2nd Lieut. Norman P. Clark, Munster Fusiliers, killed in action, was a nephew of Mr. Edgar Wood of Skipton. After being invalided from Gallipoli, he spent a good deal of time with Mr. Wood and his family at Skipton. Only 23 years of age deceased was the second son of Councillor W. Clark, of Regent Square, Doncaster (a former Mayor of the Borough), and was articled to a firm of accountants. When the war broke out, he immediately joined the North Staffordshire Regiment (T.F.), and afterwards received a commission in the West Yorkshire Regt. Subsequently, he saw service with the Munster Fusiliers, and was in the Gallipoli campaign where he was wounded and invalided home with dysentery. Deceased’s forefathers were Quakers, and his grandfather, the late Mr. R. E. Clark, was one of the first County Aldermen of the West Riding.
Lieut. R. Forrest, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, was the son of Mr. T. Forrest, dental surgeon, of Clitheroe and Long Preston. He was killed in action on the Western Front. He had been employed as Intelligence Officer. His death was caused by being struck by a piece of shell. He was 26 years of age.
Lord Lucas, who was killed while on active service in France, was an enthusiastic and generous supporter of the Ribblesdale Buckhounds, and he gave his friend and neighbour, Lord Ribblesdale, all the support and help in his power. In the times before the war, of such days as he could spare from the duties of his office, which he filled with such advantage to agriculture, many were spent in the Ribble Valley. In the hunting season, whenever in residence at Sawley or Wigglesworth, he was never absent from a meet. He was a noble, chivalrous and courteous gentleman.
Major Vivian Novell Kidd, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, son of the late Mr. William Kidd, of Otley, and a grandson of the late Rev. P. C. Kidd, who was Rector at Skipton for many years. Major Kidd, who was well-known in Rugby Union Football circles at Headingley and Otley, joined the army from Sandhurst, and entered the Duke of Wellington’s Regt. He was second in command of a Service Battn. of the Regiment, and was expecting his promotion to Lieut.-Colonel. He was with the Battn. at the landing at Suvla Bay as Captain and Adjutant, and when his superior officers became casualties, he took command. At the commencement of the war, he was Adjutant at the Regimental Depot at Halifax. He was a son-in-law of Major Cecil H. Taylor, O.C., 13th Bn. West Riding Volunteers, and was in his 30th year.
Captain G. C. Turner, West Yorkshire Regiment, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. John Turner, Newlands, Ilkley, was killed in action on the Western front. Captain Turner was 32 years of age, and was educated at the Ilkley Grammar School, Sedbergh, and Leeds University. He was a civil engineer by profession, and had spent three years in British Columbia. On outbreak of war, he joined the Leeds University O.T.C., and obtained a commission in the West Yorkshire Regiment in February, 1915.
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