Private L/5412 William Bardsley
Regiment/Unit: 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers -
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Theatre of War First Served: (1) France
Date Entered Therein: 19/05/1915
Age at death: 23
Date of death: 21st of June 1917
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Unicorn Cemetery Vendhuile - II. H. 6.
Family details:
Father: Harvey Bardsley
Census details:
1901 - 6 years old William H is living at 18 Hanover Street, St Helens with parents Harvey (a grocers assistant 39), Annie (31) and brother Edmund (8). 1911 - Sees 16 years old 'Assistant Butcher' William H living at Brookfield, Rainhill with widowed father Harvey (A pawnbroker 49) and brother Edmund (18). Also at the address is domestic housekeeper Mary Elizabeth Potter (43).
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=31]Remembered on the Knowsley Road School Memorial.[/url] Census details give full names as William Harvey Bardsley. Age taken from news article.
[url=lmem.php?lmem=31]Remembered on the Knowsley Road School Memorial.[/url] Census details give full names as William Harvey Bardsley. Age taken from news article.
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/PrivateL5412WilliamBardsley.jpg[/pic][caption]Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929[/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/Bardsley_Wm_Lancers.jpg[/pic][caption]The St Helens Newspaper & Advertiser - Courtesy Ste M[/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/BardsleyW_Lancers.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Private William Bardsley at Unicorn Cemetery, Vendhuile
(Photograph Courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]
