The Fallen Remembered

First World War · 1914–1918

When war broke out in August 1914, men from Natland and the surrounding area answered the call to serve. Many joined the local regiments — the Border Regiment and the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment — that had long recruited from Westmorland and the surrounding counties.

Not all came home. The names recorded here are those of Natland men who gave their lives in the Great War and are commemorated on the village war memorial.

Alexander Cragghill

Private, 13th Battalion The King's (Liverpool) Regiment
Died: 28 March 1918, aged 19

Charles Reginald Spratt

Private, 9th Battalion the South Staffordshire Regiment
Died: 1 December 1918, aged 19

Frederick James Paget

Second Lieutenant, 206 Squadron, Royal Air Force
Died: 6 August 1918, aged 23

George Davies

Private, 10th Battalion the Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Died: 26 September 1916, aged 19

George Ernest Howard Keesey

Captain, 8th Battalion The Rifle Brigade, 14th (Light) Division
Died: 24 August 1916, aged 30

Henry Keenan

Fusilier, 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
Died: 23 February 1919, aged 24

Herbert Nixon

Private, Royal Army Service Corps Motor Transport Unit
Died: 25 January 1920, aged 27

J. Hudson

Private, Unknown Unit

James Francis Inman

Private, 53rd Battalion the Manchester Regiment
Died: 28 August 1920, aged 19

James William Rooksby

also W.J. Rooksby
Private, 87th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Canadian Grenadier Guards)
Died: 30 September 1918, aged 30

John Edward Inman

Third class passenger, S.S. Lusitania · Cunard Line
Died: 7 May 1915, aged 26

John Gilbert Fallowfield

Private, 8th Battalion the Border Regiment
Died: 23 March 1918, aged 33

Lewis Edward Watson

Trooper, 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment) Battalion
Died: 2 June 1916, aged 24

Michael McGrath

Private (Driver), Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died: 8 November 1918, aged 23

Reuben Blakeman

also Claude Blakeman
Private, 14th (Royal Montreal) Battalion Canadian Infantry
Died: 1 October 1918, aged 19

Thomas Elleray

Pioneer, Royal Engineers, 18th Divisional Signal Company
Died: 19 July 1917, aged 19

Thomas Young

Lance Corporal, Labour Corps (previously 9th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry)
Died: 8 July 1918, aged 24

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Where they rest

Burial and memorial locations of the WW1 fallen, from Vimy Ridge and the Menin Gate to St Mark's churchyard at Natland. Click a pin for the men resting there and a link to the cemetery's CWGC record.

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