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.