10568 Private Samuel Shepley of the 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment:

 

He died on the 19 May 1915, aged 34 years, and he is buried in Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany. It is likely that he had been captured and was a prisoner of war at the time of his death.

 

Samuel Shepley was born at Denton in 1881 to Peter Shepley and Mary Wilkinson who were married at St Matthew’s Church, Stockport, in 1871. At the time of his birth the family was resident on Water Street, Denton. In 1911 he was resident with his widowed mother and a boarder, on Denton Street, Stockport, employed as a labourer.

Peter Whitehead