Cheshire Regiment. Jack Spooner of Cocksheadhey Road
Categories 2: Military
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Home guard on the recreation ground
Bollington provided B Company of the 9th Battalion Cheshire Home Guard.
Back row: 5th from right=Alfred Miles Earl; 2nd from right=Jack Stringer -
Donald Ainsworth
Gunner Donald Ainsworth was in the second wave of landings on the beaches of Normandy. He endured seven weeks of nightmare conditions before being wounded and taken to a field hospital near Caen
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Joseph Bowden
Prior to the war Joseph Bowden was a vat dyer at Oak Bank print works. Served in the Welsh Fusileers. Killed when his ship was torpedoed.
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Richard Warren
See “Looking back at Bollington” for full details. Richard Warren of Church Street served in the Boer War from 1901.
