Post by BereniceUK on Apr 15, 2017 14:21:09 GMT
1416 Private Ernest Halton, 5th King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Accidentally killed while on active service, on 4th October 1914, aged 26.
1091 Private James Walton, 5th King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Accidentally killed while on active service, on 4th October 1914, aged 20. Son of James and E. E. Walton, of 79, Croft Street, Preston.
Privates James Walton, 22, and Ernest Holton, 26, of the 5th King's Own Regiment, were killed by an express train at Steventon level crossing, on Wednesday night, while going on patrol duty. Both men belonged to Calder Vale, near Garstang, and were members of the Garstang Company.
(Morecambe Visitor, 7 October 1914)
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CALDER VALE SIGNALLER WOUNDED.
Signaller Frederick Onyett, of the King's Own, son of Mrs. Anderson Onyett, Calder Vale, has been wounded while serving in Mesopotamia. Three of the four brothers have served with the colours. An elder brother is also with the King's Own in Mesopotamia. Fred was only 17 last month, and has been in khaki the better part of two years. He was previously employed at Lune Mills and Calder Vale Paper Mills.
(Lancashire Daily Post, 9 January 1917)
The same report, but without the photograph, appeared in the previous day's issue, but with the added information "A brother of Mrs. Onyett, Pte. A. Lockley, was killed at Ypres, May, 1915."
1091 Private James Walton, 5th King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Accidentally killed while on active service, on 4th October 1914, aged 20. Son of James and E. E. Walton, of 79, Croft Street, Preston.
Privates James Walton, 22, and Ernest Holton, 26, of the 5th King's Own Regiment, were killed by an express train at Steventon level crossing, on Wednesday night, while going on patrol duty. Both men belonged to Calder Vale, near Garstang, and were members of the Garstang Company.
(Morecambe Visitor, 7 October 1914)
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CALDER VALE SIGNALLER WOUNDED.
Signaller Frederick Onyett, of the King's Own, son of Mrs. Anderson Onyett, Calder Vale, has been wounded while serving in Mesopotamia. Three of the four brothers have served with the colours. An elder brother is also with the King's Own in Mesopotamia. Fred was only 17 last month, and has been in khaki the better part of two years. He was previously employed at Lune Mills and Calder Vale Paper Mills.
(Lancashire Daily Post, 9 January 1917)
The same report, but without the photograph, appeared in the previous day's issue, but with the added information "A brother of Mrs. Onyett, Pte. A. Lockley, was killed at Ypres, May, 1915."