166209 Gunner Fred Ramsbottom of the 248th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery:

 

He was killed in action on the 25 September 1917, aged 33 years, and he is buried in Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Belgium.

 

Fred Ramsbottom was born at Denton in 1884 to Thomas Lunn (aka Lund) Ramsbottom and Mary Ann Schofield who were married at Christ Church, Denton, in 1864. In 1901 he was resident with his parents, siblings and others on Moss Street (later Grosvenor Street), off Taylor Lane, Denton, employed as a fur blower at the Wellington Fur Works on Taylor Lane. In 1911 he was resident with his widowed father, sister, Nellie (24), and niece, Edith (5), on Whitworth Road, Rochdale, employed as a jobber ring spinner at a cotton mill.

Peter Whitehead