WARTIME MEMORIES CONTENTS

Our Wartime Memories section has been available for over two years but until this time it has been resigned to a separate section of the Knottingley website which has perhaps meant it has received very little interest from visitors. Listed here are some of the items currently available from this section and the whole section will be made available over the next day or so.

• Roll of Honour
• Local Heroes
• Wartime Memories Home
• Memories of D-Day - Mr. T. Hiorns
• More Wartime Memories - Mr. T. Hiorns
• Walter Ellis & Ferrybridge Home Guard - Brenda Aschenbremner
• Wartime Memories - Barry John Slater
• Featured Articles
  • The Bismark Episode - Sam Wood
  • The Home Guard
  • War Savings Weeks
  • The Observer Corps
  • 1st Knottingley Scout Troop
  • Notes on the First World War - Cynthia Wake
  • Knottingley's Warship - Terry Spencer
• Wartime Poetry
  • Hope - Kathleen Haigh
  • Thoughts of a Soldier - Maurice Haigh
  • The Veterans Lament
  • In Flanders Field - John McCrae
  • Edith Cavell - Laurence Binyon 1914
  • For The Fallen - Laurence Binyon
• Articles and Press Reports
  • Zeppelin Air Raids, 1917
  • Knottingley Men Write to Mr. Schofield, 1917
  • More Knottingley Boys Send Thanks, 1917
  • Sale of Property and Shares at Knottingley, 1918
  • Naughty Antics, 1918
  • Garden Party for Soldiers & Sailors, 1918
  • Welcome Home for Returned Men, 1919
  • Christmas Festivities, 1919
  • Peace Celebrations, 19th July 1919
  • Peace Celebrations, 1st August 1919
  • Presentations to Knottingley Heroes, 1920
  • Air Raid Precautions, 1935
  • Knottingley at the Outbreak of War, 1939
  • Death of Neville Chamberlain, 1940
  • Uncle George's War, 1940-43 - Mathew Webster
  • War Weapons Week, 1941
  • Letters of Tom Murgatroyd Miller
  • Miller Family of Manor Farm, Knottingley
  • Another Busy Week 1941 & 1945
  • Soldier Jack Crabtree Broadcasts Greetings
  • Driver Gilbert Eaton
  • Knottingley Week 1942
  • Knottingley Events, Summer 1942
  • Canteen For Troops
  • 8 R.A.F. Men Die in Crash at Knottingley
  • Knottingley Events, 1943
  • Our Family Hero, George Henry Miller - Mrs A. Haggerty
  • What Bombers Could do to Knottingley
  • Brothers Meet 1943
  • On the Home Front: Guides in Camp, 1943
  • Happy Meeting, 1943
  • Knottingley Brothers Meet
  • No Better Place than the Old Lamb Inn, 1944
  • Knottingley 'Stay at Home' Gala, 1944
  • Soldiers Meet, 1944
  • On the Home Front, 1944
  • Concert in Congregational School
  • The Normandy Landings
  • Events in Knottingley 1944
  • Knottingley's 'Salute to the Soldier', 1944
  • A Bit of Good News, 1944
  • 'Yorkshire Boy' Led the Tanks, 1944
  • Springfield Avenue, V.J. Celebrations, 1945
  • Swords For Soldiers, 1945
  • Victory Celebrations, 1945
  • More Victory Teas, 1945
  • Knottingley Soldier's Lucky Escape
  • Knottingley Soldier Awarded M.S.M., 1945
  • Prime Minister's Broadcast: The War is Over, 1945
  • On the Home Front - A Typical Week in Knottingley, 1945
  • Posthumous Award, 1946
  • After the War, 1946
  • Knottingley Trio in Ceylon, 1946
  • 10,000 Vehicles For Sale at Brotherton
  • Victory Celebrations, 1946
  • Ten Years After The War Began, 1950
  • A 'Reet Fine Do' in Knottingley
  • Met in Hospital
  • Rationing
  • Services Welfare Association
• Wartime Photographs