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Fleetwood [28]

Fleetwood, Lancashire [11]

Barrow-in-Furness [2]

Blackburn, Lancashire [2]

Fleetwood, Lancashire, [2]

Preston [2]

Widnes [2]

10 Lower Warren St, Fleetwood,Lancashire [1]

2 North Church St, Fleetwood, Lancashire, [1]

23 Aughton St, Fleetwood, Lancashire [1]

25 Flag St, Fleetwood, Lancashire [1]

28 Warren Street, Fleetwood, Lancashire [1]

5 St David's Rd, Preston, Lancashire, [1]

6 Garfield St, Fleetwood, Lancashire [1]

6 Garfield Street, Fleetwood, Lancashire, [1]

60 Poulton St, Fleetwood, Lancashire, [1]

Anderton, Cheshire [1]

Bacup, Lancashire [1]

Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire [1]

Blackpool or Fleetwood, Lancashire [1]

Bolton [1]

Braddan, Isle of Man [1]

Burnley [1]

Bury [1]

Chadderton, Manchester [1]

Chatburn, Lancashire [1]

Chatham, Kent, [1]

Clifton, nr. Manchester [1]

Fleetwood, Lancashire, England [1]

Grimsby, Lincolnshire [1]

Hanley, Staffordshire, [1]

Heywood, Bury [1]

Honington, Suffolk [1]

Hull [1]

Hyde, Cheshire [1]

Ireby, Cumberland [1]

Kentish Town, London, Middlesex [1]

Kollefjord, Streymoy [1]

Layton, Blackpool [1]

Liverpool [1]

Lytham [1]

Montrose, Forfarshire, Scotland [1]

Paddington Middlesex [1]

Pemberton, Wigan [1]

Pilling, Lancashire [1]

Pontisford Hill Shrewsbury, Shropshire [1]

Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire [1]

Preston, Lancashire [1]

Prestwich, Lancashire [1]

Rawtenstall, Lancashire, [1]

Rank

Private [114]

Corporal [12]

Lance Corporal [10]

Sapper [9]

Serjeant [7]

Captain [4]

Gunner [4]

Second Lieutenant [3]

Acting Serjeant [2]

Sergeant [2]

A/Captain [1]

Act. Engine Room Artificer 4th Class [1]

Acting Artificer Engineer [1]

Acting Corporal [1]

Chief Engineer [1]

Lieutenant [1]

Pioneer [1]

Private Acting Corporal [1]

Unit

King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) [60]

Royal Lancaster Regiment [54]

Royal Engineers [10]

Liverpool Regiment [9]

Lancashire Fusiliers [5]

Loyal North Lancashire Regiment [5]

Cheshire Regiment [4]

Machine Gun Corps [4]

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) [4]

Royal Army Medical Corps [4]

Royal Garrison Artillery [4]

The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment [4]

Border Regiment [3]

King's (Liverpool Regiment) [3]

Army Ordnance Corps [2]

East Lancashire Regiment [2]

King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment [2]

King's Own Scottish Borderers [2]

Labour Corps [2]

Manchester Regiment [2]

Royal Flying Corps [2]

Royal Fusiliers [2]

Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) [2]

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers [2]

South Lancashire Regiment [2]

The King's (Liverpool Regiment) [2]

Welsh Regiment [2]

1 5th King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment [1]

1/5th King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment [1]

107th Squadron [1]

8th Irish Regiment [1]

Army Cyclist Corps [1]

Army Service Corps [1]

Buffs (East Kent Regiment) [1]

Devonshire Regiment [1]

East Kent Regiment [1]

H.M.S. "Lightning" [1]

HMS Bulwark [1]

Hampshire Regiment [1]

King's Own Lancashire [1]

King's Own Royal (Lancaster) Regiment [1]

King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment [1]

King's Shropshire Light Infantry [1]

Mercantile Marine [1]

North Lancashire Regiment [1]

Rifle Brigade [1]

Royal Field Artillery [1]

Royal Garrison Artillery. [1]

Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery [1]

