YESTERDAYS Brothers lost in World War One are remembered at centenary special event

HE details of soldiers from Kirkheaton who died in World War One have been uploaded on to a searchable website.

Sandra Stocks, of the Kirkheaton Family History Group, has spent two years researching and adding the information and pictures to the website of Richard Horton www.kirkheaton.info.

The website also contains very detailed information on burials surrounding the parishes of Kirkheaton, Lepton and Mirfield. Once registered it is free to access all the available records on the website. Registration is also free.

From the main menu, access to the WW1 photographs is via the Kirkheaton History Group tab.

Sandra hasn’t just concentrated on soldiers, however. She has copied pictures and taken details of many interesting stories from the Huddersfield Weekly Examiner between 1914 and 1918.

There are also medal winners, marriages, Mrs Sunderland musical competition winners and golden wedding anniversaries.

There’s also the story of Mrs Samuel Kaye, of Shepley, who, – aged 87 – had completed her 104th pair of stockings knitted for the soldiers.

There is also the sad case of Clafton Battye, aged 13, who disappeared on his way to school dressed in his Almondbury Grammar School Cadet Corps uniform on February 1 1918.

He was the son of Percy and Laura Arabella Elizabeth Battye, of Ryecroft, Holmfirth, and brother of Muriel. His body was found near a quarry on the moors above Holmfirth on February 14. Clafton Battye, aged 13, who disappeared on his way to school dressed in his Almondbury Grammar School Cadet Corps uniform on February 1, 1918