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Bandmaster
WO1 William A Elliott LRAM. ARCM
1919 to 1949
China and India
sent in by
Hazel Smith (nee Elliott) his daughter

*Jack Bibby* records and photos of Jack's service with 1LF 1945 to 1948 served in Ranikhet India
*Sgt James Penson* 1LF 1898 to his discharge in 1916, but his Army days didn't finish there - he joined the Royal Defence Corps towards the end of WW1 by which time he held the rank of RQMS and only had one arm !	Lt Col Geoffrey Rothband joined Lancashire Fusiliers in December 1938 1/5 Battalion LF Dunkirk March 1940 1st Battalion LF Burma December 1940 Kings African Rifles 1945 joined 5LF in 1947 Became CO 5th Battalion *LF 1959 - 1962*	The Bells of HMS Euryalus and HMS Euryalus and The Fusiliers	.The Peter Hughes Story National Service 1955 to 1958 Bury, Cyprus and Iserlohn and at one stage was Lt QM Stanley Price's batman Peter was deferred as he was training to be a Painter and Decorator at the Bury Arts and Craft Centre now the Fusiliers Museum Lancashire
William Watson DCM 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers and Durham Light Infantry and others 1858-1918	*Charles Thomley* 2nd Bn and 1st / 8th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers	Lt. Kenneth N Tuffnell DSO And 3385345 Private Charles Verdun Wride MM	Captain Gordon Pratt Signals Officer 1/8th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers Burma
2093 Pte J R Williams, Lancashire Fusiliers Was at Gallipoli photos and hand written notes	3442451 RSM Thomas Vincent McMahon 2nd Bn Lancashire Fusiliers	Cpl. Arthur Fielding MM.	Four Groups of photos dating back to 1905 1923 1967
David Hindley 1LF Egypt 1950 - 1952 over 230 photos	The Wallace Jackson Feature 2LF Battle Axe Division Wallace was a friend of Frank Jefferson VC	WO1 McCann 1st Battalion The XX Lancashire Fusiliers India 1907 to 1911.	The Francis James Wright 1LF (Chindit) Feature *New photo added* 28th June 2010
Major Arthur Alexander McKay 10th Battalion The XX Lancashire Fusiliers Killed in action in Burma 27 December 1942"	7657 Isaac Woods 2nd Bn XX The Lancashire Fusiliers in 1899 and was at the Battle of Spion Kop and his son Roy Woods 2nd Bn XX The Lancashire Fusiliers 1952 Trieste	Sgt. Walter Armstrong Served with 2LF at Omderman, Spion Kop moved to Australia and then went to Gallipoli and Mudros and France where he won the Croix de Guerre He did 41 years in the British and Australian Army's	The History of the XX Lancashire Fusiliers Cap Badges
Major John Neville Smale 2nd Bn Lancashire Fusiliers and No 3 Commando.	Sgt George James Pilkington RASC 1948 to 1953 1st Bn Lancashire Fusiliers 1953 to 1960 Served in Iserlohn, Cyprus, and Wellington Barracks	Fusilier H. B. Pattinson MM 10th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers Burma There is alot more to come with this Feature so keep watching	S/Sgt George Davies Who served in the Lancashire Fusiliers from 1927 to 1968 41 years service as a Lancashire Fusilier
Colour Sergeant Henry Hickie 1876 to 1932	The Funeral of Company Sergeant Major George Ash 1915	This is my Life by Capt Joe Eastwood (Retd) BEM CQSW The Web Site Editor	Chopper Essex 1LF and 22 SAS
