Remembrance Day 2018: A lasting tribute to Blackpool's heroes of the Great War
Below is a list of 913 names, featured on Blackpool’s war memorial, of soldiers who died during the First World War.
It gives us some idea of the scale of that sacrifice – but of course the conflict’s death toll across the Fylde coast is even higher.
And, in truth, its full extent may never be known.
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Hide AdThe total number of people from the Fylde coast who laid down their lives between 1914 and 1918 is difficult to calculate.
Names are scattered across multiple monuments, bringing the total across the Blackpool area to more than 1,000.
Across Lancashire, according to the Imperial War Museum’s database, the number of names on monuments is close to 25,000 – for the First World War alone.
But some casualties were never identified – like the unknown soldier from the Lancashire Fusiliers buried near Ypres, Belgium, last week – while others may be honoured on memorials elsewhere.
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Hide AdBut regardless, it is clear from the names we do have that the Fylde coast, like many areas, paid a high price for this war.
But thanks to these memorials – and the painstaking work to trace those who lost their lives – that sacrifice will not be forgotten.
A list of names on Blackpool War Memorial of those who died in the First World War
ADCOCK Stephen
ADDISON Ernest
AINSWORTH J E
ALLDAY B
ALLEN James Matthew
ALLEN Percy
ALLEN Robert
AMBLER Edmund
AMBLER George Howard
ANDERSON Alban
ANDERSON Thomas Colin
ANDERSON W
ANDREW George
ANDREW Robert
ANDREWS Thomas [Williiam]
ANNAND George H
ARCHER E A
ARMITAGE Brooke
ARMITSTEAD Thomas Clifford
ARMITT George
ARMITT John
ARNOLD A
ARROWSMITH J F
ARTON N
ASHBRIDGE Arthur [Samuel]
ASHBRIDGE Thomas
ASHCROFT Joseph H
ASHFORTH C W Douglas
ASHTON Ethelbert Sumner
ASHTON T
ASHWORTH F
ASHWORTH Herbert
ASPINALL Francis Clifford aka Frank
ASPINALL William Samuel
ATKINSON James
ATKINSON Joseph H
ATKINSON Richard
ATKINSON William Peter
AUDSLEY Jack
AUSTIN Henry Arthur
BAGOT Thomas
BAILEY Ernest
BALDERSTONE Henry Hargreave
BALL Jack
BAMBER, MM Frederick William
BAMBER Robert
BANCROFT W H
BARKER James
BARLOW James [Mark]
BARLOW Sidney John
BARNES Alfred
BARNES Harry
BARNES Will
BARRACLOUGH Harwood
BARRETT Frederick
BARRETT G E
BARROW Ernest
BARROW John
BARROW Ralph
BARROW W
BARTON John
BARTON John Willie
BATES Donald
BATES Norman
BAYLIS A E
BEAUMONT George
BEAUMONT Harold
BELL Charles
BELL William Ewart
BELL William
BELLARBY H
BENNETT James Arthur
BENNETT R E
BENNETT William
BENSON Jack William Seymour
BENTLEY Charles
BENTLEY Frederick H
