THE DARWEN RESERVISTS
NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF THOSE WHO
HAVE BEEN CALLED OUT.
We give below the names and addresses of those Darwen Reservists who have already been called out. Some of these men have gone through several engagements, but so far as we know none have been killed or wounded. Opposite some of the men's names are the regiments to which they belong:-
William Holden, 55, Vernon-street.
Albion Jones, 1a, Hanover-street.
Peter Entwistle, Frankland-street.
James Kay, 166, Harwood-street.
Michael Canary, 27, Dove-lane (King's Royal Rifles).
Edward Payne, 10, Cotton Hall-street.
P.C. Cairns (2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards).
James Candy, 76, Bury-street.
Leonard Holden, 6, Chapels-brow.
John Thomas Holden, 22, Brook-street.
John B. Bury, 17, Cotton Hall-street.
Nathaniel Mann, 17, Sandon-street.
John L. Wilson, 15, Dove-street.
P.C. White, (1st Scots Guards).
W. Harwood, 19, Back Union-street.
H. A. Hamilton, 51, Cavendish-street (1st Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders).
J. Hall, 21, Kay-street.
J. Cawley, 2, Radford-street.
Clarence Taylor, 43, Gillibrand-street.
George Hartley, 27, Victoria-street (N.L. Regiment).
Wm. Jones, 17, Hope-street (N.L. Regiment).
Thomas Daly, 14, Finch-street (1st E.L. Regiment)
David Stamford, 24, Portland-street (2nd Worcesters).
Thomas Burke, 9, Albert-street (27th Inniskilling Fusiliers).
Samuel Cook, Back o'th'Hole, Tockholes (1st West Riding).
John Cockshoot, 50, Queen-street (1st E.L. Regiment).
Wm. Dowd, 11, Edmund-street (L.N.L. Militia).
Patrick Dooley, 3, William-street (3rd L.N.L. Regiment).
Thomas Anderton, 2, Two Gates-terrace (1st Scots Guards).
James Day, 207, Olive-lane (1st E.L. Regiment).
Andrew Entwistle, 5, Primrose-hill (47th L.N.L.).
Frank Walton, Model Lodging-house caretaker (North Stafford Regiment).
John Shorrock, 77, Kay-street (E.L. Regiment).
- Shuttleworth, Anyon-street (2nd Scots Guards).
(Darwen News, 13.1.1900)_____________________________________________________________
DEPARTURE OF THE MEN
The departure of Lieutenant Howard and the sixteen men for Preston on Thursday morning was the cause of much excitement in the town. The Volunteers left the Everton-street Barracks shortly after nine in order to catch the 9-31 train for Blackburn. Rain was falling pretty heavily at the time, but that did not deter large crowds of people assembling at the station and in the thoroughfares along which the men passed. Heading the short procession were the members of the Darwen Fire Brigade on their carrier. Then the Volunteer Band followed, and after these was a waggonette containing the following officers: - Lieutenant Howard, Lieutenant-Colonel Place, Captain Smith, and Chaplain Corfield. The sixteen men brought up the rear in another waggonette, and their progress through the town was marked with much cheering and waving of hats and handkerchiefs. At the station the scene was of the wildest description. Everybody in the crowd wanted to shake hands with the Volunteers, and it took about half a score of policemen all their time to keep the platforms from becoming over-crowded. The scene was not without its pathetic side, many women and children giving vent to their agitation in tears and sobs. Just before the train left the station the band struck up "For Auld Lang Syne," and as the whistle blew for the departure deafening cheers ascended from the throats of the healthy-lunged crowd.
Then men joined their Blackburn comrades at the Blackburn Barracks, and at 2-46 the whole of the men took train for Preston, and thence they marched to Fulwood Barracks, where they will remain for a short time before proceeding to Aldershot. From Aldershot they will, it is expected, go to South Africa.
(Darwen News, Saturday 20.1.1900)_____________________________________________________________
THE DARWEN VOLUNTEERS.
The accepted Darwen Volunteers are now at Fleetwood Barracks, whither they went from Preston at the beginning of this week. They were fairly comfortable at Preston, but according to letters which have been received in Darwen they like Fleetwood much better. They have been replaced at Preston by a Liverpool Battalion. The men were inspected yesterday at Fleetwood by Colonel Brownrigg. They have received a communication from the War Office asking them when they will be ready to embark. The answer has been, of course, that they will be ready to embark as soon as they receive their outfit, and it is expected that our men will receive sailing orders in the near future. Ball practice was commenced at the Fleetwood range yesterday.
(Darwen News, 27.1.1900)_____________________________________________________________
THE DARWEN VOLUNTEERS.
THEIR DEPARTUTRE FOR THE FRONT.
The sixteen Darwen Volunteers who have been accepted for active service in South Africa, with their officer, Lieutenant Howard, depart from Southampton for the seat of war to-morrow. The men, it will be remembered, went to Fulwood Barracks, Preston, from Darwen, but they only stayed there a few days, afterwards going on to Fleetwood, where they have been having rifle and skirmishing practice. On Thursday afternoon, at four o'clock, news reached Fleetwood Barracks from the war Office to the effect that the Volunteer contingent of the east Lancashire Regiment must be ready for sailing from Southampton by the "Doune Castle" at eight o'clock on Sunday morning. The news caused great joy at the Barracks, and the men were so excited that they were quite unable to partake of their afternoon meal. A short leave of absence was at once given to the Darwen men, and on Thursday they came, in khaki, to bid good-bye to their friends at home.
(Darwen News, 10.2.1900)_____________________________________________________________
THE FRESH VOLUNTEERS.
EAST LANCASHIRES SWORN IN. The following men of the 1st Volunteer Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, who passed the medical examination a week ago, were attested at the regimental headquarters, Canterbury-street, Blackburn, on Saturday : -
Corporal G. F. Fielding, Bugler E. Birtwistle,
Private W. R. Cruikshank, Private W.
Forrest, Private J. Howarth, Private H.
Lewes, and Private W. Pennington (Black-
burn).
Private A. Babbington, Private G. Bentley, and
Private H. Cowell (Darwen).
Private D. Brown and Private R. Entwistle
(Hoddlesden).
(Lancashire Daily Post, 3 February 1902)For the full article, see 'Burnley, Anglo-Boer War.'
