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• Name CHEESEWRIGHT
• Initials JF
• First name JOHN FRANCIS
• Place of birth North Ormesby
• Country Yorkshire, England
• Last residence Spennymoor, Durham
• Family Son of Joseph and Floretta Cheesewright of Boston, Lincs; eight brothers and two sisters; Husband of Jennie, J. A. Cheesewright, of 43, Clyde Terrace, Spennymoor, Co. Durham;
• Education Moulton and Boston Grammar Schools, Lincolnshire
• Profession Bank clerk

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Ferry Hill, Durham
• Service number 53310
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 2nd/9th Bn. Manchester Regiment
• Division - Brigade 198th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 66th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Crossed to France early in 1917; first saw action at La Basse Canal; in June moved to Nieuport (Belgian coast); to the Salient in October;
  Formerly 48320, North Staffs Regt.

Death

• Wounded 28th November; Broodseinde, Zonnebeke
• Type of wounds Left foot blown off by a shell splinter in n°3 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 29 November 1917
• Died at the age of 40
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - A - 20A

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