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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Prescot
• Land Lancashire
• Last residence Warrington Road, Prescot
• Family Son of Emma Chesworth, of 71, Warrington Rd., Prescot, Lancs.
  Two brothers: Harry and Frank. Harry died in the Somme, October 1916.
  Three sisters: Eva, Lily and Hilda.
• Profession Brass finisher

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment August 1914
• Service number 240241
• Rank Corporal
• Regiment and unit 1st/5th Bn. South Lancashire Regiment
• Other data related to military career Original service number: 1789 (private). Second service number: 240241 (corporal); Sailed to France on 13 February 1915, Le Havre; New Year 1917 Ypres Salient; end op May Garrison Railway Wood; June Zillebeke and St.-Omer; July Ypres.

Death

• Wounded Ypres, German machine gun fire.
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds right leg (amputated) and head, in n°3 Can CCS
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XVI - G - 7

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