THIS was ‘C’ Company of the 9th Battalion of the Cameronians or Scottish Rifles, one of many military units stationed in and around Keighley during the Second World War.

Also present were soldiers from the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, the Sherwood Foresters, the Royal Artillery, the Royal Armoured Corps, the Royal Ulster Rifles, the Manchester Regiment and the Durham Light Infantry.

Some seem to have been careless with ammunition.

Keith Spencer remembered the tarn being “full of 303 ammunition”.

According to the police at that time, it was “a common practice for boys to go to the moor to see what they could find”.

In 1944, two Holycroft pupils were killed in Lund Park by an exploding mortar bomb picked up on Harden Moor, where the following year four teenagers were injured when they threw one against a wall.

A 13-year-old killed there had a mackintosh pocket full of mortar bomb fins.