KEIGHLEY war veteran Clement Bartrim could feature in future exhibitions about forgotten poets of the First World War.

Museum researcher Lucy London is working with Keighley historian Andy Wade to reveal more about the former soldier.

Lucy, who has organised several exhibitions about war poets, is particularly interested in Clement because her family’s roots are in Keighley and Haworth.

Lucy’s grandfather Lewis Jackson was an Old Contemptible who served in France with the Royal Field Artillery.

She is currently researching the grandfather’s brother Albert who lived in Keighley before the war, and may have died during the fighting.

Lucy, who lives in Lancashire, read about Clement when he appeared in the Keighley News’ weekly Memory Lane page written by local historian Ian Dewhirst.

Clement worked with the 4th Lincoln Labour Company in France during the war and went on to run a men’s outfitters in Cavendish Street.

Mr Dewhirst said that although Clement was no Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon, he recorded his war experiences with “disarming simplicity” in 100 poems.

Several years ago Mr Dewhirst edited a compilation of 21 of Clement’s poems, entitled The Awkward Squad And Other Verses.

Lucy wants to showcase some of Clement’s poems on an exhibition panel that could appear in future museum displays.

She said: “Sassoon and Owen were wonderful and are among my favourite poets. However, I feel it is time to give the many other poets of that period a hearing.”

Lucy has teamed up with Andy Wade, founder of the Men of Worth Project which records information about Keighley people who served in the world wars.

Mr Wade’s initial research has revealed that Keighley Library holds copies of Clement’s poetry compilation.

Mr Wade also discovered that Clement died in 1988 at the age of 92, when he fell down the lift shaft in a nursing home.

Lucy has created several exhibition panels that feature information, photographs and poems, on display this year in Birkenhead, Lytham and York.

She said: “I have been told that my commemorative project is a good educational tool for explaining the First World War to young people.

“I am keen to include people from all countries of the world to demonstrate the fact that this was a global conflict.”

Lucy has also written two books, Female Poets of the First World War and 1 of Inspirational Women of World War One, to accompany her exhibitions.

Visit forgottenpoetsofww1.blogspot.co.uk for information about Lucy’s previous research.