KEIGHLEY soldier William Mason was killed just two weeks after arriving at the front line.

The private landed at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, on April 7, 1915 with fellow members of the 8th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regiment.

And by the end of August 21 William had been killed in action at the Battle of Scimitar Hill while advancing against the enemy.

William was born in 1897 in Keighley, growing up in Parkwood and becoming a worsted yarn spinner by the age of 13.

In 1914 he enlisted in the Army in Keighley, training first in Halifax than in North Shields where he took up duty with Tyne Garrison.

In April the following year Private Mason was mobilised, sailing from Liverpool to the Dardanelles on the SS Aquitania.

William was one of nine soldiers from Feather Street in Parkwood who were killed before December 1916.

William’s brother Harry served later in the war, in the Durham Light Infantry.

The Battle of Scimitar Hill was part of the eight-month campaign in Gallipoli in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, break the deadlock of the Western Front and open a supply route to Russia. The campaign proved unsuccessful.