KEIGHLEY soldier Charles William Sinfield appeared to be one of the lucky ones when he survived the First World War.

But eight years after peace was declared the war finally caught up with him, as he died from wounds suffered in 1918.

Charles, who had signed up for the army the year before the war ended, succumbed to poisoning from shrapnel that remained in his body.

Charles was born in 1899, son of a couple who both worked in a worsted mill, and he grew up in Croft Street and Leeds Street in Keighley.

As a 12-year-old he worked part-time as a spinning doffer, also in the worsted trade.

In August the following year the Keighley News reported that Charles had been wounded and was recovering in hospital in Scotland.

The following month he was discharged from the army and awarded the Silver War Badge in recognition of his injuries.

Charles’s service record states that he was surplus to military requirements “having suffered impairment since entry into the service”.

In 1919, by then a 21-year-old labourer, Charles married collier’s daughter Tamar Richardson and the couple went on to have two children.

The year after Charles died, Tamar married Lewis Holmes.