Teachers Resource Guide

FIRST WORLD WAR STORIES FROM THE WAKEFIELD DISTRICT

TEACHERS RESOURCE GUIDE

These are some of the sources you and your pupils can use to search for information about people from the Wakefield District who served in the two World Wars.

All the resources are available through Wakefield Libraries

ACKWORTH Ackworth Old Scholars Association Service List 1914-18

ACKWORTH “Ackworth Roll of Honour” by G Harrison (2003)

ALTOFTS “A Village’s Sacrifice” by Phil Judkins (list of War Dead) **Available at Altofts Library

CASTLEFORD Castleford War Dead 1914-1919 (List of Fallen and Newspaper Index taken from the Pontefract & Castleford Express)

CROFTON File about men from Crofton who died in World War Two ( including newspaper articles) compiled by David Burnage ** Available at Crofton Library

FEATHERSTONE “A Roll of Honour to the men of Featherstone Purston, Ackton, Snydale, Streethouse and Loscoe …in Two World Wars” by Tony Lumb (2004)

HEMSWORTH “Hemsworth Roll of Honour” by G Harrison (2004)

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HORBURY “Horbury’s Sacrifice” by Phil Judkins (World War Two casualties) ** Available at Horbury Library

OSSETT World War One and World War Two compiled by Dorothy Wainwright (newspaper cuttings files) ** Available at Ossett Library

PONTEFRACT index to newspaper obituaries for soldiers who died in World War One includes Pontefract, Ackworth, Knottingley, Ferrybridge, Brotherton ** Available in Pontefract library

SOUTH ELMSALL “South Elmsall Roll of Honour” by G Harrison (2003)

SOUTH KIRKBY “South Kirkby and Moorthorpe Roll of Honour” by G Harrison (2003)

WAKEFIELD “Wakefield Express Index to Births Marriages and Deaths 1914-1918” compiled by Wakefield and District Family History Society

CD-ROMs

Soldiers and Officers who died in WW1 and WW2

Newspapers

Wakefield Express Pontefract and Castleford Express Hemsworth and South Elmsall Express

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