LITTLE LEVERS FALLEN LOYALS

[regi-mental]

I am currently researching a number of the names that appear of the memorial stone on the library wall in Little Lever. Bolton Lancs. I am interested in any information regarding any of those listed below.

LITTLE LEVERS FALLEN LOYALS
1. 36808 Private Barlow, Arthur. 1st/4th Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 21 on Tues 24 Sept 1918.
Remember with honour at Fouquieres Churchyard Extension. Pas de Calais France.
2. 25541 Private Boardman, William. 7th Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 25 on Tues 29 Jan 1918.
Remember with honour at Rocquigny, Equancourt Road British Cemertary, Manaicourt, Somme France.
3. 24380 Private Brooks, William. 9th Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 19 on Tues 12 Dec 1916.
Remember with honour Little Lever Reformed Churchyard, Little Lever. Grave/Memorial Ref: 371
4. 23644 Private Crompton, Stanley. 2nd/4th Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 28 on Sun 29 Sept 1918.
Remember with honour Sunken Road Cemetery, Boisleux-St Marc. Pas de Calais France.
5. 243501 Private Duckworth, Albert. 1st/4th Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 28 on Mon 20 May 1918.
Remember with honour Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais France.
6. 16831 Private Fletcher, Thomas. 8th Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 23 on Mon 20 July 1916.
Remember with honour Thiepval Memorial, Somme France.
7. 23177 Private Greenhalgh, Albert. 1st Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 27 on Friday 18 August 1916.
Private Greenhalgh of 72 Church Street, Little Lever.
Remembered with honour Thiepval Memorial Somme, France.
8. 24035 Private Halliwell, James. 8st Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 24 on Saturday 14 Oct 1916.
Remembered with honour Thiepval Memorial Somme, France.
9. 20256 Private Hallows, Ernest. 1st / 4th Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 22 on Tuesday 31 July 1917.
Remembered with honour at Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen Belgium 1X.G.20
10. 24303 Private Hampson, John Roland. 9th or 11th Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged ?? on Christmas Day 1916.
Remembered with honour at The Ploegsteert Memorial 
11. 16829 Private Hill, Zechariah. 2nd/4th Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 40 on Friday 26 Oct 1917.
Remember with honour at Tyne Cot, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen Belgium. Panel 102-104
12. 25819 Private Jenkinson, William. B Coy 9th Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 24 on Thursday 25 April 1918.
Remember with honour Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke. Panel 102 to 104.
13. 240488 Corporal Martin, Thomas. 1st/5th Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 21 on Sunday 29 July 1917.
Remembered at Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, Ypres.
14. 976 Sgt Morris, Alfred 1st/5th Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 28 on Mon 27 Sept 1915.
Remembered at X Farm Cemetery, La Chapelle-D’Armentieres, Nord, France.
15. 24000 Private Nuttall, Harry 1st Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 21 on Tuesday 26 Sept 1916.
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme France.
16. 1649 Lance Corporal Partington Albert. 1st/ 5th Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 22 on Thursday 7 Oct 1915.
Remembered with honour at Houplines Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord France.
17. 4475 Private Roberts, Matthew 1st/5th Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 39 on Sept 26 Aug 1916.
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme France.
18. 202195 Private Scholes, Fred. 2nd/4th Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged ?? on Friday 26 Oct 1917.
Remember with honour Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, Belgium.
19. 243139 Private Settle, James 1st /5th Battalion. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 25 on 8 Aug 1916.
Remember with honour Thiepval Memorial, Somme France.
20. 16938 Private Shaw, James 7th Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged ?? on Tues 16 Nov 1915.
Remembered with honour Brown’s Road Military Cemetery, Festubert Pas de Calais France.
21. 7698 Private Wood, Thomas D Coy 8th Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Died aged 24 on Sat 26 Aug 1916.
Remembered with honour at Thiepval Memorial Somme France.
22. 202138 Private Worsley, Frank 1st/4th Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire o, Regiment.
Died aged 25 on Sat 8 Aug 1916.
Remembered with honour at Thiepval Memorial Somme France.
In addition, although his name doesn’t appear on the memorial stone but is a Loyal:
23. 617 Private Holman, Albert Ernest He was not assigned to Battalion
Died aged 41 on 10 Feb 1919.
Remember with honour Little Lever Reformed Churchyard, Little Lever.


Cheers Andy

[CaroleW]

Hi

Is this for information only?

[regi-mental]

I am looking for any information on those listed

[CaroleW]

Hi

Are you looking for details of their parents/siblings?

Does the cwgc website give any info on their parents/spouses?  (eg) the memorial for Arthur Barlow shows him as Son of Robert Thomas and Esther Barlow, of 73A, High St., Little Lever, Bolton.

Have you checked the 1911 census for info?  It's strictly pay per view and we are not allowed to do any lookups as it is copyright protected

http://www.1911census.co.uk/search/tnaform.aspx

[ainslie]

Have you looked for local newspaper write-ups?  As you have their dates of death, searching should be straightforward.  Bolton Library may have the back numbers, and there may be photographs.  Are any church/parish magazines in the reference library?  They often had a piece about their flock.

A

[regi-mental]

 Thanks for your top tips !!

So far I have done the CWGC and local papers.......I have done the church (not much there!!).....Not totally interested in the family/siblings slant.

More interested in the whole military side of life......Enlistment dates/places etc......Where they may have fought and died...........etc.....

I am well aware that there isn't always a great deal of info about the ordinary Tommy in War Diaries but I am keeping my fingers x'd for more info.

[Pete51]

The Bolton evening news or the Bolton Chronicle are available on micro film at the family history centre at the Bolton museum.They give dates of everyone who signed up and who was injured and all those who died.

[regi-mental]

Pete50..............cheers for that.....give me something to do next week and plus a good reason to dodge work!.................I hope the Boss isn't logged tonite......

[Pete51]

The best paper is the Bolton chronicle, it was only printed every two weeks and it gives the same info as the Bolton evening news. I think my Grandfather was in the same regiment as a lot of the Little Lever lads. Loyal lancashire?