Detail victim

Name HARTINGTON
Initials JE
First name JOHN ERNEST
Place of birth Mexico
Country Mexico
Last residence Heywood, Lancashire
Family Son of George A. and Mona Gertrude Hartington, of Heywood, Lancs. Three brothers (George, Charles and Luis) and three sisters.
Education Bury Grammar School
Profession Military man

Place & date of enlistment December 1914
Rank Lieutenant
Medals M C
Regiment and unit 164th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
Division - Brigade 125th Brigade
Army - Corps - Division 42nd Division
National force B.E.F.
Attached or transferred from 1st/5th - Bn. - Lancashire Fusiliers
Other data related to military career To France 3 May 1915; seconded to the 164th Coy, Machine Gun corps (January 1916); Battle of the Somme; promotion to 1st lieutenant; 3rd Battle of Ypres

Wounded 12 July 1917
Type of wounds Hit in the stomach by a piece of brass from a 4.5" shell cartridge; died in n° 10 CCS
Date of death 13 July 1917
Died at the age of 21
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIII - A - 1