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Retlaw · 30-03-2012, 18:58

If anyone is interested the story is as follows. My mother had two photos, the first of two soldiers, one soldier sat down and one stood up behind him outside a building in France. The photo has a hole in the centre and a stain around the outside. On the back my mother had wrote " found on Jim Pilkingtons body after he was killed" and she told me the hole was thought to be a bullet/ or shrapnel hole and the stain could be blood.
If you could send me a decent scan of that photo, theres a chance I could identify them, quite a number of men from Greater Accrington served in the Scottish Rifles in WW1, one of them was.
Pte. 14268. Joe Pilkington.
Retlaw.

30-03-2012, 18:58	#23
Retlaw I am Banned Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Accrington. Posts: 4,627 Liked: 601 times Rep Power: 0	Re: War memorials If anyone is interested the story is as follows. My mother had two photos, the first of two soldiers, one soldier sat down and one stood up behind him outside a building in France. The photo has a hole in the centre and a stain around the outside. On the back my mother had wrote " found on Jim Pilkingtons body after he was killed" and she told me the hole was thought to be a bullet/ or shrapnel hole and the stain could be blood. If you could send me a decent scan of that photo, theres a chance I could identify them, quite a number of men from Greater Accrington served in the Scottish Rifles in WW1, one of them was. Pte. 14268. Joe Pilkington. Retlaw.