Harrogate Herald - 8th August 1917

Private Tom Halliday, West Yorks, son of Mr and Mrs Halliday, Back Regent Place, Starbeck, has had a somewhat chequered career since he joined the Army in 1914. he went first to France and was sent from there to Mesopotamia, where he was invalided home with pneumonia. On his recovery he was again sent to France, where he was wounded in the leg, and after a period in "Blighty", recovered and was again doing "his bit" in France.