Proposed plan for new First World War Memorial

(subject to further consultation and views of the Village)

To be partly funded by public subscription, the memorial will be sited at Kirklands near the Second World War Memorial and commemorate those who died who are listed below.  

Men of Menston who died during the First World War 1914-1918
 
Pte J ACKROYD West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

L/Cpl Edgar BAKER Machine Gun Corps (infantry)

Pte C H BALDWINSON Royal Scots
Pte Harry BALDWINSON Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
2nd Lieut Ninian Horrell BARR* Royal Field Artillery
Sgt Arthur BEARPARK Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Lieut Alfred Maurice BENN* West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wale's Own)

Capt. Joseph Reginald Tankard BENN* Royal Field Artillery 11th West Riding Bty. Howitzer Bde
Pte Henry BENTLEY* Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

Pte Samuel BENTLEY* Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Gnr Samuel Christopher BILTON Royal Garrison Artillery
2nd Lieut. Cyril Hulme BOWES Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Pte Horace BRADLEY Australian Infantry (Australian Imperial Forces)
CPO Walter Edwin BRADLEY DSM Royal Naval Air Service
Pte Reginald Herbert BUTTERFIELD Cameron Highlanders
Acting Bdr Fred CLARKE Royal Garrison Artillery
Pte Norbert Cyril CORRY Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
2nd Lieut Samuel Eric DITCHFIELD King's Own Scottish Borderers
Sgt James Henry EDMONDSON Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Pte Sylvester GRANGE* Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
J HAWKINS Details unknown
Pte Alfred HILL East Yorkshire Regiment
Sgt Leonard HOLMES Royal Scots Fusiliers
Pte Robert JACKSON Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Dvr Wilfred JENNINGS  Royal Horse Artillery
2nd Lieut. H D JOBLING  Royal Horse Artillery
Sgt Henry Edmund LEYLAND#  Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Pte Noel William LITTLE  Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Pte Thomas Edward MANN*  Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) 
Pte Robert MARSHALL  East Yorkshire Regiment
Pte Walter MARSHALL*  Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Fitter Sgt Albert MITCHELL  Royal Engineers (460th West Riding Field Coy.)
Sgt Geoffrey MUDD  Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Pte Michael NANGLE  Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Pte John Richard NAYLOR  Machine Gun Corps (Yorks & Lancs)
Pte G H NESS + Northumberland Fusiliers
Pte Percival James PEMBERTON  Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Sgt Walter POWELL  1st/7th West Yorkshire Regiment
Gnr Frank RAISTRICK  Royal Garrison Artillery
Pte Harold RAYNER  Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Pte Alfred SHAW # West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Bdr Charles SHAW  Royal Field Artillery
Pte Harry SHAW  Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Sgt Ephriam SMITH  Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Sgt B STAIRMAND  2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
Pte George Alfred TERRY  Northumberland Fusiliers
Pte Harry TOWELL  Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Pte Maurice Henry WALMSLEY  Cameron Highlanders
2nd Lieut. Geoffrey Nield WHTTEHEAD  Royal Flying Corps
Lieut. J W WOODHEAD* Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

*Listed on Burley-in-Wharfedale First World War Memorial

#Buried ain St Oswalds Churchyard, Guiseley

+Buried at St Thomas A Beckett Churchyard, Hampshwaite

If anyone has any information relating to the aforementioned men or their family history, please contact either Mrs Judith Knaggs 01943 879 290 or Cllr Dale Smith 07801 669 780 or mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it