Service No: 9952
Regiment/Service: The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, 2nd Bn.
Extract from: The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
ACTON, WILLIAM ALBERT, Private, No. 9952, 2nd Battalion L.N. Lancashire Regt., son of William Samuel Acton, of 26, Stansfield Road, Brixton, S.W., Labourer; b. Bow, E., 2 June, 1891; joined the Army 28 Feb. 1910, served two years at Preston and Tidworth, was drafted to India in Sept. 1912, and whilst serving there gained certificates for signalling and firing; in Jan. 1915, accompanied the Indian Expeditionary Force to British East Africa, and was killed in action at Makton, 3 Sept. 1915; unmarried.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
Regiment/Service: The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, 2nd Bn.
Extract from: The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
ACTON, WILLIAM ALBERT, Private, No. 9952, 2nd Battalion L.N. Lancashire Regt., son of William Samuel Acton, of 26, Stansfield Road, Brixton, S.W., Labourer; b. Bow, E., 2 June, 1891; joined the Army 28 Feb. 1910, served two years at Preston and Tidworth, was drafted to India in Sept. 1912, and whilst serving there gained certificates for signalling and firing; in Jan. 1915, accompanied the Indian Expeditionary Force to British East Africa, and was killed in action at Makton, 3 Sept. 1915; unmarried.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
Service No: 9952
Regiment/Service: The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, 2nd Bn.
Extract from: The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
ACTON, WILLIAM ALBERT, Private, No. 9952, 2nd Battalion L.N. Lancashire Regt., son of William Samuel Acton, of 26, Stansfield Road, Brixton, S.W., Labourer; b. Bow, E., 2 June, 1891; joined the Army 28 Feb. 1910, served two years at Preston and Tidworth, was drafted to India in Sept. 1912, and whilst serving there gained certificates for signalling and firing; in Jan. 1915, accompanied the Indian Expeditionary Force to British East Africa, and was killed in action at Makton, 3 Sept. 1915; unmarried.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
Regiment/Service: The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, 2nd Bn.
Extract from: The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
ACTON, WILLIAM ALBERT, Private, No. 9952, 2nd Battalion L.N. Lancashire Regt., son of William Samuel Acton, of 26, Stansfield Road, Brixton, S.W., Labourer; b. Bow, E., 2 June, 1891; joined the Army 28 Feb. 1910, served two years at Preston and Tidworth, was drafted to India in Sept. 1912, and whilst serving there gained certificates for signalling and firing; in Jan. 1915, accompanied the Indian Expeditionary Force to British East Africa, and was killed in action at Makton, 3 Sept. 1915; unmarried.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
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