FORMER Keighley Boys Grammar School student Francis Golden was killed during the last summer of the First World War in France.

Francis had been sent to France in 1915 as a teenager and for the next three years his service on the Western Front was uneventful.

But it was exactly three years and one day later, on June 30, 1918, that he met his death while serving with the Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment.

Francis was on duty in the Ramparts defensive trench, at Ypres, when he was killed by shell, the only man to be killed that day.

In October that year Francis’s mother Mary Jane Scully received a payment of 11 pounds, 13 shillings and five pence, probably his back pay.

Francis had been born in Bingley, in 1895, his father dying 12 years later and his mother remarrying a commercial traveller and moving to Lancashire three years after that.

Francis, an office worker at Bradford manufacturer EH Gates, had enlisted in October 1914.

Francis received the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal for his war service, and was buried at Gwalia Cemetery in Belgium,

He is remembered on the Bingley War Memorial in Myrtle Park.