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HUDDERSFIELD’S ROLL OF HONOUR 1914–1922 1 ABBY, ALBERT. Private. No 53069. 1/4th Duke RAILWAY DUGOUTS (TRANSPORT FARM) of Wellington’s Regiment. Born Huddersfield BURIAL GROUND. Grave location:- Plot 6, 1886. Son of John M. and Hannah Abby, 22 Ash Row O, Grave 27. ROH:- Armitage Bridge War Grove Road, Huddersfield (1901 Census). Married Memorial. Miranda Harrison in 1908. Lived 27 Slades Road Golcar, father of 3 children. Employed at Messrs ADAMSON, WILLIAM BURGESS. Acting John Crowther and Sons, woollen spinners, Sergeant. No 3/11505. 9th Battalion Duke of Milnsbridge. Enlisted July 1918. Embarked for Wellington’s Regiment. Born Scarborough. France after the signing of the Armistice and had Son of Benjamin and Ann Adamson. Came to only been there for three days when he was killed Huddersfield three years before the outbreak of whilst clearing the battlefield, 10.12.1918, aged war. Lived 5 Cross Grove Street, Huddersfield. 32 years. Buried DOUAI BRITISH CEMETERY. Husband of Lilian Adamson. Employed by Mr Grave location:- Row C, Grave 34. ROH:- St. G. S. Jarmaine of Dalton. Enlisted September John’s Church, Golcar. 1914. Had served in the Boer War. Killed in action, 15.8.1917. Buried in BROWN’S COPSE ACKROYD, ARTHUR. Private. No 254457. CEMETERY. Grave location:- Plot 4, Row A, Labour Corps. Formerly No 12444 Duke of Grave 55. Wellington’s Regiment. Born Clayton West. Husband of Mary Ackroyd, High Street, Clayton ADDERLEY, FRANK. Private. No 46524. 24th West. Enlisted Huddersfield. Died at home, (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland 21.2.1918, aged 41 years. Buried ALL SAINTS Fusiliers. Formerly No 37342 Durham Light CHURCHYARD, HIGH HOYLAND. Grave Infantry. Son of Mrs Stringer, 12 Malvern location:- in South-West part. ROH:- Clayton Road, off Newsome Road. Attended Stile West/High Hoyland War Memorial. Common School, Primrose Hill. Employed as a woollen piecer at Messrs Walter Sykes, woollen ACKROYD, DOUGLAS. Private. No 59183. and worsted manufacturers, Zetland Mills, 15/17th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment Huddersfield. Enlisted 14.5.1916. Killed in action (Leeds Pals). Son of Crowther and Harriet at King Crater, near Roclincourt, two and quarter Ackroyd, 3 Middle Haigh House, Lindley, miles north north east of Arras, 9.4.17, aged Huddersfield. Born Fixby, Huddersfield. Enlisted 27 years. Buried ROCLINCOURT VALLEY Huddersfield. Killed in action, 17.9.1918, aged CEMETERY. Grave location:- Plot 2, Row B, 19 years. Has no known grave. Commemorated Grave 4. on the PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. ADDY, FRED. Private. No 98551. 2nd Battalion Machine Gun Corps. Brother-in-law of E. A. ACKROYD, WALTER. Private. No 202407. Priestley, The Royal Hotel, Newsome Road, 2/4th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. Huddersfield. Died 17.11.1918, aged 38 years. Born Huddersfield. Killed in action, 25.11.1917, Buried ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY. at the Battle of Cambrai. Has no known grave. Grave location:- Plot 50, Row D, Grave 4. Commemorated on the CAMBRAI MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. ROH:- St. Philip’s Church, ADDY, NORMAN. Private. No 205535. 212th Birchencliffe. Area Employment Company, Labour Corps. Formerly No 205535 Duke of Wellington’s ADAMSON, JOE WILLIE. Private. No 40202. Regiment. Son of Arthur and Eliza Addy of Bank 10th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. Bottom, Shelley. Employed by Firth Brothers Formerly No 32249 Durham Light Infantry. at Bank Bottom Mill. Died from bronchial Born Underhill, Holmfirth. Son of Mr E. pneumonia on 24.9.1918, aged 27 years. Buried J Adamson, Church Terrace, Berry Brow. in LONGUENESSE (St. OMER) SOUVENIR Employed by Messrs Brook and Woodhouse, CEMETERY. Grave location:- Plot 5, Row E, woollen and worsted manufacturers, Queen’s Grave 26. ROH:- Emmanuel Church, Shelley. Mill, Huddersfield. Enlisted February 1916. Had been in France for seven weeks when he was ADDY, WILLIE ISHMAEL. Private. No 30/346. killed by a sniper on 10.11.16, aged 20. Buried in 12/13th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. 10.5920/rollofhonour.05 2 HUDDERSFIELD’S ROLL OF HONOUR 1914–1922 Born Holmfirth. Lived 20, Townend Road, TO THE MISSING. ROH:- St. Mark’s Parish Holmbridge. Worked at Albion Mills, Meltham. Church, Longwood. Enlisted in 1916. Killed in action, 28.3.1918. Has no known grave. Commemorated on the AINLEY, FRED. Private. No 18063. 2nd POZIERES MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. Born ROH:- Holme and Holmbridge War Memorial. 9.8.1894. Son of John and Ellen Ainley, 20 Rose Street, St Andrew’s Road, Huddersfield. Educated ADSETTS, WILLIE. Private. No 48320. 