Private Thomas Blezard and his wife Elizabeth Ann were living at 44 Rhoda St. Nelson with their young child when Thomas was called up on the 6th May 1916. He went on to join the 9th Bn. East Lancashire Regiment.

Son of Thomas and Mary Blezard, Private Blezard was employed as a weft man at the Belmont Manufacturing Co.

After training at Plymouth he was sent to the Middle East and was reported as dying of wounds in Salonika on the 19th June 1917. He was 27 years old.

Private Blezard is buried in Grave No. 321, Row B, at Sarigol Military Cemetery, Kriston, Greece, approximately 25 miles north of the town of Thessalonika,

Born in Nelson, Thomas Blizzard is commemorated on the Roll of Honour at St John's Church where he was baptised in 1890

Private William Norcross Foulds was born in 1877, the first son and third child of Thomas and Margaret Foulds, of 48 Netherfield Road, Nelson.

A cotton weaver, he enlisted in Nelson and served in 2nd Bn. East Lancashire Regiment. Private Foulds was killed in action at Villers Bretonneux France on the 24th April 1918. He was 41 yrs old.

He is commemorated on Panel 42 to 43 of the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.

His name also appears on the Roll of Honour at St. John's church and on the family headstone in St John's churchyard, plot E128.

Private Foulds was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.