On Friday 13th April 2018 a group of people from the project visited the Bankfield Museum, Halifax, the home of the Duke of Wellington’s Regimental Museum. Many of the Farnhill WW1 Volunteers served in the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment and we spent about two hours looking at the displays dedicated to the regiment’s […]
Early in 1917, with compulsory conscription in force, Farnhill lad Norman Rhodes was called up for military service. Norman’s older brother, Cecil, was already in the forces, he was one of the Farnhill Volunteers having volunteered before conscription was introoduced in February 1916. Perhaps feeling that he had already given up one son and unwilling […]
The Farnhill WW1 Volunteers project is hosting an illustrated talk by Kath Dowthwaite entitled “A Year in the Life of a Tommy” – at 7pm on July 6th in the Kildwick and Farnhill Institute, Main Street, Farnhill. Admission will be FREE and refreshments will be available. The talk is based on the 1918 diary of […]
It is rare, even in wartime, for someone to be present on two ships sunk on the same day – and even rarer for that to happen to someone who is not in the Navy. But that was the fate of Percy Walmsley, a Private with 1/6 battalion Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, on […]
Sometimes it is the smallest pieces of trivia that bring the lives of the people we are researching into sharp focus. The project has recently been put in contact with the daughter of Farnhill WW1 Volunteer Thomas Edward Sugden. She was able to confirm key pieces of our research — that her mother divorced Sugden, […]
The photograph shown above is of the Slack family – father Richard Henry and his wife, Lily, with their daughter Mary in her arms; two of their sons Peter and William sat on the wall, with their brother Richard stood in front of them; and the two other childen, Martha Ann (known as Sissie) and […]
The census taken on 2nd April 1911 recorded where people were living, the size of their dwellings, how they were employed, and their family structures. It also recorded information about other buildings – including shops and places of work. An analysis of the 1911 census returns for Farnhill has been carried out for the project. […]
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The project is launching an appeal for donations to enable us to restore a recently discovered Roll of Honour that originally hung in the former Methodist Church at Farnhill, and names 60 local servicemen who served during World War 1. We were always aware that the Farnhill Methodist Church, which closed a few years ago, […]
Following on from the news posting on March 15th about Kildwick School’s WW1 study day, we’ve now prepared a gallery of photographs taken during the day. You can see all the photographs here.
