Just Remember

All across the nation, at memorials in towns, villages and cities, wreaths will be laid and a proper pride paraded in Remembrance of those who were the living, and dying, embodiment of the epitaph inscribed on the Leyland War Memorial, dedicated to those who gave their lives for others in the First and Second World Wars...

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS

These local people did...

Archer, O. Arrowsmith, W. Bamber, H. Banks, W. Barr, P. Barrett, M. Barritt, F.S. Billing, G. Bilsborrow, J. Bradley, W. Brennan, F. Burns, W. Carter-McGrath, T. Cookson, D. Dawber, T. Dickinson, I. Fielding, J. Fishwick, J. Gallagher, D. Gold, D. Gregson, W.V. Griffiths, G. Grimshaw, H. Harrop, W.C. Heyes, T. Hinchcliffe, J.W. Holding, E. Horrocks, J.W. Hotchkiss, T. Hoyle, H. Kellett, O. Knight, J. Latham, F. Lewis, T. Lyons, T. Mann, W. Marsden, A.	Almond, T. Anson, H.H. Appleby, F. Ashton, J. Aspinall, R. Baldwin, F. Baldwin, T.G. Ball, G. Banister, F. Banister, H. Banister, T. Barker, E. Barnes, T. Barnes, J. Barron, R. Beardwood, J.A. Beardsworth, H. Beardsworth, R. Bennett, J. Bennett, H. Bennett, H. Berry, J.T. Berry, O.W. Berry, W. Berry, W.J. Bibby, c. Blackhurst, C. Blackhurst, J.M. Blundell, F. Blundell, V. Bolton, S. Bowling, A. Bowling, F. Boydell, P. Bradley, J. Braithwaite, R. Bretherton, J. Bretherton, S. Brindle, A. Brown, R. Brown, B. Brown, G. Burke, J.T. Butcher, F.G. Cameron, R.M.M. Cameron, N.M. Campbell, J. Campbell, T. Campbell, Jos. Campbell, W.	Cardwell, H. Carline, E. Carr, J. Carr, T. Catterall, J.H. Chamberlain, A. Chapman, J. Collinge, G. Collinge, W. Cook, C. Cook, W. Cottam, R. Croft, T.R. Crook, T. Crook, E. Cross, E. Cuncannon, J.E. Dawber, H.W. Dawber, W. Dewhurst, H. Ditchfield, R. Eaves, W. Fairclough, T. Fairclough, F. Fazackerley, J. Fidler, W. Finch, T. Fletcher, H. France, J. Glover, G. Glover, T. Glover, T.F. Gray, J.B. Gray, R. Hampson, W. Harrison, G. Harrison, N. Hatton, A. Hankin, G. Hawkins, C. Hewitson, G. Heyes, H. Higham, J. Higham, W.J. Higham. T. Hill, E. Hill, J. Hilton, J. Holding, R. Holmes, A.
Holmes, R. Holmes, W. Hornby, B. Hornby, H. Hornby, R. Jackson, H.B. Jackson, R. Jackson, W. Joyce, J. Kelly, J. Kenyon, T.W. King, J.T. Knight, J. Lazenby, R. Lindley, T. Marsden, F. Marsden, J. Marsden, W. Marsh, A. Marston, G. Marston, S. McCall, J. McDade, H. Middleton, A.C. Miller, B. Miller, M. Moore, J.E. Morrell, R.D.A. Morris, H. Morris, T. Moss, E. Nelson, R. Norris, T. Norris, S.A. Page, A. Parker, A. Parker, T.M. Pearce, F.E. Pemberton, T. Pendreigh, T. Pickup, H. Pickup, T. Porter, H. Porter, J.W. Potter, T. Preston, W.C.N. Pye, J.E. Riding, P. Rose, C.L. Sharples, J.	Sharples, J.C. Simspon, J.W. Smalley, H. Smalley, P. Southworth, H. Spiby, T. Starkie, J. Stephenson, L. Stringfellow, J. Swarbrick, J.B. Tattersall, W. Taylor, M. Thornley, G. Thornley, S. Thornton, S. Tinsley, R. Towers, G, Towers, R. Trafford, J. Turner, R. Valentine, R. Wallbank, H. Walmsley, C. Wane, J. Wareing, C. Wareing, J. Waring, T. Watkinson, W. Watson, J. Whatley, G. Wignall, T. Wildman, J. Wilson, H. Wilson, T. Wilson, R. Wood, W.L. Woods, J. Woods, R. Woodacre, F. Woodhall, W. Woodhouse, C.J. Wrennall, F. Wrennall, R. Yates, S. Tyrer, A. Fairclough, J.	Mayo, V.J. McDougall, H. McIver, C. Miller, F. Morley, R.G. Neale, J. O'Conner, R. Ogden, J. Parker, G. Parker, J. Parkinson, P. Parr, J. Peters, J. Seddon, H.L. Sefton, J.F. Shaw, H. Shepherd, F.W. Shires, F.S. Smith, F. Snape, W. Squires, A. Strangeway, R.W. Swift, T. Taylor, W. Thacker, W.L. Thomas, J.F. Todd, J.T. Tuffin, C. Valentine, F. Ward, H. Ward, M. Watson, T. Whitney, E. Williams, J.E.H. Williams, R.J. Willmott, G.H.E. Wright, R.J.

This year an additional memorial will be officially unveiled in memory of local people who have lost their lives in conflicts since 1945...
Gordon Yates, Korea 1951
Michael David Love, Falklands 1982
Stephen Robert Wright, Iraq 2006

One local family will be remembering Jackie Trafford, the little boy who perished in October 1940 aged just 11 years old when a German bomb thought to be aimed at the Leyland Motors Factory fell on Ward Street, Lostock Hall.

Isabella Trafford, Jackie's mother campaigned for years for a memorial to the 25 people killed in the tragedy to be erected and finally saw it unveiled in 1991 when she was 87 years old.

...is also being remembered

Other war memorials in the area can be found at: Brownedge Road, Bamber Bridge -Duddle Lane Junction Tardy Gate, Lostock Hall -Hope Terrace St. Ambrose Church, Leyland -Bow Lane St. Andrews Church, Leyland -Church Road

You can also locate other memorials from familiar community crosses and statues to less common memorials like bus shelters, sundials, park benches and even an island at UK National Inventory of War Memorials. Research military history and find records of your ancestors in the military at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk