Part 9

2ND LIEUT. B. G. LODGE, Durham Light Infantry, was killed in action on August 24th, 1917. Deceased, who was 23 years of age, joined the Royal Fusiliers in December, 1914. After training at several camps, he went to France with his regiment in November, 1915, returned to England in April, 1916, and was gazetted on the 9th August, 1916, as 2nd Lieut. in the Special Reserve D.L.I. In September, 1916, he again went out to France, and after acting as Company Bombing Officer, he was Battn. Bombing Officer and Intelligence Officer until he was killed. He was educated at the Minster Yard School, York, Yorebridge Grammar School and Giggleswick School, where he was a member of the O.T.C.

CAPTAIN M. D. W. MAUDE, Yorkshire Regiment, younger son of Lt.-Col. and Mrs. Maude, The Fleets, Rylstone-in-Craven, died in a military hospital at Dover, on October 14th, 1917, from wounds received in action. Captain Maude went to France in 1914 with the seventh division, and was in the first battle of Ypres. He was mentioned in despatches after the battle of the Somme. He was 27 years of age, and was attached to the West Yorkshire Regiment (Special Reserve).

CAPT. G. W. E. MAUDE, died of pneumonia at Peshawar, India, November 5th, 1919. Gerald William Edward Maude was the elder and only surviving son of Lieut.-Colonel W. W. and Mrs. Maude, The Fleets, Rylstone-in-Craven. Capt. Maude had served eight years in India with his regiment, the 1st Battalion, A.P.W.O., Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards), and in the spring of 1919 he was badly wounded by a bullet penetrating one of his lungs near Fort Dekka in Baluchistan. After three months sick leave in Kashmir, he recovered sufficiently to resume duty. On being granted a year’s leave he was hoping to embark for England on November 7th, 1919, but unfortunately he contracted a cold, which probably affected the injured lung. Pneumonia developed, and Captain Maude died on November 5th at the Military Hospital, Peshawar. He leaves a widow and one little son, and was 30 years of age.

2ND LIEUT. H. T. STYLES, M.C., Manchester Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. Styles, Harden Cottage, Austwick, was killed on October 2nd, 1917, aged 23 years.

2ND LIEUT. WM. ALBERT RODWELL, M.C., Royal Engineers, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Rodwell, of West Ville, Skipton, was killed in France on Nov. 9th, 1917. Twenty years of age, Lieut. Rodwell was educated at the Skipton Wesleyan Higher School. He was offered and accepted a commission in the army in October, 1915. He was then attached to the 20th Bn. Durham Light Infantry, and went to France in May, 1916.

2ND LIEUT. RALPH O. GLADSTONE, Royal Engineers, of Holme Road, Crosshills, was killed in action on November 2nd, 1917, in France. Shortly before the outbreak of war, he was working in Spain for the British Thomson-Houston Co., of Rugby, and, immediately on the outbreak of hostilities he joined the Royal Engineers as a private, and went to France in 1914. He was wounded at the first battle of Ypres. He was 27 years of age.

2ND LIEUT. G. W. A. WATSON, Royal Air Force, eldest son of the late Mr. James Watson, Conistone-with-Kilnsey, was killed in action on March 7th, 1918. Lieut. Watson was only 20 years of age, and when war broke out he enlisted as a seaman in the Royal Naval Division. Later he joined the Royal Air Force, and went to France only a fortnight before he died. The deceased officer, who had a genius for invention, was formerly an engineering student at Leeds University, and a new fuse and engine have been made to his designs.

2ND LIEUT. VICTOR R. ATKINSON, ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, was killed in action in France on November 23rd, 1917. He was the son of Dr. and Mrs. Atkinson, of “Bowerley,” Settle, and grandson of the late Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Leeds and Harrogate. He was educated at the Giggleswick Grammar School, where he was in the O.T.C. He was 20 years of age.

CAPTAIN WILLOUGHBY JOHN LITTLEDALE, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, only son of Mr. Willoughby Aston Littledale, formerly of Bolton-by-Bowland, was killed in action on March 23rd, 1918. Born in 1896, he was educated at Copthorne School and Eton, and was accepted for entrance at Trinity College, Oxford, but on the outbreak of war proceeded instead to Sandhurst, receiving his commission in December, 1914. He went to France in May, 1915, and was wounded in November, 1916. He afterwards rejoined his regiment and was killed, as stated above, when commanding his company in the front line.

