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Kippax Roll of Honour

A commemoration of the men and women from Kippax, Leeds, who served their country in the World Wars

  • Kippax in the First World War
    • Introduction
    • Soldiers listed on the War Memorial
      • Private George Oswald Adams
      • Private Charles Hardman
      • Gunner Samuel Bailey Evans
      • Private Fred Barker
      • Private Walter Bickerdike
      • Gunner John William Norton
      • Battle of the Somme
      • Private Benjamin Hudson
      • Private Charles William Armitage
      • Private Harold Varley
      • Corporal John Sharper
      • Lance Corporal Thomas Prince
      • Private William Longbottom
      • Private Charles Biscomb
      • Driver Arthur Firth
      • Lance Corporal John Douglass
      • Private George Goodall
      • Bombardier Maurice Colley
      • Private Ernest Smith
      • Lance Corporal Thomas Arthur Lowe Smith
      • Gunner Stephen Butterworth
      • Corporal William Lloyd
      • Gunner John Henry Taylor
      • Private Francis Edwards
      • Rifleman Alfred Bickerdike
      • Fitter John William Henshaw
      • Lance Corporal William Garlick
      • Private Fred Frankland
      • Private William Coe
      • Private Edward Webster
      • Private Thomas Smith
      • Private Herbert Coope
      • Private Samuel Haydn Holleyhead
      • Private Herbert Rollinson
      • Lance Sergeant John Albert Limbert
      • Private Dennis Beever
      • Driver Richard Hutt
      • Private William Thomas Partridge
      • Private Herbert Halliday
      • Private John Prince
      • Driver Ernest Sugden
      • Ordinary Seaman William Russell Stoker
      • Private Thomas Appleyard
      • Private Walter Swithenbank
      • Private James Albert Mosby
      • Private George Frederick Firth
      • Private Harry Watkinson
      • Private John Willie Stockwell
      • Private Arnold May
      • Private Walter Goodall
      • Sergeant William Blakey, M.M.
      • Private George May
      • Driver George Henry Goddard
      • Private Robert Byers
      • Private Sullivan Cogan
      • Private Abraham Carter, M.M.
      • Private John Robinson
      • Lance Corporal Ernest Bell
      • Private Harry Prince
      • Private William Burley
      • Private Charles Firth
      • John William Prince
    • Kippax volunteers killed, but not listed on the Memorial
      • Acting Corporal Walter Coote
      • Gunner William Henry Smith
      • Lance Corporal Harry Appleyard
      • Private Peter Hession
      • Private Samuel Pennington
      • Private James Burgess
      • Private Henry Batty
      • Private John Dent
      • Private Albert Pritchard
      • Private James Albert Bailey
      • Private Haydn Collinson
      • Maggie Barker
      • Private Alfred Tomkins
      • Private Fred Barton
      • Private Hedley Pickersgill
      • Rifleman Wilfred Durham
      • Private Aaron Ponder
      • Corporal George Kenneth Tiernan
      • Private Joseph Mills
      • Private Charles Edward Bleasby
      • Private James Arthur Shackleton Roberts
      • Private Wilfred Butterworth
      • Private Harry Ackroyd
      • Private Charles Parkinson Smart
      • Driver Leonard Townend
      • Private Sam Timson
    • Soldiers decorated
      • Gunner Albert Clark, M.M.
      • Staff Sergeant Daniel Booth, M.M., D.C.M.
      • Lance Corporal Thomas Bryan, V.C.
      • Acting Staff Quartermaster Hiram Clayton Hartley, M.S.M.
      • Bombardier George Hope, M.M.
      • Corporal Robert Houston, M.M.
      • Sergeant Albert Mountain, V.C.
      • Sapper Bertie Plows, M.M.
      • Sergeant Thomas Steele, V.C.
      • Corporal Leonard Wilson, M.M., D.C.M.
