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This is the list we have so far from various sources:
Keighley Volunteers and others who served in the Boer War

We have a few sources of names for local men who served in the Boer War. These are:
Local newspaper reports
The Boer War memorial in St Andrews Church (Now the Shared Church)
Group photographs

Here is the full list of all known names from the above sources. This will be added to if other names are found. Eventually this list will be alphabetical.
War memorial:
Sergeant – William Haigh
Corporal – William Liddimore
Lance-corporal – John Haran
Trooper – James Hesletine Dinsdale
Private – Samuel Holt
Private – John Oates
Private – William Bramma
Private Frank Blezard
Sergeant – Thomas Cadnor
Corporal – James Byrnes
Private – William Leonard Emmott
Private – Henry Coleman
Trooper – Tom Oxley
Private – Walter Coates
Drummer – George Brown
Private – Alfred Thomas

First contingent of volunteers by town/village
Bingley:
Dearnley, J W
Laycock
Mitchell
Scully, J W
Whitham
Burley:
Crowther
Mellor
Verity, P D
Haworth:
Feather, G
Holmes
Kay, L
Kay, R
Summerson, A
Keighley:
Allsop, G
Baldwin, J
Brown, H
Durkin, D
Emmott, W
Gee, H A
Lund, A
Johnson, J
Jones, A
Jowett, H
Mackey, J W
Mitchell, W
Narey, J
Nelson, J
Ogden, A
O'Neill, H
Purdy, W
Sellers, H
Shuttleworth, W H
Stokes, R
Stowell, H,
Webb, G
Skipton:
Captain Dewhurst, Edgar
Holdsworth, T

Second group of volunteers in the 27th March 1900 contingent:
Keighley detachment:
Ranson, Joseph - Sgt
Whiteoak, William - Lance Corporal
Middleton, J H - Private
Rawson, Henry - Private
Dray, Sam - Private
Bingley Company:
Brown, Percy - Private
Whitley, George W - Private
Haworth Company:
Parker, James -- Private
Skipton Companies:
Alderson - Private
Chaddock - Private
Preston - Private
Smith - Private

Yeomanry and Ambulance Volunteers:
Clough, W - Corporal
Broster, T - Trooper
Singleton, J M - Trooper
King, H - Trooper
Helliwell, J - Trooper
Woolard, J - Second officer (ambulance)
Thornton, J - Private (ambulance)
Greenwood, J - Private (ambulance)

Newspaper report of his arrest for neglect:
Hey, Hiram - Private in the Kings Royal Rifles - wounded in the war.
(His wife had remarried in November 1898 because she hadn't heard from him for 10 years and thought he was dead).
The charge was dropped because he had been wounded in the service of his country.

First contingent of Keighley and District Volunteers:

Keighley and District Yeomanry and Ambulance Volunteers:

You are very fortunate to find so many photographs in the press. I'm doing a similar project to you i.e. looking for all the men who served from a particular location, and have found only one proper photo and three drawings throughout the war period.

Though this is a slight disappointment I am surprised and delighted by the total number of men serving from the Rotherhsm area, some 400 at the moment but this total may well rise. There is another newspaper to make use of as a second phase of the project.