Lance Corporal 427 John Duckworth
Regiment/Unit: East Surrey Regiment - 2nd Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Age at death: 38
Date of death: 27th of April 1915
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Ypres Menin Gate Memorial - Panel 34.
BMD details:
Marriage details from service papers: 09/10/1910 John Duckworth to Elizabeth Burrows (widow) at St Olave, Bermondsey
Family details:
Taken from service papers. Elizabeth Duckworth (wife) 49 Allanson Street, Parr, St Helens. Taken from MIC: Mr L Duckworth (brother), 19 Stanhope Street, St Helens, Lancs.
Census details:
1881 - 3 years old John is living at 5 Court - 79 College Street, St Helens with parents William (34), Mary (37) and sister Ann (1). 1891 - Not found. 1901 - Not found 1911 - 33 years old 'General Labourer' John is living at 15 Dilston Grove, Rotherhithe S E with his wife Elizabeth (39), step daughter Elizabeth Jane Burrows (21) and boarder William Duckworth (64). All born at St Helens, Lancs.
Notes:
Age taken from attestation papers.
Age taken from attestation papers.
[pic]imgs/WW1_memorials/DuckworthJ_EastSurreys.jpg[/pic][caption]The panel on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial bearing the inscription for
Lance Corporal John Duckworth
(Photograph courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]
