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Major Podmore was acting CO of the 12th Middlesex when he was killed in an ammunition dump explosion. His original battlefield cross is in St. Paul's Church, Grange.
Capt. Ralph D'Albini Morrell. Age 35. "B" Company 1st/4th Batt. The Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Killed 8th August 1916. Commemorated on Panel 5D, The Thiepval Memorial, Somme. Second son of Mr. & Mrs. J.A.S. Conyers Morrell of The Beeches, Eden Mount, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. Scholar of St. Edwards School, Oxford.
14864 Private Robert Murphy. Age 25. 1st/8th Batt. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. (Enlisted 1st/4th Batt. Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment) Died of wounds 26th March 1918. Buried in Plot 5, Row E, Grave 1B. Monthuon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, Seine. Son of Mr. Christopher and the late Mrs. M.A. Murphy of Grange Fell, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.
2522 Private Richard Hudson Nelson. Age 23. "B" Company 1st/4th Batt. The Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. K.I.A. 9th July 1916. Buried Row D9, Agny Military Cemetery, Nr. Arras, Pas de Calais. Son of Mr. & Mrs. Albert Nelson, East Bank, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.
Lieutenant Colonel Hubert Podmore, D.S.O., 3 times Mentioned in Despatches. (6th Northants). Age 30. Commanding 12th Batt. The Middlesex Regiment. Killed 31st December 1917. Buried Plot 1, Row C, Grave 7. Haringhe (Bandaghem) Military Cemetery, Nr. Poperinge, Flanders. Son of George and Matilda Podmore of Charney Hall, Eden Mount, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. Scholar of Rugby and Trinity College, Oxford.
17207 Sergeant Fred Pratt. Age 30. 15th Batt. Royal Scots. Killed 28th May 1917. Commemorated on Panel F9 Special Memorial in Roeux British Cemetery, Pas de Calais. Son of Mr. & Mrs. W.J.Pratt, of Eastwood Terrace, Highfield Road, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.
Lieutenant William Gray Rawlinson. Age24. "A" Coy. 2nd Batt. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. K.I.A. 14th March 1915, St. Eloi, Ypres. Commemorated on Panel 20 of the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres. Son of the Late Wm. Millers Rawlinson of Duddon Hall, Broughton-in-Furness and Mrs. Rosetta Rathbone (formerly Rawlinson) of Aynsome House, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.
30115 Lance/Corporal George Sedgewick. Age 24. 8th (Service) Batt. The Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. K.I.A. 18th June 1917. Commemorated on Bay 2, The Arras Memorial, in Faubourg-Amiens Cemetery, Pas de Calais. Son of Mr. & Mrs. Wm. & Hannah Sedgwick, of Yew Tree Farm, Cart Lane, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire. Husband of the late Mrs. E.E. Sedgwick.
82007 Air Mechanic John William Shepherd. Age 39. Royal Flying Corps. Drowned 30th December 1917, torpedoed on H.T. "Aragon" off Egypt. Commemorated on the Chatby Memorial Cemetry, Alexandria, Egypt. Son of Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Shepherd of Amside, Westmorland. Husband of Mrs. Beatrice Shepherd, Imperial Cafe, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire.