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The War Memorial Tablet on Cononley's Institute
Photo © Copyright Alexander
P Kapp and licensed for reuse under this Creative
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The Cononley Institute is located on the main street in the village of Cononley, and also serves as the village War Memorial. The tablet commemorating the dead of both World Wars is set on the left face of the front of the building. 16 men who lost their lives in the First World War, and 7 from the Second World War, are commemorated including one of whom served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
We are very grateful to Chris Foster of the Craven's Part in the Great War website for permission to use the biographical information on the Yorkshire Regiment soldier.
2nd Lieutenant Basil Spencer Jennings. 14th Battalion
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), attached to the 6th Battalion
Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Jonathan Sutcliffe Jennings and Hannah Mary, his wife, of Cononley
Hall, Keighley. Killed 7 November 1915. Aged 25.
Buried HILL 10 CEMETERY.
Lieutenant Jennings joined the 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment on 29 September
1915 as part of the reinforcements for the battalion that had lost all of
its officers and most of its men in August 1915. He died of wounds only weeks
after joining the battalion.
Photo and additional information from Craven's
Part in the Great War, courtesy Chris Foster.
Craven's Part in the Great War Entry:
2ND LIEUT. BASIL SPENCER JENNINGS, 14th West Yorkshire Regiment, son of Mrs.
J. S. Jennings, of Cononley Hall, died from wounds received
in action in Gallipoli, on the 7th November, 1915. Lieut. Jennings, who was
25 years of age, was in Morocco when the war broke out; he returned to England
and enlisted in King Edward's Horse, and was afterwards given a commission
in the 14th West Yorkshire Regt. He went out to Suvla Bay in September, 1915,
attached to the 6th Yorkshire Regiment. He gave his life in a noble deed.
On the night of the 5th November, 1915, he went to the trenches to rescue
a wounded soldier; he was sniped and died from his wounds two days later.
Lieut. Jennings was for some years connected with the firm of P. W. Spencer,
quarry owners, Lothersdale. He was educated at Sedbergh, and for a few seasons
he played Rugby Union in the Skipton team. This officer and his cousin, Lieut.
J. A. C. Spencer, of whom we give a portrait and biography in this book, were
grandsons of the late Mr. Peter William Spencer, of Raygill, Lothersdale.
The
Cononley Institute
Photo © Copyright Betty
Longbottom and licensed for reuse under this Creative
Commons Licence.
The Memorial Tablet in St. John the Baptist's Church, Cononley, showing Lieutenant
Jennings' Name
© Copyright Craven's
Part in the Great War
Cononley Hall, - Lieutenant Jennings' Home
Photo © Copyright Alexander
P Kapp and licensed for reuse under this Creative
Commons Licence
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