IN MEMORY OF OUR BAXENDEN LADS
1914 - 1918
& 1939 - 1946
IN MEMORY OF OUR BAXENDEN LADS
1914 - 1918
& 1939 - 1946
Wm. Turner - November 1994 |
| SGT.
25535 FRANK DUCKWORTH 14th December 1917 |
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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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SGT. 25535 FRANK DUCKWORTH of the Manchester Regiment was killed in action on December 14th 1917 on the battlefield of Ypres in Belgium. Frank was aged thirty. He was born and lived in Baxenden, and went to Manchester to enlist in the local regiment when war was declared. His mother lived in Dean Road, Helmshore. Frank's body was one which, because of the terrible conditions
under which both sides fought at Ypres in the winter of 1917, was never
recovered. Much of the area was a sea of mud - hence the poet Siegfried
Sasson's imagery of the battle: "I died in hell -
(They called it Passchendaele); my wound was slight and I was hobbling back, and then a shell Burst slick upon the duck-boards; so I fell Into the bottomless mud, and lost the light."
Frank's name, with 918 others of the Manchester Regiment, is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial some six miles north-east of Ypres. The Memorial is in the form of a semi-circular wall around Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest war cemetery in France or Flanders. On the Memorial are inscribed the names of 35,000 men who died in the Ypres area between August 16th 1917 and November 11th 1918 and have no known grave. Frank's name is also on the Haslingden Roll of Honour in Haslingden Public Hall. |
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