Private 24662 Joseph EDMUNDS
9th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers,formerly 25325 Manchester Regiment
Killed in Action, Thursday 16th August 1917, France, Age 25
Home address:
54 St. Oswald's Grove, Collyhurst, Manchester
Born:
1892, Manchester, Lancashire
Parents:
Mary Ann Edmunds and James Edmunds
25 Churnett Street, Collyhurst, Manchester, Lancashire
Marital Status:
Married to May Edmunds (née Ridgway)
54 St. Oswald's Grove, Collyhurst, Manchester, Lancashire
Occupation:
Soap Works Labourer
Enlisted:
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire
Remembered:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, panel 56.
Link to Hyde:
Not Known
From the Hyde Reporter 8th September 1917, page 3, column 5:
He was struck by a rifle bullet, and died as they were carrying him down so peacefully that the bearers did not know he was dead until it was pointed out to them,
From the Manchester Evening News, 13th September 1917, page 4, column 4:
Sadly missed by his wife and three little children.