Regiment: Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)

Bethel, William –

Son of James and Sarah Ellen Bethel, of 1, Somerville Street, Eccles, Lancashire. Enlisted September 1914. Wounded at Ypres in May 1915. Demobilised January 1919.

Blinkhorn, Richard –

Of 11, Stopes Road, Little Lever, Bolton, Lancashire. Enlisted June 1915. Formerly Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Attached 250th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers.

Boustead, Thomas –

Of 127, St. George’s Road, Bolton, Lancashire. Enlisted November 1914. Formerly Acting Sergeant 573, 18th Bn., Rifle Brigade. Captured July 1916 and prisoner of war.

Bowker, Frederick James –

Son of the late Alexander and Elizabeth Bowker (nee Cheadle), of Eccles, Lancashire; brother of Mrs. Emily Smith (nee Bowker), of 25, Beech Avenue, Newchurch, Warrington, Lancashire. Of 10, Robert Street, Patricroft, Lancashire. Reported last seen wounded and retiring for treatment, but no record of his arriving at an dressing station, and subsequently presumed to have died.

Brooks, J –

Son of Mrs. Brooks, of 36, Church Street, Bolton, Lancashire.

Bullough, Walter –

Son of John William Bullough, of 8, Wood Street, Middleton, Lancashire; husband of Sarah Ann Barton (formerly Bullough), of 16, Silk Street, Middleton, Lancashire.

Carney, Harold –

Son of James and Margaret Carney, of 8, Frederick Street, Cheetham, Lancashire.

Cashin, Leo Alphonso –

Husband of Sarah Cashin, of 25, Alexandra Street, Lower Broughton, Lancashire. Service Number incorrectly recorded as Z46 on SDGW, verfied as Z/16 by Medal Card.

Claxton, Benjamin –

Son of Reverend William Henry and Rose Eliza Claxton, of 46, Hampton Road, Forest Gate, London. Father was former pastor of the New Jerusalem Church, Bolton Road, Kearsley, Lancashire. An old boy of the Bolton Municipal Secondary School. Formerly 13/51681, Training Reserve. Died at Bangour Military Hospital, Edinburgh, of pneumonia following being shot in the lung on 21/08/1918.

Clayton, Arthur Handley –

Son of Henry and Lily Clayton, of “Redcliffe”, Ellesmere Park, Eccles, Lancashire. In addition to entry on the Roll of Honour at St. Andrew’s Church, Eccles, Lancashire, this man is commemorated on a stained glass window in the same church.