Forename | Walter |
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Surname | Farrington |
Middle Name | |
Memorial | Standish Cenotaph |
Age | 22 |
Address | 40 Bradley Lane, Worthington |
Parents' Address | As above |
Township | Standish |
Rank | Private |
Occupation or place of work | Pearson and Knowles, Coppull Collieries |
Regiment | Lancashire Fusiliers- depot |
Day of Death | 7 |
Month of Death | July |
Year of Death | 1916 |
Cause of Death | Died of wounds, Netley Hospital |
Place of Burial | St Wilfrid's Parish Church, Standish |
Regiment Number | 14571 |
Name of War | First World War |
Location | |
Additional Information | WO 5/8/16, WE 9/9/16 died of wounds CWGC, Ancestry Private 14671, Depot, Lancashire Fusiliers, 17th Bn. Wounded, died at Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, brought home for burial (13 July 1916) - Register gives age as 21, address Platt Lane, Worthington Son of Edwin, 5 Hutton Street, Bradley CWGC stone in St Wilfrid’s churchyard:—below (H.13.920) St Wilfrid’s Magazine for August 1916 records his burial without comment or elaboration, and adds his name to the monthly ‘Roll of Honour’ Born 3 February 1895, Baptised St Anne, Shevington, 3 March 1895, son of Edward (sic) and Ann, Shevington, Miner Parents’ Marriage: St Wilfrid’s, 18 July 1891: Edwin, 20, labourer, father Lawrence, dec’d; Wagon builder; Ann, 20, father Peter Tickle, joiner Mother Ann, buried 1 October, 1904, age 33. Brother Edwin, buried June 1918, aged 18 |