2/4th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

29th May 1918 Reliefs

24th Jun 1918 Reliefs

29th Aug 1918 2/4th Loyals assault Dracourt-Quent line 2nd/4th Bn The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment are engaged in the Battle of the Scarpe 29th/30th August and the assault on the Dracourt-Quent line, the northern extension of the Hindenburg Line.

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Forshaw William. Pte
Ormerod James. Pte.
Ritson Isaac James. Pte. (d.10th August 1917)
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Pte, Lancelot Addison "Lall" Rudd 1/12th Btn. C Company Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

Lancelot Addison Rudd served with the 12th and 2/4th Battalions, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment during WW1. He served in Macedonia, Egypt, Salonika, Palestine and France. He was mustard gassed and also contracted malaria, but he safely returned home to his wife and family and died in 1966.
Michele Sheppard

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Pte. Isaac James Ritson 2/4th Battaion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (d.10th August 1917)

Isaac Ritson was born on 13th of July 1887 at 6 Doctor St, Habergham, Lancashire to Mary Ann Barclay, age 24, and William Ritson, age 24. He lived in Habergham Eaves, Lancashire, England, in 1891. His mother Mary Ann passed away on 10th January 1899, in Burnley, Lancashire, England, at the age of 35. By 1901 Isaac and his father William have moved back to Burnley, Lancashire, England. They have returned to live with William's father Thomas Ritson; also a widower. Isaac is now 13 years of age and working as an apprentice moulder. By 02 April 1911 Isaac and his father are living at 6 Back Albion St., Burnley. Isaac has changed jobs and is now a labour in a brickyard. On 15th June 1912, when he was 24 years old, Isaac married Ethel May Stephenson in the parish church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church, in the parish of Brierfield in the county of Lancaster, England. In attendance were Bertram Stephenson the bride's brother, and Dorothy Avrail Bailey. On the 30th November 1912 a son was born to Isaac and Ethel in Burnley, Lancashire, they named him Herbert Wallace Ritson. His father William passed away in March 1916 in Burnley at the age of 53.
On 12th of December 1915 Isaac James signed up for service in the British Army as can be seen in the Short Service Attestation papers for the British Army. Isaac had received a notice for enlistment received from J J Brown PPR. He was assigned to the 2/4th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, once certified by the approving officer, on 5th of October 1916. He was assigned the service number 6944 and later 203172.
Isaac reported for duty on 5th of October 1916 with the 2/4 Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. While away Isaac James wrote to his son Herbert. For Christmas of that year the men of the 2/4th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment were given a regimental photograph. According to the regimental diary the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment left England for France near the end of February 1917.
203172, Private Isaac James Ritson serving with the 2/4th Battalion (Territorial Force)., Loyal North Lancashire Regiment was killed in action, France & Flanders, 10th of August 1917 Born: Burnley, Lancs, Enlisted: Burnley.
A letter from an NCO or officer in charge of the company wrote Ethel a letter explaining and detailing the nature and circumstances pertaining to the death of her husband. The following is my best recollection as to the nature of the letter. This letter being lost by a family member who had borrowed it to have the letter copied. Pte Isaac James Ritson was killed in action on 10 August 1917 when a horse landed on him. Reading the regimental diaries, they tell us that there was artillery fire almost every day as a common occurrence.
An excerpt from Moina Belle Michael's poem:
And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
Well teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.
In Flanders Fields we fought.

Isacc is remembered on the World War 1 Memorial inside The Salvation Army in Burnley.
Larry Ritchie

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Pte William Forshaw 2/4th Btn Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

William Forshaw, enrolled on 10th December 1915 and served with 2/4th Battalion, Loyal North Lancs Regiment. He was shot in the thigh 26th October 1917 at the third Battle of Ypres.
He was in hospital for 12 months, and was discharged, with a pension of 11 shillings per week, on 12th November 1918. He was assessed as 40% disabled upon his discharge. His pension was reviewed in 1918 to 30% and then, finally, in September 1920, to under 20%.
A W Gilliland

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Pte. James Ormerod 8th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

My Great-Grandfather Jim Ormerod signed up in December 1915 aged 18, but didn't land in France until January 1917 with the 8th Battalion for which he served until they were disbanded in February 1918, he was transferred to the 2nd/4th battalion Loyals and in the spring of 1918 suffered a gas attack and returned to recover in a hospital near Sheffield, what happened after that is a bit of a mystery, his medal index card suggests he served with the Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, however, there was a story saying he was part of Operation Archangel, he survived the war but suffered tremendously with chest problems, he died in 1962.
Paul Watters

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