Private 16988 Oswald ADSHEAD
11th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
Killed in Action, Monday 18th October 1915, Belgium, Age 25
Home address:
12 Woodend Lane, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1890, Norbury, Derbyshire
Parents:
Mary Elizabeth Adshead and James Adshead
12 Woodend Lane, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
Spinner, Linnet Mill
Enlisted:
Hyde, Cheshire
Remembered:
Rifle House Cemetery, Comines-Warneton, Belgium, plot III, row A, grave 2.
Link to Hyde:
Lived in Hyde
Killed by a piece of shrapnel.
From a letter written to Asdhead’s sister by Lance Corporal Ernest Aspden of Hollingworth:
I am sure, could you see the state in which the Germans have left this country, you would not in any way regret the loss of your brother, who has died doing his duty in a noble cause. Private Adshead was a gallant soldier, honoured and trusted, and his loss is a very real one to me and my company.