Mary Howarth 39th (Lancashire Fusiliers) Searchlight Regiment RA TA 7th Lancashire Fusiliers TA Converted to 354 (Lancashire Fusiliers) Searchlight Battery RA TA	Tribute to our Polish Comrades in Arms Polish ll Corps 7th Sept 2009	Capt John Higson John joined the LF's in 1924 and was Commissioned into the 11th Bn in 1942 John served in the 1st Bn , 2nd Bn , 6th Bn , 50th Holding Bn and 11th Bn	The Greenwood Family of Radcliffe
Bill Hastings 120 photos of his time with the Lancashire Fusiliers 1931 to 1939 in China, Aldershot, Aden, and India	William (Bill) Paton Born Liverpool 18th August,1925 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Lucknow, India 1945 - 1946 26/7/07	Harry Wroe his story on the evacuation of Dunkirk his fight with the French Mayor of Seclin to visit Capt Pollitts grave in the 1980's Photos of his father and his brother in law Jim O'Conner also an LF's 6/8/07	Sergeant John (Mucky) Mason DCM "The Ghost Gunner of Monte Cassino”
Sgt Sydney Barnes War Diaries 17th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers (Bantam Bn) 124 pages of his Fantastic Story	22495305 Cpl Paul Harrison Signed on in Chester 19th July 1951 Served with 1LF Bury Depot, Egypt, Kenya, Cyprus, and Iserlohn over 220 photos of his time with the LFs and include some photos of the storming of the Police Station in Ismailia by 8Plt C Coy sent in by Diana Needham Paul's Daughter 30th June 2008	14778048 Fusilier James Cragg 1st Bn The XXth The Lancashire Fusiliers 15.6.44 - 2.1.45 Home Service 3.1.45 - 8.5.45 India Born 20.4.09 Kearsley, Near Bolton Died 8th May, 1945 India from Cholera	Ronald Peter Turner Lucknow, India 1945 30/7/07
Anthony Bramham story Natioal Serviceman 1959 to 1961 he took 336 Photos of his time in Bury, Cyprus, and Osnabruck.	Dave Ince Story 9/11/06	I mentioned the war The Joseph Holt Story 2 LF at the Battle of Medjez el Bab	Bill Dalton's Story 29/10/05 & 10/2/06 30/4/2007
Cyril Robinson Here Cyril tell his own stories click here	Fus. William Stanley Hall	The Laverick Family 10/08/09	Minnie the Mascot new Photo 1/12/05 14/01/06
Skopje Macedonia	William Roughly	Francis Arthur Jefferson V.C.. 12th March 2009	CSM Scarratt
J.E.Grimshaw VC	Walter Dyer The Shouting Fusilier 2/8/07	300 Years of The LFs Bury Times Special	Alfred Richards V.C one of the Famous six before breakfast VC'
The George Powell Story 1LF World War 2	7TH LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS TA CONVERTED TO 354 SEACHLIGHT Bn	284 Private Nathaniel Hartley [1888-1914] 2nd Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers.	CORPORAL 3449600 RICHARD PATTERSON 1/8TH Bn. THE LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS Click here this take you to his web site made by his son Paul Patterson
LT. COL. STANLEY PRICE. OBE. (Kitna) 21st November 09	Fus James Trevor 1st, 2nd, & 11th Bn 1931 - 1944	The Coronation 1953	Major E R (Roddy) Owen DSO The XXth The Lancashire Fusiliers. 17/10/06
"Valerie Chadwick's Lancashire Fusilier Ancestors"	Henry Gething Lancashire Fusilier 1892 - 1915	Colonel Hugh Crofton The XXth of Foot" and Fulwood Barracks and McCaffery's Ghost	The Battle Signs of The XXth The Lancashire Fusiliers in WW1.
Shot at Dawn 8 Lancashire Fusiliers Pardoned	Everybody's Weekly 1953 The story of Minden Day John Lynn VC and Frank Jefferson VC	Albert Green MM BEM 2LF	L/Cpl Albert Ernest Edwards Lancashire Fusiliers. wounded at Gallipoli.
The Dalton and Family 6th May 2008	The History of the XX The Lancashire Fusiliers Steam Locomotive	Albert McQuire 12/2/06	James McEvoy