Private 341609 William Appleby
Regiment/Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps - 1st/3rd West Lancs Field Amb
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Age at death: 35
Date of death: 30th of June 1917
Born: Poolstock, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery - III. D. 6.
BMD details:
Marriage: 25/12/1912 William APPLEBY to Hannah MARSH at Parr St Peter's.
Family details:
Home address from newspaper clipping: 12, Fleet Lane, Parr, St Helens.
Census details:
1891 - 10 years old schoolboy William is living at 68 Dudley Street, Parr, St Helens with parents James (33), Mary A (29) and two siblings: Joseph (4), Elizabeth (4). 1901 - 19 years old 'Colliery Haulageman' William is living at 211 Parr Stocks Road, Parr, St Helens with parents James (43), Mary Ann (40) and four siblings: Joseph (17), Elizabeth A (14), Eliza Jane (9), [cas=32]Thomas Appleby[/cas] (4). 1911 - William 29 is employed as a Colliery Day Wage Man. He is living at 211 Parr Stocks Road, St Helens with his parents James (52), Mary Ann (50) and siblings Joseph (26), Elizabeth Ann (24), Eliza Jane (19), [cas=32]Thomas Appleby[/cas] (14),May (9), Frances (7), Lily (3)
Notes:
[note=194]Two Appleby Brothers who died in the Great War[/note] [url=lmem.php?lmem=13]Remembered On Parr St Peters War Memorial[/url] Age taken from census.
[note=194]Two Appleby Brothers who died in the Great War[/note] [url=lmem.php?lmem=13]Remembered On Parr St Peters War Memorial[/url] Age taken from census.
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[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/Appleby_W_RAMC_b.jpg[/pic][caption]The St Helens Newspaper & Advertiser - Courtesy Ste M[/caption]
[pic]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/W_Applebey_RAMC_zpsec7b0712.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Private William Appleby at Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery
(Photograph courtesy of Frederik Sohier)[/caption]
