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1914
Edgar Armitage
Alfred Dyer
Oscar Ivinson
James Phillips
George Willie Taylor
William Henry Kay
Charles Machin
Abraham Wolstenholme
Joseph Pickard
John Hoggarth
Clement Gascoyne Ransford
John Farlington
Peter Spelman
Dennis Cuddy
George Osborne
Joseph Slater
George Henry Senior
Patrick Edward Phillips
Joseph King
1915
January
James McDermott
John James Tighe
February
William James
John Joseph Barry
John Myers
George Flatters
John Parkin
William Hilton Thomas
John White
March
Herbert S Morris
April
Charles Milner
Willie Chambers
Harry Simpson
James Carwardine
Joe Tinker
Fred Vickers
May
Clarence Norton
James William Bulmer
George Day
Timothy Donnelly
Oliver Walker
Harold Purdy
Orlando Bush Walker
Herbert Croft
June
James Dillon
William George Russell
Thomas William Medley
Fred Whitwham
William Richardson
William Astbury
Thomas Moore
Eastwood Wilson
Harold Hirst
July
John William Barstow
Thomas Cox
John Henry Davill
August
Mark Donovan
David Pollard
William Shaw
Frank Whittaker
John Edward Oates
Willie Hemingway
Arthur Wilberforce Young
Henry Ellis
Cyril Humphreys
September
Patrick Kenny
George Albert Taylor
Hubert Oxley
Ernest Beckett
George Glew
Herbert Alfred Dancer
Hubert Peace
James William Smith
Vyner Wolfenden Sykes
Anthony Wear
Philip Benjamin Chapman
Harry Walton
Alfred Gardiner
John Pattinson
Walter Cockburn Robson
Fred Smith
Arthur Midwood
October
William Henry Hurworth
Arthur Clarkson Chadwick
Isaac France
Walter Clegg
Thomas James
William Henry Peach
John Henry Prentice
Lewis Tinker
Norman Henry Bright
Douglas Dekenzo
Albert Jewsbury
William Crosby
George Arthur Hammond
November
Ernest Smith
John Haney
William Ewart Popplewell
Norman Tomlinson
Joseph Bailey
Martin Carney
Albert James Chapman
J H Chapman (2nd Entry for Albert James Chapman)
Wilfred Rayner
December
Herbert Wilkinson
William Breheney
Willie Beckett
George Arthur Cross
James Goodfellow
Gilbert Nowell
Joseph Reynolds
Charles Edmund Blakeley
Arthur Gill
John Lewis Scanlan
Herbert Richardson Greenwood
George Ireland
1916
January
Samuel Holt Jubb
Willie Mellor
Sidney Brooke
February
Horace W D Oldroyd
Albert Walker
Simpson Wragg
March
James Wadsworth
Edward Morley
Frank Taylor
Garnett Crawshaw
James Crossland
April
Harry Everett
Robert Henry Biggs
May
Humphrey Ramsden
Harry Lockwood
James Kelly
Thornton Parker
Walter Edward Roberts
James William Rollinson
June
Newman Wilkinson
Fred Archer
Ernest Ormerod
Hubert Peace
Arthur Lee
Timothy Kenny
Thomas Arthur Brunton
John (Jack) Thomas Walker
Ernest Berry
July
William Henry Austwick
William Henry Barker
William Birmingham
Cecil Lawrence Blake
William Chatten
Norman Cleveland
Harry Cooke
James Henry Coyne
George Gladstone Day
Ernest Denton
Fred Duxbury
Fred Exley
Stanley Pickup Fletcher
Albert Gibbs
Alfred Gildea
Albert Gregory
Thomas Hirst
Fred Holmes
Wilfred Jackson
Arnold Lee
Vernal Lowe
Jesse Marshall
John McDonald
Thomas Moore
John Neville
Harry Newsome
