Torver clergyman the Reverend John Panes lost two sons in the First World War. Mr Panes and wife Mrs L. C. Panes lived at the Rectory, Torver, between Broughton and Coniston. 

Arthur Benjamin Panes was second officer on the SS Malda. He died at the age of 26 on August 20 in 1917 and served with the Mercantile Marine. 

The officer is buried at Hartland St Nectan Churchyard, Devon. 

The SS Malda was a passenger and cargo ship which was powered by steam and was built in 1913 by Barclay, Curle and Company of Glasgow for the British India Steam Navigation Company. 

It was 450ft in length, displaced 7,884 tons and had a top speed of 13.5 knots. The captain was Charles Davidson. 

Malda was struck by a German torpedo from U-70 on the way from Boston to London. 

The ship sank 130 miles off Bishop Rock, Scilly Isles after the 1.40pm attack which came during a gale. 

Some crew members got away in lifeboats but 64 died. 

His brother Ernest Philip Morris Panes was a second lieutenant in the Ninth Battalion of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps. 

He was aged 22 when he was killed on September 25 in 1915. The young officer has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres, Belgium. 

William Askew Wilson was a private in the Eighth Battalion of the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. 

He was aged 20 when he died on July 8 in 1917 and is buried at St Sever Cemetery Extension at Rouen. 

Pte Wilson was the son of Thomas and Isabella Wilson, of Station House, Torver. 

John Inman started his military career as a rifleman with the Monmouthshire Regiment but was later transferred to the Labour Corps. 

He is buried at St Luke’s Church, Torver. 

He died on December 2 in 1918 and was the son of William Dawson Inman and Eleanor and was married to Elizabeth M. Inman, of Green Rigg, Torver. 

Also buried at Torver is Torver-born Pte T. H. Brocklebank who served with the 1/4th Battalion of the King’s Own. 

He died at the age of 22 on January 11 in 1919 and was the son of W. Casson Brocklebank and Ellen, of 6 Lonsdale Terrace, Millom. 

From the same battalion of the King’s Own was Pte John Jarvis Barrow who was killed on June 8 in 1915. 

He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial in the Pas de Calais, France. 

Another from the 1/4th Battalion was Pte J. W. Dixon. 

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records his service with the Eight Battalion and with the 185 th Company of the Labour Corps. 

He died on October 27 in 1917 and is buried at Birr Cross Roads Cemetery which is 3km outside Ypres, Belgium. 

Battery Sergeant Major Edmund George Barrow died at the age of 29 on April 4 in 1918. He served with the 119 th Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery and is buried at Le Grand Hasard Military Cemetery, Morbecque, near Hazebrouck, France. He was the son of John Barrow, of Pennington and was married to Lily May Barrow, of South Street, Lymington, Hants.

There are two other names on a marble plaque dedicated to the memory of the men of Torver who were killed in the First World War.

They are J. J. Jackson a private in the Royal Field Artillery and F. Casson, a private in the 1/4th Battalion of the King's Own.