Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 10th Battalion, Service No. 16792
Killed in action 23rd November 1915, aged 21
Story
Son of Harry Appleyard and Jane Tomlinson, Harry was born in 1894 and brought up in Kippax, but in 1911 the family moved away to 36 South View, Glasshoughton, where Harry began working as a coal miner. Harry was not married, and enlisted at the beginning of the war in Castleford.
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 10th Battalion
The 10th Battalion was raised at Hamilton, Scotland in September 1914 as part of Kitchener’s Second New Army. They moved to Bordon for training, were in billets in Winchester during February 1915, before further training on the Salisbury Plain in April 1915, after which they landed in Boulogne on the 10th July 1915. They fought as the Battle of Loos, in which Harry was killed in action. Reflecting the short time Harry had spent in the Army, his father Alfred received small payments of £4 1s on 26th April 1917, and £3 on 17th December 1919 following his son’s death.
Harry is remembered as the ‘Son of Alfred and Jane Appleyard, of 8, South View, Glasshoughton, Castleford.’ on Panels 57 to 59 of the Loos Memorial in the commune of Loos-en-Gohelle, in the Pas-de-Calais département of France, along with 20,598 other officers and men of the British Empire who fell in the Battles of Loos and Béthune and other actions in the area, including John Kipling, only son of Rudyard Kipling.
Kippax Roll of Honour 