BENTLEY Oscar
BERNHARDT A
BERRIE C
BEST Robert James
BEZLEY R
BIBBY William
BICKERSTAFFE J E
BIDEN L
BILTCLIFFE P
BINNS Thomas
BIRCHALL Harry
BISHOP Arnold
BLACKHURST C
BLACOW Richard
BLANE S T
BLAYLOCK William
BLEZARD Thomas
BLUNDELL Alfred Gresham
BOARDMAN Harry
BOARDMAN John
BOARDMAN Richard
BODEN L
BOLTON Joseph Henry
BONE Samuel
BOOTHROYD William
BOTTOMLEY B
BOTTOMLEY Edgar
BOWDEN Herbert
BOWMAN Leonard James
BOYER Herbert
BOYLE George
BRADLEY Edward Thomas
BRADLEY R
BRADLEY W
BRAITHWAITE John
BRAMWELL J P
BRIGGS Ambrose S
BRIGGS Vincent Joseph
BROADLEY William
BROOKE William
BROOKES John Robert
BROOKMAN Charles Henry
BROUGH J
BROUGHTON J B
BROWN Alfred Heaton
BUCKLEY E
BUCKLEY Louis
BULLOCK, MC Walter John
BURNS William
BURY C
BUTCHER H
BUTCHER John
BUTLER E
BUTLER John
BUTLER S
BUTTERWORTH David V
BUTTERWORTH Howard
BYWATER G
CALLAGHAN Joseph
CALLOW F Edward
CALVERT Harold Bailey
CALVERT James Noel
CALVERT Richard
CAMERON John Gordon
CAMPBELL Thomas Alfred
CAPSTICK Walter
CARDWELL Albert Stafford aka John Stafford
CARDWELL Cornelius
CARDWELL Edward Wallace
CARDWELL Fred
CARDWELL Frederick John
CARDWELL H
CARDWELL John William
CARDWELL Tom
CARDWELL William
CARDWELL William Henry
CARNEY Thomas
CARR Robert
CARTER John
CARTMELL G
CARTMELL James
CARTMELL John
CARTMELL Joseph
CARTMELL Robert
CARTMELL T
CARTMELL T
CARTWRIGHT Joseph Harry
CAVENEY John
CAVENEY William
CHADWICK Thomas Louis
CHEETHAM William
CLARK Duncan James Sidney
CLARK George Frederic
CLARKSON Albert
CLARKSON Robert E
CLEARER J R D
CLEGG John Herbert Birtwistle
CLEGHORN John
CLEMENTS Joseph William
CLINCH John Loton
CLITHEROE John James
CLITHEROE James Norman
CLOUGH Mary
CLOW Arthur
COLES Alfred Henry
COLSTON, MiD John Percy
COLSTON Norman
COMOR M
CONNOR M
CONWAY T
COOKSON Frank
COOKSON John
COOPER A R
COOPER James
COOPER, MiD John Albert
CORBET E
CORNALL, MM Harry
COTTAM Lawrence Alfred
COULSTON Leonard aka Len
COULTON John William
COULTON Thomas
COUPE A
COURTMAN James
COWELL E G
COWPER Harry Pearson
COWPERTHWAITE Hugh C
COX Frank Edwin
COX, MM Harold
COX William J
CRABTREE John Morgan
CRAGG Fred
CRAIG Harry
CRAIG William Frederick
CRANE Arthur Rye
CRANE John
CRAWSHAW C
CRAWSHAW Robert
CROASDALE Henry [Hargreaves]
CROFT George
CROOKALL Jack
CROMPTON Harold
CROMPTON Thomas
CROMPTON W V
CROSLAND N F
CROSS Arthur Moulter
CROSS James
CROSS J
CROSSLEY Claude Edward
CROWTHER James
CRYER James Arthur
CUMMINS James
CURWEN James Richard
CURWEN Robert
DAGGER Thomas
DAGNALL O
DAKIN John
DALEY E
DANN Philip Whitley
DAVIDSON Cyril
DAVIES Alan Cunliffe
DAWSON William
DEANE Joseph Henry Freeman
DENNEY J
DENNEY J R
DENNISON Ernest William
DEWHIRST John [Purcell Bristowe Helouan]
