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12 February 1917: L/Cpl Robert Spencer

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Robert was born in Skipton in 1895. He was the eldest of five Peter and Martha Spencer. Before the war he was a warp dryer in a cotton mill. His father Peter was a 'stationary engineman' in a limestone quarry - according to the 1911 England Census. His brother Edgar (three years younger) served in the war from 1916. He also had sisters Annie, Do...


12 July 1916 : A/Cpl. James Albert Jackson

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James Jackson was born in Read, Lancashire in January 1890, one of five children of Benjamin (a Lancashire born general labourer) and Annie (née Dobson) from Yorkshire. In the 1881 Census, James, aged 1yr, was at home with his parents and two older siblings Fanny (3) and John (2) at 129A LowerHouse Lane, Burnley. Ten years later, and now 11, the...