    • Prisoners of War
      • Private William Thomas Adams
      • Lieutenant John Howard Birkinshaw
      • Lance Corporal Edward Burley
      • Private James William Cockerham
      • Private John William Daniels
      • Private William Swales Firth
      • Sapper Kennard Green
      • Corporal Matthew Hutchinson
      • Private Edgar Jackson
      • Private George Arthur Ryder
      • Private Albert Smart
      • Private Jack Taylor
    • Munitions Workers
      • Ida Atkinson
      • Eliza Antcliffe
      • Minnie Cripwell
      • Evelyn Giles
      • Ida Green
      • Laura Hargreaves
      • Laura Revis Henshaw
      • Maggie Jane Houston
      • Maria Palfreyman
      • Henrietta Plows
      • Sarah Plummer
      • Hilda Ridsdale
      • Ethel Robshaw
      • Elsie May Wilson and Hilda Nerissa Wilson
    • Soldiers injured
      • Private William Stephenson Adams
      • Private Reginald Bailey
      • Private Eddie Barton
      • Private John William Barton
      • Private Reginald Bailey
      • Private Edward Hazelgrave Bickerdike
      • Bombardier Joseph Bullock
      • Bombardier Harold Clayton
      • Private William Clayton
      • Corporal Herbert Harry Cockerham
      • Bombardier Allan Simeon Crossland
      • Private Arthur Daniel
      • Private Harold Darley
      • Private Thomas Fawcett
      • Private Albert Firth
      • James Henry Firth
      • Private Thomas Fish Firth
      • Gunner Wilfred Garton
      • Bombardier Robert Halifax
      • Sergeant Denis William Hodgson
      • Private George Rowland Hollis
      • Private George Henry Howson
      • Private James Thomas Lambert
      • Private John Hastings Land
      • Private Ernest Lawrence
      • Private David May
      • Private Joseph Palfreyman
      • Private Thomas Parker
      • Lance Corporal Joseph Pease
      • Private Benjamin Pickard
      • Gunner Thomas Cyril Plows
      • Trooper Harry Garnet Seymour
      • Private Arthur Sharp
      • Private Thomas Simpson
      • Gunner William Smales
      • Gunner Lawrence Veitch
      • Corporal Reginald William Veitch
      • Lance Corporal John Allen Washbrook
      • Private William Wood
    • Kippax soldiers in the Army and Navy Medical Units
      • Private Edward Bickerdike
      • Private John Thomas Buttree
      • Private Harry Eastwood
      • Private Charles Bywater Endall
      • Private Harold Farrar
      • Private George Henry Harris
      • Private Hottewell Henshaw
      • Captain Stephen Infield, M.R.C.S, L.R.C.P
      • Private Prince May
      • John William Mackenzie
      • Private Norman Pickersgill
      • Private Charles Ridsdale
      • Private James Silverwood
      • Private Charles Herbert Smith
      • Private George Edward Stead
      • Private Edward Weighll
      • Private Rowland Wright
    • Volunteers and conscripts discharged as being unfit, or objecting to their Call-up
      • Alexander Farmer Berry
      • Private William Bickerdike
      • Private Thomas Byers
      • Private Arthur Clayton
      • Private Ralph Crossland
      • Private Clifford Douglass
      • Private John Henry Dunwell
      • Private Richard Evans
      • Private George Arthur Michael Firth
      • Private George Giles
      • Private Edgar Goodall
      • Private Harold Snowden Halliday
      • Sapper Walter Hick
      • Private George Arthur Martin
      • Private Charles Morley
      • Private Albert Nicholson
      • Private Eli Nicholson
      • Driver George Preece
      • Guardsman William Webster Revis
      • Private Timothy Shackleton
      • Private Joseph Smith
      • Private Henry Wilkinson
      • Private Raymond Wilkinson
      • Private Percy Wilman
    • Soldiers in Mesopotamia
      • Private Thomas Biscomb
      • Private Henry Cawthray
      • Corporal Arthur Frederick Harrison
      • Private Hugh Lambert
      • Private Alfred Martin
      • Private Herbert Prince
    • Families with multiple volunteers
      • Francis Beever, Norman Beever & George William Turnpenny
      • Charles Hazelgrave Bickerdike & Thomas Firth Bickerdike
      • Granville & John William Butterworth
      • Herbert & Wilfred Carter
      • Albert Edward Coates, Arthur Coates, John Coates & William Coates
      • Ernest & Herbert Colley
      • Fenton & George Collinson
      • John, Joseph & Thomas Cooper
      • Allan, Charles & Peter Gill Eastwood
      • Edwin & James Frobisher
      • Harry Cowes, James Harrison & Joseph Harrison
      • Isaac & Thomas Lawn
      • Albert Edward Lilley & David Lilley
      • Ernest, Herbert & Maud Lowe
      • John & William McKone
      • Thomas & Wilfred Pickard
      • Allan & Walter Prince
      • George & Samuel Raistrick
      • Fred Roberts, Harry Ward Schofield & James Schofield
