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Where a soldiers name is honoured
and a soldiers fame is dear.
Nowhere will he be forgotten
Least of all forgotten here.
Background music:-
Deanna Durbin, it's called Love's old Sweet Song.

Men of the XXth at Rest

Gone but not forgotten.

Omnia Audax
XXth
STAND EASY GENTS
Jimmy Lovelady

Eric Ogden

Tug Wilson.

Brian Yates.

Jesse Owen.

Les Lamb

Dave Graham.

Brian Walsh.


Jack Horrocks.
Joe Gidman.
21st Sept 2003 aged 77
37822 Cpl
Arthur Chadwick

Dick Wordsworth.

Billy Roberts
(C Coy) 1LF

Smudge Smith 91

Bill Phillips.
George 'Judder' Loftus.
George Kay.
Lofty Broughton
Jim (Spud) Murphy
John McGovern.
Charlie Gaze.
Bill Beetham
24th November 2003
Frank Street
Jimmy Kenny
Joe Jones.
17th November 2003.
Jimmy Jones
(MT & D Coy)
Jim Pygott
Don Ashton
Harry Goodman
Geordie Robinson
(MT)
Jim Farramond
George Powell
1993. Aged 74.

Jimmy Mills
(A/Tank)
Johnny Ball
Wally Hassan
Tommy Tooth
Clive Hamer
Jerry Collopy
Bill Windsor.
4th Nov 2003. Aged 81

Jim O'Brien (Big OB)


Paddy McGowan.

Eric (Chalkie) White M.M.

Tommy Shipley
Pete (PeeWee) Walsh.
Feb 1st 2004

John Hevey
Jimmy Penny
Alan O'Connor.
2001
RSM Alley
Hon Col Ching
(Lorne Scots)
Bert Riley.
1995
Ken Hines
Wilf McEvoy.
July 2004
Joseph Loveridge.
28/6/04. Age 89
Jack Barrett.
Cpl Terry Hoske
(RAPC Att.)
Brian (Nobby) Hall.
7 March 2005
John Burke
Frank Seddon
J. Tate
George Hillman
Eric Crooke
Peter Strange
Jim Brannigan

Raymond (Maxie) Maxwell

Sidney Sidebottom

Wally Bentham

Bill Goodier
George (Judder) Williams 23rd Dec 2003 Aged 62
Cpl Norman Jones,
1923-2002
Harry Derbyshire
Norman Bennison
Roy Lee
Dave Reid
Albert Crompton.
23 Nov 2004 aged 82.
Dave (Eddie) Edwards
Lt. Col.Tony Richards former 1LF Bandmaster
26th Oct 2002.
Darrel Walker
Pete Singleton
Jonathon Dixon
Sgt. Albert Atherton. 10/03/2005
Harry Bennett
Jim Callaghan
280648
Leonard Garner MM (WW1)
Frank Mackenzie.
P.O.W. Far East
Alan Bookbinder (Bandsman)

Ken Davies
(Bn Swimmer)
William Barrington Rawsthorne
Frederick W. Johnson. 1/11/05
28849
Fus John (Jack) Batten
6th Bn.
Died 1951
Lt John Crossley
( D Day Veteran)
Frank N. Barker.
1 L F,
1950-53.
16/3/05.

Frank Rothwell
Bandsman.
4th April 2002 aged 75


Fus Clifford Platt
 8th June 1985

Derek Walker.
Nov 17, 2004

Martin Bewley.
June 14th. 2005
James(Jim)Simmons
1st/8th LF
aged 86 20/03/06

3459530 RSM
John Kerrs
11 October 1919
21 November 1999
Aged 80 years

Peter Taylor
1LF Bandsman
1966-1991
13/3/06

Sam Sherriff 1LF
14/3/06


Chick Conroy.
Died 2000 aged 89.
Served 1925 to 195-? with 2LF and later 1 LF then other Regimental Bands
Edward Michael O'Connor
2 L F.
Dunkirk Veteran
Died 30/01/1964


Ken Coward
1st/8th LF
aged 81 29/03/06


Sgt Bernard Flannery
1LF and 1RRF.
passed away 11th August 2006

Paddy Daley

Sgt Terry Mc Nally
Band
3526210Sergeant John Henry Wilson
passed away peacefully on the
26th June 2006.
aged 91
2nd Bn,


Neil (Danny) Kay
2LF Trieste
RSM at Bury ACF


Arthur Spinks,
passed away on the
14th January 2007
nearly 80yrs of age.
He served in Support company, Egypt, Mortar platoon.

