Milnthorpe

ROLL OF HONOUR - Men who are serving

Royal Field Artillery. - Gunners Jos. Atkinson, Thos. Brennand, Jos. Shaw, Jno. Garth, Thomas Phillipson.
Royal Garrison Artillery. - Gunner Arthur Parker.
4th Border Regiment. - Second-Lieut. E. Mashiter, Ptes. T. Bateman, H. Bond, J. Bowden, J. Robinson, Ernest Smith, Robert Sharples, Richard Thompson, Jas. Wilkinson, John Martin, J. Sisson, Sidney Vingoe, T. Hodgkinson, Geo. Wilson.
8th Border Regiment. - Lance-Corpl. F. T. Wilkinson, Ptes. Jas. Atkinson, Wm. D. Arkwright, E. Ashburner, Samuel Barnes, Fred. Barnes, Rt. Cowan, Harry Clayton, E. Dixon, A. Garth, Jas. Garth, Chas. Hyde, H. Hyde, Rt. Hudson, T. Lloyd, Edward Mashiter, Miles Mason, J. Inman, Wm. Knight, J. Mackenzie, J. Parker, Philip M. Rheam, E. Procter, Harry G. Seagrave, Harry Sharples, Jon. Shepherd, Geo. Swindlehurst, Tom Coward, Ralph W. Thompson, Herbert Thompson, Wm. Taylor, J. Wilkinson, T. Wilson, Tom Wilson.
9th Border Regiment. - Ptes. J. Blair, Rd. Lancaster.
King's Own Royal Lancasters'. - Ptes. Arthur Dawson, Herbert Hewitson.
Warwickshire Yeomanry. - Trooper Frd. Clarke.
East Lancashire Regiment. - Lance-Corpl. T. Cottam, Pte. Chris. Scott.
Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry. - Trooper Wm. H. Park.
Duke of Lancaster's Yeomanry. - Trooper Rd. Strutt.
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment. - Pte. Frank Swindlehurst.
Notts. Hussars. - Second-Lieut. Sir W. Bromley-Wilson.
R. A. M. C. - Ptes. Isaac Atkinson, J. T. Riding, E. Medcalf.
Unattached. - Second-Lieut. Ivo Peart-Robinson.

(Lancaster Guardian, 12 December 1914)
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14886 Private William Knight, 8th Border Regiment. Fell in action at Thiepval on 26th August 1916.

IN MEMORIAM

KNIGHT. - In loving memory of Signaller William Knight, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Knight, who fell in action at Thiepval, August 26th, 1916.
Park Road, Milnthorpe.
(Westmorland Gazette, 25 August 1917)
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210902 Private Daniel Saul, 21st Canadian Infantry. Killed in France on 17th January 1917, aged 39. Son of Thomas and Isabella Saul, of Lane Cottage, Milnthorpe; husband of Martha Saul, of 232, Hamilton Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

KILLED IN ACTION
SAUL, Pvt. Daniel, Canadian Contingent, fifth son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas saul, Lane Cottage, Milnthorpe, is reported killed in France January 17th.
(Westmorland Gazette, 17 February 1917)
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27470 Private R W Willan, 8th King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Killed on 29th July 1917, aged 21. Son of Robert and Hannah Willan. While Dallam Tower isn't actually in Milnthorpe, this seems to be the most appropriate place to post this.

IN MEMORIAM

WILLAN. - In loving memory of our dear son, Pte. R. W. Willan, K.O.R.L., who was killed in No-Man's-Land, July 29th, 1917.

From all at Dallam Tower Lodge.
(Westmorland Gazette, 30 July 1921)
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Pte. John Garth, Border Regt., whose home is at Field Cottage, Milnthorpe, is in a Dover Hospital, wounded in the left leg.

(Lancaster Guardian, 6 October 1917)
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(Westmorland Gazette, 7.2.1920)
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(Westmorland Gazette, 14.2.1920)