Notes
Hornshaw and Fowler provide the extra details. He worked as a spinner piecer for a cotton spinning firm before the war: he enlisted in October 1914 and went abroad in April 1915 only 3 weeks after he married Gladys. He died of w wound sustained the day before in Thiepval Wood and is also commemorated on IWM 2130 (along with his brother Ralph) who died 6 weeks later, also on the Somme, in the failed attack on the Schwaben Redoubt)