THE NINETIETH anniversary of one of the most infamous battles in British military history has passed. On the Somme in France, there were 60,000 casualties in a single day - July 1 1916. Every community was touched by the battle, including Macclesfield. Here, reporter JAMES CRISP looks at the role Maxonians played in a battle which ultimately led to the death of 500,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers ...

IN THE final part of our three part series, we tell the stories of the other four brave Maxonians, who fell on that blood drenched day in 1916. And we finish our series, which has taken in the men volunteering, training, fighting and dying by looking at their final resting places in Macclesfield, Bollington and France.