FLIGHT LIEUT. R. B. BROOKES, Royal Air Force, son of Mr. John Brooks, Greta Villas, Ingleton, officially presumed to have been killed on March 13th, 1918.

MAJOR E. WALLING, M.C., CROIX DE GUERRE, West Yorkshire Regiment, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Walling, Ferncliffe, Ingleton, was killed in action at Kemmel Hill on April 23rd, 1918. Major Walling, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches, had a brilliant scholastic career. Obtaining a County Minor Scholarship, he went to Giggleswick Grammar School, and there passed his Matriculation, 1st division, and took a County Major Scholarship and a Natural Science Exhibition at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was at Oxford four years, and was in the hockey and football teams. He was a keen golfer and a member of the Leeds and Ingleton Clubs. Leaving college he went as master at Dulwich, Oxford High School, Sheffield Grammar School, and Leeds Grammar School, where he was Senior Science Master. Prior to the war he held a commission in the Territorial Force (Leeds Rifles), and was in camp at Scarborough when war broke out. He joined his regiment in France early in 1915, and served there until he was killed.

LIEUT. W. PETTITT, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, of Settle, was killed during April, 1918.

LIEUT. GEORGE PROCTER, Lancashire Fusiliers, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Procter, Greystones, Gisburn, killed in action on April 7th, 1918, aged 24 years.

LIEUT. C. C. CHORLEY, M.C., Lancashire Fusiliers, of Sedbergh, killed in France April 27th, 1918. Awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.

LIEUT. J. W. N. A. PROCTER, M.C., ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Procter, Manor House, Rylstone, died from wounds on May 2nd, 1918, aged 23 years. From a letter read by the bereaved family from Brigadier General Lewes, commanding the 147th Brigade, it appears that Lieut. Procter, who possessed a loveable and winning personality, was wounded in battle on April 29th, 1918, and he died at one of the base hospitals to the deep regret of his fellow officers and men. The Brigadier General added: “Your son was a model of an English officer and gentleman. As regards his work, I cannot speak too highly of him; he was most able and devoted to his duty; he was of the greatest assistance to me and my commanding officers, and I shall be quite unable to replace him.... Your son died doing his duty in a way that could not have been done better. We sadly mourn his loss.”

2ND LIEUT. TOM D. STOCKS, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. James Stocks, of Airedale Villa, Silsden, died from wounds received in action on April 16th, 1918. Educated at the Bradford Grammar School, Lieut. Stocks, who was 21 years of age, was formerly an assistant scoutmaster of the Silsden Parish Church Troop. Joining the Westmoreland and Cumberland Yeomanry as a private in April, 1915, he afterwards successfully undertook a course of training for higher rank.

LIEUT. JOHN ILLINGWORTH, M.C., West Yorkshire Regiment, of Skipton, formerly assistant to Mr. E. G. Whittaker, registration agent for the Skipton Division Conservative and Unionist Association, was killed on June 3rd, 1918, aged 26 years.

LIEUT. E. J. C. KIDD, Royal Air Force, son of Mr. W. Kidd, head-master of the National School, Addingham, was fatally injured on April 9th, 1917, while acting as observer.

2ND LIEUT. J. G. CAMPBELL, Yorkshire Regiment, officially reported missing since an engagement on May 7th and 8th, 1918, was the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Campbell, Town Head, Austwick. He enlisted in May, 1915, in the West Yorkshire Regiment (Bradford Pals), and went to Egypt in December the same year. He was transferred to France the following March, where he joined the cyclist section, in which he stayed up to about November, when he came home to take up a commission. He had only returned to France three weeks when he met his death. Prior to the war he was a clerk in the employ of the Midland Railway Co. He was 24 years of age.

