10th July 2023
Introduction to the essays
A series of complementary essays giving personal accounts, and wherever possible a local flavour. It is well worth dipping into these very moving stories;…
10th July 2023
Rememberance
When I was a lad, at the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month everything stopped; the buses, the cars and the people. I was about seven; we…
10th July 2023
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission – A Tribute
No one who has seen a Commonwealth War Graves Commission War Cemetery will need any words to recall the sheer beauty and overwhelming sense of care, pride and…
10th July 2023
The Royal British Legion
These wonderful emotive words were written by Lancaster's own Laurence Binyon, who was born on the 10th of August 1869 at number 1 High Street; and were first…
10th July 2023
In search of information
These notes mainly relate to the army, but will in a small part cover service personnel of the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. The aim of the note is to give…
10th July 2023
A slogging match
The Battalion arrived on the Normandy Beachhead 18 June. Landing by LSL. They were warned for battle on 26 June. The Regimental History describes fighting over…