Alfred Oldroyd
George Geoffrey Phillips
Richard Pickard
Albert Edward Pizer
William Blackburn Porritt
David Ramsden
Norman Renshaw
Arthur Roberts
Herbert Smith
Harold Lee Ward
Joseph Wear
John (Jack) Weate
Joseph Webster
Wilfred Henry Whittaker
Claude Wild
Joseph Longstaff
Ben Wainwright
Alfred Henry Dixon
William Henry Smith
George Lacy Speight
Gordon Land
Isaac Wilde
Wilfred Booth
Tolson Hemingway
Thomas Henry
Willie Bennett
Lewis Rebbla Garside
Clifford Hirst
Percy Minnett
Albert Hopwood Wailes
Leonard Kendrick
Ernest Lightfoot
Alec Cady
Edward Greenwood
Clifford Ibbotson
Harry Tyas
Edwin Alexander Urquhart
Tom Robinson
Albert Smith
George Mullins
John William Robinson
Noble Wood
William Barber Milnes
Wilfrid Kilburn
Harry Harris
Leonard Rose
William Henry Heeley
Arthur Benson
Edward Stanley
Fred Cardwell
Arthur Gaythorne Joy
George Lister Mayman
August
John Redfearn Fligg
Bernard Walton Batley
Albert Brooke
John Richard Hinchliffe
Ramsden Byrne
Ernest Walker
John Henry Marriott
Martin Kelly
John Riley
Walter Bray
William Hinton
Joseph Arthur Littlewood
Fred Charles
Seth Walker
Arthur Harold Hartley
September
George Wilson
Walter Booth
Norman Dennison
Stanley Gawthorpe
Ernest Hinchliffe
George Herbert Hornsby
Henry Howgate
Rolla Hirst Jackson
James Edward Kay
Willie Moorhouse
James Henry Simpson
Charles Western Smith
John William Sykes
James Wild
Percy Senior
Walter Garfitt
Thomas Newton
Percy Oldroyd Megson
Harry Denton
Alfred Hubert Cowley
Thomas Henry Lee
John Richard Pennock
Walter Hatfield
Ernest Blackburn
George Foster
Percy Senior
John Edward Holland
George Taylor
John Joseph McMullen
Joseph Tierney
William Mooney
Lionel Richardson
Charles Stead
Harold Coope
Reginald Dawson
Lionel Walshaw Ledgard
Simon Parratt
Harry Dyer
Nelson Secker
Harry Hemingway
Dick Jackson
Joe Haigh
William Spencer
Jesse Howgate
James William Asquith
Herbert Oakes Clegg
John William Goddard
John Maguire
Patrick Shannon
Rupert Clegg
John Thomas Machin
John Henry Winter
John Bamford
George Alfred Johnson
Wright Ouldridge
October
Michael McCullen
Clifford Moffatt
Eric Oxley
William Price
Leonard Crane
Nathan Henry Lightfoot
William Norman Podmore
George Hoggarth
Eric Johnson
Allan Metcalf
Beaumont Wood
Donald William Stewart Watts
John Charles Nocton
George William Boothroyd
Thomas Bertrand Harper
Herbert Rowley
Albert Henry Bird
John Beaumont Brown
Frank Dudley Fearnsides
Robert Arnold Sconce
Thomas Harold Graham
Sidney Oates
Harold Wilby
November
Joseph Machin
Harry Saville
John Arnold Hemingway
Ernest Rylah
Willie Wainwright
Alfred Lobley
Herbert Sands Buckley
Charles William Skippins
Harold Armstrong
Joseph Norman Balmforth
Henry (Harry) Lothian
Charles Speight
Charlie Spink
Abraham Horace Hirst
John Alexander Adams
Charles Blamires
Joseph Brearley
John Hallas
Frederick Holliday
Stanley Lee
William Bailey
Fred Lionel Riley
December
Percy Boothroyd
Charles Arthur Crabtree
William Richardson
Fred Mellor
Thomas Brown
Arthur Brearley Johnson