CAPTAIN NORMAN MULLER, West Yorkshire Regt., younger son of Colonel G. H. Muller, of Park Grove, Frizinghall, Bradford, was killed in action on the Western front, on July 28th, 1918. Capt. Muller married in January, 1915, Miss Doris Spencer Jennings, only surviving daughter of the late Mr. J. S. Jennings, formerly of Keighley and Harrogate, and Mrs. Jennings, of Cononley Hall. At the outbreak of war he was a Lieut. in the West Yorkshires, and went to France shortly after his marriage in charge of the transport of the ⅙th West Yorkshire Regt. After service on the Ypres front he was invalided home, but returned to France, and for a time was acting Major of his Bn. In August, 1916, he was again invalided home, and for a time was given duty in England, but in the spring of 1918 he was once again given orders for service abroad. He was killed while reconnoitring. He was 32 years of age.

2ND LIEUT. C. F. BUTLER, Royal Field Artillery, of Huddersfield, a former three-quarter back for the Skipton Rugby football team, and an “Old Boy” of Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton, was killed in action during July, 1918.

2ND LIEUT. H. ALLEN, Royal Air Force, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Allen, Gayle, Hawes, missing since August 10th, 1918, after bombing the German lines.

2ND LIEUT. J. V. LEE, Royal Air Force, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lee, Belmont Bridge, Skipton, was killed in action in August, 1918, aged 22 years.

LIEUT. THOMAS FATTORINI, Royal Air Force, second son of Mr. T. Fattorini, “Rockwood,” Skipton, fell in action on August 13th, 1918, whilst flying over the enemy’s lines on a voluntary photographic reconnaissance, aged 19 years.

LIEUT. WILLIAM PATRICK BARRY, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Barry, 29, Bright Street, Skipton, was killed on August 28th, 1918, aged 23 years. Had been awarded the Certificate of Merit in recognition of conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on the night of September 6th, 1917, and had been recommended for the Military Cross. He was an “Old Boy” of Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton.

LIEUT. J. R. JACKMAN, Royal Air Force, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jackman, Hughenden, Long Preston, reported missing June 17th, 1918, since presumed killed. Educated at Sedbergh, he was in business with his father as a wool merchant when the war broke out. He volunteered and joined the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, going to France in April, 1915. He was transferred to the R.F.C. in 1917.

LIEUT. W. H. BRASSINGTON, M.M., Tank Corps, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Brassington, Ribble View, Settle, killed in action near Bapaume on August 23rd, 1918.

2ND LIEUT. L. V. BURROWS, Sherwood Foresters, was the first to enlist from the office staff of Belle Vue Mills, Skipton. Killed in action September 1st., 1918, aged 26 years.

2ND LIEUT. J. H. B. THORNTON, Labour Corps, of Keswick, who was classical master at Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton, from September, 1914, to March, 1917, was killed in action on the Western front on September 28th, 1918. He frequently acted as instructor to the Skipton V.T.C. in its early days.

2ND LIEUT. HARLEY BENTHAM, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, of Hellifield, died in France from wounds received in action on September 13th, 1918.

2ND LIEUT. JOSEPH BRYAN BUSHBY, South Staffordshire Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bushby, Schoolhouse Farm, Marton, died on October 9th, 1918, from wounds received on the Western front on October 4th, 1918. He was 26 years of age, and an “Old Boy” of Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton, and St. John’s College, York. He was a teacher at the Brougham Street School, Skipton, at the time he joined the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment as a private, in September, 1914.

2ND LIEUT. NORMAN CROWTHER, Cheshire Regiment, only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Crowther, “Brooklyn,” Grassington, was killed in action in France on October 14th, 1918, only two days after his return from leave, aged 27 years. Educated at Pannal Ash College, Harrogate, he left there to enter the banking profession, and when war broke out had secured a good position in the chief office, at Leeds, of the National and Provincial Bank of England. Enlisting in 1915, he joined the 5th Bn. The Buffs, was granted a commission in June, 1917, and transferred to the 3rd Cheshire Regiment, and afterwards sailed for Egypt, being one of the expedition that went to Palestine. Had it not been for sickness, he would have been with General Allenby at his entry to Jerusalem. He was recalled to France in May, 1918, and saw much severe fighting in the neighbourhood of Merville, being with the Division which was mentioned for gallantry in action. At the time of his death he was attached to the 15th Suffolk Yeomanry. He and one of his men were sheltering in a shell hole when a shell buried them. When help arrived both were dead. Lieut. Crowther was buried in a cemetery near Chateau-de-la-Valee, about 12 miles from Lille.

