RIFLEMAN Arthur Little found conflict at home in Keighley as well as at the Front.

Soon after the start of the First World War he was involved in riots against German-owned businesses in Keighley.

He appeared in court for inciting other locals to throw stones at the German pork butchers.

At that time Arthur was already a medal-winning veteran, after serving in the Boer War as a teenager at the turn of the century.

After his 1914 appearance in court Arthur rejoined the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and headed off for four years of war service that saw him taken prisoner.

Arthur was born in 1883 in Cumberland and grew up in Skipton, and after service in South Africa he married Anne Elizabeth Barrett and worked as a fruiterer in Keighley.

The Keighley News report during the 1914 riots a drunken Arthur was amongst a crowd of 1,000 people standing near Carl Andrassy’s pork butchers after it had already been attacked.

The crowd became disorderly after Arthur shouted: “Come on, let’s have some more windows in”.

Arthur subsequently rejoined the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, receiving a wound the following year and becoming a prisoner of war in June 1918. He died in Keighley soon before the end of the Second World War in 1945.