The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment celebrated its heritage with a Waterloo Parade at Weeton Barracks on June 21.

The sketches, by 2nd Lieutenant Noel Whittles, of the Lancashire Fusiliers 19th Battalion, were made during the Battle of the Somme will be on show at Trafford Local Studies & Archives Centre.

The brand has another manufacturing facility in Coatbridge, Scotland which will remain in operation. The production carried out in Lancashire will be moved to its various European suppliers.

“After training as a Signals Officer, JRR Tolkien served with the 11th (Service) Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers - one of the many Service Battalions of Kitchener's New Army,” Mr Hamill-Keays said.

Private James Chalmers, who was born in Scotland, was signed from Sunderland in 1898 played 13 first team matches for North End in the season 1898-99 before moving to Notts County.

On May 6, 1944 during the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy, Francis Arthur Jefferson, a soldier with the British Army’s Lancashire Fusiliers, engaged a German tank with a Projectile Infantry ...

The Lancashire Fusiliers existed from 1688 to 1968 before amalgamating with others to form what is now the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. The regiment ended the First World War with 18 Victoria ...

The Lancashire Fusiliers existed from 1688 to 1968 before amalgamating with others to form what is now the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. The regiment ended the First World War with 18 Victoria ...

This was the second wave of Russian troops waiting to go over the top in Ukraine in 1917 and the Lancashire Fusiliers on a boat at Gallipoli in 1915.

He was baptised at Christ Church on July 10, 1898. Their address was 108 Portland Road. In 1901 the family, including three children, was living at 6 Hertford Road, Worthing. By 1911 the family, with ...