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.