FOOTNOTES:
[A] Changed to “Lancashire” in 1781 when they were sent to that County to recruit.
[B] According to tradition.
[C] C.Q.M.S. Lester and Private Cowburn (S. B.) brought him in to L 8.
[D] Captain Caldwell, M.O., was specially mentioned for attending to 243 wounded and getting them clear.
[E] Fifty-one men actually answered the roll, the rest being accounted for.
[F] On the 26th, R.S.M. Farnworth, who for a long time had been suffering great pain in his limbs, was sent to hospital. He was eventually discharged unfit for further service. A man of arresting personality, steeped in Army tradition, and the possessor of a biting tongue, his influence in the Battalion was great and lasting.
[G] Captain Baker—formerly Quartermaster—had volunteered for a combatant Commission when we were short of Officers after the Somme Battles—and was given command of B Company which he held until killed in September, 1917. The high qualities which had made him an ideal Quartermaster, made him equally successful as a Company Commander.
[H] From “The Story of the 55th Division,” by the Rev. J. O. COOP. “Liverpool Daily Post.”
[I] A post normally consisted of an N.C.O. and 6 men.
[J] Two years afterwards his parents received this pocket book. The last entries are as follow:—
“Remainder of section to follow L/C. Price. Tell Sergeant.”
“You have done damn well, but you aren’t finished yet! Read this to him.”
“Bomb the Boche out. See that gap in the parapet? I want to get the whole section there.”
“Can we get a message back to Capt. Swaine? I suggest let one man take Farnworth back and also message. Tell O.C. A Co....”
So it ends.
Transcriber’s Note:
1. Obvious spelling, punctuation and printer’s errors have been silently corrected.
2. Where appropriate, hyphenated or non-hyphenated words have been kept as in the original.