Ernest Archer
Allen Donkersley
1917
January
William Henry Smith
Thomas William Chapman
James Mills Scott
Charles F Laycock
Thomas Sheldrake
Harry Lodge Carter
February
Arthur Collins
Thomas Isaac
Herbert Senior
Harry Ellam
Logan Jagger Grace
Allen Buckley Oldroyd
Michael Flanagan
Herbert Gamble
March
Lee Bedford
Alonza Driver
Eddie Whitworth
Edward Whitworth
Thomas Connor
John Henry Holmes
Milnes Scott
Allen Aston
William Chapman
Harry Campbell
Percy Senior
John Ellis
Charlie Lee
Edward Walter Triffitt MM
Charles William Gallagher
April
John Idle
Timothy Kenny
Tom Goldthorpe
Albert Watson
John Willie Armstrong
Thomas Tolan
John Arthur Clifford Bell
Ewart Doodson
George Hirst
Ben Wright Howarth
Norman Howgate
Thomas Arthur Hoyle
Frederick Satchwell
Fred Secker
James Shaw
Joseph Warhurst
Herbert Wilkinson
Horace Waller VC
Henry Waterhouse
Harry Shaw
William Henry Hirst
Arthur Oldroyd
Harry Ellis
Luke Blackburn
James Edward May
John Henry Stocks
Fred Lodge
George Raymond Peace
Robert Haggar
Edgar Kilburn
William Labourn
William Pamment
Frank Rigg
Joseph Rothery
Ralph Crawshaw
Joseph Wroe
Ernest Broadhead
Norman Newsome
Arthur Wood
Tom Ainley
Joseph Windle Barber
May
Thomas Platt Bottomley
Joseph Conlon
Fred Eastwood
William Henry Edson
Jonathan Field
Harry Hiller
Arthur Kershaw
Stanley Pollitt
Arthur Roberts
Freddy Sykes
Harry Webster
Arnold Joe Wilson
Joseph Alfred Wood
Herbert Hall
William Ewart Moffatt
Ernest Sheard
Walter Whitehead
Edward Arthur Lister
Arthur Percival Gibson
Tom Chatwood
Fred Johnson
John Carlton Kendall
William Robert Newton
Ernest Stables
William Newby
Gilbert Parker
Fred Scarry
Patrick Kelly
Sam Newbold
James Riley
Smith Summerscales
June
Frank Copley
Wilfred Ruddlesden
Arthur Cass
Walter Field
Edwin Groves
George Herbert Guest
George Jackson
Fred Barker
Arthur Sowden
Bernard Wilson
Leonard Lee
William Edgar Freeman
Arnold Brooke Brearey
Isaac Rothery
William Spencer
Tom Lund
Abraham Senior
Willie Jessop
July
Herbert Conrad Heaton
Edgar Winterflood
John Micklethwaite
George Henry Bingham
Fred Firth
Albert Robinson
Samuel Brierley
Ernest Greenwood
Lionel Maurice Newsome
Harold Ward
Austin Littlewood
George Nicholson
Tom Tolson
Joseph Henry Bray
Edward Burton
James Selwyn Radforth
Harold Senior
Mark Milner
Walter Speight
Frank Taylor
George Clement Sutcliffe
Fred Ripley
Thomas Allen Bernin Kitson
Sam Pickles
James Scargill
Leonard Shackleton
Herbert Booth
Henry Naylor
Lionel Rayner
Charles Carlos
Percy Chalk
Thomas Evans
Bruce Metcalfe
Fred Watson
Joseph James Mitchell
David Rochford
James Henry Walsh
George Ashmore Lee
Edward C. Needham
Thomas William Ashton
James Arthur Blackburn
Emmanuel Butler MM
Ernest Exley
Harry Fell
Richard Newsome
Harry Oates Soothill
Thomas Marshall Swift
Arnold Nelson Tompkins
August
Lowie Ellis Brook
George Arthur Pickles
John Appleyard
Albert Gaunt
Harold Day
Arthur Pearson
Arthur Lightfoot
Edward Rourke
William Thompson
Herbert Summerscales
Clifford Holmes
Herbert Nicholls
