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22 May 1917 Pte Herbert Killian
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Age 13, in 1911, Herbert Killian (or variously Killiven or Killioen) was employed in a nut and bolts works. He lived with his father Michael, a coal miner (hewer), and his mother Margaret, who worked in the cotton mill. Herbert had one older sister and by the time of the 1911 census eight further younger siblings. The family of ten were living …
19 September 1918 : Signaller John Ashworth
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His parents were Joseph and Margaret Ashworth. At the 1901 Census the family comprised: sons Frank (4) and John (2) are living on Woodhouse St, Burnley. Both mother and father are work at the mill. Mother-in-law and sister-in-law lived with the family. At the time of the April 1911 Census, and still only 12, John was a part time weaver at the m…
14 August 1915 : Pte Samuel Quinn
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Father George, mother Sarah Jane. At the 1901 Census it would appear that father, mother, Samuel and his 66 year old grandfather were resident in the Chorlton Union Workhouse. At the time of his enlistment 13 years later the family were living at 12 Anne Street, Fulledge, Burnley. (Above. Maps from OpenStreet Map 2023) After enlisting into hi…
12 September 1916 : Pte William Shaw
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William lived at 61 Finsley Gate in Burnley and was married to Catherine. They had no children. He enlisted soon after the declaration of war. He arrived in France after training in early 1916. He was severely wounded and returned to the UK where he he died of his wounds in hospital on 12 September 1916. He was 36 years old. William was …
14 September 1914 : Pte Ernest Scott
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Ernest was a warehouseman at Spring Mills at Wheatley Lane near Burnley prior to the outbreak of war. A pre-war reservist, he was recalled to duty on 4 August 1914 and embarked for France within a fortnight of the declaration. A veteran of the Battles of Mons and the Marne, he was severely wounded by shrapnel shattering his arm during the Battle…
29 September 1918 : L Cpl John Wade
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John was a warehouseman at Woodward's Mill, Burnley, Lancashire before the war, John was conscripted into service in April 1916, he initially served on the Western Front with the DCLI with whom, as Private 27452, he was wounded three times. After convalescing back in the UK following his third wounding, John was transferred to the 12th Glosters…
3 October 1916 : Pte John Hargreaves
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The son of John (a coal miner) and Mary. John became a weaver and the family lived on Bivel Street, Burnley, Lancashire. At the 1911 John was also a keen footballer and secretary of the Burnley and District Junior Football League. He married Ada and they had a daughter Anne born in September 1916. He enlisted into the 3/4th Battalion East La…
9 October 1917 : Sgt Edgar Salmon
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Edgar was educated at St Mary Magdalene's School in the town before going on to study art at Burnley Technical College where he became a prominent member (and a local champion swimmer) of Burnley Swimming Club and Drum Major of Burnley Boy's Club. At first a house painter, by 1911 he was employed as a weaver at Woodbine Mill, Sycamore Avenue, B…
25 October 1914 : Pte Charles Dixon
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Charles originally joined the Army in early 1904 and was a reservist still living in the town (37 Old Hall Street) at the time of his re-enlistment in Preston in August 1914. Arriving in France (Le Havre) with the 1st Battalion on 22nd August 1914, he took part in the Battles of Le Cateau, the Marne and the Aisne before falling in action …
29 October 1914 : Pte John Bradley
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Living at 113 Sandygate, Burnley at the time of his re-enlistment in August 1914, John had originally seen boy service with the Manchesters since late September 1901. A recalled reservist, he landed in France on 8 October 1914 seeing service in the area of Richebourg. Whilst holding the line in the vicinity of Festubert on 29 October 1914, John's …
8 November 1914 : Sgt Martin Brennan
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Martin was the son of Martin and Elizabeth Brennan - he came from a large family. Age 17 months in 1881 the infant Martin lived with his Irish born father Martin, his mother Elizabeth ‘May’ and grandmother, two older children aunt and no fewer than five lodgers. All the adults worked in the woollen industry. Age 11 in 1891 Martin lived with his …
9 November 1917 : Pte John Wood
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John's father, also called John Wood, had moved from Shipley, Yorkshire looking for work in Burnley, first in the cotton mills, then in the pits. John's mother Mary Hanna worked in a cotton mill. At the time of his birth John had an older brother Harry, born before his parents were married, and a sister who had died in infancy at one month in 1…
14 November 1916 : Pte Arthur Sharples
