SOLDIERS old and new united to commemorate Bury's brave and fearless Lancashire Fusiliers. Eight-nine years ago to the very day, April 25, hundreds of local "boys" were slaughtered as they stormed ...

Now a new exhibition aims to honour the lives of the lost soldiers of the Somme - and an appeal has been issued to trace their relatives. Twelve battalions of the Bury-based Lancashire Fusiliers ...

At dawn, the Bury-based 1st Battalion, the Lancashire Fusiliers, landed on a beach to the west of Cape Helles, the southernmost tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Turkish soldiers waited until the ...

Yet one battalion, the Lancashire Fusiliers, magnificently upheld the best traditions'. The Fusiliers 2nd Battalion was among 2,000 soldiers who were detailed to capture Spion Kop's Lookout Hill ...

A Lancashire Fusiliers solider discovered by workmen 100 years after the end of WW1 in an Austrian shell hole will be given full military honours in an Armistice Day ceremony A DEFENCE minister ...

and a young soldier with the Lancashire Fusiliers. He lied about his age, and walked from Bolton to Bury to join up when he was 15; he went to China with them in about 1933. "When the war started ...

The bodies of three soldiers, including one from Blackpool ... both of The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment Of Scotland (2 SCOTS), and Private Robert Murray Hetherington ...

The body of the unknown hero, who served in the Lancashire Fusiliers regiment, was buried alongside two Australian soldiers on Tuesday afternoon in Ypres, Belgium AN unidentified British soldier ...

Three unidentified British and Australian soldiers who died in the First ... The Briton, who served in the Lancashire Fusiliers regiment, is estimated to have been between 23 and 29 when he ...