Armistice Day
October 1996
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918.
To the men in the army and other members of the armed forces it meant the end of the fighting, for the women who were left behind it meant an end of years and months of apprehension anxiety and fear - fear of the postman.
Most of the men from this area went into the Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment which had it’s headquarters in Halifax and raised several battalions from the Huddersfield district.
Men who joined up, and they were all volunteers until conscription was introduced in May 1916, were trained in this Country, and were then sent, in the early years, to form new battalions, or, in later years to fill the gaps in existing battalions which had suffered heavy casualties.
The list of names in the lych gate at the parish church shows that forty of these men did not return.
