This is the area of my Batley St Mary’s One-Place Study website where I will share the stories of men from the parish who served in the First World War and returned home.
So far the following have been identified.
- Benjamin Battye (brother of Edmund Battye on the Memorial);
- Henry Battye (brother of Edmund Battye on the Memorial);
- Mark Brannan;
- Michael Brennan/Brannan (brother of Dominick Brannan killed in 1918 on the Memorial)
- Peter Brennan;
- Thomas Carney;
- John Cassidy;
- George Henry Chappell;
- John Chappell;
- Thomas Chappell;
- Matthew Crayton;
- George Delaney;
- James Delaney;
- John Donlan (brother of Thomas Donlan on the Memorial);
- Thomas Donlan (father of Thomas Donlan on the Memorial);
- John James Doyle;
- James Fitzpatrick;
- John Fitzpatrick [poss?];
- John Foley;
- Michael Foley;
- Patrick Foley;
- James Gallagher;
- Patrick Gavaghan;
- Francis Groark (Rourke) (brother of Henry, James and Michael on the Memorial);
- Michael Hannan;
- Joseph Hart;
- Michael Hodgins;
- John Holmes;
- John Edward Kilroy;
- James Kelly;
- John William Kelly;
- Joseph Kelly;
- Thomas Kelly;
- Thomas Kelly;
- John Thomas Kilbride;
- James (Jimmy) Edward Lyons;
- John Lyon(s);
- Michael Lyons;
- Patrick Mara;
- Edward McDonald;
- James McDonald;
- Matthew McDonald;
- Michael Maloney (also served in WW2, when died)
- Cecil Manning (brother of Clement Manning on the Memorial);
- Michael Manning (brother of Clement Manning on the Memorial);
- James Murphy;
- John Murray;
- Tom Nolan (brother of Austin Nolan on the Memorial);
- Thomas O’Hara (brother of Michael James O’Hora on the Memorial);
- Michael Phillips;
- Albert Stubley (father of Moses Stubley on the Memorial);
- Michael Joseph Toohey;
- John Thomas Tulley;
- Walter Waite;
- Joseph Walton.
As research progresses this list will be updated, and biographies added.
