Private 3346 Wilfred WHITEHEAD

1st/6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment

Killed in Action, Sunday 30th July 1916, the Somme, France, Age 25

Home address:

3 Commercial Street, Hyde, Cheshire

Born:

1891, Hyde, Cheshire

Parents:

Mary Whitehead and Samuel Whitehead
3 Commercial Street, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire

Marital Status:

Single

Occupation:

Cotton Piecer, Hyde Spinning Company

Enlisted:

Hyde, Cheshire

Remembered:

Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, panel 50.

Link to Hyde:

Born in Hyde

Wilfred Whitehead had only been in France three days when he was killed by a shell. Two of his older brothers, (Albert & Jesse) had gone to greet him, only to find that he had been killed.