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 ...

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 ...

Soldiers from the Lancashire Fusiliers and The King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment are among a group which have been reburied in Ypres, Belgium. In the second of his special reports on the unknown ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four soldiers whose remains were discovered nearly 90 years after they gave their lives in World War I are to be buried with full military honours. Private Richard Lancaster, of the 2nd Battalion of ...

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 ...