Private 2700 James Powell
Regiment/Unit: Lancashire Fusiliers - 1st/8th Bn.
Theatre of War: Gallipoli
Theatre of War First Served: (1)
Date Entered Therein: 23/06/1915
Age at death: 30
Date of death: 7th of August 1915
Born: Sutton, St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Helles Memorial - Panel 58 to 72 or 218 to 219.
BMD details:
Marriage: 04/05/1907 James POWELL to Martha A JACKSON at Sutton St Nicholas CE.
Family details:
Son of James and Elizabeth Powell; husband of Martha Ann Lawson (formerly Powell), of 71, Union St., St. Helens, Lancs.
Census details:
1891 - 6 years old James is living at 46 Watery Lane, St Helens with parents James (37), Elizabeth (35) and sister Sarah E (12). Also at the address is mother in law Ellen Prescott 70. 1901 - 16 years old 'Glass Casting Hall Hand' James is living at 14 Normans Lane, Sutton, St Helens with widowed father James (46) and siblings Elizabeth (9), William (3). Also at the address is servant Han Burrows (44). 1911 - 26 years old 'Coal Miner' James is living at 59 Edgeworth Street, Sutton, St Helens with wife Martha Ann (22) and two children: Mary Ellen (3), William (2).
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=1]Remembered on All Saints War Memorial, Sutton, St Helens[/url] MIC has this mans forenames as Henry James. SDGW and CWGC have it as James.
[url=lmem.php?lmem=1]Remembered on All Saints War Memorial, Sutton, St Helens[/url] MIC has this mans forenames as Henry James. SDGW and CWGC have it as James.
[pic]imgs/WW1_memorials/Powell-Prescott_LancsFuss.jpg[/pic][caption]The panel on the Helles Memorial bearing the inscription for Private James Powell
(Photograph courtesy of Phil Wood off GWF )[/caption]
