Lance Corporal 17109 John HARDY
20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
Killed in Action, Saturday 1st July 1916, France, Age 22
Home address:
4 Grafton Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1894, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:
Elizabeth Hardy and John Hardy
4 Grafton Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
Cotton Piecer
Enlisted:
Manchester, Lancashire
Remembered:
Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France, plot VI, row E, grave 9.
Link to Hyde:
Born in Hyde
Brother to Driver T4/060672 William Hardy.
The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by his father:
I SHALL NOT WANT