For queries within the area of Lancashire between the Ribble and the Mersey.
This board covers the areas of all our Groups - Liverpool, Southport, Warrington, Skelmersdale, Leigh and Widnes.
Lance Corporal Thomas ( Tom ) Benion died c 9th Aug 1915 aged 26. Dardenelles.
6th South Lancashire Infantry. Missing Presumed Dead, Gallipoli
6th (Service) Battalion:
Formed at Warrington in August 1914 as part of K1 and moved to Tidworth, attached to 38th Brigade, 13th (Western) Division.Moved to billets in Winchester in January 1915 before going next month to Blackdown. Sailed from Avonmouth in June 1915. Landed at Helles (Gallipoli) 7-31 July then moved to Mudros. Landed at Anzac Beach 4 August 1915
Helles Memorial
Photo taken possibly around Christmas 1914. My Grandmother never knew her father.
Please feel free to add
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Thomas Ernest Cornthwaite
Postumousley Awarded the Croix de Guerre Belgium
Single handed machine gun operator, saved the women and children of the village.
At the going down of the sun....
Tina
Tina
Cornthwaite,Milburn,Coll,Gaffney,Pearce,Singleton,Hazlehurst,Cuthbert,Mackintosh,McAllister,Morana, Corfield
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James Irwin - b.1882 Jarrow - d.May 1917 Arras France
(Father Irish, Mother Scottish)
Sapper - Royal Engineers
My Great Grandfather on my Mother's side and the family he left behind.
Lest we forget
Hennessy - Liverpool & Cork, Lennon/Devit - Liverpool & Belfast, Cosgrove - Liverpool & Dublin, Pierce - Liverpool & Wexford, Roberts/Valentine - Lancs & Transylvania,
O'Donoghue/Wallace - Clare & Limerick, Irwin/Russell - Tyrone & Strathaven & Jarrow
Frederick O'Donoghue b.1874 Ennis, Co.Clare - d.1928 Liverpool
(cause of death directly related to bullet wound to stomach 1917 while serving in France)
Professional Soldier - Reached rank of Warrant Officer in Royal Field Artillery
My Great Grandfather on my Mother's side
Lest we forget
Hennessy - Liverpool & Cork, Lennon/Devit - Liverpool & Belfast, Cosgrove - Liverpool & Dublin, Pierce - Liverpool & Wexford, Roberts/Valentine - Lancs & Transylvania,
O'Donoghue/Wallace - Clare & Limerick, Irwin/Russell - Tyrone & Strathaven & Jarrow
Loving Memory of my Grandfather James Marr Died of wounds 2nd April 1917 in France..rest in peace grandad...wish I had a photo of you to post on site...mayanbilly
Michael Finn husband of Sarah.
Killed in action 7th June 1917. Aged 31 years. Buried in Flanders. Cheshire Regiment No. 28730. The grandad I never knew.
God bless you.
Civilian War Dead
who died age 42
on 03 May 1941
of 119 Victoria Square. Wife of Edward Lilley. Died at Mill Road Infirmary.
Remembered with honour
LIVERPOOL, COUNTY BOROUGH
leaving 6 children and husband.
In Memory of
Civilian FRANCIS LILLEY
Civilian War Dead
who died
on 03 May 1941
Aged 18 months; of 119 Victoria Square. Son of Edward Lilley, and of Elizabeth Lilley. Died at Mill Road Infirmary.
Remembered with honour
LIVERPOOL, COUNTY BOROUGH
My partners grandmother and uncle.
information provided by CWGC
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MULCAHY, EDWARD THEODORE Lance Corporal 11252330 16/07/1944 35 Corps of Military Police United Kingdom XI. F. 22. BANNEVILLE-LA-CAMPAGNE WAR CEMETERY MY MUMS BROTHER
In memory of my Grandfather
Richard Atkinson Banks of 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Died of his wounds on 9th September 1915 age 37.
Buried in Fouquieres-le-Bethune Churchyard.
Left a wife and seven children
Also remembering my great uncle William James Fletcher, a fireman onboard S.S.War Firth, Mercantile Marine. Died 4th September 1918 age 43.
In memory of my Gt Uncle Samuel Owen who was killed on the 7th June 1917 at The Battle of Messines. He was a corporal in the Royal Welch Fusiliers 9th Battalion.
His war grave is at Croonaert Chapel Cemetery near Ypres. A small beautifully peaceful cemetery in the middle of nowhere.
Erika
Erika
Membership No. 7633
Living in hopes of finding info on-
Campbell-Liverpool, Scotland
Owen-Liverpool,Wrexham,Shropshire
Griffiths-Liverpool,Cheshire
Breese/Breeze-Llanbrynmair,London
Plumridge-London,Nottingham
JOHN FOSTER My dads brother a fireman in Liverpool died 1941 while attending a fire in the Docks he left a widow and 5 children so many fireman gave thier lives
to Dominex, Mary A, Tony Hennesy, and Barbara B........ I did a little fixing of your photos email me at walsue [at] live.com and I will send them to you.
southport woman long way from home. aka "Tide is always out at Southport Wombat"
Rimmer, Unsworth, Hough, Lee, Quine, Howarth, Johnson, Bromilow, Bigland, Cullen, Clague, Orme, Walker, Livesey, Stone
Cornthwaite,Milburn,Coll,Gaffney,Pearce,Singleton,Hazlehurst,Cuthbert,Mackintosh,McAllister,Morana, Corfield
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