THE First World War may have taken place a century ago, but one local casualty has only now been recognised.
Private Herbert Moore died shortly after World War One ended, and has now been officially recognised as a casualty of war.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission accepted Pte Moore’s name on its official registers of war dead after volunteers from Keighley’s Men of Worth project carried out research into his background.
The Men of Worth showed that although Pte Moore died after peace was declared, it was as a result of his time spent in the horrific conditions of trench warfare.
Yesterday, the Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Joanne Dodds, led a dedication ceremony for Pte Moore’s new war grave headstone at his resting place in Oakworth Cemetery in Keighley.
Descendants of Pte Moore joined representatives of the Men of Worth project at the event.
Pte Moore, of Oakworth, joined the army in 1915 and served in the Machine Gun Corps. He was discharged from the army in 1918, the year the war ended, with kidney disease.
Pte Moore died of kidney failure the following year.
His illness was assessed as due to the effects of exposure in the trenches and classed as "war attributable”.
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