A few words...
Since 2014 I have been adding names and any information i can find about the men from both WW1 and WW2 on the memorial.
And as of 2018 and into 2019, more pages have been added.
Including the Returned from Duty pages.
Whilst doing my research I have found evidence of some soldiers who served
before 1914
So i have started a new page called Pre 1914
to record their names.
These pages show my progress in researching all the men who are on the memorial or served and returned from duty from not only from WW1 and WW2, but any other war.
A few pictures are also included.
Discovering those who were demobilized, injured and found too young to serve.
In the Gallery there are extra pictures of their CWGC gravestones, family graves and more.
Thank you
John Melling
2020
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Returned from Duty - WW2
Returned from Duty - WW2 including Home Guard and Civilian organisations
24 names so far
1) Richard Dean (Liz Dean info)
2) Anthony Eastham (Greg Eastham info)
Drove an ambulance \ medical corps
Worked at Mount Street Hospital.
3) William Harrison
Preston Road
AFS
4) John Griffith
AFS
5) Kenneth Hodkinson
Home Guard
Later became an author. Writing about his youth and local history.
6) Sydney Tuson WW2
7) Dick Tuson "
8) David Tuson "
9) Harry B Waring
Living at Preston Road
He was a Joiner and an Air Raid Warden
10) Fred Green
AFS
11) Ann Prescott
ARP
12) Ronald Hodkinson
62 Search light Regiment, which was involved with the gun placement on Lucas lane
Living at Low Farm, Town Lane
13) Joseph Hodgkinson
14) Rex Almond
Civil Air Guard
15) Peter Croft
ARP
16) Sydney Pass
ARP Lorry Driver
17) Francis Kerfoot
Part time ARW
18) John Snape
ARP, Rescue and Demolition
19) James Livesey
of Spring Terrace Moss Lane in 1939
ARP Rescue and Demolition
20) Thomas Alker ?
Leatherlands Farm, Moss lane
ARP Warden in 1939
21) John Rigby
of "Greenfields" Town Lane, Whittle le Woods
Lt Colonel RAMC (TA) Retired
Senior Medical Officer, Royal Ordnance Factory
22) William Brindle
Town Lane
ARP Warden
23) Harold Slater
Halls Square, Whittle le Woods?
ARP ( Air Warden Post)
24) R H Chaplin
C Company, Home Guard
Whittle le Woods
Received a Home Guard Certificate for good service
Information from Lancashire Evening Post dated Thursday 29th March 1945
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