Private 15350 Joseph MIDDLETON
8th Battalion, Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
Died of Wounds, Friday 22nd September 1916, Central Military Hospital, Princess Christian Hospital and Sanatorium, Weymouth, Dorset, Age 23
Home address:
20 Deal Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1893, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:
Ann Middleton and Joseph Aaron Middleton
20 Deal Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
Hat Finisher
Enlisted:
Hyde, Cheshire
Remembered:
St George's churchyard, Hyde, Cheshire, a CWGC memorial.
Link to Hyde:
Born in Hyde
At 8:45pm on 22/09/1916 Private Middleton died of Septicaemia and haemorrhage, 27 days after amputation of left leg took place because of a gun shot wound to the left thigh.
All gravestones have been removed from St George’s churchyard. The CWGC gravestones were replaced by the memorial pictured above.
The original gravestone had the following message, put there Mr M H Middleton of 5 Bramall St, Flowery Field, Hyde:
COME UNTO ME AND REST