Roll of Honour of the 710 men of Hyde who fell in WW1
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James William BARDSLEY
Private 31757 James William BARDSLEY of 8th Bn., Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment), (Formerly 1873, Cheshire Yeo.)
Killed in action Sunday 5th August 1917, France & Flanders, age 27
| Home address: | 13 Victoria Street, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Born: | 1891, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Parents: | Julia Bardsley and William Henry Bardsley of 13 Victoria Street, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Marital status: | Single |
| Occupation: | Cotton Operative |
| He enlisted in: | Hyde, Cheshire |
| Remembered: | Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 37 |
| Link to Hyde: | Born in Hyde |
He first elisted in the Cheshire regiment as Private 17476, General Service, on the 15th October 1914, but was discharged on 31st October 1914 as unfit for further service.
On British Army Pension Record age is given as 19 years and 14 day old, when his actual age was 23.
In the 1911 Census his name is given as William Bardsley.