INVALIDS FOR HOME
Saturday, April 24, 1915:
The under-mentioned N.C.O.s and men will proceed to England on Saturday 3rd inst.:
Cpl. G. Litchfield
Cpl. J. Wilshaw
Pte. J. Ashton
Pte. W. Constantine
Pte. R. King
Pte. W. Wheatley
Pte. W. G. Collier
Pte. H. Oldfield
Pte. J. P. Millwood
Cpl. J. Irving
Pte. B. Renshaw
Pte. W. Fogg
Pte. L. Schofield
Pte. J. A. Black
Pte. W. Hunter
Pte. W. Whittle
CHASED BY SUBMARINE
Saturday June 12, 1915:
Early on Tuesday morning a number of Ashton Territorials returned home invalided from Egypt. They arrived about 7am at Charlestown Station from Dublin, via Holyhead, where they had been in hospital. Whist on the voyage home from Egypt, the hospital ship was chased for about 25 miles by a German submarine, but the ship escaped, and put into Cork, from whence the Territorials were removed to Dublin Castle Red Cross Hospital.
Amongst them were: –
Corporal Tom Goley of 54 North Street, Ashton
Corporal S. Steele of Boodle Street
Lance-Corporal H. Freeth of Wellington Street, Waterloo
When several of them called at the Armoury, they had a hearty reception from the boys who belong to the 3rd Reserve Battalion of the 9th, who were anxious to hear how their comrades were faring.
IN DUBLIN HOSPITAL
Under the heading of “At the Red Cross Hospital”, a Dublin newspaper includes the following names of men belonging to the 1/9th Ashton Territorials amongst those who have been admitted to the Dublin Castle Red Cross Hospital. A number of these men have returned home to Ashton:
1647 Private H. Cook[e]
1614 Private Geo. Dinker [Tinker]
390 Lance-Corporal H. Freeth
1547 Corporal T. Goley
1784 Private H. Hewitt
2034 Private E. Hughes
1732 Private W. Hargreaves
2181 Private E. Leavsley [Leakesley]
1122 Private C.[L] Marsh
2196 Private Jas. Owen
1943 Private P. Pepper
497 Corporal A. Parkin[s]
1766 Private A. Reilly [Riley]
845 Sergt. [A.] Royle
124 Corporal S. Steele