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Private James Heaton was born in 1900 in Hindley Green, near Wigan, the son of William and Rebecca Heaton. He grew up in a tight-knit Lancashire coal community, where life was defined by long shifts, strong families, and quiet pride. As a child he watched the men of his town march away to the Great War — fathers, brothers, neighbours, lads barely older than himself — many of whom never returned. The war shaped his generation long before he was old enough to wear a uniform. By late 1918 or early