Biographies: Those who Served and Survived

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. Some of these are husbands of parishioners, but may not be Catholics themselves.

So far the following have been identified.

• Thomas Armstead
• Benjamin Battye (brother of Edmund Battye on the Memorial);
• Henry Battye (brother of Edmund Battye on the Memorial);
• Leo Berry;
• Michael Boyle;
• John Thomas Brannan;
• Mark Brannan;
• Martin Brennan;
• Michael Brennan/Brannan (brother of Dominick Brannan killed in 1918 on the Memorial);
• Patrick Brannan;
• Peter Brennan;
• John Burns;
• Thomas Cafferty (brother of Patrick Cafferty on the Memorial);
• Martin Callaghan (brother of John William Callaghan on the Memorial);
• George Carney (brother of Martin Carney on the Memorial);
• Michael Carney (brother of Martin Carney on the Memorial);
• Thomas Carney;
• James Carroll;
• John George Carroll;
• William Carroll;
• John Cassidy;
• Patrick Cassidy;
• George Henry Chappell;
• John Chappell;
• Thomas Chappell;
• James Cooney;
• Michael Cooney;
• Matthew Crayton;
• John Cunningham;
• Michael Cunningham;
• Michael Cunningham – 15508 KOYLI;
• Richard Cunningham;
• John Curley;
• George Delaney;
• James Delaney;
• Albert Dolan (brother of Thomas Dolan on the Memorial);
• John Donlan (brother of Thomas Donlan on the Memorial);
• Thomas Donlan (father of Thomas Donlan on the Memorial);
• John Doyle;
• John James Doyle;
• John Durkin;
• Abraham Elsworth;
• John Evans;
• Joseph Leo Evans;
• John Farrar;
• John Farrar;
• Thomas Farrar;
• Michael Finn;
• John Edward Firth;
• James Fitzpatrick;
• John Fitzpatrick [poss?];
• James Flanagan;
• John Flatley;
• Michael Flatley;
• William Flatley;
• James William Foley;
• John Foley;
• Michael Foley;
• Patrick Foley;
• Bernard Gallagher;
• James Gallagher;
• John William Gannon [1] – 3rd/4th KOYLI;
• John William Gannon [2] – 13th KOYLI;
• Thomas Gannon (discharged from the Army and died in Batley in 1917);
• Leo Gaunt
• John Gavaghan (King’s Own Scottish Borderers, brother of Thomas, James and Peter;
• John Gavaghan (Husband of Mary Trainer);
• John Gavaghan (Husband of Mary Elwood);
• Patrick Gavaghan;
• Michael Gavaghan;
• Thomas Gavaghan;
• William Henry Gavaghan;
• James Gavin;
• Thomas Grailey;
• Francis Groark (Rourke) (brother of Henry, James and Michael on the Memorial);
• Patrick Halloran;
• Michael Hannan;
• Joseph Ellis Hargreaves;
• Joseph Hart;
• Michael Hodg(k)ins;
• John Holmes;
• James Holohan;
• Patrick Holohan;
• John Hopkins;
• Patrick Hopkins;
• John Edward Kilroy;
• James Kelly;
• James Kelly;
• John William Kelly;
• Joseph Kelly;
• Robert Kelly;
• Thomas Kelly;
• Thomas Kelly;
• John Thomas Kilbride;
• Harry Lee (brother of Horace);
• John Lynch;
• Joseph, Lynch;
• Michael, Lynch;
• James Lyons;
• James (Jimmy) Edward Lyons;
• John Lyon(s);
• Michael Lyons;
• Patrick Mara;
• Thomas MacNamara;
• Edward McDonald;
• James McDonald;
• Matthew McDonald;
• Michael McGuire (Maguire);
• Michael McHale:
• John McNamara (brother of Thomas McNamara on the Memorial);
• John James McQuinn;
• Sims McQuinn;
• Michael Maloney (also served in WW2, when died);
• Willie Maloney;
• Cecil Tynan Manning (brother of Clement Manning on the Memorial);
• John Tynan Manning;
• Michael Wilfred Manning (brother of Clement Manning on the Memorial);
• Michael Merriman;
• William Merriman;
• Francis Monaghan;
• Richard Morris;
• Willie Morris;
• John Mulligan;
• John Mullins;
• John William Mullins:
• James Murphy;
• John Murray;
• Tom Nolan (brother of Austin Nolan on the Memorial);
• Thomas O’Hara (born 1886)
• Thomas O’Hara (born 1892, brother of Michael James O’Hora on the Memorial);
• James Owen (possible);
• James Owens;
• Michael Owens;
• James Phillips;
• Michael Phillips;
• Thomas Prendergast;
• James Rowe;
• Michael Rush;
• Edwin/Edward Rushworth;
• John Ryan;
• Frank Scott;
• George R. Senior;
• Joseph Skelly;
• Thomas Edward Skelly (tentatively included as baptised at St Mary of the Angels, though he did not marry in the Catholic Church and there is nothing subsequent to indicate he continued practising)
• Albert Stubley (father of Moses Stubley on the Memorial);
• Newsome Stubley (brother of Arthur and uncle of Moses, tangential link to parish);
• Edward Swords;
• Michael Joseph Toohey;
• John Thomas Tulley;
• Walter Waite;
• John Walsh;
• Stephen Walsh;
• Joseph Walton.

As research progresses this list will be updated, and biographies added.