Basic Details
Surname
Shelley
Forenames
J
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Alternative forename
John
Served or died
Died
Notes
Hornshaw and Fowler provide the extra details. Married, to Susannah, with two children, he worked for a local jewellery manufacturer before enlisting in September 1916. The previous year he had carried Captain Andrews, coincidentally the headmaster of Hipperholme School in Halifax, out of No Man's Land, and died along with many others of his regiment in a failed attack on the Schwaben Redoubt.
Primary Service
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
France
Town of death
Somme
Country of burial
France
Town of burial
Somme
Cemetery
Mill Road British Military Cemetery
Year of death
1916
Month of death
September
Day of death
3
Age at death
42
Manner of death as stated
Not stated on this memorial
Manner of death reference
Missing