JANUARY

Derek Kevan, 77, former Bradford Park Avenue, West Bromwich Albion, Chelsea and England centre-forward.

Peter Whitford, 83, retired head of St George’s RC School, Undercliffe.

Johnny Walker, 44, former Keighley Cougars and Otley rugby union winger. He played in both codes of rugby.

Sir William Bulmer, 92, former Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, managing director of Buttershaw textile firm Bulmer & Lumb and founder of the British Textile Confederation. He was a pupil of Bradford Grammar School.

FEBRUARY

Arthur Walker, 87, Second World War veteran and member of the Bradford Catholic Players for 65 years.

Jack Ambler, 90, Bradford-born RAF wartime pilot who flew transporters and gliders during the Second World War and later the Royal Canadian Air Force Association.

Journalist Ray Oddy, 80, who covered Bradford Northern for the Telegraph & Argus’s Yorkshire Sports after working as a sub-editor on the Yorkshire Observer.

MARCH

Terry Barnes died in Airedale Hospital on March 1. He had been landlord of the Kings Arms pub in Haworth from 1976 to 1991.

Bradford free thinker and campaigner Rita Corina died at the age of 84. Mrs Corina, who had been living at a care home in Heaton until her health worsened, died at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

Dominic Elliott, 23, a studio assistant to the artist David Hockney died in hospital after being taken ill at the Bradford-born painter’s East Yorkshire home.

APRIL

Ronnie Patchett, 87, for 40 years a T&A photographer and a D-Day veteran.

Kathleen Kelly, 96, Bradford City fire disaster survivor and ardent Bantams’ fan.

Sir Robert Edwards, 87, Batley-born test tube baby pioneer responsible for the birth of Louise Brown in 1978.

Sam Morris, 93, the Bradford butcher in the first purpose-built Morrisons supermarket at Bolton Junction.

Neville Packett MBE, 91, Bradford insurance broker, magistrate and Bradford Civic Society activist.

Shipley-born racing cyclist Gordon ‘Tiny’ Thomas, 91, winner of a silver medal at the 1948 London Olympics and 1953 Tour of Britain winner.

Claire Gagneux, 62, London secretary of Shipley Conservative MP Philip Davies.

Jim Mortimer, 92, Bradford-born General Secretary of the Labour Party in the 1980s and first chairman of industrial conciliatory body ACAS.

MAY

Ray Harryhausen, 92, US film animator most noted for his work on Mighty Joe young, Clash Of The Titans, Jason And The Argonauts. His archive is at Bradford’s National Media Museum.

Father Jeremiah Murphy, 76, parish priest at St Patrick’s Church for 25 years.

The Very Reverend Protopresviter Michajlo Hutorny, 89, of Great Horton, who served the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for 49 years.

Rashid Anwan MBE, 75, former police officer and president of the Pakistan Society of West Yorkshire.

JUNE

Graham Walker, 68, co-founder of Yorkshire comedy band The Grumbleweeds.

Cricket lover John Howard Dewhirst died suddenly aged 66 while on a short break to watch Yorkshire in Scarborough. He had a life-long association with Bradford League club Undercliffe.

JULY

Former building society boss and hotelier Gerald Hey died aged 74. He owned the then-Three Sisters Hotel at Haworth for a decade until 2002. He had begun his working life at the Bingley Building Society – later to merge with the Bradford – joining aged 15.

Founder member of Keighley Town Council Bob Horrell died aged 73 at Airedale Hospital after a short illness. He was born in Birmingham but had lived in Keighley for 37 years.

AUGUST

Keith Alder, 68, the Bradford man so savagely beaten outside his Great Horton home in October 2011 by five men that his legs had to be amputated above the knee.

SEPTEMBER

James O’Connell, 87, head of Peace Studies department at Bradford University.

OCTOBER

Geoff Smith, 85, former Bradford City goalkeeper in the 1950s who played 270 league and cup games, in 70 of which the opposition failed to score.

Ralph Morten, 101, who founded Ilkley hardware store R W Morten Ltd in 1937.

Former JCT600 Bradford League cricket player and highly-respected coach Numan Shabbir died after losing his battle with leukaemia. He had made a huge contribution to black and ethnic minority cricket, had successful spells as an all-rounder with Eccleshill, Manningham Mills, Salts and Idle.

NOVEMBER

Much-loved dad and grandad who “always did what he could to help others”, Norman Barwick, died aged 83. He was born in Wilsden and lived in the village all his life. He was a local correspondent for the T&A.

Brenda Wilkinson, the former organist at Long Lee Methodist Chapel, died at the age of 75. Mrs Wilkinson continued playing at the church until illness forced her to retire.

DECEMBER

Geoffrey Thorpe, 95, former T&A community correspondent for Baildon.

Mohammed Asif, 45, the Bradford manager of Akbar’s restaurant in Manchester.