Private 10353 William Henry HORSFIELD

15th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment

Died of Wounds, Tuesday 21st August 1917, France, Age 22

Home address:

10 Grafton Street, Hyde, Cheshire

Born:

1895, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire

Parents:

Marie Horsfield and James Horsfield
138 Sycamore Road, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Marital Status:

Single

Occupation:

Labourer Dye Works

Enlisted:

Chester, Cheshire

Remembered:

Tincourt New British Cemetery, Somme, France, plot I, row D, grave 8.

Link to Hyde:

Lived in Hyde

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

United Methodist Church and Sunday School Hyde.
In remembrance and honour:
S. Binyon, F. Charlesworth, H. Chadwick, H. Gregory,
H. C. Hodkinson, W. Horsefield, J. W. Hunt, S. Kinder,
W. Norman, J. Oldham, T. Reeves, and J. Walsh.

The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by his father:

R.I.P.