2ND LIEUT. RICHARD WELBURY SHUTTLEWORTH, Royal Air Force, son of Mrs. Shuttleworth, Beech Cliffe, Earby, was accidentally killed whilst flying in England, on August 24th, 1918, aged 24 years.

LIEUT. J. W. LUMB, M.C., ¼th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, of Skipton formerly in practice as a solicitor in Barnoldswick, died of wounds in France on October 30th, 1918, aged 34 years.

LIEUT. T. F. H. TORNEY, son of Captain Hastings Torney, R.A.M.C., was a nephew of Mrs. Sam H. Walton, Skipton, and was killed in action September 3rd, 1918.

2ND LIEUT. LAWRENCE MATTHAUS, Royal Field Artillery, formerly engaged in farming with Mr. Jas. Gill, Yarlsber Farm, Ingleton, was killed in action on October 16th, 1918.

LIEUT. GORDON SANDERSON, 2nd Gurkhas, Machine Gun Section, only son of Mr. William Sanderson, of Rathmell, Settle, was killed in action in France. The deceased officer was 28 years of age. At the outbreak of war, he was offered an appointment as A.D.C., but refused it, and took charge of the Machine Gun Section of the 2nd Gurkhas. Lieut. Sanderson was a clever architectural draughtsman, being formerly engaged in Government work in Egypt. He subsequently worked in Edinburgh, and later was appointed superintendent of the Archæological Survey of the North East Provinces of India. Prior to going to India, Lieut. Sanderson was married to Miss Cowie, daughter of the late Mr. A. Cowie, of Mentone Gardens, Edinburgh.

LIEUT. JOHN BARTLEY GLIBBON, Canadian Mounted Rifles, died of wounds in France. He was the only son of Mr. A. E. Glibbon, who was manager of the Old Bentham Mills Spinning Co., and also manager at Bentham Mills for the Hemp Yarn Cordage Combine before its liquidation, and a well-known figure in Bentham. The late Lieut. Glibborn was born at Bentham House in 1887. His mother was Miss Baldwin, a member of as well-known Scotforth family. He emigrated to Canada, and married a French Canadian lady who belonged to an old French Republican family. The deceased officer obtained his early education at Miss Wilson’s private school at Bentham, after which he went to Ackworth Friends’ Schools, near Wakefield.

2ND LIEUT. J. LESLIE BERRY, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. Berry, 48, Broughton Road, Skipton, who enlisted in September, 1914, at the age of seventeen, as a private, fell in action on October 12th, 1918.

LIEUT. GORDON CARRUTHERS, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Carruthers, of Skipton, died of wounds received in action in France on November 20th, 1918. Lieut. Carruthers, who had been in France about three years, was, prior to the war, assistant master at Glusburn Council School.

CAPTAIN ROBERT CLEMENT PERKS, D.S.O., Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, of Hebden, killed in action on October 27th, 1918, on the Italian front.

DR. PHILLIP D. PICKLES, H.M.S. “_Russell_,” and formerly of Earby, died in hospital at Malta as the result of injuries received during the sinking of his ship in the Mediterranean. A son of Dr. J. J. Pickles, Camp Road, Leeds, he was the eldest of six brothers, all trained in the medical profession. Deceased was a member of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and was called up for duty on the “_Russell_” on August 2nd, 1914. As Surgeon in the R.N.V.R., he took part in the grand review at Spithead, and joined H.M.S. “_Russell_” on August 2nd, 1914. Dr. Pickles was one of five brothers who joined H.M. Forces--three in the Army and two in the Navy--four of them being medical officers. He was 33 years of age and unmarried.

LIEUT. H. W. EDWARDS, West Yorkshire Regiment (Bradford Pals), killed in action in France, resided at Manor Hill, Sutton, for a few years, and was very well-known and popular in the village. He formed an excellent troop of Boy Scouts in connection with St. Andrew’s Church, Kildwick, devoted his spare time to furthering the Boy Scout movement in the district, and for a time was District Commissioner. For over ten years he was on the staff of the Bank of Liverpool at Keighley, and was also manager of the Crosshills branch for a few years. At the outbreak of hostilities he joined the ranks of the West Yorkshire Regiment, rising to the rank of Sergeant. After about twelve months’ foreign service with the “Pals” in Egypt and France, he was promoted to commissioned rank. His father was a Vicar of Nelson.

2ND LIEUT. JOHN GRANVILLE BERRY, M.C., West Yorkshire Regiment, officially reported missing on the 16th August, 1917, was the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Berry, of Hawthorn House, Earby. 2nd Lieut. Berry was only 20 years of age, and was educated at Skipton Grammar School. He was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry and devotion to duty in taking command of his Company, when his company commander had become a casualty, and leading them for two days, during which time he displayed most remarkable initiative and determination. He attained all his objectives in the face of heavy fire, and was repeatedly to the fore in repelling counter-attacks. His personal gallantry won the admiration of all ranks. Lieut.-Col. Jefferies wrote to Lieut. Berry’s father as follows:--“He was one of my very best and trustworthy officers. He was commanding a company and would have been a Captain had he remained with the Bn. I always knew that when he undertook a job it would be carried out to the letter, and this is one of the very highest recommendations it is possible to give a soldier. The Regiment could ill afford to lose him, as officers of his type are far from being common.”

MAJOR MOSTYN E. COOKSON, of the Royal Sussex Regiment, was the first Officer connected with the Skipton Parliamentary Division to give his life for his country’s honour. His name was in the official casualty list issued by the War Office on Sept. 18th, 1914, and he was classed among those who were missing. It was hoped that he might have become detached from his Regiment, but on the 23rd September, the official intimation was that he had been killed in action in France on September 14th, 1914. The son of the late Major Cookson, of Skipton and Settle, who was for many years Adjutant of the 3rd Vol. Bn. Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, the deceased officer--a typical Britisher in every sense of the word--was educated at the Skipton Grammar School, and was one of a family held in deep respect in this part of Craven. His youngest sister was the late Lady Holden, who, previous to her marriage, resided with her sister at Gargrave. Major Cookson was 46 years of age.

2ND LIEUT. HARRY RISHWORTH, 2/6th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, son of Mr. C. F. Rishworth, Moorfield, Utley, Keighley, died on September 15th, 1918, from injuries received in a motor accident in the Sheffield neighbourhood. Lieut. Rishworth was 22 years of age, and joined the 6th Duke of Wellington’s. He obtained a commission in 1915, and was for some time attached to the 3/6th Duke of Wellington’s Regt.

LIEUT.-COL. J. R. E. STANSFIELD, D.S.O., 2nd Gordon Highlanders, died from wounds received in action in France, on September 28th, 1915. He was the son of the late Rev. J. B. E. Stansfield, Knightsbridge, London, a nephew of Captain Stansfield, of Field House, Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, and brother to Mrs. Yorke, Halton Place, Hellifield, and was 35 years of age. In 1914, he returned from Egypt with the 1st Gordon Highlanders, and was slightly wounded at Ypres. He served through the South African War, was twice mentioned in despatches, and received the D.S.O. and two medals, with eight clasps. In 1904, he married a French lady, Yolande, daughter of the late Major-General Marquess de Bourbel, R.E.

2ND LIEUT. J. HODGSON, 12th Bn. Durham Light Infantry, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Hodgson, Castleberg House, Settle, was killed by machine gun-fire in 1918, whilst gallantly leading his men into action at the crossing of the Piave on the Italian Front. Lieut. Hodgson was on leave only a short time before his death, and had only rejoined his Bn. a few days before, volunteering to go up the line when he could have remained at the base. He was an “Old Boy” of Giggleswick Grammar School.

CAPTAIN JOHN MAUGHAN, 4th Bn. The Yorkshire Regiment, T.F., killed in action near Ypres on February 17th, 1916, was the eldest son of John Maughan, of Abbey Hill, Jervaulx, Middleham, Yorks. Educated at Marlborough College, he joined the Regiment in 1909, and was gazetted Captain in November, 1914. He went to France with his regiment in April, 1915, and was in action at Ypres a few days after landing, and took part in all the subsequent engagements. He was mentioned in General French’s Despatches.