Private 22404 Alfred WALTON
2nd Battalion, Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
Killed in Action, Saturday 30th September 1916, France, Age 19
Home address:
29 Union Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1897, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:
Mary Jane Walton and Herbert Walton
29 Union Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
Leather Dresser, Messrs. Hopkins, Pickford Street, Hyde
Enlisted:
Hyde, Cheshire
Remembered:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, pier 7.
Link to Hyde:
Born in Hyde
From the Manchester Evening News, Friday 20th October 1916, page 4, column 7:
He had only been in the army six months.
He was killed by a shell burst.