, aged 3 years, he lived at 15 Moor Lane, Guiseley with his father who was employed as a manager of a grocery store. Also at the address was his mother, his sister Ivy, (5), brother Herman (7 mths) and his widowed grandmother Harriet (57). In 1911, the family had moved to 117 West Terrace, Burley-in-Wharfedale, and his father Joseph was now working as an insurance agent for the Prudential. William’s name is recorded on the Ilkley war memorial, but mis-spelt as Darnborough. (the gravestone has fallen over and broken in two pieces)

2.    (Alan) Humphrey CHEETHAM MiD

Rank: Lieutenant

Date of Death: 16/12/1916

Age: 20

Regiment/Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment 2^nd Bn.

Panel Reference: Pier and Face 6 A and 6 B.

Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Additional Information: Younger son of W. H. Cheetham, M.D., and L. C. Cheetham, of The Green, Guiseley, Yorks.  (Dr Cheetham was the long serving GP of Guiseley)

In 1911, Alan was a boarder at ‘Christowe’ house at Cheltenham college in Gloucestershire. On 30 September 1914 he was commissioned as a 2^nd Lieutenant in the 2^nd Battalion, The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment.

During the spring offensive of 1915 the allies attempted to advance on the front around Ypres, Belgium around Hill 60 (actually a mound of earth excavated when the railway was built). Lieutenant Cheetham was seriously wounded in this action and received a Mention in Despatches, but by the middle of June he had recovered. In December 1916, he and a fellow officer were asleep in their dugout at Sailly-Saillisel, 10km east of Albert, when it was destroyed by a German shell.  There is a memorial plaque in the Souvenir Francais Chapel and museum in Rancourt, France. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

(Souvenir Francais is a French organisation comparable to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.)

List of benefactor gifts in St Oswald’s church

3.  David LONG

Rank: Sergeant

Service No: 265822

Date of Death: 03/05/1917

Age: 25

Regiment/Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment 2^nd/6^th Bn.

Panel Reference: Bay 6.

Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL, France

Additional Information: Son of George and Emma Long, of 13, Well Rd. Guiseley, Leeds. Brother of John Long

In 1911, David was living at 13 Wells Road, Guiseley and was employed as a weaver in a woollen factory. He lived at the address with his parents, four sisters: Bertha (25), Alice (23), Rizpa (10), Laura (7) and a brother John, (20).

David was killed in the second battle of Bullecourt on the German Hindenburg line and has no known grave. The first battle had taken place on 11 April 1917, which had failed disastrously.  The Australian losses alone on that date amounted to 2,229 men killed or wounded and 1,170 taken prisoner. The second attack on 3 May 1917 lasted until 17 May when the village was finally captured.  Over 14,000 allied soldiers were killed or wounded in the two battles of Bullecourt.

3. John LONG

Rank: Private

Service No: 241467

Date of Death: 25/07/1918

Age: 28

Regiment/Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment 2^nd/5^th Bn.

Grave Reference: V. K. 3.

Cemetery: MARFAUX BRITISH CEMETERY, Marne, France

Additional Information: Son of George and Emma Long, of 13, Wells Rd., Guiseley

The plan of attack on Bullecourt on 3 May 1917

Bullecourt Memorial as it stands today

4.  Alfred SHAW

Rank: Private

Service No: 4/7261

Date of Death: 31/08/1918

Age: 32

Regiment/Service: West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own) Depot

Grave Reference: 160.

Cemetery: GUISELEY (ST. OSWALD) CHURCHYARD

Additional Information: Son of the late James and Grace H. Shaw, of 12, Walker’s Buildings, Menston, Leeds, brother of Harry Shaw, 12 Lands Lane, Guiseley, and Mrs Mary Jane Exley, 9 Butts Terrace, Guiseley.

Prior to the war, he was a bricklayer. He joined the ranks of the 4^th West Yorkshire Regiment in Bradford as a ‘Special Reserve’ soldier in December 1909. The Special Reserve provided a form of part-time military service. It was introduced in 1908 as a means of building up a pool of trained reservists in addition to those of the regular Army Reserve. Special Reservists enlisted for 6 years and had to accept the possibility of being called up in the event of a general mobilization and to undergo all the same conditions as men of the Army Reserve. This meant that it differed from the Territorial Force in that the men could be sent overseas. He had previously served in the 3^rd (Volunteer) Battalion West Riding Regiment in Guiseley. He was mobilized on 5 August 1914 and sent to France with the BEF on the 10 February 1915. He was wounded by a gunshot to the foot and invalided back to the UK. In October 1916, he returned to France but in April 1917 he was posted back to the UK due to ill health, and In June 1917 he was discharged due to contracting TB from his overseas service which was his eventual cause of death.

