Stacksteads Wesleyan chapel, Rock Hill Road, Bacup originally had three memorials, to the eleven Sunday School scholars who died in the First World War, the seventeen members who died in the First World War, and the five who died in the Second World War. These have now been replaced by a transcription, as described here:– Stacksteads Methodist
This list is of the members of the chapel who died in the First World War. The majority served in the local regiment.
[Pte] Ernest Keys 26734 5th Bn. East Lancashire Regt.
[Pte] Albert Symes [17091] 7th Bn. East Lancashire Regt.
[Pte] Arthur Halstead 26454 1st Bn. East Lancashire Regt.
[Pte] Fred Howarth 1358 Royal Marines Light Infantry
[Gnr] Albert Rodgerson 67372 Royal Field Artillery
[Pte] Roland Ratcliffe 3296 1st Bn. Welsh Guards
[Pte] William Manhall Cudworth 308920 Tank Corps
[Pte] Harold Kay [203324] 1/5th Bn. East Lancashire Regt.
[Pte] R. Hamer Riding [28982] 8th Bn. East Lancashire Regt.
[Pte] George W. Clegg 37714 2nd Bn. East Lancashire Regt.
[Pte] James Coupe M/350261 Royal Army Service Corps
[Pte] Harry Carter [25190] 11th Bn. East Lancashire Regt.
[Pte] Albert J. Hutchinson 46508 2nd Bn. South Lancashire Regt.
[Driver] John R. Lord T3/02161 Royal Army Service Corps
[L/Cpl] Fred Ashworth 358338 1/10th Bn. King’s (Liverpool) Regt.
[Rifleman] Horace Hord 228817 1st Bn. Monmouthshire Regt.
[L/Cpl] Joseph Musk 11895 6th Bn. East Lancashire Regt.
Additional source: Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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