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His parents were William Sharples (an assistant newspaper printer) and Lucy Jane (née Pomroy). Age 4 at the 1901 Census Arthur lived at home (4 Simpson Street, Burnley) with his parents and older siblings William, Maud, May, Frances and Mary. Age 14 at the 1911 Census, Arthur (working as a weaver) lived at home with his widowed father, his …
20 November 1917 : Pte Stephen Carroll
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The son of Luke Carroll (a brick maker) and Amelia Ann (née Walsh). Stephen enlisted into the Special Reserve on 20 July 1914. Age 5 at the 1901 England Census, Stephen lived with his parents, his father Luke now a brick seller and infant brother and four boarders in Burnley. Age 15 at the 1911 England Census, Stephen still lived at home, wi…
22 November 1917 : Pte Alexander McNab
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His parents were Alexander (a blacksmith from Argylshire) and Janet (née Wardrop and from Stirlingshire) McNab. At the 1891 Census the family lived at 20 Buck St, Burnley. This included older brother William (age 2) and Alexander (six months). At the 1901 Census there were five more children (including twins) and 12 year old William was worki…
10 September 1918 : L/Cpl John James Clegg
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Son of John (a cotton weaver) and Sarah. At the 1901, age 13, along with is older sister and father, John was working as a cotton weaver. Ten years later John was living with his mother at 100 Robinson Street, Burnley. The area has been run down for some decades. John Clegg was an employee of Messrs. Grey Ltd at Livingstone Mill, Burnley …
4 December 1917: Pte Arthur Swain
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He was the only son of Henry Swain and Mary Ann (née Maden). Arthur's father died in 1913. Arthur was living at 20, North Street, Burnley at the time of his enlistment (as 23399 in the East Lancashire Regiment) in early 1916. He transferred to the 13th Bn Essex regiment after arrival in France in October 1916, Arthur took part in actions…
6 December 1917: Pte Walter Catlow
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The son of Jonathan and Mary Catlow (née Naylor). At the 1881 Census, age 15, Walter lived at home with his seven siblings ages 19 to 3. All the older children, from 11 year old Clara to 25 year old Henry worked as cotton weavers in 1881. They lived at 35 Hollingreave Road, Burnley. By the 1901 Census, Mary, widowed when her husband died in Au…
21 December 1914 : A/Cpl Simon Bennett
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After a number of years as a coal miner, Simon Bennett had enlisted into the army in 1904. After spending most of his service in India, Simon returned home and, while still held on the reserve, he became employed as a miner at the Towneley colliery in Burnley. He had just entered the final year of his reserve commitment (and was temporarily work…
5 January 1916: Gnr Kei Marsh
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Kei Marsh was a miner. In 1911 he was boarding with his family at 30 Thorn St, Burnley. Somehow there were 12 people sharing 4 rooms in this '2 up 2' down property comprising eight adults and four children. Kei died of pneumonia in Codford on 5 January 1916. Kei Marsh was 34 years of age and is buried in St.Mary's Churchyard, Codford…
13 February 1915: Pte John Fawcett
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His parents were Frank and Pricilla. He was the oldest of three, with sisters Annie and Ada. His sister Ada died in 1894 when John was 12 years old. Age 20 in 1902, John enlisted. Age 29 at the 1911 Census we find John married to Mary Jane, both were working as cotton weavers and they had two children by then: Thomas (2) and John (10 months).…
9 March 1917: Pte Edmund Hewitt
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At the 1911 Census Edmund was one of six children, including parents and a border, living across a combined six roomed dwelling on Mount at 21 and 23 Mount Pleasant Street, Burnley. Father John was a Grocer, while his sister Nancy was a housekeeper; everyone else from ages 13 to 54 worked as weavers. Edmund worked at ippax and Redman. He wa…
27 March 1915 : Sgt John Robert Bannister
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The son of John Bannister, a nut and bolt maker and his wife Mary Ellen, a cotton weaver. At the 1891 there were somehow a family of six, parents and four children and four lodgers (a mother and her three children) in the same dwelling (11 Gresham Place, Burnley). John had three younger brothers James, Harry, Gilbert and three younger sisters,…
19 April 1916: Pte Dennis Cyril Byrne
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The son of John and Elizabeth Fell. At the 1901 Census the family lived on Vicarage Place, Burnley. Dennis had an older brother John and younger siblings Douglas and Florence. At the 1911 Census the Byrne family were still living in Burnely, now on Napier Street. Dennis had another sister by then, Annie. Cousins Vincent and Reginald (adopted)…
30 May 1918 : Dvr. Francis Brunt
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Francis Brunt was a hairdresser in business on Trafalgar Street, Burnely. He lived with his young family at 58 Nairne Street, Burnley, Lancashire with his wife Amy who he had married in September 1914. Francis enlisted in Blackburn on 28 April 1915. By this time he had two young children. After being held on home service duties, Francis emba…
