Private 22495 William Cunliffe

Family details:
Son of William and Jane Cunliffe. of Billinge, Wigan.

Census details:
1901 - 5 years old William is living at 1 Booths Brow Road, Ashton in Makerfield with parents William (45), Jane (45) and six siblings: Richard (24), Charlotte (19), Ann (17), Lily (13), Albert (11), Fanny (8). 1911 -

Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=39]Remembered On The St. Aidan's C of E Church Memorial[/url] [url=lmem.php?lmem=52]Also Remembered On The Birchley St Mary's Memorial[/url]

Private 22495 9th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment (formally 4th Battalion Connaught Rangers) William was born in Bryn in 1894 the son of William and Jane Cunliffe, but later the family moved to Billinge. He enlisted at Warrington at the beginning of 1915 to join the Connaught Rangers and was later transferred to the South Lancashire Regiment. William was serving in Greece where he died of wounds at Salonika on Friday the 20th of September 1918, he was 23 years of age and is buried in the Sarigol Military Cemetery, Kriston, Greece, grave B.302. His name is recorded on both St. Aidan`s C.E. Church and St. Mary`s R.C. Church Memorials. Sources:- St. Helens Local History Library, Soldiers killed in the Great War; The Commonwealth War Graves Commission; St. Aidan`s Parish Magazine, February 1915. [url=http://sthelens-connect.net/sitefiles/billinge-history.pdf]Information Courtesy of The Billinge History Society[/url] [pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/22495WilliamCunliffe.jpg[/pic][caption]The gravestone of Private William Cunliffe at Sarigol Military Cemetery, Kriston (Photograph Courtesy of Barry Davis off GWF )[/caption]