The route followed the Lancashire Fusiliers final ... Rochdale's streets for a re-enactment of the Lancashire Fusiliers final march before they headed to war in 1914. The re-enactment was arranged ...

A museum's search for the last of six Victoria Crosses "won before breakfast" by the Lancashire Fusiliers in the WW1 ... any action of the entire Great War". In total, 18 men from the Lancashire ...

The story of the Lancashire Fusiliers at Gallipoli in Turkey is one of the most remarkable of World War One. It became known as "Six VCs Before Breakfast", as the Fusiliers attacked W Beach on the ...

Here Lt Col Mike Glover, regimental secretary of the Fusiliers in Lancashire, reveals how the campaign had a tragic impact on Greater Manchester. 'By 1915, the war on the Western Front had ground ...

A WAR hero has "returned" to his Radcliffe ... Hall CE Methodist Primary School by Sgt Lee Snelling of the Lancashire Fusiliers during a special assembly on Tuesday (Nov 14).

The Spanish grave of a British World War I hero has been saved after an appeal to trace ... Sir Gilbert, who commanded the 17th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, was awarded the Military Cross for his ...

George junior served with the 11th Lancashire Fusiliers in the Great War, until he was wounded - he lost an eye. The one major piece of knowledge Glyn cannot discover is when he was wounded and he ...

A WAR memorial is to be moved to a new home.The Grade II-listed monument in Bury, which honours the memory of Lancashire fusiliers killed since the First World War, will be switched from outside ...

Pte William Kenealy, Maj Cuthbert Bromley and Cpl John Elisha Grimshaw Six Victoria Cross medals "won before breakfast" by Lancashire Fusiliers in ... valour shown in the War War One dawn assault ...

The amazing images from the First World War have now been put on display ... 2nd Lieutenant Whittles, of the Lancashire Fusiliers 19th Battalion, described the "rat-infested" trenches, with ...

As part of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War One, Granada Reports has ... explores the massive losses suffered by the Lancashire fusiliers as they stormed a beach during an ...

The men formed part of 2nd battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers A military museum in ... for a few months in the early stages of World War I in 1914. The men were killed in an attack on the village ...