18 June 1915: L/Cpl. Charles Burrell
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He had served for seven years in the volunteers before the war and attained the rank of sergeant which facilitated his promotion to Lance Corporal in the 5th East Lancs soon after attestation in August 1914. After training in the UK, he embarked for service at Gallipoli in May 1915 and took part in the 3rd Battle of Krithia. He fell ill with dysen…
2 July 1916 : L Cpl William Allen
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The third of six children of Robert Horace (a cotton carder) and Mary Allen. At the time of the 1901 England Census living the widowed Horace and family were living at 19 Canning St, Accrington. William had an older sister Emma (1881), an older brother Thomas (1882) a machine fitter age 18, who emigrated to Boston in 1911, a younger sister Ali…
7 July 1916 : Pte. William Edward Foster
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At the 1891 Census William, only 1, appears to have been living at his grandmother's house with his mother and older sister Elizabeth. By the 1901 Census, his sister had married and the 10 year old William was living wither her and his brother in law at 23 Ribblesdale Street, Burnley. At the 1911 Census, William was living with his sister and…
12 July 1916 : A/Cpl. James Albert Jackson
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One of the five children of Benjamin (a Lancashire born general labourer) and Annie (née Dobson) from Yorkshire. 1881 Siblings, and only 1, James was at home with his parents and two older siblings Fanny (3) and John (2) at 129A LowerHouse Lane, Burnley. Ten years laters, and now 11, their father is not at home and James is living at 126 Livings…
15 July 1917 : Fred Crabtree
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His father was Richard Crabtree and mother Margaret. Older siblings John and Susannah. Fred was employed as a Loom Over-Looker at the Rake Head Shed, Burnley before the war. He married Beatrice Ellen 31 October 1911 and they had a son Harry Whefat on 28/10/13 Originally serving as 267421 in the Army Service Corps from 11 December 1915 and…
19 October 1917 : Gnr. Henry Clark, 50th Bde, Royal Field Artillery
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Henry was a weaver at Queensgate Mill, Burnley prior to enlistment. He enlisted into the RFA in Blackburn on 22nd October 1915 and, after a year of training in the UK, embarked for service on the Western Front on 19th October 1916. After seeing action during the latter stage of the Battle of the Somme and during the Battle of Arras, Henry was kil…
18 February 1917 : Pte. John Jackson
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He was employed as a cotton weaver prior to the war, he was conscripted into service in 1916 and initially joined the East Lancashire Regiment (as 28410) in Preston before being transferred to the 11th Bn. Suffolk Regiment for active service. Serving on the Western front from mid-1916, John saw action in the latter stages of the Battle of the So…
3 April 1917: Pte Clarence Atkins Brown
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Parents Joseph (a painter and ‘paperhanger’) and Jane (née Short) (a cotton weaver). At the 1901 Census Clarence, age 4, was living at home (10, West Hill) in Colne with his parents, brother Arthur (3) and sister Eva (1) and his paternal grandmother and a visitor. All the adults worked in the cotton industry. At the 1911 Census, age 14, Cla…
23 June 1917 : Pte Sidney Crossley
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Parents Herbert (a dock foreman working for a canal company) and Ellen (a cotton weaver). One of only two children at the Census in 1901 and living at 29 Greenshaw Street, Burnley. Ten years later parents and two children are now living at 134 Everly Street, Nelson. Both Sidney (age 20) and his sister Annie (15) were weavers in a local mill. S…
19 November 1917 : Sgt James William Blake
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Of 1 King Street, Burnley, James enlisted into the 5th Bn East Lancs (Regtl. Number 2991) on 15 October 1914. A book-keeper by trade, he was also associated with the town's theatrical businesses on a part-time basis. After volunteering for active duty, he proceeded overseas in March 1915, serving in Egypt and Gallipoli with the 1/5th battalion be…
Ep.277 – The Friendly Invasion of Lewes in 1914 – Jonathan Vernon
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Jonathan Vernon, Digital Editor for The Western Front Association, talks about his research into Lewes during the opening months of the Great War. Your browser does not support the audio element. Jonathan looks at how the town coped with th…
Third Regional Conference of The Gallipoli Association, Burnley
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The Gallipoli Association in conjunction with the East Lancashire Branch of The Western Front Association Speaker line up: Dr. Martin Purdy : 'Careful of a court martial ... the private diary and images of a junior officer at Gallipoli' Mike Crane : 'The 1/5th East Lancashire Regiment and the four Bolton brothers'. Peter Hart : 'The Winter S…