21491 Lance Corporal Richard Berry of the 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry:

 

He died of wounds and sickness in Ashton-under-Lyne, on the 10 July 1919, aged 35 years, and he is buried in St Mary's Churchyard, Haughton Green.

 

Richard Berry was born at Denton in 1884 and he is the son of Richard Berry and Lydia Turner who were married at St Paul’s Church, Portwood, Stockport, in 1878. He married Mary Elizabeth Jeff at St George’s Church, Hyde, in 1904. In 1901 he was resident with his parents and siblings on Stockport Road, Denton, employed in the hatting industry, and in 1911 he was resident with his wife and three children on Randal(l) Street, Hyde, employed as a coal miner.

Peter Whitehead