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| Barnsley Chronicle 25 December 1915 (thanks to Barnsley Archives) |
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This newspaper cutting lists 19 men from the firm of Needham Bros and Brown Ltd, of Pontefract Road who have presumably enlisted. It is only the end of 1915 - more could have already volunteered and more will have followed them into service as conscription took effect the following year. Research has yet to be done to discover which of these men returned home and which did not. We do not know if this memorial or any other memorial for the firm still exists.
Newspaper research by Barnsley Historian
Names:
Where further information on a name has been researched by our volunteers it will be linked here (look for the names in blue) to a page on this site or to an external site.
Arthur Peel,
J Needham,
Frank Needham,
Thos W Briggs,
Ed Pickering,
Harold Oxtaby,
Jas Collumbine,
W Batty,
G Needham,
A Needham,
J Wright,
W Jeffreys,
W Barraclough,
H Duncan,
J W Nixon,
Jas Matthews,
J Brown,
H H Guest,
T Brant.
BWMP #BAR19
2 comments:
There was a Role of Honour plaque it was kept in a large safe in the stores basements.
It was still there in 1964 I looked at it on a regular basis
That's interesting news. Where do you think it might have gone when the firm closed or moved? Forgive my ignorance, I am not a native of Barnsley although I have lived here for over 20 years now. If Barnsley Archives had it I am sure someone would have let us know, so that suggests it might be in private hands.
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