We deeply regret to state that Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Holt (formerly of Rush Bed Farm, Crawshawbooth and now residing at Reedsholme) have received official notification of the death of their only son, Private John Aspin Holt. He died from the effects of a gunshot wound in France on September 23rd. Private Holt was only 23 years of age and the deepest sympathy is felt for Mr. and Mrs. Holt in their extremely sad bereavment.

Lance-Corporal John Holt was also held in great esteem throughout the district. The youngest son of Mr. H. W. Holt, of 971, West-view, Burnley-road. Crawshawbooth. he was only two days short of his 21st birthday whem he gave his life - along with his friend - for their country.
He was a regular attender at St. Mary and All Saint's Church, Goodshaw. and had also, we believe, been a member of the choir. The deepest sympathy is expressed throughout the district with the bereaved fam¬ilies in their distress.

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By the death in action on August 8th 1917, of Gunner Albert Hornung, R.F.A., a bride of ten weeks ago becomes a widow. She is Miss Elizabeth Bartlett, elder daughter of Mrs Bartlett, a widow living at 103 Bury Road Edenfield. His chaplain writes that he was killed by shell fire, and that he was buried with half-a-dozen other comrades, the mourners including the colonel, the chaplain, and other fellow gunners.
At the close of the service the chaplain read the hymn, “On the Resurrection Morn,” and in the letter to the deceased’s wife he asks her not to think of her husband as dead, “but really as being alive in that great world beyond the grave where husband and wife will both one day meet again”
The deceased, who was 26 years old, joined up in April 1917 and a week after his marriage in June last he went out to the front.
Prior to joining the forces he was employed by his father in a Pork Butcher’s business at 17 Bank Street, Rawtenstall, and had been connected with the Manchester road Wesleyan Church, Haslingden.
All his three brothers are in the colours, two of them being in France and the other in Mesopotamia.

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