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Walter Farrington

Details

Forename Walter
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