​The War Memorial in Burnsall
 
 
 
St Wilfred’s Church has a Memorial in the Churchyard and a Book of Remembrance
 
The Memorial is inscribed:
 
 
REMEMBER BEFORE GOD
THE SOULS OF HIS SERVANTS
WHO DIED IN BRINGING
VICTORY TO THEIR COUNTRY
 
WILLIAM BURLEY
THOMAS REYNARD
ARTHUR NEWBOULD
GEORGE BINNS
THOMAS WATERS
 
HENRY BIRCH
JOHN IRVINE HARGRAVES
CHARLES HORNER
JOSEPH METCALFE
JOSEPH GRIFFITHS
 
1914 -1918
1939-1945
JOHN HIGHT BLUNDELL
IRVIN NEWBOULD
RALPH LAWRENCE SEEGER
 
 
Those who Fell in WW1
 
BINNS, George
Private, 1st/4th Battalion TF, The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment), 147 Brigade, 49th Division.  Army no 13788.
He was killed in action on Sunday 14 April 1918 during the Battle of Bailleul. He was 21.
He was the son of George and Mary Binns, Watergate, Barden, Bolton Abbey.
He is remembered on The Tyne Cot Memorial.
 
BIRCH, Henry
Private, 1st/6th Battalion, The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment), 147 Brigade, 49th Division.  Army no 4847.
He died from his wounds on Friday 7 July 1916. He had probably been wounded in the first days of the Battle of the Somme. He was 32.
He was the son of Christopher and Mary Birch and the husband of Molly Wilson, (formerly Birch), Fern Cottage, Burnsall.
He is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery and his headstone is inscribed One of England's Heroes from His Wife & Children.
 
BURLEY, William
Private, 10th (Service) Battalion, The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment), 69 Brigade, 23rd Division.  Army no 13655.
He died from his wounds on Thursday 30 September 1915. He had been shipped back to England to receive further medical treatment. He was 19.
He was the son of George and Elizabeth Burley, London.  He enlisted in Grassington.
He is buried in the old churchyard of St Mary’s Church, Walmer, Kent.
 
GRIFFITHS, Joseph
Lance Corporal, 2nd/4th Battalion TF, The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment), 186 Brigade, 62nd Division.  Army no 300027.
He was killed in action on Thursday 3 May 1917 at the battle of Bullecourt.
He is remembered on The Arras Memorial.
 
HARGRAVES, John Irvin
Rifleman, 1st/7th Battalion (Leeds Rifles) TF, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), 146 Brigade, 49th Division.  Army no 62726.
He died from his wounds (he had been gassed) on Friday 15 November 1918. He was 19.
He was the son of Irvine and Jane E Hargraves, Appletreewick.
He is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery and his headstone is inscribed Too Dearly Loved to Ever Be Forgotten, from Father and Mother.
Additional information
His birth registration was John Irvin Hargraves. In the 1911 census it was Irvine.
 
HORNER, Charles
Corporal,1st/6th Battalion TF, The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment), 147 Brigade, 49th Division.  Army no 266239.
He was killed in action on Monday 29 April 1918 at the second Battle of Kemmel Ridge. He was 21.
He was the son of Agnes A Horner, 54 Park Road, Morecambe. He had enlisted in Appletreewick.
He is buried in La Clytte Military Cemetery.
 
METCALFE, Joseph
Gunner, 49th Division, Royal Field Artillery. Army no 148903.
He died from his wounds on Tuesday 27 February 1917. He was 27.
He was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Metcalfe, Lofthouse.
He is buried in St. Pol Communal Cemetery Extension.
 
NEWBOULD, Arthur
Lance Corporal, 2nd Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, 94 Brigade, 31st Division.  Army no 39021.
He died from his wounds on Tuesday 30 July 1918. He was 23.
He was the son of John and Alice Newbould, 2 Barden Fell View, Grassington. He was born at Bank Top, Hebden.
He is buried in Senlis French National Cemetery.
 
REYNARD, Thomas
Lance Corporal, 9th (Service) Battalion, The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment), 52 Brigade, 17th Division.  Army no 12767.
He was killed in action on Wednesday 25 April 1917 in the second Battle of the Scarpe. He was 27.
He was the son of William H and the late Sarah E Reynard, Moor End, Langbar.
He is remembered on The Arras Memorial.
 
WATERS, Tom
Private, 7th (Service) Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment, 56 Brigade, 19th Division.  Army no 29053.
He died from his wounds on Monday 24 September 1917.
He is buried in Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul.
 
 
Those who Fell in WW2
 
 
BLUNDELL, John Hight    DSO, OBE
Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Engineers attached to King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners. Army no 17207.
He died on active service on Tuesday 6 April 1943 which was the time of attacks by the Allies on Medenine, the Marith Line and Wadi Akarit after the Allied victory at El Alamein. He was 41.
He was the son of Major Alfred H and Amelia W Blundell, Appletreewick.
He is buried in Sfax War Cemetery, Tunisia.
 
NEWBOULD, Irvin
Sergeant/Air Gunner, 70 Operational Training Unit, Royal Air Force. RAFVR no 1495896.
He died on active service on Wednesday 12 April 1944. He was 24.
He was the son of George H and Alice Newbould, Appletree Wick.
He is buried in Fayid War Cemetery, Egypt and his headstone is inscribed His Memory Grows Dearer as He Sleeps Among the Brave.
Additional information
Baltimore III AH119 from 70 Operational Training Unit was on a training flight when it crashed in Little Bitter Lake, Suez Canal.  All the crew were killed.
His birth was registered in Pontefract as Irvin not Irvine as it appears in some records.
 
SEEGER, Ralph Lawrence
Bombardier, 395 Battery, 49 (6th Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery. Army no 2066820.
He died on active service on Wednesday 19 August 1942, defending on of the Northern Cities from Air Attack. He was 33
He was the son of Lawrence and Annie Seeger, Shipley.  
He is buried in Bingley Cemetery.
 
Those who Fell in WW1 and are not on the Memorial
 
These two young both died at the Battle of Jutland.
HMS Indefatigable, a battlecruiser, sank with the loss of 1,017 lives with 2 survivors who were taken as Prisoners of War.
HMS Black Prince, an armoured cruiser, was sunk with the loss of 857 lives with no survivors.
The Battle was judged as an Allied victory despite the loss of men and ships as it was the last time in the war that the German main battlefleet put to sea.
 
LONGHORN, James Herbert 
Private, HMS Indefatigable, Royal Marine Light Infantry.  RN no PLY/16826.
He died on active service on Wednesday 31 May 1916. He was 19.
He was the son of James and Mary J Longhorn, 1 Burnsall Street, Garston, Liverpool.
He is remembered on The Plymouth Naval Memorial.
 
SMITH, Valentine
Private, HMS Black Prince, Royal Marine Light Infantry.  RN no PO/16340.
He died on active service on Wednesday 31 May 1916. He was 21.
He was the son of Matthew Henry and Frances Smith, Woodbine Cottage, Burnsall, Skipton. He was born in North Somercotes, Lincolnshire.
He is remembered on The Portsmouth Naval Memorial.