DEWHURST Ernest
DEWHURST Joseph
DEWHURST J
DEWHURST James Joseph
DEWHURST Preston Fletcher
DICKIE Herbert
DIXON John Alfred
DIXON S
DOCHARD Alfred Archibald
DODD Stanley
DOLMAN, MiD Harold Edward
DONALD Josiah Alfred
DONOGHUE James
DORAN William Henry
DOUGLAS Frederick
DOUGLAS Harry
DOUGLAS William [Fairlamb]
DOYLE Stanley V
DREW Albert E E
DRURY Alfred Aloysius
DUCKWORTH Harry
DUCKWORTH Joseph
DUGDALE, DCM, MM James
DUNN Daniel
EASTHAM Bert
EASTHAM C V
EASTWOOD Frederick
EASTWOOD James
EASTWOOD Sam
EASTWOOD Will
EAVES Edward
EAVES George
EAVES John
ECCLES Frank
ECCLES Victor
EDMONDSON A
EDMUNDSON William David
EDWARDS David George
ELLIOT Harry Vincent
ELLIS George
ELSTON P
EMBY Charles Henry
ENGLISH George William
ENTWISTLE John
EVANS John Henry
EVANS J W
EVANS Maden
EVERETT George Francis
FAGEN Thomas
FAIRCLOUGH William Whittaker
FAIRHURST Jack Dixon
FARNWORTH Ben
FARRAND Hubert Percival
FAWCETT Fred
FEARNLEY G
FECITT George Hardman
FENTON James
FIDLER Harry
FIELDEN Richard Watson
FIELDHOUSE William Edwin
FIELDING Joseph Henry
FIRTH Joseph Oliver
FISH Edwin
FISH Harold
FISHER Charles
FISHER James
FISHER William
FISKE William
FLANAGHAN Francis
FLETCHER Charles Edward
FLETCHER Ernest [Norris]
FLETCHER Edward Corston
FLOOD James
FLOYD Granville
FOLDS William Robert
FORBES Graham
FORD Thomas
FORSHAW Benjamin
FOTHERGILL C H
FOTHERGILL Frederick Cyril
FOTHERGILL George Edward
FOWLER H
FOX George Ruthven
FOX Horace
FOX W
FRIEND Harry
FRITH John
FURLONG Ernest John
FURNEVALL William Hindle
FURNEVALL W H
GALLAGHER Arthur George William
GARNETT Henry
GARRATT George
GARSDEN George
GARTSIDE William
GAULTER Charles Pendrick
GAY John
GEE A
GILDERSLEVE A D
GLEDHILL George
GOODALL Norman K
GOODIER Joseph
GOODWIN Josiah Albert
GOODWIN R
GOODWIN William
GORDON G A
GORMLIE A H
GOSLING Frank
GOTHERIDGE George Wilfred
GOTHERIDGE Thomas Harry or Henry
GOULSBROUGH John
GRAINGER [William] Henry
GREATOREX Frederick T aka Fred
GREAVES Benjamin Herbert
GREAVES Edward
GREAVES Gordon
GREEN A
GREEN Benjamin Haigh
GREEN Edward
GREEN John
GREEN Joseph
GREEN William
GREENWOOD John James Joseph Edward
GREGORY Wilfred Sinclair
GREGSON Alfred James
GREGSON Richard
GREGSON Thomas Edward
GREGSON William
GRIFFITHS Clarence Birch
GRIME Joseph Crookes
GUEST Frank
GUEST John Edwin
GUNN Joseph
GUNN Robert
HACKING Harold
HADALL Raymond
HAGUE Joseph Eugene
HALEY Robert Craven
HALL George
HALL H
HALL Henry Morton
HALL Harry
HALL R H
HALL Thomas
HALSALL Thomas
HALSTEAD Frank Eversley
HAMILTON Samuel
HAMPTON George Frederick
HAND Thomas Bentley
HANLON A
HANSON Charles
HANSON N
HARDING Cyril
HARDING Leonard N
HARDMAN Thomas
HARE Harold