      • Edwin & Herbert Stoker
      • Clough, Harry & John William Wilson
      • Charles Granville Wright & Stanley Wright
    • Serving Kippax Soldiers who survived
      • Private Robert Percival Adams
      • George William Beeston & Lorenzo Bennett
      • Private Allan Atack
      • Corporal Robert Charlston
      • George Cheesbrough & George Clough
      • Private Bertie Cripwell
      • Private Charles Porter Crossland
      • Lance Bombardier George Thomas Davidson
      • Foot Guard Arthur Dickinson
      • Private George Dickinson & Private Henry Howard Dickinson
      • Private Lester Dickinson
      • Foot Guard Maurice Edwards
      • Fitter William Alfred Ellis
      • Private Harold Fairburn
      • Private Harry Fawcett & Private Joseph Fisher
      • Leading Stoker William Firth
      • Private Jacob Garlick
      • Private Charles Gill
      • Private Arthur Goodall & Private Charles Bertie Goodall
      • Sapper Walter Green
      • Private Robert James Guy
      • Signalman Horace Hazard
      • Private Edgar Henry Hick
      • Lance Corporal George Hick
      • Driver Samuel Hollis
      • Private Gresham Leonard Jackson
      • Private John William Knowles & Private Herbert Liversedge
      • Gunner Thomas Lambert
      • Herbert Liversedge
      • Lance Corporal Mark Longbottom
      • Gunner John Martin
      • Private William Waring Street & Gunner Thomas Henry Sugden
      • Private William Archibald Taylor
      • Airman Albert William Tebb
      • Private Lance Thompson
      • Driver Sidney Thompson
      • Corporal Ernest Tiffany
      • Private Frank Varley
      • Private Walter Varley
      • Guardsman Arthur Walker
      • Guardsman John William Walton
      • Private Emmanuel Hunter Webster
      • Corporal Charles Edward Wilks
      • Private Ephraim Wilson
      • Gunner Albert Windle
      • Private Dennis Wright
      • Private Harry Wright
      • Private Norman Morley
      • Private Thomas Holiday Naylor
      • Private George Newsome
      • Private John Parker
      • Gunner Moses Pickard
      • Private Walter Harland Plows
      • Gunner Henry Prince
      • Guardsman Richard Pritchard
      • Private Fenton Rhodes
      • Private John Rhodes & Airman William Mitchell Rhodes
      • Corporal Percy Robinson
      • Guardsman Ernest Roberts & Ordinary Seaman Charles Rowley
      • Private Ernest Shackleton
      • Acting Sergeant David Sherburn
      • Private Samuel Silverwood
    • Serving soldiers of families now residing in Kippax
      • Private Arthur Atkinson
      • Private Frederick Robinson Barber
      • Private Thomas Birch
      • Private Ernest Bottomley
      • The Rev. Simeon Ewart Cole
      • Corporal William Neil Counter
      • Lance Corporal James Henry Cowell
      • Private William Edward Crossland
      • Private William Thomas Freeman
      • Sapper James John Hall
      • Corporal Thomas Edward Harrison
      • Private Walter Harrison
      • Arthur William Heaton
      • William Hickton
      • William Lackey
      • Sydney Leadbeater
      • Alexander Andrew Lindsay Murray
      • Jesse Birkbeck Roberson
      • Joseph Edward Swales
      • Albert William Whittaker
      • Joseph Henry Woodcock
      • Thomas Arnold Woodhead
      • Leslie Collins Woodward
    • Survivors of the Peckfield Colliery Disaster
      • Private Fielding Pickard
  • Kippax in the Second World War
    • Soldiers listed on the War Memorial
      • Leading Aircraftsman Walter Lilley
      • Lance Corporal James Ackroyd
      • First Class Aircraftsman Percival Prince Lowe
      • Sergeant George Francis Beever
      • Private John Smart
      • Sergeant Arnold Whitworth
      • Guardsman George Lodge
      • Stoker First Class Cyril Capper
      • Ordinary Seaman Harry Steel
      • Private Oliver Buxton
      • Corporal Herbert Tasker
      • Ordinary Telegraphist Jack Cowell
      • Corporal William Lavin
      • Ordinary Seaman William Bennett
      • Fusilier George Prentis
      • Flight Sergeant Eric Bailey
      • Private Alfred Warren
      • Private Arthur Kilburn
      • Fusilier Douglas Wright Forrest
      • Pilot Officer (Flight Engineer) Norman Varley
      • Lance Corporal Fred Garlick
      • Private Clifford Hobson
      • Driver Richard Fletcher
      • Lance Corporal Walter Smart
      • Corporal Maurice Colley
      • Private William Henry Carter
      • Private Edward Wagstaff
      • Norman Morley, William Lawn and William Henry Gorber
      • Private Gordon Richard Land
    • Villagers not listed on the War Memorial
      • Warrant Officer (Air Gunner) Brian Clark
      • Leading Aircraftsman Leonard Byers
      • Private George Charles Hugh Everington
      • Corporal Sydney Greaves M.M.
