WHY DID Haworth soldier Horatio Claughton leave everything he had to Amelia Denby?

Was she the fusilier’s sweetheart? Were they engaged to be married? Or were the pair simply friends and neighbours?

Whatever the truth, the 27-year-old woman from Hebden Road received Horatio’s effects after he was killed on the frontline in France.

Men of Worth volunteers speculated as to the relationship between the pair researching Horatio’s story.

Andy Wade said: “They could have both been part of the congregation of St James’s Church or had just known each other because they lived in Hebden Road.

“Their houses were only one 10th of a mile apart, just a two minute walk away, and they could have walked to church together.”

Horatio was born in Yeadon in 1890, moving to Haworth by the age of 10 and a decade later following his father into a job as a tinner and plumber at nearby Merrall and Sons.

Horatio enlisted with the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1915, entering the Balkan theatre in September and serving both in the Dardanelles and Egypt without serious injury.

He was sent to France in the early summer of 1916, seeing action several times before dying of wounds on September 26, aged 27.