Pte Hubert Ainsworth

    9508, 9th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers

    Born: Blackburn

    Killed in action 7th August 1915 aged 21, Gallipoli

    Son of John and Ellen Ainsworth, of Hargreaves St, Nelson

    L.Corp. Walter Benson

   29271, 14th Battalion Highland Light Infantry

    Died from wounds 5th October 1917 aged 19, Western Front

    Son of Smith and Mary Benson, of Chapel House Rd, Nelson

    William Boothman

    Pte Robert Brown

    32525, 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers

    Died from wounds 26th September 1917 aged 22, Western Front

    Son of Thomas and Naomi Brown, of Mosley St, Nelson

    L.Corp. Ephraim Davey

    460556, 27th Battalion Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regt.)

    Died from wounds 16th September 1916 aged 27, Western Front

    Son of William and Jane Davey, of Lime St. Nelson

    Pte J.T. Dearden

    57068, 10th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers

    21st November 1916

    Gisburn Rd, Barrowford

    Son of the late T. Dearden

    Pte Harry Ellis

    23171, 9th Battalion East Lancs Reg.

    Died from wouds 28th April 1917 aged 27, Mesopotamia

    Pte C.H. Furber

    2052, 1st/5th Battalion East Lancs Reg.

    Died from wounds 19th December 1915 aged 18, Gallipoli

    Son of John and Kate Furber, of Rupert St, Nelson

    Gunner Robert Jackson

    Royal Field Artillery

    Killed 14th November 1918, Western Front

    Of Ada St, Nelson

    Gunner Lawrence Keyworth

    47223, 16th Heavy Baty. Royal Garrison Artillery

    Killed 16th April 1916 aged 26, Western Front

    Pte Arthur Maden

    25877, 1st Battalion, Border Reg.

    Killed in action, 4th February 1918 aged 20, Western Front

    Son of James and Martha Maden, of Lomeshaye Rd. Nelson

    Pte Abraham Robinson Manley

    34581, 7th Battalion East Lancs Reg.

    Born Skipton, Yorks

    Killed in action, 31st July 1917 aged 26,  Western Front

    of Chapelhouse Rd, Nelson

    Remembered on parents grave in Wheatley Lane Inghamite Churchyard.

    Pte Alfred Moorhouse

    10246, 9th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (formerly of City of London Reg.)

    Killed in action, 9th April 1917 aged 20, Western Front

    Son of Councillor and Mrs Moorhouse

    Pte Walter Nutter

    266036, 1st/4th Battalion King's Own Royal Lancaster Reg.

    Killed in action, 20th November 1917 aged 21, Western Front

    of Victoria St, Nelson

    Sub-conductor John Edward Oldroyd

    12th "S" Coy. Royal Army Ordance Corps

    Born East Ardsley, Yorkshire

    Died from pneumonia and malaria, 27th August 1919 aged 45, Salonika

    husband of Annie Oldroyd, of Carr Road, Nelson

    Pte Richard Pickles

    Pte Fred Place

    275351, 15th Aux. Horse Transport, Royal Army Service Corps

    Died in hospital, 25th April 1919 aged 41, France

    Son of Margaret and the late Richard Place of Nelson, husband of Harriet Place 

    of Southport,  brother of Tom Place, below

    Pte Tom Place

    203630, 2nd/7th Lancashire Fusiliers

    Killed in action, 21st March 1918 aged 39, Western Front

    Son of Mrs Place of Napier St, Nelson, brother of Fred Place, above

    Sig. William Plows

    26264, 6th Battalion Yorkshire Reg.

    Died from wounds, 14th December 1916 aged 25, Western Front

    Son of Emily Plows of St Mary St, Nelson

    Isaiah Robinson

    Canadian Mounted Rifles

    Died April 1916

    of Lomeshaye Rd, Nelson

    Sapper James Starkie

    1440, RND, Royal Marine Engineers

    Died from wounds, 4th December 1915 aged 23, Gallipoli

    Son of Mr and Mrs Thomas E Starkie of Hargreaves St, Nelson

    Pte Robert Wallwork

    7936, 6th Battalion East Lancs Reg

    Born Helmshore

    Died from fever, 24th May 1916 aged 29, Mesopotamia

    Son of Mr and Mrs Doctor Wallwork of Railway St, Nelson

    Pte John Walton

    20511, 1st Battalion Border Reg.

    Killed in action, 21st December 1915 aged 22, Gallipoli

    Son of Mr and Mrs Walton of Every St, Nelson

    John W. Walton

    Pte Frank Wardley

    04063, 26th Coy. Royal Ordnance Corps.

    Drowned 28th October 1915,  HMS Hythe, Dardanelles

    of Selby St, Nelson

    Able Seaman Henry Berry Watson

    Mersey/Z/1825, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

    HMS "Changuinola"

    Drowned 14th February 1918 aged 19

    Son of Mr and Mrs John Watson of Gordon Rd, Nelson

    Pte Rennie Wilkinson

    82467, 43rd Machine Gun Corps. formerly of East Lancs Reg.

    Killed in action 11th May 1917 aged 25, Western Front

    of Temple St, Nelson

    Pte Norman Wood

    21949, 2nd Battalion East Lancs Reg.

    Killed in action 24th April 1918 aged 24, Western Front

    Son of Florence Bainbridge Wood of Lomeshaye Rd, Nelson

    Firth Dole

    Munition worker killed in an explosion at a munition factory in Morecambe in 1917 aged 32

    Son of James J. & Alice of Southfield St, Nelson

    Buried in St Johns Churchyard, Great Marsden

    John William Starkie

    Munition worker at Cammell Laird, Sheffield

    Killed in accident, 8th January 1917, Sheffield

    of Garnett St, Nelson

    Nurse Elsie Hartley

    Died 30th October 1918 aged 30

    Stanley Hospital, Liverpool

    daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Hartley of "Applegarth" Nelson