A SOLDIER from Haworth was captured by German forces not long after being deployed to France in early 1918.

Second lieutenant Daniel Oliver Charles Maggs, of 2nd/4th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment, went missing on March 27, along with two other offices, but was later found to have fallen into the hands of the enemy.

Daniel Maggs was born in London in 1898, but was brought to live in Haworth at a very young age.

His father was a physician and surgeon, who also worked as a radiographer at Keighley War Hospital during the First World War.

Following the conflict’s outbreak, Mr Maggs trained with the Officer Training Corps. He became a second lieutenant in the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry on September 26 1917.

He was sent to France on January 7 1918, only to go missing in late March. His unit had been involved in resisting Germany’s massive last ditch offensive on the Western Front.

In spring of that year Mr Maggs’s father twice asked the Red Cross for news of his son, only to receive the depressing response that nothing was known about him.

However, his family would have been delighted when Daniel Maggs was repatriated alive to the UK on December 18 1918, arriving back in the Keighley area in early 1919.

He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal for his service. In 1924 he married Alicia Maud Walker, at St Luke’s Church, in East Morton. He died in 1977, aged 78.