Lance Corporal Edward Mullaney 6th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers Killed in action in Gallipoli, August 9, 1915, aged 30.

Eddie Mullaney was the son of James and Dorothy Mullaney and was born in Bolton in 1885.

He served in the army well before war broke out before returning to civilian life to work in the textile industry.

When war broke out he re-joined an Irish regiment and completed his training in Dublin before being sent on his first combat action in Gallipoli.

Just two days after landing, Lance Corporal Edward Mullaney was killed, his body never found.

Private Charles Jackson 19th Company Machine Gun Corps Killed in action at Kemmel, Belgium, April 18, 1918, aged 35.

Charles Jackson was a strong and robust man, born and bred in Bolton.

He originally joined the South Lancashire Regiment but transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, an organisation that the Germans held with much dread — men of the Machine Gun Corps were not taken as prisoners.

He was married with two young children. After a period of leave, he was killed within days of returning to the Western Front, in a desperate holding action around Ypres. His body was never recovered.

Private Charles Wright 1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, Killed in action at Redan Ridge, the Somme, July 1, 1916, aged 20.

Charles Wright, from Little Lever, originally joined the Royal Army Medical Corps at the outbreak of war and gained skills as a professional medic.

Just before the New Year of 1916, he was sent to France where he transferred to a frontline infantry battalion.

On the morning of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the First East Lancs were attacking Redan Ridge to the north of Beaumont Hamel when they were forced by enemy artillery and machine gun fire to take cover in shell holes. As they broke to escape they were cut down mercilessly.

Charles, the brave unarmed young stretcher bearer, went out to rescue them under intense fire and was killed.

He has no known grave.

Private Fred Farnworth 18th Battalion Manchester Regiment, died in hospital in Rouen, France, October 20, 1916, aged 18.

Young Fred lied about his age to join the army in 1914.

He was just 16 and was the eldest of eight children, born to a colliery worker in Atherton.

His parents knew he was under-age but maybe allowed him to leave as it would have been one less mouth to feed.

The regret they must have felt when they received the telegrams from France must have been unbearable. Fred received serious gunshot wounds and was evacuated from the Somme-Ancre battle front to hospital, he fought bravely for his life but died a week later.