14/167 Lance Corporal William Knowles of the 14th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment:

 

He died of wounds on the 9 April 1916, aged 24 years, and he is buried in Sucrerie Military Cemetery, France.

 

William Knowles was born at Denton in 1892 to Edmund Knowles and Selina Nield who were married at St Michael’s Church, Ashton-under-Lyne, in 1884. His mother died at Denton in 1893, aged 28 years and his father remarried. In 1901 he was resident with his father, stepmother, Sarah Jane, and siblings on High Street, Denton. In 1911 he was lodging with Ernest Bardsley and his family on Moorside Lane, Denton, employed as a labourer above ground at a coal mine. His father also moved to Moorside Lane.

Peter Whitehead