EAST Lancashire soldiers who died on the battlefields of Mesopotamia, now Iraq, are to be honoured by a bagpipe-playing peace campaigner.
On November 11, Liverpudlian Bill Jenkins will play in remembrance of soldiers who died in Iraq during wars.
Among the dead commemorated by the Basra Memorial in Iraq is Private William Johnstone of Meadow Street, Great Harwood. He died, aged 29, on April 19, 1916, and was a member of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
"I will pay my respects to those who gave their lives to restore peace to the rest of the world", Mr Jenkins said.
The Basra Memorial bears the names of more than 40,500 members of the Commonwealth forces who died in operations in Mesopotamia from the Autumn of 1914 to the end of August 1921.
The Memorial was originally sited within Basra War Cemetery, but in 1997 was moved along the road to Nasiriyah, in the middle of what was a major battleground during the Gulf War.
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