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. . Pte Rickard J J Hargreaves Killed In Action Missing - Wounded- Pow Pte Halstead Pte C Cox Pte Barrett Many reports of soldiers wounded, missing or POW appeared in the Bacup Times click the picture to access some of these stories. Soldiers Gallery Whilst searching through a filing cabinet at the Bacup Nat I Came across a folder containing many photographs of what we have assumed were local soldiers some we have identified others we still have not you canview these in the soldiers gallery if you can identify anyone please let me know by email then thier information can be added to the relevant page. Click the picture to be taken to Soldiers Gallery Many Bacup and Stacksteads survived the horror of the battlefields only to succumb to the Spanish Flu Click Picture to access some of these soldiers stories Gnr Naylor Gnr Bridge