Detail victim

Name CHESWORTH
Initials F
First name FRED
Place of birth Prescot
Country Lancashire
Last residence Warrington Road, Prescot
Family Son of Emma Chesworth, of 71, Warrington Rd., Prescot, Lancs.
Two brothers: Harry and Frank. Harry died in the Somme, October 1916.
Three sisters: Eva, Lily and Hilda.
Profession Brass finisher

Place & date of enlistment August 1914
Service number 240241
Rank Corporal
Regiment and unit 1st/5th Bn. South Lancashire Regiment
Division - Brigade 166th Brigade
Army - Corps - Division 55th Division
National force B.E.F.
Other data related to military career Original service number: 1789 (private). Second service number: 240241 (corporal); Sailed to France on 13 February 1915, Le Havre; New Year 1917 Ypres Salient; end op May Garrison Railway Wood; June Zillebeke and St.-Omer; July Ypres.

Wounded Ypres, German machine gun fire.
Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds right leg (amputated) and head, in n°3 Can CCS
Date of death 31 July 1917
Died at the age of 23
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XVI - G - 7