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Whitehaven Advertiser and Cleator Moor and Egremont Observer

GREENODD SOLDIER’S DEATH

... his home in Carlisle. He has been pronounced unfit for further military service. He was wounded in the foot at the Battle of the Somme. A mural monument of white Sicilian marble on a slab of slate was unveiled on the gable end of a house in Beech Street ...

BRAVERY IN THE FIELD. SERGEANT SPACKMAN’S V.C

... native of ‘Cockermouth,” by the Mayor of New-castle. Private Roney participated in the fighting in Gallipoli and in the Battle ‘of the Somme. In a letter 'to his sister he says:— “One of our biggest achievements was the capture of Thiepval, and it was here ...