Guardsman 21219 James Thomas Middlehurst

Regiment/Unit: Coldstream Guards - 2nd Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders

Age at death: 20
Date of death: 27th of August 1918 (Tuesday)
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Croisilles British Cemetery - III. A. 27.

Family details:
Son of Thomas and Margaret Middlehurst, of School St., Moss Bank, St. Helens, Lancs.

Census details:
1901 - 3 years old James Thomas is living at Moss Bank with parents Thomas (42), Margaret (35) and six siblings: Mary A (14), Alice (12), [cas=715]Alfred Middlehurst[/cas] (11), Ethel (9), Joseph W (7), Hilda V (4mths). Also at the address is boarder James Thomas (28). 1911 - Sees 13 years old schoolboy James Thomas living at Club Street, Moss Bank, St Helens with parents Thomas (52), Margaret (45) and five siblings: Mary A (24), [cas=715]Alfred Middlehurst[/cas] (21), Joseph W (17), Hilda V (10), John Edmund (4).

Notes:
[note=16]Two Middlehurst Brothers who died in The Great War[/note] [url=lmem.php?lmem=11]Remembered on Moss Bank Mission Memorial[/url] [url=lmem.php?lmem=21]Also Remembered On St Marks War Memorial, North Road.[/url]

[center][pic2]imgs/WW1_people/MiddlehurstJT.jpg[/pic2][/center] [pic]imgs/WW1_misc/MiddlehurstFamily.jpg[/pic][caption]The St Helens Reporter - Courtesy Ste M[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_misc/MiddlehurstJT_ColdstreamGds.jpg[/pic][caption]The St Helens Reporter - Courtesy Ste M[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_misc/Middlehurst_21219.jpg[/pic][caption]From The Local Press - Courtesy Jeff Keenan[/caption] [pic]imgs/sppics/J_T_Middlehurst_CG.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Private James Thomas Middlehurst at Croisilles British Cemetery (Photograph courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]