THIS was 15-year-old Horace Sugden, of Bunkers Hill Farm at Exley Head, one of 20 boys attending the Keighley Trade and Grammar School who volunteered to help Great War production by working on East Riding farms during their summer holidays in 1916.
Horace was allocated to the Driffield area and spent ten weeks at Park Farm, Upton, where farmer Mr Wharram was “a champion sort”, though East Riding farming was very different from the Pennines, for they had “as many stacks as we have haycocks”.
His parents sent him his Magnet and Gem comics, though they read them first.
His aunt supplied him with chewing gum, “as probably some of the men where you are would chew tobacco, and she thought if you longed for something it would be a lot better than tobacco.”
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