Driver 77902 John Birrell Smallshaw
Regiment/Unit: Royal Horse Artillery - 6th Bde. H.Q
Theatre of War: Mesopotamia
Theatre of War First Served: (1) France
Date Entered Therein: 05/05/1915
Age at death: 27
Date of death: 30th of July 1917
(Monday)
Born: Rainford, Lancs
Resided: Wigan, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Baghdad North Gate War Cemetery - XII. B. 8.
Family details:
Husband of Levenia Boulton (formerly Smallshaw), of 555, Warrington Rd., Lower Ince, Wigan.
Census details:
1891 - John B 1 is living with his parents John 43, Eleanor 41 and siblings Henry 15, William 12, Mary 8, Nellie 5, and Elizabeth 4 at Moores Farm,Ormskirk Road, Rainford, Lancashire
1901 - John 10, b Rainford, is living with his widowed mother Eleanor 52, and siblings William 23 Elizabeth 14 and [cas=3025]Christopher Hugh Smallshaw[/cas] 4 at 6 Darnhall Street, Ince, Wigan, Lancashire
1911 - John Birrell 20 a colliery labourer above ground is living with his wife Levinia 21 and son John 1 month at 73 Betley Street, Platt Bridge, near Wigan, Lancashire.
Notes:
[note=181]Two Smallshaw Brothers who died in The Great War[/note]
SHROH ref. 3473