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Printed in the Preston Herald | 29th March 1916
Private Roland Shawcross, one of the Preston ‘Pals’, sends the following graphic account of his observations and incidents in the trenches, which he and his comrades are experiencing:-
IN THE DANGER ZONE
AWAKENING ACTIVITY OF THE ALLIES
The present spell […]
Printed in Lancashire Evening Post | 21st January 1916
Writing to a Blackburn friend, Private Roland Shawcross, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Shawcross of Wennington, formerly of Blackburn, and a member of the reporting staff of the ‘Lancashire Daily Post’, describes the latest experiences of the Preston “Pals”, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, with whom […]
Winning Immortal Glory
As printed in the Preston Herald, 9th June 1915
That the 4th Loyal North Lancashire Territorials are showing the same magnificent qualities which have already made the Territorials the wonder and admiration of the world is evident from all the accounts that have been received from France.
Evidence of this is given in […]
Article in Holmfirth Express Newspaper – April 22nd 1916
“SEND ME TO HOLMFIRTH”
It has been our happy privilege to receive from time to time repeated acknowledgements of kindness and hospitality extended by Holmfirth people to the “lads” in the firing line, and also those that have returned. To hand is a letter from Pte. […]
One Meal a Day For a Fortnight – Test of British War Rations.
A body of strong-limbed, sturdy teetotallers and non-smokers are marching daily from point to point over Salisbury Plain. They wear khaki uniform, carry rifle and bayonet and 150 rounds of ball ammunition.
They sleep nightly under canvas, cook their own meals, which […]
This letter was published in the Daily Post and is one man’s account of events that happened during the 7th Battalion`s involvement on the Somme in July 1916.
STORY OF THEIR SHARE IN THE BIG PUSH
“One of the members of the original Preston Pals Company, who was a member of the Daily […]
The following newspaper article was published on 20th November 1914 when Rudyard Kipling met the 1/5th Battalion in Sevenoaks. Kipling wrote his own account of events which can be read HERE.
RUDYARD KIPLING’S QUESTION AROUSED SOLDIER’S SUSPICION.
An amusing incident of a march in Kent was related in the following letter I received in Bolton […]
First published 14th February 1919.
A love romance between a young Lancashire officer of humble origin and a wealthy R.A.F. girl has just culminated in their marriage at Dublin.
The bridegroom is Lieutenant William Ashworth, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, of Middleton, who has been five times wounded, and the bride Miss H. R. Justin*, a […]
As published in the Liverpool Echo on 21st June 1915;
BIRKDALE WOMAN’S GOOD TIDINGS OF HER HUSBAND.
More than six months ago Private Thomas Forshaw of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, whose home is at Birkdale, was reported missing after an engagement in Flanders.
As time went on, and nothing further was heard of him, grave misgivings as to his fate were entertained.
[…]
As printed in the Manchester Evening News on 8th September 1915;
An interesting in incident marked the morning parade of the 4/5th L.N.L Regiment at Fletcher Street Barracks, Bolton this morning. The Officer Commanding, Lieutenant-Colonel Lang Simms, called out one of the men, Private F. H. Hurst, and congratulated him on saving the life from […]
As printed in the Liverpool Echo on Tuesday 26th November 1918;
The Colours of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, were today handed back by the Mayor of Preston to representatives of the 1st Battalion. The colour party consisted of Lieutenants Heath and Hutting and three sergeants who have been with the Regiment right through from […]
A short account of the Mons, as published in the Liverpool Echo on Friday 09 October 1914.
Private J. Kehoe, of the Loyal North Lancashires, writes from the London General Hospital, Chelsea:- …We were doing thirty-six miles a day in the red-hot sun. The roads were not pleasant to march on. The battle of Mons […]
As printed in the Manchester Evening News on Saturday 22nd September 1917.
A mysterious shooting affair came under the notice of the Manchester police last night, when a soldier of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment was taken to the Royal Infirmary suffering from gunshot wounds ln the right arm.
It was ascertained that the man’s name […]
As printed in the Manchester Evening News on 19th January 1915.
LOST TRENCHES RECAPTURED
Pastor Wise’s church in Liverpool has supplied 380 men for the front, including five brothers named Virtue.
Serjeant Lyners, Loyal North Lancashires, one of Pastor Wises’s members, writes to his wife on December 21st;
We were ordered to retake some trenches […]
Article courtesy of Blackburn Community History Dept
The two battalions of the New Army chosen to hold Chunuk Bair were the 6th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and the 5th Wiltshire Regiment.
At daybreak on Tuesday 10th August, the Turks delivered a grand attack from the line Chunuk Bair-Hill Q against these two battalions, already weakened in numbers though not in spirit, by […]
A small piece reported in the Luton Times and Advertiser on 21st August 1914 mentions Private Samuel Cooper, a sentry of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment being killed by an express train whilst sat, guarding the railway line at Bristol.
No further details are known about this man or his service number. His death is […]
PRESCOT SOLDIER’S GRAPHIC NARRATIVE
“THOUGHT THE WAR WAS OVER”
After being at the front for nearly 15 months and taking part in almost every battle since the great retirement from Mons in the initial stages of the war, Pte. Frank Warren, of the 1st Loyal North Lancs. Regiment, who lives at 2, East Street, Prescot, arrived home on […]
Here is a remarkable story of how a Corporal in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment died in the recent fighting on the Vimy Ridge (July 1916).
Written by a comrade of the dead man;
“One of our chaps, was so upset by the cries of a wounded German that he crawled out on his hands […]
The experience of William Henry Gallimore, of the 1st Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, is one of the many instances of remarkable endurance on the part of wounded soldiers which are coming to light.
He was shot while lying in a corn field, his thigh being fractured. His comrades were driven back and […]
20 April 1915
Private Samuel Butterworth, of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, who was returned to his home at Staleybridge, in England, says;
One of the most remarkable instances of bravery and contempt for danger which I saw was when Major Powell sprained his ankle. He could not run, and could scarcely walk. While we were […]
06 November 1915
From the letter of a Private in the Loyal North Lancashires.
We have been told off to capture a small stone bridge, another soldier told me, and, as it was the only one for some distance it was important.
On the other side, a strong battery kept shelling us, so we advanced on our […]
March 1915,
A desperate bid for freedom after capture by Germans was made by five men of the 1st Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Private John Hollows, who in January was at Longridge recovering from wounds, stated that he and four others who were taken prisoners resolved at nightfall to escape. It was decided by lot that […]
LCpl Issac Thomasson, with the 1st Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment writes about events on the 14 September 1914.
I was bandaging one of the Cameron Highlanders when a bullet passed straight through my knee and into the calf of another Cameron, so he is carrying my bullet somewhere.
Our troops had retired […]
25th November 1914.
With his life a young soldier atoned for an error committed whilst he was on sentry duty. The story was told by one of the East Yorkshires, who said:
One of the hardest night attacks we bad to face was made possible by the momentary carelessness of a lad of the Loyal […]
Tuesday 3 November 1914
Allegations of Tauton brutality to their English’ prisoners receive’ confirmation in a letter from Private J. Carroll, a Manchester man, of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, to his mother.
He says:-
They then took me to the main body of German troops, and there I was asked by ‘an interpreter the whereabouts of the French and English troops, […]
Saturday 24 October 1914
A private of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, now in a London hospital considers it easy work to pick off the Germans.
“When we had settled down to the work and could see what we were up against, it was child’s play and all you had to do was to lie in the trenches and pick the […]
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