Hyde War Memorial Trust

Roll of Honour of the 710 men of Hyde who fell in WW1


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Andrew LEECH

Private 44991 Andrew LEECH
1st/5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers,
formerly 131 Cheshire Regiment

Killed in Action,   Friday 26th October 1917,   Belgium,   age 19

Home address:27 Markland Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:1898, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:Frances Matilda Leech and John Leech
27 Markland Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital status:Single
Occupation:school
Enlisted:Hyde, Cheshire
Remembered:Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium,
panel 22.
Link to Hyde:Born in Hyde

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

In ever-loving remembrance of my dear brother, Andrew Leech, who was killed in action in France October 26th, 1917.
From his loving sister.
No morning dawns, no night returned, but what we think of you.

Baptist Church and Sunday School, Chapel Street, Hyde.
In ever-loving memory of Edwin Eyre, M.M., Harold W. Lockyear, Harold Slater,
John S. Pursglove, Jesse D. Schoolden, Andrew Leech, Fred Moores, and William Booth.