Private 17143 Fred KNOWLES
20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
Killed in Action, Saturday 1st July 1916, France, Age 25
Home address:
140 George Street West, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1891, Denton, Manchester
Parents:
Lizzie Ann Knowles and Robert Knowles
140 George Street West, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
Worker Spinning
Enlisted:
Manchester, Lancashire
Remembered:
Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Somme, France, plot V, row J, grave 5.
Link to Hyde:
Lived in Hyde
The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by his mother: