ARCHIE Wharfe not only lived through First World War but lived to the age of 91.

The Haworth house painter survived a gunshot wound to his nose during his second year of service in France and Flanders.

Then just a few months later he suffered another wound when a German shell landed while he and comrades were marching to work.

The second wound did have a major effect on his life however – Archie’s foot had to be amputated and he was discharged from the army before the war ended.

Archie was born in 1893 in Keighley and grew up in Mytholmes with his widowed father and four siblings.

By the age of 18 Archie was working as a house painter for the Keighley Cooperative Society, and two years later he married Alice Sunderland at Haworth’s Wesleyan Chapel.

The couple’s first son Denis was born six months after their wedding, and second son Harold three years later, soon after Archie signed up for the army reserve.

Archie was mobilised just two months after Harold was born, and as a private in the West Yorkshire Regiment he was soon working in communication trenches near the frontline.