Claro Times – 20th March 1915
Photos – The above are photographs of three
Knaresborough brothers and a brother-in-law, all serving in the
Forces : Private Alfred Pilkington, who has served 17 years
in the Volunteers is now stationed at Patrington, Hull, with the 5th
West Yorks; Private Benjamin Pilkington and his brother Arthur
Pilkington, of whom we are unable to obtain a photograph, are in
the 63rd Manchester Regiment, and are at the Front;
Private Joseph Pilkington, 11th Hussars, is also at the
Front. With the exception of the first-mentioned, all served in the
South African Campaign. Their brother-in-law, Private S E W Haigh, 5th
West Yorks, is at Sutton-on-Sea.
Claro Times – 20th March 1915
In our picture series this week we reproduce
photographs of a number of Knaresborough men who are serving in the
Army at home and abroad. Private Alf Pilkington, who is well
known in Knaresborough, has served 17 years in the Volunteers, and
joined the National Reserve when it was formed several years ago. He
is now with the 5th West Yorkshire Regiment stationed at
Patrington, Hull, and will probably be drafted abroad shortly, with
the Royal Engineers. He was stationed at Redcar when the German
fleet bombarded the coast, and was then under shell fire.
His three brothers are at the Front, and all went
through the South African campaign. Private Ben Pilkington
and Private Arthur Pilkington, both of the 13th
Manchester Regiment, as reservists, were called up when the war
broke out, and went to France with the first Expeditionary Force.
The latter, who was wounded at Ladysmith in the Boer War, has in the
present campaign suffered from frost bite, and has been invalided to
one of the hospitals in France. A fourth brother, Private Joseph
Pilkington, is in the 11th Hussars.
Private Alf Pilkington's brother-in-law, Private S E
Wilson Haigh, 5th West Yorkshire Regiment, now stationed
at Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire, has volunteered for service abroad.
He is a reservist, and has a brother in training at Aldershot.
