Lance Corporal 242260 Cyril Fairclough
Regiment/Unit: Lancashire Fusiliers - 2nd Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Previous Reg/Num: 12390, Lancashire Fusiliers.
Age at death: 19
Date of death: 9th of October 1917
Born: Rainford, St Helens, Lancs
Resided: Rainford, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial - Panel 54 to 60 and 163A.
Family details:
Son of Robert and Elizabeth Fairclough, of School House, Rainford, St. Helens, Lancs.
Census details:
1901 - 3 years old Cyril is living at School House, Rainford with parents Robert (a schoolmaster, 32), Elizabeth (32) and brother Frank (4). 1911 - Sees 13 years old schoolboy Cyril still living at School House, Rainford with parents Robert (head teacher at secondary school, 42), Elizabeth (42), and brother Frank (14). Grandmother Ellen Fairclough (70) is living with the family.
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=40]Remembered on Rainford (All Saints) Parish Church Memorial[/url]
[url=lmem.php?lmem=40]Remembered on Rainford (All Saints) Parish Church Memorial[/url]
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/Fairclough_C_242260.jpg[/pic][caption]The Ormskirk Advertiser - Courtesy Richard Houghton[/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/AshcroftTandFaircloughC.jpg[/pic][caption]The St Helens Reporter - Courtesy Ste M[/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/RainfordMenGallantryAndCasualties.jpg[/pic][caption]The St Helens Reporter - Courtesy Ste M[/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_memorials/FureyF_LFs.jpg[/pic][caption]The panel on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial bearing the inscription for Lance Corporal Felix Furey
(Photograph courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]