Wilfred Hargreaves
Joseph William Duncan
Leonard Ferrari
Sam Redfearn
Harry Rushworth
Clifford Simpson
Herbert Spink
Samuel Middleton Hawkswell
George Spedding
Walter Ward
Walter Brearey
Robert Henry Broomhead
Ben Morton (Mouton)
John Arthur Smithson DCM
William Edward Speight
Clement Senior
Frederick Thomas Leathard
Robert Ellis Oates
William Ridley
Frank Tomlinson
September
George Fieldhouse
Herbert Fox
Frederick Squires
Bertie Howroyd
Ernest Ruddlesden
Joseph Birkhead
Willie Beaumont
Ernest Ledgard
Wilson Marshall
Joe Cave
Percy Exley
Joseph Ramsden
James Arthur Windle
Walter Victor Fligg
Harold Senior
Arthur Garfitt
John Gledhill
Harry Oldroyd
Tom Gough
Albert Hirst
Benjamin Farnhill
Joseph Henry Woodcock
October
Joseph William Marsden
Joseph Hagar
Albert Edward Marshall DCM
William Normally
Percy Summerscales
Patrick (Pat) Stones
George Leuty
John Willie Ormsby
Leonard Henry Batley
Philip Fairclough Beaumont
Thomas Bennett
Dawson Lawson
Stephen Haythorne
Arnold Lightfoot
Herman Stead
Archie Sugden
Percy Wilfrid Giles
Fred Mowforth
James Schofield
Harry Summerscales
Clifford Haley
Ernest Inman
Edward Brears
William Haldenby
Fred Hey
Arthur Burton
William Langley
Wilson Barrett
Albert Hardy
Friend Whitwam
Clement Micklethwaite
Ben Redfearn
Charles Lapish
Harry Stradling
Ernest Arthur Whitaker
Percy Crowther
Walter Wilby
Wilfred Arthur Hirst
Albert Hooper
Herbert Leslie Newsome
Joseph Duncan Reekie
Arthur Williamson Tolley
Herbert Ingham Armitage
Charles Henry Hollingworth
November
John Briody
George Cook Tolson
James Loryman
James Sykes
James Maguire
Fred Gooder Hatfield
Isaac Walker Thompson
George Alfred Carr
Thomas Henry Thompson
Percy Bennett
Charles William Victor Dawson
Cyril Glover
Raymond Holdsworth
William Hopkinson
Fred Land
Gilbert Lewis
William Charles MacDonald
Joseph Megson
William Newsome
Harry Richardson
Willie Walker
John Jennings
Luke Clegg Leadbeater
Ernest Senior
George Arthur Ledgard
John Alfred Lee
Joseph Robinson
John Simmonds (Simmons)
Wilfred Talbot
William Chatwood
William Crosby
Willie Hirst
Percy Johnson
Harry Townend
Fred Auty
Charles Haigh
Richard Alfred Burns
George Cobb
Wilson Nichols
December
Willie Berry
Seth Dyson
Milner Wilson
Ewart Whiteley Mann
Michael Neville
Thomas (Tom) Brown
Arthur Armitage
Clifford Oxley
Ernest Newsome
1918
January
Henry Gavin (Larvin)
Walter Hazelwood
William Greaves
Gilbert Haigh
William Eggleston
February
Joseph Owen
John William Child
Fred Handley
John Coll
March
Charles Riley
Charles Buckley
Joseph Blackburn
Arnold Sheard
John William Ellis
John Richard Austwick
James Catlow
William Donkersley MM
Harold Grace
Charles George Hall
Leonard Halstead
Harold Idle
Harold Lyles
Arthur Punyer MM
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Fred Byrne
Herbert Carr
John William Roberts
Arthur Tattersfield
John William Thorpe
Harry Armitage
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Harold Ledgard
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