ROLL OF HONOUR - Men who are serving Northumberland Fusiliers. - Capt. Stanley Musgrave.
King's Royal Rifles. - Capt. Alan Saunders (now a prisoner in Germany).
3rd King's Own RoyalLancasters. - Second Lieut. G. H. Sleigh.
South Lancashires (Pals Battalion). - Lieut. Carl Champion, Lieut. Alan Champion.
R.F.A. - Gunner Pearson.
Border Regt. - Privates - G. Hodkinson, F. Hodgson.
Seaforth Highlanders. - Privates Y. Richmond, J. Braithwaite, E. Ross, J. Wood.
5th King's Own Royal Lancasters. - Captain J. Milner Helme, Sergt. J. Hall, Privates G. Keen, T. Cornthwaite.
Major G. M. Saunders, J.P., is engaged at a military training camp at Wendover.
(Lancaster Guardian, 12 December 1914) ____________________________________________________________
WAR ITEMS. - Thomas Gardner, of Silverdale, has joined the 5th Batt. King's Own Regiment, and Tom Hayton, younger son of Mr. Wm. Hayton, Shore Cottages, Silverdale, has enlisted with the R.F.A. at Blackburn.
(Lancaster Guardian, 5 June 1915)____________________________________________________________
1950 Private George William Keen, 1st/5th King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Killed on 16th August 1915, aged 25. Son of Townson and Emma Keen, of Silverdale.MEMORIAL SERVICE. - A special service was held in the Parish Church on Tuesday, in memory of the late Pte. Geo. Wm. Keen, 5th King's Own, who was killed near Ypres on the 16th ult. There was a large congregation. Special hymns were sung and the service was of a very impressive character, the Vicar officiating. A collection of £2 0s. 2d. was taken at the door in aid of a fund for providing a permanent memorial at the close of the war.
(Lancaster Guardian, 18 September 1915)____________________________________________________________
80021 Private Ingram Dobson, 31st Canadian Infantry. Died, of wounds received in action, on 12th December 1915.
PRIVATE INGRAM DOBSON, SILVERDALEA memorial service for the late Pvt. Ingram Dobson, who died on December 11th in No. 2 Base Hospital in France, of wounds received the previous day, was held in the Silverdale Wesleyan Chapel on Sunday. There was a good congregation, including the father and mother and friends of the deceased. An impressive service was conducted by the Rev. G. H. B. Judge, of Carnforth, who preached from Acts 20th chapter, verse 24. The special lessons were taken from the 23rd Psalm and Revelations, chapter 7, verses 9 to 17. The special hymns used included "For ever with the Lord," "The Saints of God," and "Ten thousand times ten thousand."
(Westmorland Gazette, 1 January 1916)____________________________________________________________
Z/806 Corporal Frederick Edmondson, 12th Rifle Brigade. Killed on 6th June 1916, aged 20. Son of Richard and Mary Hannah Edmondson, of Glenside Nursery, Silverdale.Corpl. Edmondson, SilverdaleMr. Richard Edmondson, jun., Red Bridge Farm, Silverdale, has heard that his third son, Frederick (corporal signaller, Royal Rifle Brigade), had been killed by a shell on June 5th, and was interred on June 7th. The sad news was sent by a chum, but nothing official has been heard as yet from the War Office or headquarters of the Brigade. Corporal Edmondson enlisted in Kitchener's Army in August, 1914, when 18 years old, and went out in the autumn of last year. He was a fine, smart youth, and formerly employed as a pattern-maker in the British Westinghouse Works, Manchester. His parents are very anxious about him, as no letter has been received for three weeks, and he was a regular weekly correspondent. The sergeant of his section has also written a highly complimentary letter.
(Lancaster Guardian, 24 June 1916)____________________________________________________________
446589 Lance Corporal William Benjamin, 31st Canadian Infantry. Killed in action on 24th and 30th September 1916, aged 34. Son of John and Annie Benjamin, of Millhead; husband of Edith Benjamin, of Exshaw, Alberta.Silverdale Man Killed.Pte. W. Benjamin, Canadians, is reported killed in action in France, on September 26th. The sad news was conveyed to his parents, who are now living at Warton, by another son (George), who was in the same action, but fortunately escaped. He had found his brother's body about 4-30 a.m. on the 17th
[27th] ult., his brother probably falling the previous night. Pte. W. Benjamin was well-known in Silverdale, his parents having resided there 24 years, removing to Warton last January. He emigrated to Canada six years ago, and was employed in the cement works at Exshawe (Alberta). He leaves a widow and two young children, who are in Canada. Some five years ago he was badly bruised in the great fire at Trowbarrow Lime Works. He has another brother in the King's Own.
(Lancaster Guardian, 21 October 1916) William Benjamin is remembered on both the Silverdale and Warton memorials.____________________________________________________________
446784 Private John Hayton, 50th Canadian Infantry. Died from wounds on 24th October 1916, aged 34. Son of James and Agnes Hayton, of Silverdale.The Canadian Record Office notify the death from wounds of another Haltonian, 446,784 Pte. John Hayton (33), of the Canadian Infantry at Etaples, France, on Oct. 24th, and have expressed sympathy with his widow, Mrs. Hayton, Woodside, Halton. He had received a gunshot wound in the thigh, and was previously reported on Oct. 23rd to be seriously ill in the same hospital.
Hayton emigrated to Canada six years ago after his brother-in-law, Pte. T. M. Simner. Joining the Canadian forces in May, 1915, he returned to the Old Country in April, and went out to France in August, 1915. He was coachman to Mrs. Harris, of Halton Park, and previously to that was with the late Dr. Helme. His father resides at Silverdale. He leaves a widow and one child.
(Lancaster Guardian, 4 November 1916)____________________________________________________________
(Lancaster Guardian, 15.9.1917)_____________________________________________________________
Pte. John Ambrose, K.O., of Rydal Mount, Silverdale, is in a Bombay hospital with enteric, following malaria, contracted in Mesopotamia. He lost his twin brother, Harry, last July.
(Lancaster Guardian, 6 October 1917)
