Second Lieutenant Russell Willis of the York and Lancaster Regiment attached to the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment:

He was killed in action on the 25 October 1914, aged 19 years, and is buried in the Pont-du-Hem Military Cemetery, France.

Russell Willis was in the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and he disembarked in France on the 30 September 1914. He was posthumously awarded the 1914 Star (Mons Star).

He is the son of William Willis and Anne Maria Lightfoot of Dawlish Road, Wallasey, Cheshire, and he was born at Denton in 1894. William Willis was the headmaster of the Russell Scott Memorial School, Prestwich Street, off Wilton Street, Denton, for many years.

Peter Whitehead