Oldham Historical Research Group

'THE GREAT WAR',     'THE WAR TO END WAR',     'WORLD WAR 1'
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.'
                                                                                                  from 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' by Wilfred Owen

1914 - 1918

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A Different Casualty of War

Private Arthur Lumb Barlow, 1911 census return

1911 Census Return
On Tuesday 17th September, 1918, the Oldham Chronicle reported that
Private Arthur Lumb Barlow, The East Lancashire Regiment,
had shot and killed himself in the upstairs room of his home.

Return to Arthur Lumb Barlow's Page

Contributed by Dorothy Bintley and Sheila Goodyear

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