10th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers
1918, St Quintin, Bapaume,Amiens, Havrincourt,Epehy,Cambrai,Selle,Sambre


D Company of the 10th Bn were overun on the 26th March at Mametz Woods near Henencourt.

5297 Pte Bernard Cain gave his life here.



Captain T Howarth MC and Bar.
He won a Military Cross twice, once with the 10th Battalion in 1916
at the battle of Albert ,Gazetted 26/01/17
and again with the
1st Bn (attached to the 10th Bn) at Martinpuiche Gazetted on the 02/12/18.

Died on 08/11/1918
Private Walter Shackleton
10th Lancashire Fusiliers

Private Walter Shackleton, aged 33, of the 10th Lancashire Fusiliers died of wounds in France on November 8th, 1918. This soldier who was married and resided at 76, Green Street, Middleton, and enlisted on November 17th, 1915, and went to the front in July, 1916. He was formerly a spinner at the Rex Mill and was connected with the Primitive Methodist Church at Middleton, where he was secretary of the Band of Hope, and a teacher in the school.

Private Shackleton is laid to rest at Etaples Military Cemetery, France.
Only 3 days before the end of the war.