Mytholmroyd Church Lads Brigade [1914]

Some members of the Mytholmroyd Church Lads' Brigade who may have volunteered for active service in October 1914

In 2023, Contributor Wayne Ogden identified the photograph and supplied more information and images

• Mytholmroyd Church Lads Brigade Volunteers #1

  Taken Monday 28th September 1914

  • Left to right (Standing) 
    1. Rev Thomas Metcalfe
    2. Walter Farrar
    3. (Possibly) Alfred Potter Jackson, brother of Joe Jackson
    4. Joe Jackson
    5. William Henry Taylor
    6. Unidentified
    7. Horace Whitham Thomas
    8. Arthur Carter
    9. Unidentified

  • Left to right (sitting) 
    1. James Edward Greenwood
    2. Claude Longbottom
    3. Unidentified (possibly same as first left on picture #2 below) 
    4. George Harold Clegg
    5. Unidentified
    6. Unidentified

  The photograph was published in the Todmorden & District News [2nd October 1914]

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• The article published in the Todmorden & District News [2nd October 1914]

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• Mytholmroyd Church Lads Brigade Volunteers #2

  Date Unknown

  1. Unidentified (possibly same as third left sitting on picture #1 above) 
  2. Clifford Appleyard
  3. John William Greenwood
  4. Unidentified
  5. Arnold Sutcliffe
  6. Horace Whitham Thomas

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• Mytholmroyd Church Lads Brigade

  Date Unknown