Memorial: Horwich 1914-18 Roll of Honour - Horwich Heritage

Garrity, Thomas –

Son of Austin and Catherine Garrity, of 8, High Street, Horwich, Lancashire. Formerly Sapper 275676, Royal Engineers.

Gartland, Bernard –

Son of Bernard and Margaret Gartland, of 3, Mottram Street, Horwich, Bolton, Lancashire.

Gastall, Leonard Whitehead –

Son of George and Mary Elizabeth Gastall, of Crown Lane, Horwich, Lancashire; husband of Annie Gastall (nee Simmons), of 27, Brownlow Road, Horwich, Lancashire. An old boy of Rivington and Blackrod Grammar School. Formerly an apprentice at Horwich Loco Works. Wounded on 06/10/1916.

Gearns, John –

Son of Daniel and Martha Ann Gearns, of 16, Winter Street, Horwich, Lancashire. Body not recovered for burial.

Gerrard, Thomas –

Son of Thomas and Sarah Jane Gerrard, of Headless Cross Cottage, Anderton, Lancashire; brother of Fred Gerrard, of New South Wales, Australia. Died of enteric and heatstroke at No.2 Australian Field Hospital, Tel-el-Kabir, Egypt.

Gilfoy, Samuel –

Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Gilfoy, of 41, Pioneer Street, Horwich, Lancashire, and formerly of 195, Lee Lane, Horwich, Lancashire. Formerly worked at Horwich Loco Works as a boiler maker. Died at Poona, India, from appendicitis. Also remembered on Face 7 of the Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial, India.

Gillett, John –

Husband of Mary Ann Gillett (nee Deakin), of 30, Webb Street, Horwich, Lancashire. Was a self-employed builder and property repairer in Horwich, Lancashire.

Gledhill, Richard –

Brother of William Gledhill, of 338, Bridgeman Street, Bolton, Lancashire. Formerly employed at Horwich Loco Works.

Gollins, Herbert –

Husband of Frances Gollins (nee Russell), of 123, Weston Street, Great Lever, Bolton, Lancashire. Formerly 1st Bn., King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. Caught as an absentee from 3rd Bn., King’s Shropshire Light Infantry at Pembroke Dock since 20/09/1916 appearing before Bolton Magistrates 25/09/1916 to be sent back to his unit under escort. (Bolton Archives: JBO/1/27).

Gooch, Geoffrey Fulthorpe –

Son of Emma Susan Gooch (nee Astwood), of 7b, Bickenhall Mansions, Gloucester Place, London, Middlesex, and the late Charles Fulthorpe Gooch. Formerly employed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. Enlisted August 1914. Formerly Sapper 557, Royal Engineers.

Goodwin, Harold –

Son of Abraham and Martha Goodwin, of 16, Daisyfield, Chorley New Road, Horwich, Lancashire.

Gornall, Richard Mason –

Son of the late William and Elizabeth Gornall (nee Charnley), of 46, Brougham Street, Bolton, Lancashire; husband of Lydia Gornall (nee Swift), of 16, Fraser Street, Brownlow Fold, Bolton, Lancashire, and formerly of 18, Virgil Street, Bolton, Lancashire. Enlisted September 1914. Wounded in the neck July 1916. Formerly employed at the Horwich Loco Works.

Gould, Ernest –

Nephew of Mrs. E. Gould, of 7, Railway View, Harrison Street, Horwich, Lancashire. Enlisted March 1915. Died of pneumonia.

Gray, Herbert –

Son of James Humphreys Gray and Elizabeth Ann Gray, of 32, Brazley Avenue, Horwich, Lancashire.

Greenhalgh, Harold –

Son of John and Mary Greenhalgh, of 45, Snowden Street, Bolton, Lancashire; husband of Martha Ann Greenhalgh, of 46, New Street, Beaumaris, Anglesey, North Wales.

Gregson, Edward –

Son of James and Honor Gregson, of 33, Horrocks Street, Ivy Road, Smithills, Bolton, Lancashire. Formerly a labourer at Horwich Loco Works. Enlisted September 1914. Wounded 10/08/1916 at The Somme.