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The Halstead Brothers

Thomas and Bridget Halstead were parents to six children, all born between 1888 and 1899 as the family moved around different towns across east Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire. Bridget was an Irish immigrant from Dublin and Thomas, born in Haslingden, to where his family had moved some years earlier from a remote [...]

By |2020-09-14T13:31:12+01:00October 2nd, 1918|East Lancashire Regiment, Kings Liverpool Regiment, Soldiers Stories, South Lancashire Regiment|0 Comments
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Joshua Heys

Joshua’s last known relative in the parish passed away in 2015, not long after providing some information about him and his service in the war. Further detail about Joshua has proved difficult to find and it may be that his military records were amongst those destroyed or badly damaged during the second world war. What [...]

By |2020-09-14T13:31:12+01:00September 15th, 1918|Kings Liverpool Regiment, Soldiers Stories|2 Comments
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What started the war?

The spark that set Europe on fire came on June 28 1914 when Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungary throne, was assassinated in Sarajavo, Serbia. Within four weeks the death of this one man led to the start of the First World War.

WW1 FACTS

Over eight million military personnel died

Over 28 million military personnel were injured or lost

Unknown countless millions of civilians died or were injured.

Why the world went to war

The First World War started in a few weeks between late July and early August 1914 and ended in the Armistice on November 11 1918.



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