The Regiment raised 30 Battalions and was awarded 63 Battle Honours and 6 Victoria Crosses losing 13,640 men during the course of the war. From 1915 to October 1916 the famous author J. R. R. Tolkien served as a second lieutenant in the 11th Battalion of the Regiment until he contracted ‘trench fever’ during the Battle of the Somme.
Captain
BORN BIRKENHEAD, CHESHIRE, ON 07/06/1888. SON OF WILLIAM E. AND ANNIE WILCOX. ELDEST OF THREE CHILDREN. A FORMER BANK CLERK. HE SERVED AS A CAPTAIN IN THE LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS. HE MARRIED ELLEN McGILL, AT BIRKENHEAD, CHESHIRE, IN 1916. HE DIED OF INFLUENZA, IN IRELAND ON 13/02/1919, AGED 31. HE LEFT £449 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW ELLEN, […]