HARGREAVES George William
HARGREAVES P
HARLAND Harry
HARLING Craven
HARRISON Ellis
HARRISON G
HARRISON Reynold Hartley
HARRISON Thomas William
HARTLEY Benjamin
HARTLEY Herbert
HARTLEY Wilfred
HARVEY Frederick Ernest
HARVEY Joseph
HASLAM Harry
HASLAM Joseph
HAWORTH Herbert
HAYES John Douglas Rivers
HAYES S
HAZELTINE Thomas
HEAP Edgar John
HEATON James
HELM George
HENTHORN Joshua
HEPWORTH Henry
HEYES G
HEYWOOD Walter
HIGGINS Henry
HIGH A
HILDEBRANDT A A
HILL F Y
HILTON George Whalley
HILTON Walter
HINCHCLIFFE John [Arthur]
HINDLE J
HINDLE John Albert
HINKLEY Albert
HIRST John
HIRST John Stevenson
HODGES James
HODGSON T L
HOGARTH W V
HOLLAND John
HOLLIDAY Cecil
HOLLINGWORTH Bert aka Bertie
HOLROYD C
HOLT G
HOLT Leo
HOPKINSON William
HOPWOOD Frank
HORNBY John William
HORNE Hubert
HORRIDGE Frank Victor
HORSFALL G H
HORSFIELD William [Henry]
HOWARD F
HOWARTH Benjamin
HOWARTH F J Y
HOWARTH Tom Hartley
HOWARTH William
HOYLE Abraham James Ed
HOYLE John Wilfred
HUGILL Charles Edward
HULL Harry
HULL Richard
HULL T
HULME John
HULME Samuel
HUMPHRIES Benjamin
HUNT J
HUNT Joseph Henry
HUTCHINSON Frank L C
HUTCHINSON George
HYDE Frank
IBBOTSON George Sharples
IBBOTSON Ross
INGHAM Harold
IRVING A H
IRVING Henry
IRVING John
IRVING John
JACKSON Butler
JACKSON E R
JACKSON John [Robert]
JACKSON John Charles
JACKSON Wilfred Whalley
JAGGER Herbert
JEWITT John William
JONES Arthur
JONES W J
KAY John Thomas
KAYE Wilfred
KEATE Haydn
KEIR Allan
KEMP Harry
KENNY James William
KER Joseph Hugh
KINSEY John
KIRKHAM William
KIRKHAM William Taylor
KIRKMAN Thomas
KNOWLES J P
LAMB Thomas
LAMBERT Lawrence
LAMBERT William
LANCETT Joseph William
LANDLES Walter
LAUNDERS Harold
LAWSON William
LEACH H C
LEE J D
LEE John
LEES William H
LEVENE Nathan Neville
LEWIS Sydney
LEWTAS John
LEWTAS James Peter
LEWTAS J W
LEWTAS William
LIGHTBOWN Henry
LINDEN Michael
LINDLEY Foster
LINDLEY Frank Marcus
LISTER J W
LIVESEY Harry
LIVESEY Robert
LOCK John
LONGWORTH G
LUCAS L J
LUCAS T
LUCAS William Higginson
LUND J C
LUPTON Albert
LYON Samuel [Ignatius]
MANN Harold
MANN Joseph
MARLOW Richard Charles
MARSDEN Bernard
MARSDEN Charles
MARSDEN Eric Graham
MARSDEN Henry
MARSDEN R
MARSDEN William
MARSH Robert Webb
MARSHALL John
MASON S J
MATHER Volney
MATTHEWS George Harry
MATTHEWS Leo Wilson
MATTHEWS William
MAXWELL Thomas W
MAXWELL William R
MAY Sidney [Joseph Victor]
MAY T
MAYER Enoch
MAYOR Edmund
MAYOR F E
MAYOR Joseph
MCCLARE A
MCEVOY R
MCMULLEN James
MCVITTIE, MM Bertram
MCVITTIE Harold Vernon
MELLING Henry
METCALFE George E
METCALFE John
MIDGLEY Herbert
MIDGLEY Wilfred
MILLER J
MILNER F
MILNES Edward
MITCHELL A E
MITCHELL Cecil
MITCHELL George A
MITCHELL James
MOISTER Richard Pearson
