INDENT Captain Edwin Scott Bamford, born 1885, Bromborough, Cheshire, educated Uppingham, entered Yorks and Lancs Regiment from the Militia 1907, Lieutenant 1909, and Adjutant of his Battalion 1913; advanced to Captain September 1914 and joined the Expeditionary Force in France, January 1915; Captain Bamford was mortally wounded during a charge made during the Second Battle of Ypres, 22 April 1915, when the Battalion moved forward "through a hail storm of high velocity shell fire and machine guns at short range which nearly wiped out the whole Battalion, leaving 300 out of the original 1200" (Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, Vol. I refers)

Lieutenant Peter Paul "Rock" McArdle, champion gymnast and boxer, educated Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool and Mount St Mary's College, Chesterfield, one of five brothers, he joined the Cheshires as a Private, became Sergeant Instructor and was subsequently gazetted Second Lieutenant York and Lancaster Regiment, proceeding to France, March 1917; he was killed in action France/Flanders 26th April 1918, and is commemorated on the Tyne-Cot Memorial