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DURING WW1 over 880,000 commonwealth services personnel were killed or mortally wounded. Among those casualties were several professional or semi… ....
FOLLOWING the Bus to Bradford tour of the Western Front this year, where the new Brothers in Arms memorial near Ypres was visited, I was asked by… ....
VOLUNTEERS at historic Undercliffe Cemetery have unearthed a memorial to a ‘lost Bradford Pal’ whose story shaped the Battle of the Somme. David Whithorn, president of Bus to Bradford which researches local men in the First World War, writes: “A determined effort by Andy Tyne and the Undercliffe cemetery conservation team have finally discovered the memorial to a lost Bradford Pal, 18/9 Sgt Henry Barnel Greenwood of the 18th West Yorks. (2nd Bradford Pals, son of William and Mary Ann Greenwood, husband of Hilda, of Lidget Green) who died on June 30 1916, the day before both Pals battalions were decimated at Serre on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. ....