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Pte. Arthur Ackroyd
British Army 2nd Btn. West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellingtons)
from:57 Stanacre Place, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire
(d.5th May 1915)
Arthur Ackroyd was born on 21st December 1893 at his grandmother's house in Waile Street, Manningham but was orphaned by 1908 so went to live with his half-sister, her husband and their son and daughter in Bateman Street, Manningham (since demolished and the site now appears to be part of Bradford City football ground or very close thereto). He became very much part of their family and the children regarded him as their big brother. The 1911 census states he was a mill hand bobbin take off in a worsted spinning mill.
He enlisted on 21st of August 1914 but died from gas poisoning on 5th of May 1915 at 84th Field Ambulance, almost certainly received on Hill 60 about 2 miles south of Ypres, where his battalion were in action. He is buried in Poperinge Military Cemetery, Belgium.