MONKS George
MOORE J
MORAN William
MORGAN Samuel
MORLAND S
MORRIS Bertram
MORRIS Frank
MORRIS John [Albert]
MORRIS Leonard
MORTON Ralph Fernando
MOSS Gerald
MOUNT E A
NADIN Arthur
NADIN Frank
NEALE Charles
NEEP Joseph W
NELSON Charles Thomas
NEWBY Edward Evan
NEWBY Herbert
NEWHOUSE Maurice
NEWSOME E
NEWSOME Harold Walter
NICKSON Arthur John
NICKSON Robert William
NOBLE William R
NODEN Walter [Walsh]
NORTON Tom
NUTTALL Cyril Norman
NUTTALL Norman F
NUTTALL William
OAKLEY Arthur Hartop
O'CONNOR E
OGDEN John Herbert
O'HARA John W
OLDHAM A
ORMOND James
O'ROURKE J
ORTLOFF Ernest [Godfrey]
OSTLE T
PAGE George William
PARKER C E H
PARKER Joseph Edmund
PARKER Tom
PARKES A
PARKES Fred
PARKINSON Stephen
PARR D A
PARR John
PEACH C H
PEARCE John
PEARD William irvin
PECK F
PEEL Stanley
PEENEY Dominic Francis
PICKARD James Arthur
PICKUP D
PICKUP Doctor
PILKINGTON Samuel
PILKINGTON William Frederic Longley
PILLING A
PILLING H
PITTAWAY Cyril
PIXTON Herbert
PLATT C W
PLATT Robinson T
POINTER J
PONTER W C
POORE Frederic
PRIESTLEY John
PRITCHARD A
PROCTER William
PRYAR Albert
QUARRIE Walter Hugh
QUIGGIN Henry Edward
RASTRICK Alfred
RAW D
RAWCLIFFE Edwin
RAWCLIFFE Fred
RAWCLIFFE Richard
RAYNER George
RAYNER S
READY Harry
REDDY William
REILLY Ernest J
RICHARDSON Robert
RIDEHOUGH Thomas Henry
RIDING John Liversey
RIDING T
RIGBY Timothy
RILEY Thomas J
RILEY W
RIMMER Harry
RIPLEY Fred [Howard]
ROBERTS B R
ROBERTS John Arthur
ROBERTS William
ROBERTSHAW Harry
ROBEY Nathan
ROBINSON Reginald Humphreys
ROBINSON Sidney Hope
ROGERSON Charles
ROGERSON G
ROGERSON James
ROLLINSON James William
ROSS Leslie Francis William
ROWLANDSON D G
ROWSON D H
ROYLE Joseph
SAGAR Robert Holgate
SALTHOUSE G A
SANDERSON Alfred Shaw
SANDERSON A S
SANDERSON Edward
SANDERSON Robert
SANDERSON Thomas [Hill]
SCATTERGOOD John Wroughton
SCHOFIELD John
SCHOFIELD John Leonard
SCOTT Herbert
SCOTT William
SEABRIDGE Sidney
SEDDON Stanley
SEGATTO R
SELBY S Ewart
SENIOR William Edward
SEYMOUR Frederick Arthur [Nation]
SHACKLETON Mitchell
SHACKWILL A
SHAKESPEARE Thomas Henry
SHARP William
SHARP W
SHARPLES H W
SHARPLES Leo
SHAW H
SHEERD W D
SHEPHERD George Herbert
SHEPHERD Wilfred Henry
SHEPHERD William Leonard
SHIELDS Arthur
SHUTT Arthur
SHUTTLEWORTH Joseph
SIDEBOTTOM Frank
SIDEBOTTOM George Alfred
SIMISTER Robert
SIMMONS A
SIMMONS S A
SIMMS Robert
SIMPSON Oscar
SIMPSON Henry
SIMPSON William James
SIMS John
SINGLETON Arthur
SINGLETON J
SINGLETON Robert
SINGLETON T
SINNATT William Hardie
SLATE Arthur B
SLATER Charles
SLATER Frank
SLATER Walter
SMALLEY John J
SMITH Christopher
SMITH Charles Edward
SMITH Frank
SMITH Frederick
SMITH George William
SMITH J
SMITH Joseph
SMITH Leonard
SMITH Norman
