James Watson GARWOOD

13 August 1915

CASUALTIES IN THE 6TH DUKE’S

The following casualties were reported from the base under date July 25th:–

Killed.–6th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (Skipton).–Marshall, H., 3718.

Wounded.–6th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (Skipton).–Bailey, J., 2930; Dawson, H., 2682; Dixon, T., 1447; Garwood, J.H., 2466; Robinson, C., 2104; Stell, L-Cpl. H., 2599; Wallwork, W., 2905.

Gassed.–6th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (Skipton).–Garnett, W., 2043.

Practically the whole of these have been previously been noted in our columns. A possible exception is Private W. Wallwork, who formerly worked at the Belle View Mills of the English Sewing Cotton Company at Skipton, and was well known in local football circles.

20 August 1915

ANOTHER OF THE 6th ‘DUKE’S’ WOUNDED

Pte. J. Garwood, of the lst 6th Duke of Wellington's Regiment, and late of Keighley Road, Skipton, has been slightly wounded in the back. Fortunately his injury is not serious enough to necessitate his removal to hospital.

07 July 1916

SKIPTON TERRITORIAL WOUNDED

Private James Watson Garwood, of the West Riding Territorials, whose home is in Keighley Road, Skipton, has been wounded by a bullet in the left arm. He is now in hospital at Preston and is doing nicely.

27 April 1917

GARWOOD – April 12th-13th 1917, killed by the bursting of a shell in the dugout on the Western Front, Pte. James Watson Garwood, West Riding Regiment, son of Mr. John Garwood, 73 Keighley Road, Skipton, aged 22 years.

27 April 1917

SKIPTON'S ROLL OF HONOUR – PRIVATE JAMES WATSON GARWOOD

Private James Watson Garwood, one of the two soldier sons of Mr. John Garwood, 73 Keighley Road, Skipton, was killed while asleep in his dugout by the bursting of a shell on April 12th – 13th. Before enlisting in the West Riding Regiment a month after the outbreak of war, he was a weaver at Alexandra Shed (Mr. S.H. Walton’s), and was an earnest worker in connection with the Gargrave Road Primitive Methodist Church, being closely associated with the Christian Endeavour Society. He was 22 years of age and had been at the Front about two years, having been wounded twice, the last time in June last year. He only returned to the Front six weeks ago. Mr. Garwood’s other son, Corpl. Daniel Garwood, is serving at the Front with the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Corpl. Wilfred Turnbull and Corporal W.R. Armstrong, two Skipton soldiers and ‘pals’ of deceased, have written the bereaved family expressing their sympathy and testifying to the deceased’s work as a soldier and his character as a man and a ‘pal’.

08 April 1921

GARWOOD – In affectionate remembrance of Pte. Jim Garwood, 1/6th Duke of Wellington’s Regt., killed in action at Festubert, April 12th, 1917.

Ever remembered by his comrade, Ernest, Craven Street, Otley.

23 February 1923

ODDFELLOWS’ WAR MEMORIAL

UNVEILING CEREMONY AT A SKIPTON LODGE

OVER 200 WHO SERVED

There was a large attendance of local members of the Independent Order of Oddfellows at the Friendly Societies’ Hall, Skipton, on Saturday afternoon, on the occasion of the unveiling of a war memorial to the members of the Loyal Traveller’s Friend Lodge, I.O.O.F, M.U., who fell in the war.

The Memorial takes the form of a beautifully designed scroll within an oak frame with a glass front, the work of Mr. H. Spencer, junr., and it bears the inscription:–

LOYAL/TRAVELLER’S FRIEND LODGE,/SKIPTON DISTRICT ./I.O.O.F. ROLL OF HONOUR M.U./OF/THOSE MEMBERS OF THIS LODGE WHO FOUGHT FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY TO UPHOLD THE SACRED CAUSES OF BROTHERHOOD AND HUMANITY IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914–1918.

Below the inscription are the names of 173 members who served in the war, and of the 40 members who were killed. The names of the fallen occupy a central position on the scroll, and above them are the following words:–

IN MEMORIAM
OF THOSE WHO MADE THE
SUPREME SACRIFICE.
THEIR HEARTS ARE LIFTED UP
THEIR HEARTS
THAT HAVE FOREKNOWN
THE UTTER PRICE,
THEIR HEARTS BURN
UPWARD AS A FLAME
OF SPLENDOUR AND OF
SACRIFICE

The names of the fallen are as follows:– H. Armstrong, J.J. Brown, J. Barrett, Robt. Brown, W.W. Bell, A. Clayton, W.H. Coles, T.C. Chew, Tom Downes, T.M. Drummond, Jos. Emmott, Thos. Edmondson, J. Easterby, F. Gallagher, J.W. Garwood, G.E. Godwin, S.J. Hargreaves, M. Hargreaves, A. Hebden, J. Hebden, A. Hawkswell, T.E. Inman, M. Lund, R.C. [R.G.] Metcalfe, Hbt. Maudsley, Hy. Maudsley, A.J. Pimnock [Pinnock], H.Y. [Harry] Riley, T.W. Storey, J.H. Stewart, R. Spencer, J.W. Shuttleworth, Wm. Tempest, Hbt. Thompson, Fred Thornton, J.W. Varley, John Ward, J.A. Whittaker, J.W. Whittaker, and R.D. Whittaker.

The Unveiling Ceremony

The unveiling ceremony was presided over by Bro. Thos. Bellamy, and was performed by Bro. Amos Culpan, Prov. C.S., and a simple service included the singing of the hymns, ‘O God our help’ and Kipling’s Recessional, ‘God of our fathers,’ and the reading of a portion of Scripture, and the offering of a prayer by Bro. James Greenwood, of Bradford, and formerly of Skipton.

Bro. Bellamy observed that those members of the Lodge whom they were met to honour went into battle, suffered untold privations, and, in many cases, made the supreme sacrifice. They gave their lives in defence of their homes and their country. Further than that, they gave their lives for justice and freedom, and in order that we might live. It was the duty of Oddfellows, equally as much as other sections of the community, to do everything within their power to make the country better for that sacrifice. “In the time of our prosperity,” concluded Bro. Bellamy, “never let us forget those who served us in the time of our adversity.”

A Lesson of the War

Prior to unveiling the memorial, Bro. Culpan described the ceremony he had been asked to perform as one not unattended by sorrow. It was an occasion upon which one felt a desire to make their Order better for the sacrifice of its members, and to extend the true spirit of brotherhood. In nearly 4,000 of their Lodges they would find a roll of honour. Over 22,000 of their members made the supreme sacrifice, and thousands of others were ruined and shattered in health and without prospects for the future. Each and all of them ought to perform some daily service that would make the sacrifice of those men worth while. One result of the terrible ordeal of 1914 to 1918 was the creation of a better feeling between men, and a desire to break down the class barriers that formerly existed. That was one of the great lessons of the war.