A musical tribute is being made to two Furness soldiers who died during this week in the First World War.

The Last Post will be played at Dalton War Memorial, near the railway station, at 7pm on Friday, January 12 and Sunday, January 14.

This traditional military piece will be played by members of Dalton Town Band and there is an open invitation to people to come along and join the commemoration.

The Friday ceremony is for Pte Herbert Edwin Snell who served as number 9624 in the 12th Regiment of the South African Infantry.

He was killed in action on January 12 in 1917, aged 26, and is buried at Dodoma Cemetery, Tanzania.

In the 1901 census he was aged 10 and lived with his father Frederick, an iron ore miner and mother Elizabeth at 63 Queen Street, Dalton.

By the 1911 census the family had moved to 42 Cobden Street.

Herbert, then aged 20 was an iron ore miner.

The ceremony on Sunday is for Wilfred Park.

He is thought most likely to be James Wilfred Haynes Park who in 1891 was living at 17 Blake Street, Barrow with his mother Caroline and father James - described as a “clerk of holy orders”.

The “James” was probably dropped in favour of Wilfred to distinguish himself from his father.

By 1901 the family had moved to The Rectory, Woodland.

The vicar’s son is also commemorated on the Pennington War Memorial and on a plaque in Woodland Church. It is possible he lived in the Dalton area between 1911 and his death.

He served as a captain in the 22nd Sam Browne’s Cavalry Frontier Force of the Indian Army.

Cpt Park was killed in action on January 14 in 1917 and is buried in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.

A spokesperson for the band said: “During this 100th Anniversary year marking the end of the First World War, members of Dalton Town Band will be playing the last post at the Dalton and Newton War memorials to commemorate the 180 men from Dalton and Newton who died in that conflict.

“The Last post will be sounded at 7pm on the anniversaries of their deaths.”

You can find out more about the First World War casualties of Dalton and Newton on a website at www.daltoncouncil.org.uk/world-war-i-commemoration.html or in a book by Ann Thurlow called Who Do You Think They Were?