SMITH Victor Adolphus
SMITH W
SMITH W
SOLOMON C
SPEAL A E
SPEIGHT Charles
SPENCER Joseph J
SPIBY James Lord
STAFFORD Robert
STANSFIELD Fred Clifford
STEAD Norman
STEVENSON William
STIRZAKER James
STOCKS Samuel
STRICKLAND Arthur
STRICKLAND George
STRICKLAND, MM George
STUART David
STUBBS Robert Edwin
STYLES Arthur William
SUDELL Richard
SUNDERLAND A
SUTCLIFFE Fred
SUTHERLAND Albert V
SUTHERS Albert
SWAINE William Gledhill
SWALLOW Bertie
SWARBRICK John
SWARBRICK Robert Lewis
SWARBRICK William
SYKES Arthur
SYKES Harry
TANDY John Henry
TATTERSALL, MM Bert
TATTERSALL Chris
TATTERSALL James
TATTERSALL John James
TAYLOR Edward
TAYLOR Frederick
TAYLOR G
TAYLOR Herbert
TAYLOR John
TAYLOR John H
TAYLOR John Thomas
TAYLOR Richard
TAYLOR Sidney
TAYLOR Squire Lawrence
TAYLOR Thomas W
TAYLOR William
TAYLOR W F
TAYLOR William Harold
TETLEY C
THOMAS Reginald Clifton
THOMPSON Arthur Stonehouse
THOMPSON Fred
THOMPSON Goddard
THOMPSON, MM Isaac
THOMPSON R
THOMPSON R
THOMPSON R
THORPE John
TIGHE Charles Edward
TIGHE Francis Edmund
TITCHENER Leonard [Raymond]
TOMLINSON F
TOMLINSON James
TOMMAS William
TOOTELL W
TOPPING George William
TOPPING Richard
TRAVIS Myles Joseph
TROUGHTON Frederick
TROW Alfred
TUNNEY J
TURNER John
TURNER Thomas
TURTLE Joseph Henry Deex
TWEEDALE Eric
TWEEDALE Isaac
TYSON John
VARLEY Harold
VAUGHAN A
VERDON Wilfred Melville
VOLLANS Harry
WADDINGTON Stanley
WADE George
WADE James
WADE Robert E B
WALKDEN Harold Cellis
WALKER Jack Bertram
WALMSLEY Harold
WALMSLEY James
WALMSLEY Sam
WALMSLEY William
WALSH Henry
WALTON N G
WALTON W
WARD Cuthbert
WARD Fred
WARD William
WARING Richard
WARREN Herbert James
WARREN Percival Henry
WARWICK James
WATERHOUSE George
WATERWORTH J P
WEEKS Robert Ernest
WELCH C T
WELCH William
WENSLEY Thomas
WEST C A
WESTHEAD Alexander
WESTHEAD J
WESTMORELAND Ernest
WHALLEY Norman
WHALLEY Richard
WHALLEY W
WHARTON Percy
WHITE J C
WHITE Lionel
WHITESIDE Ernest
WHITESIDE John Joseph
WHITESIDE Robert
WHITESIDE R P
WHITESIDE Thomas
WHITHAM C
WHITTLE R P
WHITTLE W
WHYMAN W P
WIGGIN James
WIGGINS Ashton
WILCOCK J
WILDE Edward
WILDE Herbert
WILLETT Harry
WILLIAMS Frank
WILLIAMSON Arthur Henry
WILLIAMSON Henry
WILLIAMSON Wilfred Tyrell
WILLOUGHBY Harold
WILSON John Alexander
WILSON Joseph Mann
WILSON W
WINDER H
WINROW Osmond
WINSTANLEY George Henry
WINSTANLEY Thomas
WINTERBURN John
WITT Fred
WOLFE Robert
WOOD C A B
WOOD F
WOOD F W
WOOD Herbert
WOOD Leonard Arthur
WOODS John Edward
WORSLEY Harold Rapley
WORSLEY James
WORSLEY Walter [Robert]
WRAY Thomas Jackson
WRIGHT C
WRIGHT F
WRIGHT Percy
WRIGHT Stephen
WRIGHT William
WRIGLEY Fred [Rigby]
WRIGLEY Harry Crawshaw
YATES Everard Alexis Archibald
YEARDLEY George