Hyde War Memorial Trust

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John William HUNT

Private 34897 John William HUNT
7th Battalion, Border Regiment

Died of Wounds,   Sunday 31st March 1918,   No.3 Canadian Station Hospital, France,   age 30

Home address:81 Old Road, Flowery Field, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:1888, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:Margaret Ann Hunt and William Hunt
17 Mary Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital status:Married to Alice Hunt (née Cooper)
81 Old Road, Flowery Field, Hyde, Cheshire
Occupation:Cotton Cloth Weaver, Ashton Brothers
Enlisted:Barrow, Lancashire
Remembered:Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No.1, Somme, France,
plot VI, row G, grave 52.
Link to Hyde:Born in Hyde

Died of a shrapnel wounds to back and right shoulder.

A Message of Remembrance, written for Werneth Low Cenotaph Unveiling, 25th June 1921:

United Methodist Church and Sunday School Hyde.
In remembrance and honour:
S. Binyon, F. Charlesworth, H. Chadwick, H. Gregory,
H. C. Hodkinson, W. Horsefield, J. W. Hunt, S. Kinder,
W. Norman, J. Oldham, T. Reeves, and J. Walsh.