WILLIAM Petty was one of a number of Keighley men killed during the Arras campaign in May 100 years ago.

William was born in Manningham but grew up in Ingrow with his five siblings, and by the age of 12 was working in a local mill.

He married Ingrow woman Rosella Cummings in 1909 at the age of 21 and the pair were living in Hainworth two years later year when they had their son Harold.

In 1911, while working as a machine woolcomber for the Colonial Combing Company, Worth Village, William enlisted in the West Riding Regiment.

In 1917, at the age of 28, Private Petty was reported wounded and missing during the Battle of Bullecourt – part of the Battle of Arras – but his body was never found and he was later declared dead.

A Men of Worth spokesman said: “The Battle of Bullecourt was a dark day in the Great War with dreadful casualties.

“Some regiments had similar losses to what they had on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

“Keighley and district lost between 25 and 30 men are killed in this battle.”

The Keighley dead also included Ronald Vane Gere and William Henry Spedding