      • Leading Sick Berth Attendant Ronald Howson
      • Ordinary Seaman Walter Vernon Monks
      • Wing Commander James Eric Brindley Nicolson V.C.
      • Sergeant Bernard Ridsdale
      • Driver Thomas Harry Siberry
      • Private William Wheatley
    • Kippax’s Decorated Volunteers
      • Lance Corporal Douglas Grimmett M.M.
      • Corporal Denis Hall B.E.M.
      • Corporal Albert Edward Lilley B.E.M.
      • Sergeant William Richards M.M.
      • Captain Norman Slater M.B.E.
      • Private William Stead M.M.
      • Sergeant Clifford Henry Thompson, D.C.M.
      • Sergeant Jack Weston, M.M.
      • Sergeant Vera Wilkinson, B.E.M.
    • Kippax Soldiers at Dunkirk
      • Private Robin Backhouse
      • Lance Corporal Arthur Frederick Dyer
      • Lance Bombardier George Frederick Morley
      • Elvin Smith
    • Home Forces
      • Frank Charlston
      • Jack Firth & Elaine Limbert
      • Jack Hewitt
      • Alfred Howson
      • Private John Thomas Hutchinson
      • Charles Thomas Meland Nicholson
    • Kippax recruitment and community spirit during the War, and the families who volunteered
      • Leading Aircraftman Ernest Backhouse
      • Private Alfred Barrett
      • Private Ernest Barrett & James, Jonah & Edward Arthur Barrett
      • John and William Batley
      • Clifford and Lance Corporal George William Belk
      • Lance Bombardier Thomas, Driver Walter & Charles Christopher Bellwood
      • Gunner Cyril Blakeley, Sergeant Pilot Stanley Blakeley, Corporal Herbert Blakeley, and Private Francis Roland Blakeley
      • Driver Jack Watts Booth & Private George Bleasby Booth
      • Private Leslie Bowers and Leading Aircraftman Norman Bowers
      • Dennis and Herbert Brookes
      • Private Albert Edward Cheesbrough and Aircraftman Harold Cheesbrough
      • Idriss Morris Ashcroft and Violet Clayton
      • Albert, Harold, Harry and Flora Collinson
      • John Cowell
      • Leonard Dickinson and Gladys Stockwell
      • Aircraftsman Stanley Frederick Eastwood
      • Stoker Kenneth Fawcett and Leading Aircraftsman William Fawcett
      • George Arthur and John William Hastings
      • Private Cyril Holleyhead
      • Geoffrey and Jack Hough
      • Gunner Raymond Houston
      • Aircraftman George Howson, Private Donald Howson, and Enid Walker
      • Ingles
      • Harry and Wilfred Jacob
      • Aircraftsman Frederick Land and Section Leader Betsy Smart
      • Harry and Kenneth Lindley
      • David and Robert Sherburn
      • Clifford and Stephen Smith
      • Marine Allan Street and Private Dick Street
      • Cyril David, Frank and Kenneth Waite
      • Leading Aircraftswoman Betty Watson and Private George Rhodes Watson
      • Leading Aircraftsman Kenneth Dickinson Wood and Leslie Dickinson Wood
      • Sonar Operator Maurice Crossland and Munitions Worker Joyce Woodhead
      • John Wright
    • Kippax Soldiers in Iceland
      • Private Ernest Bailey
      • Private George Bradley
      • Lance Corporal Jack Collett
      • Private Leonard Winn
      • Sergeant Alfred Kenneth Wright
    • Kippax Soldiers in Burma
      • Regimental Sergeant John David Burley
      • Corporal Alan Lakin
      • Private Stanley Glencoe McKone
      • Second Lieutenant Harry Nicholson
      • Sergeant Allan Pickard
      • Private William Smales
      • Private John Suart
      • Lance Bombardier Harold Thompson
      • Corporal Dalton Weatherill
    • Injured soldiers and Medical recruits
      • Leading Stoker Stephen Butterworth Cowell
      • Gunner Clifford Cowell
      • Corporal Lawrence Fairburn
      • Trooper Leslie Farrar
      • Private Albert and Private Jack Prince Fewster
      • Private Jack Graves
      • Paratrooper Bernard Henshaw
      • Corps Officer John William Mackenzie
      • Private Thomas Cheesbrough Mackenzie
