AN ‘UNKNOWN’ soldier from the First World War has officially been recognised with a headstone in Oakworth Cemetery.

A newly-created Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone has been installed at Herbert Moore’s grave.

The commission accepted Private Moore’s name on its official registers of war dead after Keighley’s Men of Worth project carried out research into his background.

Investigations by the volunteer historians also led to Private Moore being officially recognised by the Ministry of Defence.

The Men of Worth showed that although Private Moore died after peace was declared, it was as a result of his war service.

The group is planning a dedication ceremony at the grave later in the year.

Men of Worth spokesman Andy Wade said: “It will be after Remembrance Day, and after further consultation with the members of his family who have already been informed about it.”

Private Moore’s descendants last year expressed their thanks to the Men of Worth form its work, who until then had not realised their ancestor was buried in an unmarked grave at Oakworth Cemetery.

The group researches the stories of all people from the Keighley area who fought in conflicts, particularly the First and Second World Wars.

Their studies in 2013 uncovered two men, Herbert Moore of Oakworth and Ivor Tempest Greenwood of Highfield, who were not included on national registers.

Private Moore’s name was, however, listed on the First World One memorial in Oakworth’s Holden Park.

Herbert joined the army in 1915 and served in the Machine Gun Corps, and in 1918, the year the war ended, was discharged from the army with kidney disease.

This illness was assessed as “war attributable” by army medical officers – due to the effects of exposure in the trenches – and the Men of Worth project discovered Private Moore died of kidney failure the following year.

Mr Wade said: “Occasionally we get a brick wall in that no records exist of a particular man with the War Graves Commission.

“We know from local sources that they died in service because they appear in local newspaper reports or on war memorials.

“They may have been missed because they left service before dying of the effects of the war, or the record of their death wasn’t passed on to the army.”

Men of Worth carried out its research into Private Moore with the In From The Cold project, which is dedicated to winning recognition for such servicemen.