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1914 Casualties
- Edgar Armitage
- Alfred Dyer
- Oscar Ivinson
- James Phillips
- George William Taylor
- William Henry Kay
- Charles Machin
- Abraham Wolstenholme
- Joseph Pickard
- John Hoggarth
- Clement Gascoyen Ransford
- John Farlington
- Peter Spelman
- Dennis Cuddy
- George Osborne
- Joseph Slater
- George Henry Senior
- Patrick Edward Phillips
- Joseph King
1915 Casualties
- January
  - James McDermott
  - John James Tighe
- February
- March
  - Herbert Stanley Morris
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
1916 Casualties
- January
- February
- March
- April
  - Harry Everett
  - Robert Henry Biggs
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
1917 Casualties
- January
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
1918 Casualties
- January
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
1919 Casualties
- January
  - Stanley Fisher
  - Harry Steel (Steele)
- February
- March
  - Ernest Dyson
  - Arthur Huskinson
- April
  - Harry Wheatley
- May
  - Herbert Haigh
- June
  - Harold Vivian Hickling
- July
  - Alfred Wrigley
  - Herbert Hedley
- August
  - Herbert Overend
- October
- November
  - Frederick Ward
- December
  - Ernest Kitchen
  - Waugh Smith
1920 Casualties
- George Herbert Littlewood
- Ernest Heap
- Harry Pickard Marsden
- James Henry Leather
- Joseph Harold Hepworth Marsden
- Frank Blakeley
- William Airey
- John Storer
- Albert Edward James
- Joseph Blackburn Denton
- Henry Martin Wright
1921 Casualties
- Vernon Thornton
- Harry King DCM
- Robert Stott
- James Arthur Clegg
- John Thomas Bowering
- Wilmot Robertshaw
- George Lee
- Samuel Farnhill
1922 Casualties
- Spedding Hirst
- Percy Sheard
- Harry Heald MM
1923 Casualties
- Percy Scorah
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Casualties With Local Connections
- John Brockton Adcock
- Eli Townend Archer
- James Bartholomew Archer
- Horace Aspin
- Arnold Senior Asquith
- Samuel Auty
- Robert Ramsden Barber
- George Will Barraclough
- John Edward Becker
- William Edward Bellerby
- Cecil Adler Beverley
- Evan Birch
- George Finney Blakeley
- Brooke Bottomley
- Alfred Brearey
- James William Breheney
- Joseph (Joe) Breheney
- William Broadfield
- Charles Bradlaugh Brown
- Fred Butterfield
- Sam Butterfield
- Robert Cleasby
- Fred Clethro
- Fred Cooper
- Joseph Crawshaw
- Joseph Charles Darby
- Harold Dawson
- James Inglis Dent
- Thomas Patrick Doyle
- James Ewart
- Robert Ewart
- William Ewart
- Lockburn Fisher
- Willie Fletcher
- William Garlick
- William Gillard
- Arthur Green
- James Alfred Greenhough
- Edgar Broadbent Haigh
- Fred Haigh
- Herbert Haigh
- Newsome Hanson
- George Hazlegraves
- Thomas Henry Hemingway
- Andrew George Henderson
- John Richard Hitchen
- George Holland
- Walter Ingham
- Louis Jackson
- Percy Jeeves
- Edward Alexander Johnson
- George Herbert Kendall
- Frederick Kinner
- Randall Kitchingman
- John Edward Lee
- Albert Victor Heath Lilley
- Albert Link
- John Ambrose Lodge
- Charles William Major
- Benjamin Malpass
- Walter Massingham
- Frederick Sidney Maud
- Henry McKill
- James Herbert Midgley
- Herbert Morton
- Joseph Edward Munns
- Fred Newsome
- Harold Walter Newsome
- Arthur Nicholson
- Evan Oates
- Frank Oxley
- Robert Harry Parkinson
- Sam Pickles
- Walter Pollard
- David Pritchard
- Leonard Rigg
- William Rothery
- Joseph William Satchwell
- James Shaw
- Fred Sheard
- John William Shirtcliffe
- Arthur Wilson Simpkin
- Harry Hargreaves Simpkin
- Tom Stead
- Willie Stead
- George Edwin Sutcliffe
- Herbert Sutcliffe
- William Henry Thompson
- Harold Thornton
- Frederick Threadgold
- Herbert Tomlinson
- James Ellis Townend
- John Townend
- Mark Wainwright
- Albert Walker
- Ralph Walker
- Arthur Walshaw
- Arthur Walters
- Arthur Waterhouse
- Frederick Joe Whitaker
- Frank Whitworth
- Ben Williamson
- Arnold Windle
- Albert Wood
- George Wood
- Thomas Woodward
- Frank Wormald
- Joe Wright
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- St John the Baptist, Daw Green
- Dewsbury Primitive Methodist Church
- Batley Carr Primitive Methodist Church
- Chickenley Wesleyan Chapel
- Victoria Jubilee School
- Carlton Road School
- Dewsbury Parish Church School
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- Moorlands Wesleyan Chapel
- Salem United Church
- St John the Baptist, Lees Moor
- Dewsbury Minster
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- Holy Innocents, Thornhill Lees
- St Saviour’s, Ravensthorpe
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- St John’s, Dewsbury Moor
- St Mary’s Church, Savile Town
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- Thornhill Lees Methodist Church
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- Providence Independant Methodist Church
- St Peter’s, Earlsheaton
- Highfield Congregational Church, Earlsheaton
- Westborough United Methodist Church
- Holy Trinity, Church, Batley Carr
- Dewsbury Spiritualist Church
- Earlsheaton Park War Memorial
- Earlsheaton Cemetery – Commonwealth War Graves
- Dewsbury Cemetery – Commonwealth War Graves
- Eastborough Council School
- Wheelwright Grammar School
- Warwick Road Council School
- Joshua & Ellis and Co. Ltd.
- Dewsbury Post Office
- Crawshaw and Warburton
- Moorend Lane Working Mens Club
- Ravensthorpe Working Mens Club
- Ravensthorpe and Northorpe Conservative Club
- Brigadier General Frank Wormald
- Captain Harold Hirst
- Private Horace Waller V.C.
- Whitley Lower (SS. Mary and Michael) Church
- Heckmondwike Grammar School
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- Christ Church, Staincliffe
- St Joseph’s R.C. Church
- Ravensthorpe Central Working Men’s Liberal Club
- Ravensthorpe United Methodist Church
- Ravensthorpe Wesleyan Methodist Church
- Ravensthorpe Primitive Methodist Church
- Ebenezer Methodist Church, Hanging Heaton
- Ossett Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
- Highfield Men’s Institute
- Staincliffe Church of England School
- Heckmondwike Upper Independent Chapel
- Archbishop Holgate’s School, York
- Dewsbury Moor Primitive Methodist (Zion) Chapel
- Dewsbury Celtic R.L.F.C.
- Wormalds and Walker
- Dewsbury Cemetery 2022
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- St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School
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