Private 35564 William FERN

10th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment

Died of Wounds, Monday 4th September 1916, France, Age 22

Home address:

28 Thornley Street, Hyde, Cheshire

Born:

1894, Hyde, Cheshire

Parents:

Fanny Fern and Thomas Fern
28 Thornley Street, Hyde, Cheshire

Marital Status:

Engaged to Sarah Griffiths
Vernon Street, Hyde, Cheshire

Occupation:

Gorton Tank

Enlisted:

Hyde, Cheshire

Remembered:

Puchevillers British Cemetery, Somme, France, plot IV, row A, grave 21.Hyde Cemetery, Hyde, Cheshire,named on a family gravestone

Link to Hyde:

Born in Hyde

Died of gas poisoning and a head injury.

The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by his father:

GONE FROM OUR HOME
BUT NOT FORGOTTEN BY US
FROM FATHER, MOTHER
BROTHERS, SISTERS