Small book-shaped stone at the base of the family headstone. Lead lettering has not fared well but on the left page the letters can still be made out from the holes left behind. The right page is very eroded but there were enough legible letters to show it is a quote from "Dedication" by Kipling. (left page) In loving memory of Willie Murdoch who fell in action at Beaumont Hamel, 12th October 1916 aged 27 years. (right page) E'en as he trod that day to God so walked he from h

George Ashbrooke Brewer was born in Pendleton, Manchester in 1884 and baptised on 26th September that year in the Primitive Methodist...

John Boswell was born in Liverpool in 1885, the the son of Thomas Boswell, a boiler-maker from Cheshire, and his wife Elizabeth. John...

William James Blundell was born in Liverpool around January 1883, the son of William James Blundell (Book keeper) and Frances Elizabeth...

Henry Campbell Blackie died after being discharged from his First World War service. He served/trained with the RAMC for a short period...

Arthur Gordon Bartlett was born in Montreal, Canada on 13 April 1894 to father Edmund Thomas Bartlett and mother Ethel (formerly Birt)....

The 1901 census shows Arthur Ballinger, aged 18 was employed as a hatters assistant and lived with his parents Percival and Mary...

From De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1919 Vol 5 Private 13087, 2nd Bn Scots Guard. Son of the late Robert Avery by his wife Mary (74...

Commemorated on a family headstone in Allerton cemetery. CorporalActonFrederick R.W.F. Killed in action at Bullecourt, France 14th May...

There are 414 individuals from the first and second World Wars commemorated by the CWGC (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) in Allerton Cemetery - either with a CWGC headstone on their grave or with their name inscibed on the screen wall memorial. I won't post information about them here (although I do have some photographs of the CWGC graves if anyone would like an image) because the CWGC website does an excellent job of presenting their information. Click on the image bel