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.
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:
ETERNAL LIFE
EVER REMEMBERED