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Whilst
searching for one of my Ancestors, Arthur Jones a soldier in the
Great War killed in action in France April 1917. I was touched
by other stories of Bacup and Stacksteads Lads who had been
killed , taken prisoners of war or listed as missing during the
Great War these are just some of their stories
including Arthur's.
"For your tomorrow
we gave our today"
Click on the stories to
enlarge. Clicking soldiers name will take you to the CWGC entry
for their death and place of burial or commemoration..
Pte. Arthur
Jones
Pte Fielden
Pte J A
Holt
Pte. H
Cookson
Gunner
Harry Ashworth
Pte.
Thomas Jennings
Pte
J.Goulding
Pte. Smith
Chadwick
Pte. Thomas
Stead
Pte.
Barrett
Pte. Arthur Halstead
Pte.
Rickard
Pte. Cyril
Cox
Pte. John
James Hargreaves
Rifleman William
Everitt and
Pte Thomas Mitchell
Pte. Fred
Riding
Private Fred
Ridings funeral was held on Tuesday 25th May 1915 and was the first
military funeral of the Great War to be held in Bacup. Headed by a
firing party with drummer and bugler from the East Lancashire
Territorials Battalion stationed at Burnley, who marched with rifles
reversed to the beat of a muffled drum, and behind these came an open
hearse, upon which was the coffin, covered with a Union Jack, and
surrounded by several beautiful floral tokens. On each side of the
hearse walked a number of soldiers who acted as bearers and following it
was another detachment of the East Lancashire Territorials under
Lieutenant E.M.Wright, of Bacup. Following the committal service carried
out by the Rev Vickers English, three volleys were fired over the grave
by the firing party and the last post was sounded by the bugler.
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