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Surname: GARNETT
Forename(s): William Henry
Place of Birth: Carleton-in-Craven, Yorkshire
Service No: C/7777
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment / Corps / Service: King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Battalion / Unit: 16th (Service) Battalion. (Church Lads Brigade)
Division: 33rd Division
Age: 21
Date of Death: 1917-09-25
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: II. A. 16.
CWGC Cemetery: LA BRIQUE MILITARY CEMETERY NO.2
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: CARLETON-IN-CRAVEN, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
William Henry Garnett was the son of Ashton and Elizabeth Garnett, née Campbell. Ashton was born at Carleton-in-Craven and Elizabeth at Sedbergh, Yorkshire.
1901 Carleton-in-Craven, Yorkshire Census: 1, Chapel Street - William H. Garnett, aged 5 years, born Carleton, son of Ashton and Elizabeth Garnett.
1911 Carleton-in-Craven, Yorkshire Census: 1, Chapel Street - William Henry Garnett, aged 15 years, born Carleton, son of Ashton and Elizabeth Garnett.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte William H. Garnett, C/7777, King's Royal Rifle Corps.
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
GARNETT, Rifleman Wm. Hy., aged 21, Royal Rifles, Chapel Street, [Carleton], killed in action Sept. 25, 1917.
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Rifleman William Henry GARNETT
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 33rd Division
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‘Bradford Weekly Telegraph’ (19 October 1917)
Rifleman William Henry Garnett
St Mary's Churchyard, Carleton-in-Craven
Family gravestone - detail of memorial inscription
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12 October 1917
GARNETT – September 25th, killed in action in France, Rifleman Wm. Hy. Garnett, King’s Royal Rifles, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Ashton Garnett, 1, Chapel Street, Carleton, aged 21 years.
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 – RIFLEMAN W. H. GARNETT
We reproduce a photograph of Rifleman Wm. Henry Garnett, of the Royal Rifles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ashton Garnett, of Chapel Street, Carleton, whose death in action on the Western Front on September 25th we recorded last week.
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26 January 1917
CARLETON – LETTERS FROM THE FRONT
The secretary of the committee who have provided parcels for the boys at the front and in training have received a bundle of letters from them expressing thanks for the parcels which they have received, and the pleasure it gives them to know they are being remembered by those left at home. Pte. R. Hartley says:–”Just a few lines thanking you and all kind friends for the parcel which I have received to-day, Dec. 26th. I hope you all had a good Christmas, and that yon will have a happy and prosperous New Year. There will be no men left in Carleton in bit. I keep coming across a Carletonian now and again in other battalions. There were about eight of us having a talk about old times the other night in one of our huts, Vent. Smith had a letter from Arthur Whitehead and he said he was in the same place as last year. He did not mention any names, but we knew where he was straight away, Ypres, and we don’t want to see the place any more. It was a little bit too hot there. I see they are on with peace terms in England. Let us hope they come to some understanding, as it is about time this job was finished. Other letters of thanks have been received from Corpl. F. Miller and Ptes. W. Jackson, A. Shuttleworth, W. Smith, G. Shearer, H. Wiseman, A. Whitehead, W. Middleton, C. Kay, Moore, W. H. Garnett, B. Thompson, and Lofthouse.
12 October 1917
GARNETT – Killed in action, Sept. 25th, Rifleman Wm. Henry Gannett, of the Royal Rifles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ashton Garnett, of Chapel Street, Carleton, aged 21.
12 October 1917
CARLETON
RIFLEMAN W. H. GARNETT KILLED
News was received yesterday morning from the Records Office that Rifleman William Henry Garnett, of the Royal Rifles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ashton Garnett, of Chapel Street, Carleton, was killed in action on September 25th, in France. Rifleman Garnett, who was 21 years of age, enlisted two years ago, and had been in France about eleven months. He was in hospital last February and came home on leave, but went back to the front in July. He was formerly employed as a weaver at Messrs. Slingsby’s.
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