Born: 1893
Died: December 1918
Buried: Windhill Cemetery
Address: 4 Lorne Street, Shipley (1911)
Parents: George & Eliza
Spouse:
Siblings: Fred, Herbert, Joseph
Occupation: Spinning
Organisations/clubs:
Military
Rank:Pte
Medals/awards:
Rolls of Honour: Tong Park; Baildon
Children:
Regiment: West Yorkshire (Labour Corps)
Willie Barraclough
The fourth son of Mrs Barraclough of 73 Tong Park, Baildon, has just
joined the forces.
Two of them, Pte F W Barraclough and Pte Herbert Barraclough, have
already given their lives for their country, and a third son, Pte Joseph
Barraclough, has been severely wounded and is now in hospital in
Sheffield.
Pte Willie, the latest to join the colours, is in training in Durham. He is
well-known in Shipley where until recently he was a vendor of
newspapers.
Shipley Times & Express 6 July 1917
Willie became a victim of the flu epidemic that swept Britain at the end of
the war. He died in hospital in Hartlepool and was buried at Windhill
Cemetery.
He was the fourth of Eliza Barraclough’s sons to die and she also lost her
grandson, Ernest Hird.
I am grateful to Freda Humpherson for supplying me with information and
photographs of the four Barraclough brothers
