James Ralph Hadley was born in 1897 in Openshaw, Manchester and later the family moved to Bury and at 13 he was working as a doffer in the mill.

He enlisted in the Lancashire Fusiliers and was killed in the  the Battle of Frezenberg when his company were trying to capture Beck House on the Friezenberg Ridge in Belgium, on Thursday 6th September 1917 and he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium

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