Weaste

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The friends of Salford cemeteries has a searchable database of CWGC and family graves that mentioned the fallen.

The database can be accessed at www.weasteheritagetrail.co.uk/Resources/great-war-casualties/great-war-casualties-remembered-at-weaste/index.htm

If you require a picture of a particular grave please ask and we will organise that it is posted.

[mack]

heres some info on pte h.parkinson whos buried in weaste cemetery.

pte 62118 herbert parkinson
16th south lancs regt
27 doveridge st,pendleton
he was retained on home service and employed at salford docks,he was working on the SS romney,and in the darkness,stepped through an open hatchway and fell into the water and drowned

mack

[mack]

hiya gary.
would your pals from friends of salford cemeteries be able to find out the date of a soldiers burial,theres a discrepancy with the date of death of pte harry basketter in weaste cemetery,his death is recorded on the CWGC as 12-1-17,but on ancestry its listed as jan 1918,i also saw a reference to his pension review that said he was in a sanatorium in june 1917.

mack
ps.he died of TB

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Mack,

I will get a message sent now.

[mack]

thanks gary.
its only to put my records right

mack

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Agecroft records office confirm that he was buried in January 1918.

From redges

Attachments:

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This is the 1911 census showing him at Carlisle Barracks.

This information was gathered by redges.

Attachments:

[mack]

many thanks gary+redges
it looks like the CWGC have got the wrong year of death.

mack