UPON reading in recent issues of the News of the vandalism in Batley Cemetery, I wondered if you would like to hear for a change about something rather nice happening recently (well I think it is anyway).
In the latter part of 2007, my grandson-in-law's paternal grandmother died and he inherited some medals from the Boer War and the 1914-1918 Great War. These belonged to her father and they are beautifully mounted, one of them being quite rare, I beli
eve.
As this was the first he knew about his great-grandad, he was curious to know what had happened to him. So in his spare time he started doing a lot of research work.
Eventually he ended up at Batley Cemetery as he found out he was buried in a family grave there. He acquired a map of all the graves in the cemetery and the headstone number.
After visiting and prodding around the area for a few weekends, he eventually unearthed a gravestone which by a stroke of luck was his great grandad's.
He cut all the grass and cleared all the area around, laid some gravel, put edging around and replaced the headstone.
In one of your issues there was an article about Crossbank residents getting a petition up and a photograph of a Mr Terry Mullins.
By a strange coincidence the name of my grandson-in-law is Mullins and the late soldier in question was John William Mullins.
I know this was a very common name in Batley as I was born and spent the first 43 years of my life there.
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