5.   William (Willie) WATSON

Rank: Private

Service No: 265619

Date of Death: 14/06/1918

Age: 30

Regiment/Service:  1/6^th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment

Grave Reference: 132.

Cemetery: GUISELEY (ST. OSWALD) CHURCHYARD

Additional Information: Son of Walter and the late Kate Watson, of 1 Carrington Terrace, Guiseley, brother of Mr W Watson, Lane Ends, Menston (hairdresser, Otley Road, Guiseley).

He saw service in the 3^rd Volunteer Battalion of the West Riding Regiment before transferring to the Territorial Force in 1908. In 1911, he was living with his married sister Florence at 3 James Street, Rawdon and was working as a scourer at a woollen mill. (a scourer receives the raw wool and treats it to remove grease and other impurities). He deployed to France with his regiment in April 1915 and fought in some of the toughest battles at Ypres, Thiepval, Nieuport and Neuve Chapelle.  He was wounded on 13 April 1918 near Bailleul in France, during the German spring offensive of 1918. He was evacuated to the UK, but died of the wounds at a war hospital in Stoke-on-Trent.

6.  Albert BRAYSHAW

Rank: Driver

Service No: 785066

Date of Death: 14/03/1917

Age: 32

Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery Command Depot

Grave Reference: 41.

Cemetery: GUISELEY (ST. OSWALD) CHURCHYARD

Additional Information: Son of John and Mary Brayshaw; husband of Constance Elizabeth Brayshaw, of 6, Hawkhill Mount, Guiseley. Died in hospital (Ripon)

Before the war he was employed as a labourer at James Ives & Co. mill, Kirk Lane, Yeadon.  In 1911, he was living at 8 Alva Terrace, Guiseley with his mother Mary, sister Charlotte (28), his wife Constance (23) and their three daughters: Muriel (3), Ruby (2) and Olive (10 mths). Albert had previously served in the 3^rd Volunteer Battalion, West Riding Regiment in Guiseley. On 14 June 1914 he joined the 4^th (Territorial Force) West Riding Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (divisional ammunition column) at Burley-in-Wharfedale. He arrived in France with the BEF on 15 April 1915, and on 16 September 1916 he was admitted to hospital with pleurisy but was discharged on the 2 January 1917.  On the 7 March 1917, he was admitted to a military hospital in Ripon, but died at 9pm on 14 March 1917 of bronchopneumonia. A pension of 28s/9d a week awarded to the widow and children. (£61.90 today)

7.  Herbert Brown WATKINSON

Rank: Private

Service No: 34993

Date of Death: 14/06/1920

Age: 37

Regiment/Service: Northumberland Fusiliers

Grave Reference: 91.

Cemetery: GUISELEY (ST. OSWALD) CHURCHYARD

Additional Information: Son of Enoch and Hannah Watkinson; husband of Alice Watkinson, of Hallamfield, Guiseley. Born at Guiseley. Died of wounds 14/6/20

Before the war, he worked as a boot manufacturer and on 8 September 1916, he was mobilized in to the Army Service Corps from the Special Reserve. The Special Reserve provided a form of part-time military service which was introduced in 1908 as a means of building up a pool of trained reservists in addition to those of the regular army reserves. Special Reservists enlisted for 6 years and had to accept the possibility of being called up in the event of a general mobilization and to undergo all the same conditions as men of the Army Reserve. This meant that it differed from the Territorial Force in that the men could be sent overseas. On the 20 December 1916 he was posted to the 10^th West Yorkshire Regiment and on 9 March 1917 he was transferred again in to the Northumberland Fusiliers.  On 5 August 1917 at Arras he was wounded by a gunshot to his right thigh and on 18 February 1918 he was discharged from the army as being physically unfit and eventually died as a result of his wounds.

8.   Merlin WAITE

Rank: Private

Service No: 2555

Date of Death: 22/08/1919

Age: 30

Regiment/Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment) 3rd/6th Bn.

Grave Reference: 173.

