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Second Lieutenant James Albert Tinsley DCM MM

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James Albert Tinsley was born in Bolton Lancashire on 9th April 1894 to parents Henry and Sarah Elizabeth Tinsley (nee Hamer) who had married in 1892, he was baptised at St Marks Church, Fletcher Street on 23rd May 1894. His father was employed as a mule spinner in one of the many cotton mills around […]

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1737 PTE. J. LANE. L.N.LAN.R.

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Pte John Lane was awarded the Military Medal for his part in the trench raid of 10th January 1917 at Wieltje north east of Ypres.

His MM card carries the Schedule No: 68646 a unique number for this medal issue, which is included on the Army Medal Recommendation Form W 3121 (if finally approved) it […]

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202099 CPL. P. WYRE. L.N.LAN.R.

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No service papers exist for this Patrick Wire, but two significant documents relating to him show that his parents were both illiterate. His birth was recorded in Bolton on 29th June 1897 to James Wire a Journeyman Bricklayer and Mary Ann Wire formerly Hagan of 2 Bolling St, Bolton. The surname on his birth certificate […]

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200481 CSM. A. E. EDWARDS. L.N.LAN.R.

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Alfred Edward Edwards was born in Bank Top, Burnley on 6th April 1896 and was the son of John and Mary Jane (nee Boardman). He had seven siblings;

Fanny Edwards (b.1895) Mary Anne Edwards (b.1898) Sarah Jane Edwards (b.1899) Emily Adelaide Edwards (b.1907) Evelyn Edwards (b.1912) Phyllis Edwards (b.1913) James Edwards (b.1914)

When Britain went […]

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13460 CPL. W. HALLIWELL. L.N.LAN.R.

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William Halliwell was born at 58 Dallas Street in Preston on the 19th May 1894 the son of George and Elizabeth Halliwell (nee Baron). William`s parents married in the church of St. John the Baptist in Broughton near Preston on the 9th June 1880.

William had eleven siblings, eight of whom survived; Mary Ellen (1880), […]

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200872 LCPL. T. PARK. L.N.LAN.R.

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Thomas Park was born on the 4th February 1889 in Appleby Street in Preston. His birth name was actually Thomas Kew Richardson and he was the son of a single lady Sarah Richardson. In 1891 Sarah and young Thomas lived at 136 Victoria Street where Sarah was employed in a local mill as a cotton […]

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13306 PTE. W. LEIGH. L.N.LAN.R

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Walter Leigh was born in Darwen near Blackburn in 1880 and was the youngest son of Thomas and Margaret Jane Leigh (nee Leach). Walter`s parents married in Darwen in 1867 and had the following children, Betsy Ellen (1867), John William (1869), Hannah (1871), Harry (1873) and Thomas (1876).

In the 1881 Census one year old […]

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