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Post by BereniceUK on Apr 15, 2017 17:02:21 GMT
This is the village memorial
and this is the parish memorial.
 Second Lieutenant George Bargh, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Reported missing on 8th May 1915, aged 24. CWGC database gives his probable date of death as 10th May 1915 and his age as 25.  James Morvin Williamson, 6th Dragoon Guards. Died of wounds on 7th May 1919, aged 41.
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Post by BereniceUK on Apr 15, 2017 17:02:50 GMT
Second Lieutenant George Bargh, The King's (Liverpool Regiment), attached 1st Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action on 10th May 1915, aged 25. Son of Isaac and Helen Bargh, of Wray. Second-Lieutenant George Bargh (son of Mrs. Bargh, Proctor's Farm, Wray), King's Liverpool Regiment, attached to 1st Suffolk Regiment, who was previously reported in the Guardian as missing from May 10th, is now reported killed in action. The information comes from a letter written by Col. Wallace, 1st Suffolk Regiment, who is now a prisoner in Germany, to his wife, who communicated the tidings to the War Office. Mrs. Bargh has written to Col. Wallace for further information. Sec-Lieut. Bargh was educated at Reading University, and was a member of the College Corps. He was promoted second-lieutenant of land forces in December, 1912, and placed on the special reserve of officers in February, 1914. He was 26 years of age, and a teacher at the Hawes Council School at the outbreak of the war. Mrs. Bargh has another son in training at Aldershot. (Lancaster Guardian, 12 June 1915)_____________________________________________________________ A/202915 Rifleman John William Bryning, 17th King's Royal Rifle Corps. 18th November 1917, aged 23. Son of Fanny Isabella Bryning, of 69, Ullswater Road, Lancaster. CWGC database gives his age as 24. Also named on the Lancaster and Caton memorials. Deep sympathy will be extended to Mrs. Bryning, 69, Ullswater-road (widow of the late Mr. J. Bryning, relieving officer for Lunesdale), in the receipt of the news on Wednesday that her son, Rifleman John William Bryning (23), King's Royal Rifles, was killed in action on Nov. 18th. The deceased won a scholarship at Wray, tenable at the Lancaster R.G.S. for four years. After a period in the Sedbergh branch of the Liverpool bank, he took to agriculture, enlisting from Mr. Kirkby's Bridge End Farm, Caton, in the A.S.C. in 1914. Five months ago, he was transferred to the line, and had been in the trenches two months. Sec.-Lieut. A. J. Turner writes on Nov. 23rd, that he was instantly killed by shell fire on Nov. 18th, whilst the battalion was going to the front line, and expresses sympathy. A brother, Fred, is a signaller in the R.F.A. at Swanage. Deceased is a grandson of Mr. M. Walker, who was formerly in business at Morecambe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BRYNING. - On the 18th ult., killed in action in France, Rifleman JOHN WILLIAM BRYNING, King's Royal Rifles, and son of the late JOSEPH and Mrs. BRYNING, 69, Ullswater-road, Lancaster, aged 23 years. (Lancaster Guardian, 1 December 1917)
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