A LITTLE boy from Keighley found a photograph of a Sutton war hero in a skip in the village.

Six-year-old Aaron Hudson shouted for his dad Nigel to stop the car after he saw Edgar Green’s picture as they drove past.

Now the family, with help from Keighley war history group the Men of Worth Project, hope to reunite the photo with Sgt Green’s descendants.

The Men of Worth, who research the stories of Keighley people who fought in past conflicts, have launched a search for surviving family members.

The fruits of the group’s own research into Sgt Edgar were published recently in the Keighley News as part of the weekly Men of Worth.

Sgt Green, a peacetime gear cutter at Fleece Mills in Keighley, received a Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) for rescuing trapped comrades while under enemy fire.

He survived being injured twice during the first World War, but his luck ran out in 1918.

Nigel and Shelley Hudson went with son Aaron, a pupil of Ingrow Primary School, to meet Men of Worth volunteers at their stall at the recent National Heritage Day event in Keighley Library.

Men of Worth spokesman Andy Wade said: “I told Aaron what a hero Sergeant Green was and what he did to earn his DCM by digging out several of his comrades who had been buried by a shell explosion in full view of the German lines and whilst the bombardment was still going on.”

Mr Wade said Aaron’s father had climbed into the skip, outside a pub near Sutton Park, to retrieve the picture after being alerted by his son.

Mr Wade added: “We don’t know who put it in the skip, but it suggests a house clearance nearby. Edgar's sister Emma married George Simons, so it could be from that part of the family."

“We are so grateful for what Aaron did as he's saved a genuine photograph of a local war hero.

We will be supplying Aaron’s family with a copy of the photo and a write-up on Edgar Green which he will be able to take into school if he likes.

“If we can’t find Sgt Green’s family than the Men of Worth Project has already offered to place the photograph in our own archive.”

Sgt Green was awarded the DCM for gallantry in the field at Turco Farm in Belgium in 1918, when he and two comrades rescued three comrades, whose dugout to be knocked in with a shell.

Exposed to the nearby German trenches, they had to rip the top of the dugout away to get at the men, while the shelling continued around them.

Sgt Green suffered a slight injury in July 1916, and was in hospital again in August 1917 after being caught in a poison gas attack.He was killed on April 16 1918 by a shell during the Battle of the Lys. He was 27.