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7th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
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Those known to have served with7th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Cotton Charles William. CSM (d.8th Jun 1917)
- Dixon John. Pte. (d.1st July 1916)
- Fitzmaurice Francis. L/Cpl. (d.2nd August 1917)
- Kavanagh William. Pte. (d.31st Jul 1917)
- Moran J.. Pte. (d.15th Jun 1917)
- Mullaly Thomas. Pte. (d.31st Jul 1917)
- Porter Joseph. Pte. (d.8th June 1917)
- Sawyer Thomas William. Pte. (d.16th June 1917)
- Shanks Ronald Earnest. (d.15th Jun 1917)
- Syddall Robert Henry. Pte. (d.23rd Jul 1916)
- Wilkinson VC Thomas Orde Lawder. Lt. (d.5th July 1916)
- Woodward Walter. Pte. (d.31 Jul 1917)
- Woodward Walter. Pte. (d.31st Jul 1917)
- Woodward Walter. Pte. (d.31st July 1917)
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Pte. Thomas Mullaly 7th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (d.31st Jul 1917) My husband's grand uncle, Thomas Mullaly, was killed in action at Passchendaele on 31st July 1917. He was a member of the 7th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. He is remembered on the Ypres Menin Gate.
We are going over to Ypres in September to pay our respects as we had no idea that Thomas even existed until we were completing my husband's family tree. My husband has recently been diagnosed with cancer and to pay these respects is on his bucket list.
His mother never spoke of her uncle, in fact we don't even know whether she knew him.
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Lt. Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson VC 7th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (d.5th July 1916)  Thomas Wilkinson died 5th July 1916, aged 22 and is commemorated on The Thiepval Memorial in France.
He was the son of Charles Orde Wilkinson and Edith Wilkinson, of Ardanoir, Foynes, Co. Limerick.
An extract from the London Gazette, dated 26th Sept., 1916, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery. During an attack, when a party of another unit was retiring without their machine-gun, Lieut. Wilkinson rushed forward, and, with two of his men, got the gun into action, and held up the enemy till they were relieved. Later, when the advance was checked during a bombing attack, he forced his way forward and found four or five men of different units stopped by a solid block of earth, over which the enemy was throwing bombs. With great pluck and promptness he mounted a machine-gun on the top of the parapet and dispersed the enemy bombers. Subsequently he made two most gallant attempts to bring in a wounded man, but at the second attempt he was shot through the heart just before reaching the man. Throughout the day he set a magnificent example of courage and self-sacrifice."
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Pte. Walter Woodward 7th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (d.31st July 1917) Walter Woodward was killed in the 3rd Battle of Ypres and is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing.
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CSM Charles William Cotton 7th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (d.8th Jun 1917) Charles Cotton joined up in August 1914. He was awarded the Italian Bronze Medal. Son of John and Sarah Cotton, of Bolton; husband of Edith Cotton, of 19, Mortfield Lane, Bolton, Lancs.
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Pte. William Kavanagh 7th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (d.31st Jul 1917) William Kavanagh was serving with 7th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment when he died on the 31st of July 1917.
He is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
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Pte. Walter Woodward 7th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (d.31st Jul 1917) Walter was born in 1898 the son of William and Margaret Woodward of 42 Webb Street, Liverpool.
He enlisted in the Army reserve at the Technical college in Liverpool on the 20th of December 1916. He was 18 years and 10 months old and had been working as a capstan fitter. He was unmarried, and lived with his parents.
Walter was called up for service immediately on joining the reserve, he was posted into Seaforth barracks as part of 68th training reserve battalion. His service number at this time was 20857.
On the 20th of April 1917, Walter embarked from Folkstone, bound for Boulougne. Upon his arrival in France he was transferred to the 7th battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. He was given a new service number 27780.
On the 31st of July 1917, the fist day of the battle of Passchendaele Walter was reported as missing in action. He was later presumed as dead for official purposes.
Walter is remembered on the Menin gate memorial, Ypres.
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Ronald Earnest Shanks 7th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (d.15th Jun 1917) Ronald Shanks joined up with Bedford Regiment at Bury St. Edmunds. He was killed on the 15th of June 1917, his body was not recovered and his name is recorded on the Menin Gate in Ieper.
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Pte. John Dixon 7th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (d.1st July 1916)
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Pte. Walter Woodward 7th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (d.31 Jul 1917) I must admit I don't know a great deal about what my great uncle Walter Woodward did at war, but I most of all want him to be noted on your website as a member of the Loyal North Lancs and someone who died for the cause.
Walter was born in February 1898 in West Derby, Liverpool. He was the 2nd youngest son of Margaret and William Woodward. He had 5 brothers and 4 sisters.
At the time he was called up to service he was a capstan fitter living in 42, Webb street, West Derby, he was unmarried. He joined at the technical college, which I think was in Seaforth (he was 18 years and 10 months) on the 20th of December 1916. To bring a little background in, the family had already lost one of the brothers in July 1916, Reginald (born 1894) of the Liverpool Regiment had been killed in Delville Wood in the Battle of the Somme, so everyone was warning Walter to keep his head down and not take any chances.
According to his war record he was in France* from April up to July 1917. He died in the field on the 31st of July that year during an offensive, according to my uncle by a gunshot wound to the head. Inexplicably he is remembered at the memorial at Ypres, Menin gate, which makes us wonder if he was moved to Belguim for the 3rd Battle of Ypres and perhaps died on the first day of fighting.
Editors Note: *Most Great War records consider France and Flanders as a single entity, usually written as France, shorthand for anywhere on the Western Front. 7th Btn Loyal North Lancs served with the 19th Division who took part in the Battle of Passchendaele which began with an attack on the 31st of July 1917, so it would be safe to assume that this is the offensive in which Walter lost his life.
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