Pvt A W Heywood 31575 (4th Salford Pals)

[Colin Fraser]

I have pretty much run dry on researching my great uncle George Leonard Ingham (3rd Salford). He was my maternal grandmother's brother.

But today I was sorting old family pictures and found info that indicates another great uncle by marriage was killed on the Somme. This time my maternal grandfather's sister's husband.

Pvt Alan W Heywood served in the 20th Bn and was killed Aug. 21, 1916. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.

I think his service number and the fact that he married in early 1916 would make him a replacement rather than an original Pal.

If anyone else has more detail I would appreciate it.

Thanks and Regards

Colin Fraser in Canada

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Colin,

I am presuming that you have the following:
Name: Alan William Heywood
Birth Place: Castle Acre, Norfolk
Death Date: 21 Aug 1916
Death Place: France and Flanders
Enlistment Place: Haslingden, Lancs
Rank: Private
Regiment: Lancashire Fusiliers
Battalion: 20th Battalion
Regimental Number: 31575
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Husband of Sarah May Heywood of 64 Rumbold Street, Duphill, Rochdale.

No previous regiment shown on Medal Index Card, and no 1914/15 star so lande in France after 31st Jan 1915.

Name shown as Allan on Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects.


Can I suggest that you contact Rochdale Library and ask if they could see if there was any mention of Alan's death in the local papers?

Best wishes,

Garry

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Link to war diary discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_col=200&_cr1=WO+95&_hb=tna&_q=20+battalion+lancashire+fusiliers

[Colin Fraser]

Thanks Garry. Yes I have that info although not the register. The library isn't practical what with me being overseas. I tried that with George and got nowhere. I will get the war diary. And we are due to do another month of ancestry so I shall see what that turns up.

Cheers

Colin