Roll of Honour of the 710 men of Hyde who fell in WW1
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Wright ASHTON
Private 24057 Wright ASHTON
10th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry
Killed in Action, Tuesday 11th January 1916, France, age 20
| Home address: | 55 Muslin Street*, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Born: | 1896, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Parents: | Lavinia Poole Ashton and Alexander Ashton 8 Harbour Place, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Marital status: | Single |
| Occupation: | Little Piecer |
| Enlisted: | Chester, Cheshire |
| Remembered: | Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, bay 36. St Mary's churchyard, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire, named on a family gravestone. |
| Link to Hyde: | Born in Hyde |
From the Manchester Evening News, Friday 21st January 1916, page 7, column 2:
Died in France as a result of severe internal injuries sustained when in a trench which was destroyed by a German shell. He was only twenty years of age and had been at the front eleven days. He was a well-known Newton lad and the second scout in the 2nd Newton Troop.
* Muslin Street is now Talbot Road. See our notes on Old Place Names.