KEIGHLEY soldier-born George Henry Binns was one of 51 men killed during a four-day battle near Zillebeke Lake in France in October 1917.

The Northumberland Fusiliers’ battle report contains copious details of where each brigade and the company was at any moment during the battle.

It follows the units’ progress through locations like Scottish Wood, Clapham Junction and Dickebushe Lake, as they tried to take German positions.

And it records the enemy’s response, from “bringing trouble” and occasional heavy shell fire to the hostile barrage and considerable bombing.

But in common with other reports, although the deaths of officers are detailed, common soldiers who died do not even merit a mention of their names.

It is unknown at what point during the four days that Wilsden-born Private Binns was killed, or how, only that he was one of 44 'other ranks' to fall.

This teenager living in Glen Lee, Keighley, was a roller coverer at a local mill when he joined the army in October 1916.

He had been serving in France for 15 months, by then with the 3rd Tyneside Scottish Battalion, when he died.

At the end of the four-day operation the British troops had moved just 1,110 yards.