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Pte. Robert Ashworth
British Army 8th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:Great Harwood
(d.31st Jul 1917)
From family verbal memories of my mother (Robert's younger sister),
Robert Ashworth was born into a Lancashire Mill Working Family. He was sent to work in the Mill on leaving school at 14, but hated the life, ran away from home. He found work as a Farm Labourer in nearby village of Sabden and loved the life. My mother remembers that Robert used to bring his Pony and Trap over from his farm in Sabden on a Sunday to take his mother & little sister on country runs. His mother said she felt like The Queen.
Robert enlisted in 8th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment in Feb 1917. After initial training, he was sent to Belgium. He was killed in battle on a Tuesday in July 1917 most probably on the 1st day of Passchendaele. Remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial, which bears the names of men lost without trace.
Sadly, after Robert's death, he was never ever mentioned in the family again.