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  • Stockport
  • Cheshire, England
  • Son of Margaret and Joseph Kelly. Three brothers: Joseph, John and Henry (also served abroad); one sister, Esther.
  • stone masonry
  • Husband of Elizabeth H. Kelly, of 5, Mahood St., Edgeley. Five children: Norah (1911), twins Phillip and Doris (1913), Margaret (1915) and Vera (1917); he died before receiving the letter that his daughter Vera was born;

Military service

  • 2 March 1916, Stockport
  • 37838
  • Private
  • 7th Bn. Leicestershire Regiment
  • Originally served with an East Lancashire Territorial Army Company of Engineers; transferred to the Leicesterhire Regiment at the end of 1916; went overseas January 1917

Death

  • Polygon Wood, 1 October
  • Died of shell wounds
  • 32
  • XXV - E - 4

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