2nd at St Andrew’s and Rashcliffe Church of England Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers. Son of Mr Schools. Employed as a cloth finisher for Messrs and Mrs A. Adsetts, 119, Wakefield Road, John Lee Walker and Sons, of Deighton. Was a Huddersfield. Born 29th January, 1899. Educated member of the Ramsden Street Men’s Own Class. at Moldgreen Board School. Employed by Mr W. Enlisted January 1916. Killed in action at the T.. Johnson, cloth finisher, Moldgreen. Attended Battle of the Somme on 12.10.16, aged 22 years. Moldgreen United Methodist Sunday School. Has no known grave. Commemorated on the Enlisted 10.3.1917. Killed in action, 28.3.18, THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. aged 19. Has no known grave. Commemorated (Brother of Private WILLIE AINLEY, killed in on the ARRAS MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. action, 9.4.1917, q.v.). ROH:- Northumberland ROH:- Christ Church, Moldgreen. Street Primitive Methodist Church and School. AINLEY, ARTHUR EDWARD. Private. No AINLEY, FRED. Private. No 23974. 10th 2287. 44th Battalion Australian Infantry, Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. Born Australian Imperial Force. Born Huddersfield. Golcar. Son of William and Emma Ainley, 2 Lived Outlane. Attended Bethel United Methodist Bolster Moor, Golcar. Attended Clough Head Church, Outlane. Son of William and Jane Ainley, Council School and Sunnybank Baptist Chapel. 327 Perth Street, Subiaco, Western Australia. He was one of a family of ten children, five Native of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Worked in boys and five girls. Employed as a weaver by Australia as a storekeeper. Sailed from Fremantle, Messrs Ben Hall and Sons, Milnsbridge. Enlisted Western Australia, on the ‘Port Macquarie’ on the April 1916. Killed by a shell on 5.1.1917, aged 13th October, 1916. Killed in action, 10.6.1917, 23 years, Buried in MENIN ROAD SOUTH aged 24 years. Buried MESSINES RIDGE MILITARY CEMETERY. Grave location:- Plot BRITISH CEMETERY. Grave location:- Special 1, Row Q, Grave 8. (Brother of Private JOSEPH Memorial 6. ROH:- Bethel United Methodist AINLEY, who died of wounds, 24.5.1917, q.v.). Church, Outlane, Huddersfield. ROH:- St. John’s Church, Golcar. AINLEY, DAVID. Private. No 38361. 2nd AINLEY, HEFFORD WILLIAM ERNEST. Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Lieutenant. 168th Brigade Royal Field Artillery. Richard and Alice Ainley, 79, Barcroft Road, Born 26.6.1883 at Kirkheaton. Son of John Close Hill, Huddersfield. Born 22.2.1898. Shaw and Emma Louisa Ainley of Martin Attended Newsome Church of England School. Bank, Somerset Road, Huddersfield. Attended Worked as a woollen warehouseman. Enlisted Giggleswick School. Worked as a woollen 25.10.16. Killed in action, 16.8.1917. Has no manufacturer, first at the mill established by his known grave. Commemorated on the TYNE grandfather, Mr Hefford Ainley, and then with COT MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. ROH:- Messrs John Taylor Limited, Colne Road. He St. John’s Church, Newsome. married the daughter of Mr Joseph Hopkinson and lived at ‘Overstrand’, Sunnybank Road, AINLEY, ELLERY P. Private. No 3/10588. 2nd Edgerton, and had one child. Enlisted 25.7.1916. Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. Son (Died on the night of Sunday 4.2.17 from of Mr Shaw Ainley, 16, Lowergate, Longwood. pneumonia supervening on burns. Lieutenant Employed as a piecer at Messrs C. and J. Hirst’s Ainley had gone behind the wagon lines for rest Mill, Longwood. Enlisted on August 4th, and was sleeping with a few fellow officers in a 1914. Killed in action at the Battle of Arras on bivouac of timber, corrugated iron and canvas. 11.4.17, aged 22 years. Has no known grave. During the night this building in some way Commemorated on the ARRAS MEMORIAL caught fire. The other officer was overcome and 10.5920/rollofhonour.05 HUDDERSFIELD’S ROLL OF HONOUR 1914–1922 3 rendered insensible whilst Lieutenant Ainley who AINLEY, JOSEPH. Gunner. No 140919. 3rd dragged his friend to a place of safety was badly Divisional Ammunition Column Royal Field burned about the hands and feet and also about Artillery. Born Golcar. Son of William and the head. He was removed as quickly as possible Emma Ainley, 2 Bolster Moor, Golcar. Educated to a Casualty Clearing Station and every attention at Clough Head Council School and attended was paid to him. He appeared to be progressing Sunnybank Baptist Chapel. He was one of a family very favourably with the burns but pneumonia set of ten children, five boys and five girls. Employed in and he passed away very quietly on Sunday as as a weaver by Messrs Whitwam and Company, stated – ‘Huddersfield Weekly Examiner’ 9.2.1917). Ramsden Mill, Golcar. Enlisted May, 1916, Buried PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY. and embarked for France in September. Died of Grave location:- Plot 3, Row C, Grave 4. ROH:- St. gunshot wounds to abdomen at the 19th Casualty Stephen’s Church, Lindley; Memorial in St. John’s Clearing Station, 4.5.1917, aged 27. Buried Old Churchyard, Kirkheaton. in DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY. Grave location:- Plot 3, Row N, Grave 48. (Brother of AINLEY, HERBERT McARTHUR. Private. Private FRED AINLEY, killed in action, 5.1.1917, No 3185. 1/5th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s q.v.). ROH:- St. John’s Church, Golcar. Regiment. Born 4.3.1894.