Royal Irish Fusiliers [1]

Service

British Army [149]

Royal Navy [6]

Air Force (RAF/RFC) [2]

Last name first letter

S [23]

B [18]

M [17]

C [16]

W [16]

H [13]

R [8]

A [7]

F [7]

G [6]

D [5]

L [5]

P [4]

T [3]

K [2]

E [1]

I [1]

J [1]

N [1]

O [1]

Y [1]

Contribution

Military Service [154]

Merchant Navy [2]

Country

United Kingdom [140]

Egypt [1]

India [1]

Ireland [1]

Isle of Man [1]

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People [156] Stories Communities

Place of birth

Fleetwood [28] Fleetwood, Lancashire [11] Barrow-in-Furness [2] Blackburn, Lancashire [2] Fleetwood, Lancashire, [2] Preston [2] Widnes [2] 10 Lower Warren St, Fleetwood,Lancashire [1] 2 North Church St, Fleetwood, Lancashire, [1] 23 Aughton St, Fleetwood, Lancashire [1] 25 Flag St, Fleetwood, Lancashire [1] 28 Warren Street, Fleetwood, Lancashire [1] 5 St David's Rd, Preston, Lancashire, [1] 6 Garfield St, Fleetwood, Lancashire [1] 6 Garfield Street, Fleetwood, Lancashire, [1] 60 Poulton St, Fleetwood, Lancashire, [1] Anderton, Cheshire [1] Bacup, Lancashire [1] Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire [1] Blackpool or Fleetwood, Lancashire [1] Bolton [1] Braddan, Isle of Man [1] Burnley [1] Bury [1] Chadderton, Manchester [1] Chatburn, Lancashire [1] Chatham, Kent, [1] Clifton, nr. Manchester [1] Fleetwood, Lancashire, England [1] Grimsby, Lincolnshire [1] Hanley, Staffordshire, [1] Heywood, Bury [1] Honington, Suffolk [1] Hull [1] Hyde, Cheshire [1] Ireby, Cumberland [1] Kentish Town, London, Middlesex [1] Kollefjord, Streymoy [1] Layton, Blackpool [1] Liverpool [1] Lytham [1] Montrose, Forfarshire, Scotland [1] Paddington Middlesex [1] Pemberton, Wigan [1] Pilling, Lancashire [1] Pontisford Hill Shrewsbury, Shropshire [1] Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire [1] Preston, Lancashire [1] Prestwich, Lancashire [1] Rawtenstall, Lancashire, [1]

Rank

Private [114] Corporal [12] Lance Corporal [10] Sapper [9] Serjeant [7] Captain [4] Gunner [4] Second Lieutenant [3] Acting Serjeant [2] Sergeant [2] A/Captain [1] Act. Engine Room Artificer 4th Class [1] Acting Artificer Engineer [1] Acting Corporal [1] Chief Engineer [1] Lieutenant [1] Pioneer [1] Private Acting Corporal [1]

Unit

King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) [60] Royal Lancaster Regiment [54] Royal Engineers [10] Liverpool Regiment [9] Lancashire Fusiliers [5] Loyal North Lancashire Regiment [5] Cheshire Regiment [4] Machine Gun Corps [4] Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) [4] Royal Army Medical Corps [4] Royal Garrison Artillery [4] The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment [4] Border Regiment [3] King's (Liverpool Regiment) [3] Army Ordnance Corps [2] East Lancashire Regiment [2] King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment [2] King's Own Scottish Borderers [2] Labour Corps [2] Manchester Regiment [2] Royal Flying Corps [2] Royal Fusiliers [2] Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) [2] Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers [2] South Lancashire Regiment [2] The King's (Liverpool Regiment) [2] Welsh Regiment [2] 1 5th King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment [1] 1/5th King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment [1] 107th Squadron [1] 8th Irish Regiment [1] Army Cyclist Corps [1] Army Service Corps [1] Buffs (East Kent Regiment) [1] Devonshire Regiment [1] East Kent Regiment [1] H.M.S. "Lightning" [1] HMS Bulwark [1] Hampshire Regiment [1] King's Own Lancashire [1] King's Own Royal (Lancaster) Regiment [1] King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment [1] King's Shropshire Light Infantry [1] Mercantile Marine [1] North Lancashire Regiment [1] Rifle Brigade [1] Royal Field Artillery [1] Royal Garrison Artillery. [1] Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery [1] Royal Irish Fusiliers [1]

