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8th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment
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Those known to have served with8th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Brogan Henry. Pte. (d.7th Jul 1916)
- Camps Thomas William. Sgt.
- Counsell James. Cpl. (d.10th July 1916)
- Ferguson Alexander. Pte. (d.3rd Nov 1915)
- Furnaess Ernest George. Pte. (d.29th August 1916)
- Handley Thomas Frederick. L/Cpl (d.11th October 1916)
- Judges Frederick William . Pte. (d.17th Jun 1917 )
- Miller Edward. Pte. (d.10th July 1916)
- Peacocke Herbert P.. 2nd Lt. (d.3rd July 1916)
- Phelan Daniel. Sgt. (d.23rd Feb 1917)
- Plant John Thomas. Pte. (d.3rd Jul 1916)
- Regan Henry. Pte.
- Reynolds George. L/Cpl. (d.21st October 1916)
- Sherman William. Pte. (d.15th Jul 1916)
- Stewart William. Pte. (d.14th June 1917)
- Stockton Randall Richard. Pte. (d.24th Oct 1916)
- Thomas John Lister. (d.21st October 1916)
- Wild John Tucker. Pte. (d.29th May 1918)
- Wright Harold. Pte. (d.16th October 1917)
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Pte. Frederick William Judges 8th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment (d.17th Jun 1917 ) Frederick Judges is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres.
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Pte. William Sherman 8th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment (d.15th Jul 1916) William Sherman was wounded at Ploegsteert Wood on the 6th of December 1915, he recovered from wounds and rejoined his regiment in June 1916.
He was killed in Action at Ovillers in the Battle of the Somme, his body was never found.
Lance Corporal John Sherman of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers wrote:
"Lying in France in a nameless grave, lies my dear Uncle amongst the brave"
Pte William Sherman was my Great Great Great Uncle.
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John Lister Thomas 8th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment (d.21st October 1916) John Thomas served with the 8th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment. Just discovered his details from a piece of fa,mily history I had had for a long while. He shared the same great great grandfather as me, Richard Lister. John was a coach painter in civilian life although he was known to have poor eyesight. He was unmarried. He was killed on the Somme in 1916 and his body was never found. His name is on the Theipval Memorial to the missing.
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Pte. Ernest George Furnaess 8th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment (d.29th August 1916) Ernest George Furnaess was my grandmother's brother. He was born in Pembroke Dock in 1887. He was killed in action in the village of Thiepval in the Somme, aged 28 years on 29th August 1916. He had married Susannah Jones in February 1915 and they lived at 42 Victoria Road, Rhyl. I know nothing more about him.
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Pte. Alexander Ferguson 8th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment (d.3rd Nov 1915) Private Alexander Ferguson of the South Lancashire Regiment was killed by a fragment of a 'Whizbang', while in his fire trench in Ploegsteert Wood, Flanders, on the 3rd of November 1915. He is buried in Rifle House Cemetery.
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2nd Lt. Herbert P. Peacocke 8th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment (d.3rd July 1916) 2nd Lt. Herbert Peacocke, 8th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment was killed in action at Thiepval on the 3rd of July 1916,
Aged 20 years. "He sprang to Duty’s call,
He stood the test."
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Pte. John Tucker Wild 8th Btn South Lancashire Regiment (d.29th May 1918) John Wild was wounded in May 1916 by shrapnel. He died in 1918 of pneumonia whilst still under treatment for his wounds.
He is buried in Stockport (Willow Grove) Cemetery.
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Pte. Randall Richard Stockton 8th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment (d.24th Oct 1916) Randall Stockton was my great uncle who I never met. He married my great aunt in 1915 and went off to war, never to return. I am trying to find out as much information as I can.
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Pte. Henry Brogan 8th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment (d.7th Jul 1916) Henry Brogan served with the 8th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) and died of wounds on the 7th July 1916.
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Pte. John Thomas Plant 8th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment (d.3rd Jul 1916)  My half sister and I have just returned from a long planned pilgrimage to the grave of our paternal great uncle. It was a wonderful experience to see the now tranquil place in which he lies and very difficult to imagine the horrors of the battlefield that it once was.
Private John Thomas Plant was a coal miner before he enlisted during the first war. John was the son of Job and Sarah Ann Plant(nee Salt) and was born in Cheadle Staffordshire. His older sister was our paternal grandmother. John came from a poor family and, in those days, TB was very common amongst the poorer folk. The irony of John`s early death at just 24 is that, from the very start of his life he was doomed to an early death. His sister, my grandmother, died at just 21 leaving behind her only child, my dad who was only 18 months old at that time. In later years, my Dad often told the tale of how his grandfather talked about his only surviving daughter, Harriet being on her death bed and saying "Our John is hurt, he is on the ground and won`t get up" soon after this Job had the telegram to say that John had been killed in action near Thiepval. My point is, that being a miner John could easily now lie at the bottom of a coal mine or have fallen victim of TB instead of now resting within view of the Thiepval Memorial and the Ulster tower from his grave in the Connaught Cemetery. John, being from a poor family, would never have had a headstone to his grave or lie in such peaceful surroundings and, having no wife or children to carry on his memory, he would now have been forgotten. Thanks to the CWGC his grave will always be tended and now bears a poppy wreath telling all who care to pause there that even though we, his great nieces, never actually knew him his memory will be loved and honoured down through the family. All we had is one single photo of a handsome young man, not in Army uniform but clad in his Sunday best. Now, we have memories of a beautiful sunny day and the photos we took of his family paying their respects, not just for themselves, but on behalf of our own father as well as those of his own father and mother who would never have been able to make that pilgrimage themselves.
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