Private, 11th (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale), Border Regiment. Died of gas related problems 6 July 1918. Aged 31. His death was registered in the West Ward Registration District, Westmorland (Vol No, 10B, Page 833). Buried in ST LAURENCE'S CHURCHYARD, Morland. Grave 326.

Extract from a local newspaper, Mid Cumberland and North Westmorland Herald Saturday 20 July 1918:

Private J. Brown., Morland.

       The death took place at Morland on Thursday week after a long illness of Private John Brown, late of the Lonsdale Battalion. He was severely gassed and was discharged from the army some time ago. Private Brown was before enlisting employed by the Earl of Lonsdale, and joined the battalion of the Border Regiment which his lordship established.
       The funeral took place at Morland on Monday, and was accompanied by military honours, a detachment of about fifty men from the Canadian Camp at Cliburn attending under Lieut. And Adjutant Reeve. The coffin was covered with the Union Jack, was surmounted with the deceased’s cap and belt, and was borne by four soldiers. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. J. F. Walton, and at the conclusion of the burial service the firing pary fired the customary volleys and the Last Post was sounded.

Major, 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Died of wounds 26 October 1914. Aged 44. Born West Cowes, Isle of Wight. Son of Col. William Thomas Markham, of The House, Melton Mowbray. Twice Mentioned in Despatches (MiD). Buried in SYSONBY CHURCHYARD, Leicestershire. See also Lord's Cricket Ground World War 1 Memorial and Charterhouse School

Extract from BOND OF SACRIFICE: VOLUME 1 AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1914:

MAJOR RONALD ANTHONY MARKHAM, 2nd BATTALION COLDSTREAM GUARDS, was the only surviving son of the late Colonel W. T. Markham, of Becca Hall, Yorkshire, who served in the Crimean War in the Rifle Brigade and Coldstream Guards, and grandson of Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A.

He was born on the 15th October, 1870; educated at Charterhouse; and joined the Coldstream Guards from the Militia in December, 1890, becoming Lieutenant in August, 1896, and Captain in December, 1899.

He served with the first advance against the Khalifa in the Nile Expedition of 1899, for which he received the Egyptian medal and clasp. From August, 1899, to August, 1903, he was employed with the Egyptian Army, acting as A.D.C. to the Sirdar from April, 1900, to December, 1902, for which he received the Insignia of the 4th Class of the Imperial Order of the Medjidieh. He was promoted Major in 1907.

He was shot through the head at St. Julien, France, on the 25th October, 1914, and, at the time of his death was Second in Command of his battalion. He was mentioned in Sir John. French's Despatches of the 8th October, 1914, and the 14th January, 1915.

He was a member of the Guards', Nulli Secundus, and the Turf Clubs; also of the M.C.C. and I Zingari. He was fond of cricket and shooting, and was a very keen and hard rider to hounds. He was born at Melton Mowbray, from which place he had hunted all his life, and where his interment took place.

Private 24863, 8th Battalion, Border Regimkent. Killed in action 5 June 1917. Born Kirby Thore, enlisted Appleby, resident Tebay. In the 1911 census he was a farm Labourer Servant on farm, born Kirby Thore, resident Clickem Inn, Brampton, Appleby. Buried in ST. QUENTIN CABARET MILITARY CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot II. Row K. Grave 6.

Extract from a local newspaper, Saturday 16 June 1917:

Private M. Shaw, Appleby

From Private Geo. Graham, Scrogg Bank, Appleby, at the tine "somewhere in France," word was eceived on Tuesday morning by Mr. John Shaw, of Holme-street, Appleby, that his brother, Matthew, has been killed. As a private in the Border Regiment he took part in an attack on 5th June, when he was fatally wounded and died a few hours afterwarss. Prior to his enlistment he worked on various farms in the neighbourhood of Appleby.