Serjeant 45622 John Ernest Fairclough
Regiment/Unit: Royal Welsh Fusiliers - 19th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Previous Reg/Num: 24980, South Lancashire Regiment.
Age at death: 23
Date of death: 18th of October 1916
Born: Burtonwood, Lancs
Resided: Burtonwood, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Noeux-Les-Mines Cemetery - I. P. 7.
Family details:
Son of John and Mary Fairclough, of Ivy House, Burtonwood, Newton-le-Willows, Lancs.
Census details:
1901 - 8 years old John E is living at Bold Lane, Burtonwood with parents John (39), Mary (34) and six siblings: Percy Harold (9), Eva Margaret (6), Mary (5), Leonard (4), Ethel (2), Sarah Alice (1). Also at the address are John seniors in laws William Jonathan Gleave (21), Margaret M Gleave (19) and boarder Roger Gleeson (23). 1911 - Sees 18 years old 'Bankers Apprentice' John E living at Ivy House, Burtonwood with parents John (49), Mary (44) and nine siblings: Percy Harold (19), Eva Margaret (16), Mary (15), Leonard (14), Ethel (12), Sarah Alice (11), Noel (7), Mona (5), Edgar Cyril (4).
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=1]Remembered on All Saints War Memorial, Sutton, St Helens[/url]
[url=lmem.php?lmem=1]Remembered on All Saints War Memorial, Sutton, St Helens[/url]
[pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/FaircloughJE_RWFs.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Serjeant John Ernest Fairclough at Noeux-Les-Mines Cemetery
(Photograph courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]
