49668 Private Jarvis Ingham of the 16th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, attached to the 7th Battalion, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment):

 

He was killed in action on the 4 April 1918, aged 31 years, and he is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.

 

Jervis (aka Jarvis) Ingham was born at Stalybridge, Cheshire, in 1887 to Walter Ingham and Annie Elizabeth Siddeley née Swann, who were married at Holy Trinity, Castle Hall, Stalybridge, in 1882. In 1911 he was resident with two sisters and a brother on Brierley Street, Stalybridge, employed as a cotton spinner.

Peter Whitehead