      • Dr. Charles Edward Mathieson and Anna Maria Barclay
      • Fusilier Charles May
      • Sergeant Thomas Oldham
      • Corps Officer Frank Parkinson
      • Lance Corporal Charles Alexander Plows
      • Lance Bombardier Jack Smith
      • Private Alfred Wagstaff
      • Private John Edward Warren
      • Private Thomas Weston Winstanley
      • Louis Whitaker
    • Kippax soldiers in the Middle-East and North Africa
      • Private Harold Battye
      • Able Seaman Keith Frederick Bedford
      • Able Seaman Ralph Carroll
      • Private Harry Stanley Harrison
      • Lance Bombardier Ernest William Hartley
      • Able Seaman Frank Hick
      • Private Willie Lodge
      • Sergeant George Daniel Mackintosh
      • Gunner James Thomas Morton
      • Gunner George Edwin Scown
      • Private Stanley Smart
      • Gunner Charles Edward Toes
    • Other villagers on the Service Register
    • Prisoners of War
      • Private Edgar Jackson Adams
      • Private Charles Eric Backhouse
      • Private Fred Bellerby
      • Corporal Ernest Birch
      • Private Dennis Burton
      • Sapper John Carver
      • Gunner Francis Leslie Eastwood
      • Lance Corporal John Finneran
      • Flight Lieutenant Albert Gill and Charles E Gill
      • Private Percy Gummerson
      • Private Leslie Hall
      • Gunner Edward Hull
      • Gunner Harold Johnson
      • Guardsman Ernest Lawson
      • Private Dennis Parker
      • Private Denis Prince
      • Gunner Clifford Tiffany
      • Corporal John Webster
      • Gunner George Wilkinson
    • Kippax men in the Royal Air Force
      • Leading Aircraftman Fred Adams
      • Sergeant Arthur Bickerdike
      • Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Herbert Brown
      • Air Gunner Stanley Coates
      • Thomas Farrar
      • Warrant Officer Granville Firth
      • Corporal Edward Gennoe
      • Leading Aircraftman Eric Goodall
      • Sergeant Kenneth Howson M.B.E.
      • Corporal Stanley Jackson
      • Leading Aircraftman Reginald Land
      • Sergeant Ronald Lindley
      • Leading Aircraftman Gordon Ratcliffe
      • Edward Revis
      • Edwin Stead Robinson
      • Sergeant Hugh Sizen
    • Kippax Men in the Royal Navy
      • Frank Backhouse
      • Ordinary Seaman John Buttree
      • Ordinary Seaman Clifford Cockerham
      • Private James Henry Cowell
      • Sub-Lieutenant James Gordon Dare
      • Stoker Geoffrey Firth
      • Naval Rating William Goodall
      • Able Seaman George Cyril Hulme
      • Able Seaman Jack Mills
      • Able Seaman Sydney Prince
      • Jack Sumpner
      • Leading Cook Kenneth Thompson
      • Able Seaman John Amos Webster
    • Soldiers and evacuees of families now residing in Kippax
      • Sergeant Alexander Angus
      • Walter Henry Bryant
      • Charles E Carley
      • Gunner George Costello
      • Harry Gilpin
      • Flight Sergeant Leonard Heaton
      • Roy Hodgetts
      • Private Francis Jardine Hyslop
      • Josephine Morritt
      • Lance Corporal Harry Furniss Phipps
      • Stoker First Class James Taggart
      • Staff Sergeant Edward Ronald Thompson
      • Ida Toft
      • Sergeant Ernest and John Waterhouse
      • Sergeant Wireless Operator Ernest White
      • Captain Leslie Hind-Woodward
    • Kippax Women in the Second World War
      • Joyce Parker
      • Private Nancy Thompson
      • Daisy and Gladys Wright
      • Private Bertha Backhouse
      • Ada Coates
      • Aircraftwoman Alice Cockerham
      • Aircraftwoman Nellie Farrar
      • Daisy Hewitt
    • Other neighbouring villages during Second World War
      • Allerton Bywater
      • Garforth
      • Micklefield
      • Woodlesford
  • First World War: Index of Names
  • Second World War: Index of Names
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