Bradford & District | Archive | 1998 | November | 10
From the Telegraph & Argus, first published Tuesday 10th Nov 1998.
A Cleckheaton writer is bringing out a booklet to pay tribute to servicemen from Spenborough who died in the First World War.
Charlie Turpin, 52, will be presenting a copy of the publication, Spenborough's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, to Cleckheaton Library at 11am tomorrow - Armistice Day.
It contains brief details about the 473 men and one woman named on the war memorial in Memorial Park in Cleckheaton town centre and is published by Kirklees Council's cultural services.
Mr Turpin, a welfare officer for West Yorkshire Fire Service at its headquarters in Birkenshaw, said: "I particularly wanted to publish the booklet this year because it is the 80th anniversary of Armistice Day.
"It gives the name, rank, regiment, address and the date the person died. If anyone wants further information I have more details about each of the people.
"I have compiled the booklet for future generations who want to find out more about the names listed on the memorial.
"It took me two years to get all the information together from different sources, such as the Commonwealth War Graves records, regimental histories, Ministry of Defence publications and old newspapers in the library.''
The woman mentioned on the memorial is Lizzie Jowett, 25, a nurse from Cleckheaton who died of an unknown illness while tending to wounded soldiers in November 1918.
Her 20-year-old brother Tom, who was a pilot in the Flying Corps, died in a flying accident six months earlier. He had joined up when he was 18.
Another of those killed was George Abbott, of Whitcliffe Road, Cleckheaton, who was only 15 when he joined the armed services.
He was a machine gunner on the first day of the Battle of the Somme and was badly wounded, dying eight days later in hospital at the age of 17.
On Armistice Day last year at Cleckheaton Library Mr Turpin also launched a book - Cleckheaton's Finest: The Men of Providence Place Chapel Who Fell in the Great War. This concerned 35 servicemen from Spenborough who attended the former Providence Place Chapel and whose names were inscribed in a war memorial which had stood there for decades.
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