John Tyson Shepherd (Photo: Barrow Guardian) Son of Isaac and Margaret Shepherd of Ghyll Beck, formerly of Head Cragg and Sandside. Lance-Corporal, 200603, 1st Battalion KORLR. Killed in Action 12th April 1917 (Battle of Arras), aged 23, leaving a wife and son. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial (Bay 2), Pas de Calais, France and on […]
Son of James and Agnes Hudson of Soutergate. Private, 30150, 8th Battalion KORLR. Killed in Action 11th April 1917 near Monchy-le-Preux (Battle of Arras), aged 22. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, (Bay 2), Pas de Calais, France and on the Burlington Stone Quarry memorial. Also named on the family headstone in St Cuthbert’s Churchyard. Isaac
Son of James Collinson Fleming and Mary Bibby Fleming of Bolton Ground, Kirkby (later of 90 Harrogate St, Barrow). Private, 706901, 54th Battalion Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment). Killed in action 9th April 1917 (first day of the attack on Vimy Ridge) near Givenchy-en-Gohelle, aged 33. Buried in Givenchy Road Canadian Cemetery, Neuville-St. Vaast, Pas
Muirlands today (by kind permission of the owners) Son of William Brockbank Rothery and Margaret Hannah Rothery (née Todd-Newcomb), of Muirlands, Kirkby Ireleth (A brother, Vernon Rothery, (q.v.) also died in WW1 and is named on Kirkby war memorial.) Died on 15th February 1917 of ‘Gumma of the brain’ and convulsions, at Birkenhead Union Infirmary,
Son of John Callow Proctor and Mary Ann Proctor (née Atkinson) of Bolton Ground. Private, 20344, 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Killed in Action 4th December 1916 near Kut-al-Amara, Mesopotamia, aged 34. Buried, Amara War Cemetery Part II, Amara, Iraq, Block XXXI, Row F, Grave 14. William Proctor was born in Kirkby to John and
William Relph (Photo courtesy of Susan New) Son of Stephen and Agnes Relph of Town End Cottage, Soutergate. Private, 17203, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, transferred to Private, 31842, 17th Company Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Killed-in-Action 4th September 1916 near Longueval (Battle of the Somme). Buried in Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Row IX, Grave 38. William
Lidget, Soutergate, around 1900 Grandson of Thomas and Agnes Martin of Lidget, Soutergate. Private, 200674, 1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. (Territorial Service number 2865) Killed in Action at Guillemont, near Albert, 8th August 1916 (The Battle of the Somme), aged 27. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, Somme, France, Pier and
Of Dove Bank, son of James and Jane Wilson of Kirkby-in-Furness. Private, 21899, 6th (Service) Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Born Kirkby-in-Furness. Enlisted in Kendal. Killed in Action, 19th November 1915. Buried at White House Cemetery, St Jean-les-Ypres, Block III, Row D, Grave 18. (Note: there was a John Newby Wilson who was not
Of Sandside, son of Henry and Jane Brockbank. Private W/929, 13th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment. Killed in action near Ploegsteert, Belgium on 18th November 1915, aged 25. Buried in Tancrez Farm Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium. William Brockbank was living in Sandside with his widowed mother, Jane, and his younger brother, Thomas, when Lord Leverhulme made his
Le Touret Memorial Son of Adam and Agnes Grigg of Grizebeck. Private, 2719, 1st/4th Battalion KORLR. Killed in Action, 15th June 1915, near Rue d’Ouvert, aged 30. Commemorated on Panel 5, Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France and on the Burlington Stone Quarry Memorial. (Note: The family name was sometimes spelled ‘Gregg’. Also, for
