The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private J T Lonsdale

Photograph by "Len"

Private John Thomas LONSDALE, G/1158, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, 28th October 1915.

Born Brierfield, Lancashire, son William & Elizabeth A Lonsdale.

1911 Census - 70 Clement Street, Accrington, Lancashire - Elizabeth A Lonsdale, head, age 47, married 24 years, 3 children, 2 still alive, cotton weaver, worker, born Ely, Cambridgeshire; Mary A Dolby, mother, age 66, widow, married 42 years, 15 children, 6 still alive, born Ely, Cambridgeshire; J T Lonsdale, son, age 19, single, grocers assistant, shop worker, worker, born Brierfield, Lancashire; Annie Lonsdale, daughter, age 17, cotton weaver, worker, born Brierfield, Lancashire.

1912, December Colchester Registration District, John T Lonsdale married Daisy G N Openshaw.

Child - John Oliver Lonsdale, born 15th March 1913, Bootle, Lancashire.

Enlisted Blackburn, Lancashire.

25th August 1915, posted BEF.

1918, June Quarter, Liverpool Registration District, Daisy G N Lonsdale, married Arthur Wilkins.

Daisy Wilkins 1919

Buried at Becourt Military Cemetery, I. D. 6., Becordel-Becourt, France.

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