Cemetery: GUISELEY (ST. OSWALD) CHURCHYARD

Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Waite; husband of Frances M. Waite, of 20, Morton Terrace, Guiseley. Born in Guiseley.

He originally joined the 3^rd (Volunteer) Battalion, West Riding Regiment at Guiseley in November 1906 and transferred to the Territorial Force (TF) on its creation in April 1908 at Guiseley. He was working as a cloth finisher at Peate’s Mill and his address was given as 32 Park Road, Guiseley. He was discharged from the TF in March 1911. On 5 September 1914, he re-joined at Guiseley and on 14 April 1915 he was posted to France with the 1/6^th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. On 27 November 1915 he was admitted to No.10 Casualty Clearing Station with severe haemorrhoids. From there he was admitted to hospital at Newhaven in France where he underwent surgery.  On 26 February 1916, he was posted to the Rehabilitative Command Depots at Ballyvonare, near Cork in Ireland. This was a depot for the training of soldiers too fit for convalescent camp, but not yet fit enough to be returned to unit. Whilst there he was diagnosed with a heart condition and he was medically discharged on 31 August 1916 due to VDH (Valvular Disease of the Heart) which was the eventual cause of his death.

9.  Cyril STEEL

Rank: Lance Corporal

Service No: 29744

Date of Death: 03/02/1919

Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment 12^th Labour Coy. Transf. to (Cpl. 9817) Labour Corps)

Grave Reference: 155.

Cemetery: GUISELEY (ST. OSWALD) CHURCHYARD

Additional Information: Son of Joseph Steel, of 24, Victoria St., Guiseley, cousin of Percy and Enos Pawson. On the 1911 census he was living with the Pawson’s at 6 Victoria Terrace, Guiseley

At the outbreak of war, he was living at 11 West Parade, Guiseley with his father and was employed as a weaver. On 18 March 1916, he was mobilized from the special reserve in to the 3/6^th West Riding Regiment and on the 30 June 1916, due to varicose veins in his right leg, his medical status was reclassified, and he was transferred to the 25^th (Labour) Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry. On 4 August, he transferred to the 12^th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment and on the 20^th August 1916, he was posted to France. On 9 May 1917 he transferred to the Labour Corps and on 18 April, he was discharged as medically unfit for military service due to diabetes and a medical board found this condition was attributable to his war service and he was awarded a 50 per cent pension.  His records also show his rank was that of full corporal. Although the Labour Corps had been created as a new and separate regiment, the corps always suffered from being treated as something of a second-class unit and usually the men who died are commemorated under their original regiment, with The Labour Corps being secondary.

10.  James (Enos Rhodes) WADDINGTON

Rank: Private

Service No: DM2/223893

Date of Death: 23/12/1917

Age: 26

Regiment/Service: Army Service Corps 906^th Mechanical Transport Coy.

Grave Reference: A. 109.

Cemetery: ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY, Egypt

Additional Information: Husband of Marie Waddington, of 1, Bridge Avenue, Otley, Yorks., son of Enos and Mary Waddington, Parkgate House, Guiseley

Headstone engraving: ‘Thy will be done’

In 1911, he was living at Parkgate House, Guiseley with his father, Enos, Mother Mary, sister’s Alma (22), Bertha (18) and brother Rowland. He was working as an assistant in his father’s rag sorting business.  His army number, indicated by the DM2 prefix, shows that at the time of his death he was a ‘Mechanical Transport Learner’ (trainee driver) in the 906^th (Auxiliary petrol) Company, part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.

11.  Leslie ASCOUGH (WW2)

Rank: Lance Corporal

Service No: 2664660

Date of Death: 29/06/1944

Age: 22

Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards 5th Bn.

Grave Reference: VIII. F. 4.

Cemetery: BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

Additional Information: Son of Harold and Doris Ascough, husband of Olive Ascough, of Rawdon, Yorkshire.

His uncle is Clarence Ascough who was killed 4 September 1918 and is listed on the Guiseley Great War roll of honour.

12 –  Norman Moon

Rank: Private

Service No: 16035

Age: 24

Date of Death: 06/10/1915

Regiment/Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment) 8^th Bn.

Panel Reference: Panel 117 to 119.

Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey, Gallipoli

Additional Information: The 1911 census shows him aged 19, self-employed grocer, the son of Arthur Moon, living at Albion House, Guiseley. Died of dysentery

Prior to the war he was working as a grocer’s assistant. He enlisted on 4 May 1915 at Keighley, and gave his address as 44 Oxford Road, Guiseley, but his widowed father, Arthur, was living at 9 Wells Road, Guiseley. He was posted to the Eastern Mediterranean on 7 September and died of dysentery aboard the hospital ship HMHS Gloucester Castle in Sulva Bay of the coast of the Gallipoli peninsular and was buried at sea at that location.

 13. Herbert BUTTERWORTH (not on St Oswald’ RoH)

Rank: Private

Service No: 11631

Age: 17

Date of Death: 12/08/1915

Regiment/Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment) 8th Bn

Panel Reference: Panel 117 to 119.

Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL (Gallipoli)

14.  Leonard HARDWICK

Rank: Private

Service No: 266714

Date of Death: 19/10/1918

Regiment/Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment) 1^st/7^th Bn.

Grave Reference: 458.

Cemetery: GUISELEY (ST. OSWALD) CHURCHYARD

Additional Information: Son of Mrs. Eliza Hardwick, of “Fern Royd,” Tranmere Drive, Tranmere Estate, Hawksworth, Guiseley.

Died of wounds in hospital (Liverpool)

In 1911, he was 23 and working as a wool spinner. He resided at 11 Wells Road, Guiseley with his father Isaac, mother Eliza, brothers Herman (21), Granville (17) Cyril (13) sister Nellie (20) and his grandmother Jane Briggs.

15.  Harry (Henry Edmund) LEYLAND

Rank: Sergeant

Service No: 5106

Date of Death: 14/12/1916

Age: 34

Regiment/Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment 2^nd/6^th Bn.

Grave Reference: 1065.

Cemetery: GUISELEY (ST. OSWALD) CHURCHYARD

Additional Information: Died of peritonitis. The 1911 census shows he was born in Patley Bridge, married to Marion who was born in Guiseley, living at 7 Farnley Terrace, Menston and he was an elementary school teacher.

He enlisted on 8 December 1915 at Guiseley and his address was given as West Cliffe, Ings Lane, Guiseley. He had some previous military training at Leeds University  Officer Training Corps. He died at at the VAD (Voluntary  Aid Detachment) hospital at Bedford. He did not see any service overseas, and his army records list him as a private soldier.

16.  Enos PAWSON

Rank: Lance Corporal

Service No: 2869

Date of Death: 15/11/1915

Age: 35

Regiment/Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment) 2/6th Bn. attd. 27th Provisional Bn.

Grave Reference: S.W. part.

Cemetery: GUISELEY (ST. OSWALD) CHURCHYARD

Additional Information: Son of Mary Pawson and the late Henry Pawson of Guiseley.

Enos originally enlisted in June 1915 in the 1/6^th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment (Territorial Force). In the autumn of 1915, men of a lower medical category were transferred to the 27^th Provisional Battalion which was a composite unit made up of men from the West Riding Regiment and the York and Lancaster Regiment. At the time of his death the unit was engaged in coastal defence on the east coast of Yorkshire at Withernsea. The 1911 census shows him working as a stonemason, the son of Henry and Mary Pawson, brother of Percy, living at 6 Victoria Terrace, Guiseley.  He was the cousin of Cyril Steel and died at Guiseley of kidney infection.

16. Percy PAWSON

Rank: Private

Service No: 4410

Date of Death: 12/07/1916

Age: 33

Regiment/Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment) 1^st/6^th Bn.

Grave Reference: G. 2.

Cemetery: AUTHUILE MILITARY CEMETERY, Somme, France

Additional Information: Son of Harry Pawson; husband of Mary Pawson.

Headstone inscription: ‘Ever remembered’. Inscription informant: Miss Pawson, 6 Victoria Terrace, Guiseley. Brother of Enos Pawson Cousin of Cyril Steel

He enlisted in the Territorial Force on 1 June 1915 at Guiseley. He was employed as a boot riveter before enlistment.  He was killed at the southern end of Thiepval Wood, on the east bank of the river Ancre.

  Percy Pawson (standing left), Cyril Steel (rear standing with bow tie), Herbert Wilkinson (seated with bow tie) Alby (Albert) Pawson (seated front right), Possible Herbert Norfolk (seated behind Alby Pawson)

Believed to have been taken on Guiseley Moor (in John Dobbs field) Percy Pawson (seated left), Alby (Albert) Pawson (standing left) Enos Pawson (standing hands in pockets) Herbert Norfolk (standing right)

17.  Cecil Edward Bernard PEATE

Rank: Private

Service No: 4810

Date of Death: 17/09/1916

Age: 26

Regiment/Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment 1^st/5^th Bn.

