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The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) was formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 40th Regiment of Foot (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot and the 82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regiment of Foot.
Battalions during the Great War.
- 1st Battalion
- 2nd Battalion
- 3rd (Reserve) Battalion
- 1/4th Battalion
- 2/4th Battalion
- 3/4th Battalion
- 1/5th Battalion
- 2/5th Battalion
- 3/5th Battalion
- 6th (Service) Battalion
- 7th (Service) Battalion
- 8th (Service) Battalion
- 9th (Service) Battalion
- 10th (Reserve) Battalion
- 11th (St Helens Pioneers) Battalion
- 12th (Service) Battalion
- 13th (Reserve) Battalion
- 14th Battalion
- 15th (Reserve) Battalion
- 16th (Transport Workers) Battalion
- 17th (Transport Workers) Battalion
- 18th Battalion
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Those known to have served with The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) during the Great War.
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- Pte. J. Bell (d.10th Jun 1917)
- Pte. John Henry Benbow (d.17th Oct 1916) Read their Story.
- Pte. S. Boam (d.10th Jun 1917)
- Sgt. Thomas William Camps
- Richard Coleman (d.10th June 1917)
- Pte. James Edwin Fellows (d.10th Jun 1917)
- L/Cpl. M. V. Findley (d.10th Jun 1917)
- Pte. F. Foster (d.10th Jun 1917)
- Pte. H. Hufton (d.10th Jun 1917)
- Pte. Walter Charles Miller Read their Story.
- Private Issacc Thomas Pritchard M Milt. Read their Story.
- Pte. I. Rucastle (d.10th Jun 1917)
- Pte. Nathaniel Sowerbutts (d.10th Jun 1917)
- Private, then Lance Corpo George Wilding Mons Star (d.22nd/23rd Nov 1916) Read their Story.
The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add,, or any recollections or photos of those listed, please get in touch.
Pte. John Henry Benbow 1st/5th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment (d.17th Oct 1916)
I am proud to say that John Benbow was my great uncle. He joined up early by lying about his age. Rumour is that he signed up in Shrewsbury with his friend who was 18. He was the only son of Jonathan and Sarah Benbow who ran he farm at Attingham Estate. Even though the family were proud of him they were also devastated by the fact that he had been accepted. The remainder of the family - 3 girls - had to do their share on the farm plus his chores. He became a casualty in the square at Ypres in 1916 and died as a result of those wounds on 17th October 1916 at the age of 18. He is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. None of his immediate family ever travelled to visit his grave but that has now been rectified by the remainder of the family who have all been there since.The only thing we now want to do is to find out what and where he served during those two years as we have no further details. If anyone can be of any help and advice we would be most grateful.
Private, then Lance Corpo George Wilding Mons Star 7th (Service) South Lancashire (d.22nd/23rd Nov 1916)
George Wilding was my brave great uncle, the only one of 5 brothers to be killed in action. He's buried at the Caterpillar Valley Cemetery on The Somme. I wish I knew more about the circumstances of his death but assume it related to the fighting around High Wood.He had been made a lance corporal on 8 March 1916 and had been injured in the February of the same year, when he accidentally grabbed a bayonet, whilst trying to break a fall from a parapet. He was 22.
Private Issacc Thomas Pritchard M Milt. 2nd Btn. South Lancashire Regiment
My granfather, Issac Thomas Pritchard, was a career soldier signed up at age of 18 around 1893. He spent over 24 years in the Army.He had six children with his first wife, only five survived. he was given a discharge in 1917 when his wife died.He remarried and had a further son.
During his 24 years we can trace him as having been in India, Ireland, England and France.It's the France part that is the main interest as we have a copy of the citation when the French Military presented him with the Medale Millitaire on 15th Nov 1914.
Due to the fact his first marriage children went into a home.On his death all his effects went to his son from his second marraige.After his death this medal was, we are told, given to the Regimental Museum then in Warrington. We are very interested in trying to find out what battles he was in and what did he do to get this decoration.
My mother now passed on at 92 along with her twin.
He was also a career soldier in South Lancs and an invalid after Dunkirk.The elder brother died in captivity in Greece 1942 he was Royal Artilitary. I am the eldest in the family of Ivy Margaret Pritchard she married John Thomas Bright
Pte. Walter Charles Miller South Lancashire Regiment
My grandfather was gassed twice during the war, received shrapnel wounds to both legs and his head. I have a photograph of him whilst at the West Ham Red Cross Hospital, Basingstoke. He did not receive a pension, but until his death in 1948 from lung cancer which we believe was related to the gassing. He was never fully fit, suffering from constant lung infections and femoral thromboses.Born in Manchester, he was a highly intelligent man of uneducated Irish parentage who taught me to read before I went to school and continued to oversee my education, particularly in the spoken & written word, until his death. A life-long supporter of the Labour Party, he was an early member of the ILP and was elected to the Fabian Society.
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