Service

British Army [149] Royal Navy [6] Air Force (RAF/RFC) [2]

Last name first letter

S [23] B [18] M [17] C [16] W [16] H [13] R [8] A [7] F [7] G [6] D [5] L [5] P [4] T [3] K [2] E [1] I [1] J [1] N [1] O [1] Y [1]

Contribution

Military Service [154] Merchant Navy [2]

Country

United Kingdom [140] Egypt [1] India [1] Ireland [1] Isle of Man [1]

William Hartley Dunderdale

Born 1881

Died 1920

British Army 68405 Serjeant Royal Engineers

British Army Sapper Royal Engineers Inland Water Transport

British Army WR/350591 Serjeant Royal Engineers Inland Water Transport Depot

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William Eccles Holt

Born 1878

Died 1916

British Army T5/1963 Serjeant Royal Lancaster Regiment

British Army 1963 Serjeant King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 1st/5th Battalion

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Eric Hesketh Greenhalgh

Born 1898

Died 1926

British Army 2996 Private Royal Lancaster Regiment

British Army 260338 Private Liverpool Regiment

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Anthony Bond

Born 1882

Died 1917

British Army 27589 Private The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 10th Battalion

British Army 27589 Private Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 10th battalion

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Septimus Hargreaves Bond

Born 1887

Died 1915

British Army 20030 Private The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 6th Battalion

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Ebenezer Cox

Born 1885

Died 1917

British Army 10809 Private Cheshire Regiment

British Army 56377 Private Royal Welsh Fusiliers

British Army 56377 Private Royal Welsh Fusiliers 14th Battalion.

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John Crawford Stainton

Born 1891

Died 1915

British Army 2111 Private Liverpool Regiment 7th Battalion

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Robert Duff Mcnicol

Born 1882

Died 1916

British Army 55475 Royal Garrison Artillery

British Army 28178 Private Cheshire Regiment 13th Battalion

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James Charles Bilsborough

Born 1894

Died 1916

British Army 2560 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 1st/5th Battalion

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John Nelson Simpson

Born 1879

Died 1917

British Army 06106 Private Army Ordnance Corps

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Robert Meredith

Born 1885

Died 1917

British Army 32653 Private Royal Lancaster Regiment

British Army 32653 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 8th Battalion

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Fred Ernest Cutting

Born 1895

Died 1916

British Army 6224 Lancashire Fusiliers

British Army 15513 Private Royal Irish Fusiliers 7th Battalion

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Henry Hargreaves Croasdale

Born 1879

Died 1916

British Army 13027 Private Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

British Army 13027 Private The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 7th Battalion

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Samuel Edward Fields

Born 1893

Died 1916

British Army 8250 Private Royal Fusiliers 18th Battalion

British Army PS/8250 Private Royal Fusiliers 18th Battalion

British Army 8250 Private Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 18th Battalion

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John William Speakman

Born 1888

Died 1915

British Army 10383 Private Border Regiment 1st Battalion

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Daniel George Collinson

Born 1894

Died 1917

British Army 3114 Corporal Royal Lancaster Regiment

British Army 241051 Corporal Royal Lancaster Regiment

British Army 241051 Corporal King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 2nd/5th Battalion

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William Hargreaves

Born 1893

Died 1917

British Army 23204 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)

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Thomas Walsh Wilson

Born 1880

Died 1916

British Army 30037 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 8th Battalion

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Samuel Peter Peterson

Born 1891

Died 1917

British Army 26484 Lance Corporal Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion

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Alexander Dickinson

Born 1892

Died 1917

British Army 12726 Private Royal Lancaster Regiment

British Army 12726 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 1st/4th Battalion

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