James William SHUTTLEWORTH

25 May 1917

CARLETON – News of Soldiers

Mr. Ira Whitehead, secretary of the Carleton Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Parcel Fund, has received a number of letters from the ‘boys’ in France and in training, thanking him and the Committee for their endeavours on their behalf. All are very optimistic, as the following letters show…

Driver J.W. Shuttleworth writes:– “The P.O. will come in very handy, as things are very dear out here, and bread–well, they laugh and shrug their shoulders if you ask for it. They call it dupain here, but we have not seen any for nearly a week.”

12 October 1917

SHUTTLEWORTH – Killed in action in France, Driver J. W. Shuttleworth, R.G.A., son of Mr. and Mrs. Robinson Shuttleworth, 6, East View, Carleton, aged 28 years of age.

12 October 1917

TWO MORE CARLETON HEROES - DRIVER J. W. SHUTTLEWORTH AND RIFLEMAN W. H. GARNETT

A gloom has been cast over the village during the past few days by the sad news of the death in action of two of its sons, Driver James Wm. Shuttleworth, R.F.A., and Rifleman William Henry Garnett, King’s Royal Rifles. Both were members of well-known and respected families, for whom much sympathy is felt.

News of the death of Driver Shuttleworth was received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson Shuttleworth, 6, East View, on Wednesday, in the following letter from Captain James N. Ware, West Riding R.G.A.:- “Will you accept my very sincere sympathy with you in your heavy loss of one of your sons? Your son was one of the drivers in this Battery and was under my care, and of course I got to know him well. He was a most painstaking and reliable driver, and his death is a great loss to the Battery. I hope it may be some comfort to you in your sorrow to know that he could not have suffered any pain in his death. I was able to attend his funeral, and we are erecting a cross in the cemetery where he is buried. Please accept the sympathy both of myself and that of all the drivers in the Battery.”

Driver Shuttleworth, who was 28 years of age, was widely known in the district as the carrier between Carleton and Skipton. He sold his business to his brother in June last. Mr. and Mrs. Shuttleworth have two other sons in France – Driver Arthur Shuttleworth and Gunner Amos Shuttleworth, both in the R.F.A.

Rifleman William Henry Garnett, news of whose death on September 25th was received yesterday morning from the Winchester Records Office, was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Ashton Garnett, 1, Chapel Street. Formerly a weaver at the mill of Messrs. W. and J. Slingsby Ltd., he was 21 years of age and enlisted two years ago. He went out to the Front nearly twelve months ago, but was able to pay two visits to his native village during the last summer, following a period in hospital.

19 October 1917

CARLETON-IN-CRAVEN – DRIVER J. W. SHUTTLEWORTH

The above is a photograph of Driver J. W. Shuttleworth, R.G.A., son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Shuttleworth, of East View, Carleton, who, as reported last week, met his death in action on the Western Front on October 3rd.

27 September 1918

SHUTTLEWORTH – In loving memory of our dear son and brother, Driver James William Shuttleworth who was killed in action in France September 26th, 1917.

From Father and Mother and Family, 6 East View, Carleton.

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.