A FORTNIGHT ago we told the story of Cross Roads man Harry Jowett who joined the Bradford Pals and was killed with many comrades at the Battle of the Somme.
Another local man, Clifford Baxendall, was also a member of the Bradford Pals, and like Harry first saw action defending the Suez Canal in 1915.
Like Harry he sailed from Egypt to France in early 1916 to join British troops on the Western Front.
Clifford, a private in the Prince of Wales (West Yorkshire) Regiment, was one of the lucky ones who survived the Somme, one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War.
But the following year 22-year-old Clifford took part in a second major battle, at Arras, and along with 52 other men from the 12th Battalion he was killed in action on May 3, 1917.
Clifford had been born in Keighley in 1895 and grew up in Oakworth, losing his parents John and Zillah at the age of seven and being brought up by his older siblings.
In 1911 he was a teenage plumber, and in the second year of the war, he enlisted in the Bradford Pals.
He has no known grave, but is remembered on the Arras Memorial and the Oakworth War Memorial in Holden Park.
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