Acknowledgements

I have been helped in my research by many people. First on my list must be Mr. Peter Donnelly of The King’s Own Museum at Lancaster. He has allowed me to include extracts from "Fourth Battalion King's Own and The Great War." Lt. Col. WFA Wadham and Capt. J Crossley. (1920) and been ready with help and advice whenever I asked for it. Further information on the King's Own was gleaned from "The King's Own, The Story of a Royal Regiment, Volume III, 1914-1950" by Col. J M Cowper (1957).

The County Libraries and County Archives and Record Offices at Kendal (especially Kath Strickland) and Barrow-in-Furness have been most helpful while researching and viewing the microfilms of The Barrow News (owned by the publishers of the North West Evening Mail) and Westmorland Gazette, who have kindly allowed me to publish their reports, Central Library, Manchester, where my daughter Laura searched.

Thanks also to Allan Nelson for scanning photographs, some the size of postage stamps and of very poor quality (when scanners were a rare and expensive item) and Bernard Walsh who accompanied me in France and Belgium.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission have responded with politeness and speed to my requests for the details they hold on record. The Imperial War Museum has kindly given me permission to use their photographs.

Many local people have been most kind in sharing their knowledge with me, especially the late John Rawson, who served throughout World War II, and had unparalleled local knowledge. The late Mr. Joseph Gaskarth who has three relatives named on the memorial, the late Frank Inman, brother of Peter, Miss Joyce Smith, born in 1909 and died 2007, whose father was Vicar of Cartmel from 1910 to 1919. The late Mr. Peter Wood who was an officer in the King's Own during World War II, and took the first steps in finding out who these men were.

The, now ex-, Vicar of Cartmel, The Rev. Canon Christopher Atkinson was most helpful allowing me access to records and documents kept in the Priory including the Parish Magazine, extracts from which I have quoted extensively. Many thanks to Julie Howarth, whose research in London fitted the final pieces of the Hardy puzzle in place, and her late father Philip Howarth, who served with 2nd King's Own.

Others deserving acknowledgement for their assistance are the late Mrs Winifred Williams, the late Miss Nora Frearson also the many local people who have aided my research.

I must, finally, thank my wife and family who have helped in numerous ways.