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9 October 1917 : Sgt Charles Edgar Salmon
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Charles Edgar Salmon was born in Burnley, Lancashire in 1896. He was known as Edgar. He 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...
17 October 1916 : L/Cpl Frank Sagar
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Frank Sagar was born in Barnoldswick, Yorkshire in July 1886, the son of George and Emma - both were cotton weavers. They had married in 1881 and between 1884 and 1901 they had nine children, two of whom died as infants. Like two of sisters and three younger brothers, Frank worked in a nearby cotton mill. At the time of his death the family liv...
27 May 1918 : Pte George Leonard Collins
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George Collins was born 1 May 1884, Clapham, London. His father James died in 1900, his mother Frances Sophia Collins was from Ireland, died in 1912. In 1966, I visited for the first time, the grave of my grandfather, George Leonard Collins, in Vailly-sur-Aisne British Cemetery, France. Image: Grave of Private George Leonard Collins 204071 2nd...
6 January 1915: Lt. Gerald 'Robin' Adair Seckham
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Gerald Seckham was born in Shortlands, Kent in 10 January 1893, the son of Gerald Seckham (barrister at law) and Rebecca Mary (known as 'Minnie') (née Adair). At the 1901 census Gerald junior was eight and he had a sister Nora, age five. They lived at the Lodge in Whittington, Shortlands, Kent. At some point he become known as 'Robin' - clearl...
19 April 1916: Pte Dennis Cyril Byrne
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Dennis Cyril Byrne born in Burnley, Lancashire in 1894, 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 Burnley, now on Napier Street. Dennis had another sister...
19 May 1918 : Pte Benjamin Jackson
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Benjamin Jackson was born in 20 June 1893, Burnley. His father was Andrew Jackson (a cotton weaver, and a British subject born on Rhode Island, US), his mother was Sarah (née Holland). At the 1901 the young family lived in Burnley and their father worked as a weaver. Older brother Albert lived with his grandparents (his grandfather a 68 year old...
1 July 1916 : Charles Stonehouse
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Charles Stonehouse was born in Blackburn, Lancashire on 15 May 1882, the son of Francis Stonehouse, a draper and Mary Ann Stonehouse. One of seven children, Charles went on to train as an architect. At the 1891 England Census that family lived at 32 Adelaide Terrace (all seven children and two live in domestic servants). By the time of the 190...
13 July 1916 : Gnr William Greenwood
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Born in Burnley, Lancs. in 1891, William was the youngest of six. His father Charles (a cotton cloth looker and later a gardener) died in July 1893 when William was 2 years old. His parents, Charles and Mary had moved to village of Worsthorne near Burnley soon after marrying in around 1880. In the earlier census returns for 1881 and 1891 the you...
6 February 1917 : 2nd Lieut Leon Alfred O’Meara
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Leon was born in Camberley, Surrey in 1898. He was the only son of Major Walter O’Meara and Annie O'Meara of 11 Talgarth Road, West Kensington. His father was a former Barrister. Educated at St. Edward’s Oxford, Leon was - for four years - a member of the Officers Training Corps and intended entering Pembroke College, Oxford in the autumn of 191...
The Wood Brothers of Stacksteads, Lancashire
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Back in 2014, I was helping to plan my brother's stag party. We planned to go to Ypres to visit many of the First World War sites and particularly the Menin Gate. It dawned on me that once there, as a group, we would wonder how many of our fellow Townspeople of Clitheroe were commemorated on Menin Gate and Tyne Cot Memorials. I did some research...
22 February 1915 Lieut. Henry Francis Heatly
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Henry was born on 30 August 1890 in London. His parents were Henry Heatly and Kate Heatly (née Simmonds) of 89, Tufnell Park Road, London. Henry attended University College School, where he was the best shot, shooting for the school three successive years in the Ashburton Competition at Bisley. Both at school at university Henry took a great in...
3 April 1918: Pte Clarence Atkins Brown
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Clarence Atkins Brown was born in the final quarter of 1896 in Burnley, Lancashire His parents were 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...
Remembering the Great War Church Huts of Seaford Camp
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From September 1914 to the end of the Great War and beyond Seaford hosted two large training camps (North Camp and South Camp). Recruits to Kitchener's Army in the first year were put up first in tents (until they suffered a deluge from a south-westerly gale), and then in huts which began to appear in late 1914 and early 1915. (By the way, when...