KEIGHLEY man Albert Simpson proved a hero when he came under enemy fire in summer 1916.

The soldier with the West Riding Regiment rescued a wounded man entangled in wire.

Albert stayed with the man despite the bombardment, dressing his injury before carrying him back to safety.

Albert was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his “conspicuous gallantry” at the front line in France.

The following month Albert was himself wounded in battle.

Albert had been born in Preston in 1895, but grew up in Lustre Street, Keighley, with his parents and two sisters Lucy and Minnie.

When he was 16 he lived with relatives in Wakefield and working as a drapers’ assistant, but by the age of 21 he was back in Keighley and himself working as a draper.

Albert enlisted in the army in 1915 and was sent to France within months, and the following match the received his first gunshot wound.

Following his second wound that July, and after being awarded his medal, Albert was posted to a Training Reserve Battalion and promoted to sergeant.

He was discharged from the army in early 1918 due to shell shock, and four years later was working as a police constable in Manchester.