Grave Reference: I. B. 2.

Cemetery: VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY, Somme, France

Additional Information: Son of Edward and Mary Ann Peate, of Ghyll Royd, Guiseley.

Before the war he was employed as a designer at Peate woollen mill and he enlisted from the Special Reserve force on 11 December 1915 at Guiseley. He was posted to France on 6 August 1916, He died at the 2^nd West Riding Field Ambulance station in France of multiple gunshot wounds received in action. His mother Mary’s claim for a pension form was countersigned by Jonathan Peate, JP, of Nunroyd House, Guiseley. (memorial cross on this grave has fallen over)

18.  David Ive (not on Guiseley RoH)

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Date of Death: 23/10/1914

Age: 20

Regiment/Service: The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment)  2nd Bn.

Panel Reference: Panel 11 – 13 and 14.

Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

He died at the First battle of Ypres on 23 October 1914 only ten weeks after the war started. He was born at West Kensington in 1894. His father was a Civil Engineer for the London County Council and in 1911 his family lived at “The Hermitage”, Reigate, Surrey. He was already in the army when war was declared as he had left school in 1912 and joined the Royal West Surrey Regiment 3^rd  Battalion early in 1913. He transferred to the 2^nd battalion on 23 September 1914 and on Sunday 4 October the battalion was training at Lyndhurst, Hampshire when they received orders to march to Southampton. The unit boarded the troop ship SS Turkoman but did not sail until the 6^th when they proceeded to Zeebrugge. Following a few days in the Brugges area the unit moved to Zonnebeke a short distance east of Ypres where they faced the first assault of the German army as they attempted to capture Ypres. He was part of the “contemptible little army” of the original British Expeditionary Force. It is known from the battalion war diary that he was killed by a shell to the west of the railway between the station and the level crossing near Zonnebeke and has no known grave. He was killed only eighteen days after arriving in Belgium. His grand-parents were from Guiseley hence the memorial inscription on their headstone.

19.  (George) Edwin THACKRAY

Rank: Corporal

Service No: 17719

Date of Death: 12/05/1916

Age:  20

Regiment/Service: Royal Scots Fusiliers 7^th Bn.

Panel Reference: Panel 46 to 49.

Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL

Additional Information: Son of George Henry Thackray, of 39 of St. Oswald Terrace, Guiseley, Leeds. killed on hill 70 Loos area leading a bayonet charge.

Before the war he was working as an assistant overlooker (foreman) and enlisted on  30 March 1915 at Leeds. He was posted to his regiment in Ayr two days later. On 29 March 1916, he was posted to the BEF at the depot at Etaples and on 16 April he joined the 7^th RSF.

20.  James HEWITT

Rank: Private

Service No: 48566

Date of Death: 09/04/1917

Age: 27

Regiment/Service: Northumberland Fusiliers 20^th (Tyneside Scottish) Bn.

Grave Reference: I. F. 18.

Cemetery: ROCLINCOURT VALLEY CEMETERY, France

Additional Information: Son of George William and Agnes Hewitt, of Guiseley; husband of Annie Hewitt, of 2, Aireville Terrace, Burley-in Wharfedale, Yorks. Killed in action. Headstone inscription: ‘Still ours in memory, thought and love’

In 1911, he was living at 136 Otley Road, Guiseley with his father George, a hay and corn merchant, mother Agnes and sister Rose and was employed as a stone mason. He was posted to the Northumberland Fusiliers from the Royal Field Artillery.

21.   Thomas (Marmaduke Craven) RENNARD

Rank: Private

Service No: 95748

Date of Death: 08/11/1917

Age: 21

Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps 4^th Stationary Hospital

Grave Reference: IV. E. 81.

Cemetery: LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY

Additional Information: Only son of Marmaduke and Mary Eliza Rennard, of 4, Springfield Terrace, Guiseley, Leeds.

Before the war he was employed as an assistant town clerk. (His father was the registrar for Guiseley). He enlisted in January 1917 and was posted to France on 21 April 1917.

On 7 November 1917 he was admitted to No.7 Canadian Stationary Hospital at Arques, France with swelling to his lower lip and a fever. The condition became worse and died the following day of gangrene of the mouth and septicaemia.