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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 ...