 


"Sgt William James Stowell
One of Wingates
LF Chindits 1922-2006"

Drummer Leslie Riding
Born 26 March 1936
Passed Away 4th February 1976


Fus Ron Spain
passed away on
26 January 2007
Ron served 1955-57 in Iserlohn and Cyprus on the MT section

Danny Kavanagh
January 2003.


Bob Scotson
1LF and 5LF
brother of John Scotson
our Assoc secretary
passed away in
Albany Western Australia
on
12th September 2006.


Sgt Ron Smethurst
1LF as Pioneer Sgt, A Coy Pl Sgt and Sgts Mess Caterer in Weeton.
1st October 2006



William Burton
Born 22 Oct 1919
died 6th Jan 1999.
2LF Dunkirk

Sam Davies
1LF
passed away
25th March 1993
aged 75.


Kenny McCreadie
Brother in Law of
Jimmy Kavanagh also an LF
19/12/1978
aged 39 years old.
Drummer in Osnabruck

23924602
Sgt Basil (Baz) Brace.
passed away
23rd October 1997
1LF and 3RRF Band
Sgt Les Jackman
passed away
16th March 2007
1LF Band
1945 - 1959

235093 Matthew Lomax
Born 1899 at Radcliffe.
He died in 1961.
16th Bn LF


William Lea
passed away
30th April 2004

22771829 Cpl
Anthony Francis Stamp
Known as: Tony (Paddy)
1LF1950-60
Cyprus, Kenya, Germany & Egypt
Born 17/10/34
passed away 21st June 2005

Fred Lamb
Died 16th Dec 2007
1 LF from 1947 to 1969,

Frank Greenwood
aged 91
2LF at Monte Cassino

Cpl Paul Harrison
born 18 March 1933
died
27 February 1998
1LF July 51 to Apr 62
23230272
Joseph Frederick Lewins
LF Bandsman


S/Sgt George Albert Davies
1LF
China, India,



John Snee
1LF Band
Osnabruck
29th May 2008


Jamie Reed
Burma Star Vet
passed away 4th June 2007

Kiwi Johnson
 22 years with the LF's

Sgt George J. Pilkington
Died 1991 aged 65
Served with the Royal Marines and the LF's 1943 to 1960
served in Burma and was at the
D Day Landing

3451236 Sgt Edward James Morgan.
LF from 1934 until end of WW2
 11. 04.2008


Roy Pennington
1LF Osnabruck
Died 24th July 2004


Brian(Dave) Davenport
passed away on 7/11/96
1LF Cyprus


Capt Jim Shaw
Died Aug 2008
1LF 5LF 1RRF 3RRF

Harold Castrey
11th December 2008
1LF MT Sgt

Mike Maher
died 25 September 2008 aged 63
1LF Anti Tank Platoon at Erskine Camp N.T. Kowloon

Tom Graham
died on the
12th August 2008.
He was in the band in
Osnabruck 1960-62.

Major G P Tice.
 Died 24 October 1958
South Australia.

James (Hendo) Henderson
1LF from 56-59 in Cyprus
Died in Feb 2004


3657587 Fusilier Harry Howell.
1st Bn LFs (Chindit)
Died 2nd July 1996 at Littlehampton West Sussex.


Jack Wallbank
 11th Bn Malta
Died March 1985
Les ( Cheddar) Holland,
Served with 1 LF in Osnabruck,
died
12 November 1998

Brian (Tich) Hellawell
16th May 2009

23623462 Fus Peter Derby

enlisted at Bury 21 May 1959 and was discharged 13th March 1961.
He died in 2008


John Stephen Roberts
Egypt and Africa in the 1950
30th March 2009
at the age of 80

Graham Lanyon
1LF
4th June 2009 aged 67

Horace Tomlinson
1LF Egypt, Italy, Palastine and Malta .1940 to1945
27th July 2009 aged 94 years

Vincent Leonard Jones
1LF Cyprus 1951
23rd July 2009

Alan Bimpson
1LF
Sept 24th 2006

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James (Jim) Anthony Brackley
20/11/2004
Band Sgt Major and
Regimental Association Secretary for many years.

Horace(Jim) Hearne.
Canada 1999. Age 81

Lt. Col.
Kevin Hill. M.C. MBE

Major John McQ Hallam


Major Christopher Lea MC
Brother of
Lieutenant General
Sir George Lea
Colonel XX The Lancashire Fusiliers
1st June 2006
served with the LFs in Dunkirk


Bill Paton
1st Bn LF
Lucknow, India
1945 - 1946
He died unexpectedly on Saturday 13th October, 2007

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Where a soldiers name is honoured
and a soldiers fame is dear.
Nowhere will he be forgotten
Least of all forgotten here.