Silver War Badges .

Joseph Pinder 

was a private in the Infantry of the East Lancashire Regiment . He served Overseas from march 1916 to February 1917 , when he was discharged because of his wounds .

The British Empire lost more than 700,000 men who were killed , but there were an even greater number who were discharged through wounds and illness . in September 1916 George V authorised the Silver War Badge to honour them . It also served a practical purpose as men not obviously in the Services were sometimes accosted or insulted by civilians , and presented with white feathers for shirking their duty . The badge showed that the bearers duty to country had honorably been fulfilled

John Edward Pinder

23/11/1914-26/2/1919. Wounds

Albert Arthur Pinder

1916-14/3/1919 born 1899.Machine Gun Corps, discharged sickness , Victory Medal , British Medal , Silver war Badge List

1911 Census.Henry James Pinder father , a leather dresser. Mother Martha Luisa , 2 older brothers in the printing trade , also 2 younger brothers and a sister

Casualties 

Thomas Pinder

b1886 , died August 1915 ,Private Lancashire Fusiliers . Burial Lancashire LandingCemetery, Gallipoli , Plot17 (CWGC)

Benjamin Pinder

Blackburn Lancs, died of wounds  13/6/1915 .Lance Corporal in the East Lancashire Regiment 1/4 Battalion .Egyptian Theatre. Buried Chatby War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Al Iskandarijah

he was the 7th of 10 children of Benjamin and Mary Pinder, both cotton weavers .