WORLD WAR ONE | The Keighlian Magazine

During the early part of the 20th C our school was based in the centre of town, and was for boys only. Keighley Boys Grammar School was situated in a Victorian building. Many students went on the join the army and navy during the Great War.

The School Magazine was called the Keighlian, these are the boys who came to our school who died in World War One. The students at the school during the War wrote articles about each one. This is what they said….

 

The Fallen Old Boys of Keighley Boys Grammar School in the Great War 1914-1918

THE ROLL OF HONOUR

CLIFFORD H ABBOTT                                      WILLIAM EWART ASHBY.

HERBERT HEATON BAILEY.                                      GEORGE ARTHUR BAKER.

GEORGE N BARBER                                      RONALD WILLIAM BENSON.

THOMAS BOWNASS                                      ROBERT B BROSTER

JOSHUA  BURNS.                                      JOHN REGINALD BUTTERFIELD

Mr. GILBERT CARMICHAEL,                                      J RAYMOND CLAPHAM

CLIFFORD COCKSHOTT.                                      ROBERT JOHN COLES.

ERNEST STANLEY CUBISS.                                      HARRY K. DICKINSON.

ARTHUR DRIVER                                      WILLIAM I. DRIVER.

NORMAN GODFREY  FIDOE.                                      HAROLD FIRTH.

RALPH OSCAR GLADSTONE.                                      JOHN SAWYER GOSTLING.

ALLAN GREEN.                                      IVOR TEMPEST GREENWOOD

JOHN WILLIE GREENWOOD                                      NORMAN HAGGAS.

ALFRED HARGREAVES.                                      HERBERT HEATON

THOMAS HERBERT HEATON.                                       JAMES P. HENDERSON.

ROWLAND HILL                                      VICTOR HINCHCLIFFE.

NORMAN K HOLMES                                      BEN HUTCHINSON

J. SYDNEY JACKSON.                                      ROBERT W LISTER

GEORGE LISTER                                      LUTHER MCKECHNIE

GILBERT HARDY “BERT”MIDGELEY                                      JAMES T MITCHELL

FRANK S. MURRAY                                      A W NEWSHOLME

KENNETH OGSTON.                                      MERVYN GODFREY PAGET

CLAUDE RIBY                                      HARRY H. RISHWORTH   **

JOHN EDMUND ROBINSON                                      SAM SCAIFE

HAYDN SCARBOROUGH.                                      ROBERT SCARBOROUGH.

TOM S SHACKLETON                                      JONAS SNOWDEN

HUGH SPENCER.                                      JOHN S SPENCER

THOMAS DIXON STOCKS                                      JOHN WILLIAM SUGDEN.

CHARLES WALKER                                      HAROLD WALKER

HENRY WOOD                                      HERBERT WOOD. M.M.

GEORGE FREDERICK WOOLLARD.   **                                    JOSEPH HERBERT WRIGHT.

NORMAN WRIGHT.

Cradled in Freedom and Schooled in Courage,

 they gave themselves for the Liberty of their Country and the World.

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