Exley+Head

Keighley (Exley Head) - Cross, WW1 - 2 names WW2 - 3 names
 * Exley Head**

No 1. In the care of Bradford Museums and Art Galleries - at Cliffe Castle.

Oak Frame, with pediment. with the words "Ich Dien". In the frame an elaborate Roll of Honour. At the top the Union flag superimposed by the Royal coat of arms, flanked by 4 flags superimposed by shields, surrounded by Laurel leaves.The whole is supported by engraved flanking columns with lions at the base. There is no makers or engravers mark.

Roll of Honour. Army

John W. Bastow. Cadet William Brooke Tom B. Bebb J.Raymond Clapham, Killed in Action (KBGS) William Feather Abraham B. Fortune Arthur Greenwood Willam H. Hornby R. Harold Hornby Edwin D. Hurtley Wilfred R. Horsham Arthur Hampshire Frank S. Inman Clarence E. Johnson, 2nd Lt Smith Kidd John Kidd, L/Cpl William J. Lister J. Robert Lansdall Harry Martin Willie Marston Edgar Normington William Normington, L/Cpl Edgar Smith Hubert Smith David Smith Harry Steel Fred Punt George H. Taylor Frank Widdop David Watson, M.C. 2nd. Lt Charles F.K. Watson, 2nd. Lt (KBGS) Harold Whitfield, Killed in action Percy Webster Harry Midgley James Easter Arthur Lister Joseph Rushworth John Whiteoak Joseph Clarkson Samuel Holdsworth Harry Kidd

Navy

John Barker (KBGS) Henry C. Keighley Smith Whiteoak

This Chapel is still in use, (as at 1998), and there is a memorial outside with the names of J.R. Clapham and H. Whitfield on it.

No 2 Location - Outside of Exley Methodist Church, at the junction of Wheathead Lane and Oakworth Rd (B6143) N.G.R. S.E. 048402 Description - Polished Granite Cross on a three stepped sandstone base, approx 6ft high. The lower base contains three names from the second world war, and the lower base contains two names from the first world war. Unveiled. First week in October 1920, by the Lord Mayor of Keighley, Ald M.F. Binns. See Bradford Observer Budget Friday October 8th 1920 In Honoured Memory. / 1914 - 1918 / 1939 - 1945

Gnr. J. Raymond Clapham, R.G.A. killed in action at Messines, Jul 21st 1917, age 19 Pte. Harold Whitfield, Duke of Wellingtons W.R.R., died of wounds received in action in Flanders, March 17th 1918, age 22 years

Pte. J. Fairfax Dean, Y & L Reg, drowned off Tobruk, 1941, age 26 Cpl. Pearson Crossley, R.A.S.C. died in Japan 1943, age 26 P.O. Douglas D. Smith, F.A.A. Killed, Northern Ireland, 1945, age 21

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends