243746 Private John William Rowell of the 11th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment:

 

He enlisted in the army at Denton and he was killed in action on the 7 June 1916, aged 24 years. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

 

John William Rowell was born at Chorley in 1892 and he is the son of Walter Rowell and Jane Alice Wright who were married at St Peter’s Church, Burnley, in 1883. In 1911 he was resident with his parents and siblings on Hyde Lane, Hyde, employed as a little piecer in the cotton industry. Later his parents moved to Duke Street, South Shore, Blackpool.

Peter Whitehead