Lance Serjeant 12150 John Shaw PURSSGLOVE
8th Battalion, Cheshire Regimentformerly Lance Corporal Welch Regiment
Killed in Action, Wednesday 5th April 1916, Mesopotamia, Age 24
Home address:
Welch Regiment, Barracks, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Born:
1891, Mottram in Longdendale, Cheshire
Parents:
Ellen Purssglove and George Harry Purssglove
24 Union Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Married to Madeleine Purssglove (née Terry)
Clarendon Place, Hyde, Cheshire
Occupation:
Lance Corporal Welch Regiment
Enlisted:
Hyde, Cheshire
Remembered:
Basra Memorial, Iraq, panel 14.
Link to Hyde:
Born in Hyde
Name spelt John Pursglove on Commonwealth War Grave Website.
Soldier’s Effects Record: Name spelt as J. Purseglove, Rank Corporal.
From the North Cheshire Herald, 27th March 1915 , page 8, column 6:
A Message of Remembrance, written for Werneth Low Cenotaph Unveiling, 25th June 1921:
In ever-loving memory of Edwin Eyre, M.M., Harold W. Lockyear, Harold Slater,
John S. Pursglove, Jesse D. Schoolden, Andrew Leech, Fred Moores, and William Booth.