HAWORTH man James Garthwaite was killed in 1917 while fighting with the army on the Western Front.

His son, also called James, by that time had been serving in the Royal Navy for two years.

Seaman ‘Jimmy’ Garthwaite was born in 1899, his father a machine moulder and his mother a woollen piece mender, and by the age of 11 he was living in Haworth with his five siblings.

A peacetime machine driller, he joined the Navy in 1915 and remained until long after the war.

Among his ships was HMS Powerful, a former cruiser used as a troop transport and accommodation ship in WWI.

Jimmy then served on HMS Dido, an Eclipse class cruiser in the fleet reserve, and Portsmouth shore training establishment HMS Victory.

He notably served aboard the sloop HMS Odin, joining her at Basra in December 1916 and patrolling throughout the following year across the Middle East, including Aden, Shukra (Yemen), Port Sudan, Suez, Alexandria, Malta and Gibraltar.

In 1923 Jimmy married Pearl Vaughan, and he went on to live to the age of 73.