IN MEMORY OF OUR BAXENDEN LADS
1914 - 1918
& 1939 - 1946
IN MEMORY OF OUR BAXENDEN LADS
1914 - 1918
& 1939 - 1946
Wm. Turner - November 1994 |
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31297 WILLIAM ANDERSON 17th October 1918 |
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Introduction
ANDERSON, William ANDERTON, John Henry BAILEY, Harry BARNES, James Albert BATES, Thomas Henry BOLTON, Jack BOND, Harry Hargreaves BRANDON, Tom BURY, Percy CHEVIN, William Thomas DOBSON, Walter DOWNES, Joseph DUCKWORTH, Frank DUCKWORTH, John (Jack) Pilkington GORE, Elias GREENWOOD, James HAMBLING, Benjamin George HAMBLING, Charles Buckingham HAWKER, William HEYS, James Edward HEYS, John Lawson HINDLE, Arnold JOHNSON, Harry KENYON, Ernest LIVETT, John William MARSDEN, Fred MOSS, James RATCLIFFE, Fred RUSHTON, Fred SKELLERN, John James SMITH, James Edward STOTT, Fred TODD, Walter Counsell WATERWORTH, David WHITEHEAD, John William WHITEHEAD, Riley
CUCKNELL, Alan
Accrington Pals
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PTE. 31297
WILLIAM ANDERSON of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment was killed in action
on October 17th 1918 during the capture of Busigny in northern France in
the closing stages of the war. (N.B. Pte. Skellern
of the same regiment died just eleven days later)
William was a married man and lived at 500 Manchester Road, Baxenden. He was aged thirty one. Before he enlisted he was a member of the St. John Ambulance Brigade in Accrington, and his name is on their Roll of Honour in their Drill Hall in Eagle Street. Busigny is a small village six miles from Le Cateau, and after its capture three Casualty Clearing Stations (mobile hospitals) operated in the area. They opened an extension of the village communal cemetery, and this extension was enlarged after the Armistice with bodies brought from the nearby battlefields. Many had been buried temporarily by their comrades. William's was one of these. There are 675 graves in this small village communal cemetery extension. |
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