Private 34897 John William HUNT

7th Battalion, Border Regiment

Died of Wounds, Sunday 31st March 1918, No.3 Canadian Station Hospital, France, Age 30

Home address:

81 Old Road, Flowery Field, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire

Born:

1888, Hyde, Cheshire

Parents:

Margaret Ann Hunt and William Hunt
17 Mary Street, Hyde, Cheshire

Marital Status:

Married to Alice Hunt (née Cooper)
81 Old Road, Flowery Field, Hyde, Cheshire

Occupation:

Cotton Cloth Weaver, Ashton Brothers

Enlisted:

Barrow, Lancashire

Remembered:

Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No.1, Somme, France, plot VI, row G, grave 52.

Link to Hyde:

Born in Hyde

Died of a shrapnel wounds to back and right shoulder.

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 wife:

GOD GRANT HIM
ETERNAL LIFE
EVER REMEMBERED