Greenwood,+Ivor+Tempest


 * Ivor Tempest Greenwood**



Ivor was an old boy of Keighley Boys Grammar School. He was serving as an apprentice in the Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment when he died in service. According to his death certificate: He died at the 4th Northern General Hospital at Lincoln on the 16th September 1914 of pneumonia. Aged 18 years, of Dalton Lane, Keighley.

He is now commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission since 2014 and his details added to the C.W.G.C. Roll of Honour. Update 11th December 2016: his headstone has been made and delivered to the UK for installation on his grave in the near future. We will now make arrangements for a service of dedication for his new headstone and remember this young man who died just a short time after enlisting in the Army in the Great war.
 * Update 31st January 2017:** his headstone has now been installed on his grave at Utley Cemetery, Keighley.

Born, 26th October 1896. Address: 6, Gate Street, Keighley. Son of William Henry and Sarah Eliza Greenwood. William Henry was a Woolcomber Finisher. Baptised at St Mary's Church on 29th November 1896. Ivor was recorded as present with his mother Sarah at number 22, Eelhome View Street, Keighley in the 1901 census and living at 178, Devonshire Street, Keighley in the 1911 census: William Henry Greenwood age 38 Sarah Greenwood age 36 William Harper Greenwood age 16 Ivor Tempest Greenwood age 14 Henry Bruncker Greenwood age 13 Sarah Harper age 70 Hervey Kenneth Bruncker age 3