pte 43463 john armitt
Dec 4, 2010 14:15:03 GMT
Post by tonyrod on Dec 4, 2010 14:15:03 GMT
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ARMITT, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Unit Text: Depot
Age: 34
Date of Death: 06/11/1918
Service No: 43463
Additional information: Husband of Martha Armitt, of 17, School St., Eccles New Rd.
, Salford, Manchester.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Z. 232.
Cemetery: BLACKPOOL (LAYTON) CEMETERY
1st Battalion
August 1914 : at Tipperary. Part of 16th Brigade in 6th Division.
10 September 1914 : landed at St Nazaire.
www.1914-1918.net/6div.htm
john must have been wounded and shipped home ,
blackpool in ww1 had a very large teaching hospital lets hope he got to see his family before he died
i will get a headstone photo on the first good day hoping the suns out
In October 1915, the 4,600 bed King's Lancashire Military Convalescent Hospital opened in Blackpool and early in 1917, the town became a Royal Army Medical Corps training centre. During the Second World War, there were units of the Polish forces stationed at Blackpool and the Polish Air Force had its headquarters at Talbot Square. Blackpool (Layton) Cemetery contains 139 scattered burials of the First World War and 39 from the Second World War. A Yugoslav airman is also buried in the cemetery and there are 26 Polish war graves together in a group. A Cross of Sacrifice stands on the main drive
ARMITT, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Unit Text: Depot
Age: 34
Date of Death: 06/11/1918
Service No: 43463
Additional information: Husband of Martha Armitt, of 17, School St., Eccles New Rd.
, Salford, Manchester.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Z. 232.
Cemetery: BLACKPOOL (LAYTON) CEMETERY
1st Battalion
August 1914 : at Tipperary. Part of 16th Brigade in 6th Division.
10 September 1914 : landed at St Nazaire.
www.1914-1918.net/6div.htm
john must have been wounded and shipped home ,
blackpool in ww1 had a very large teaching hospital lets hope he got to see his family before he died
i will get a headstone photo on the first good day hoping the suns out
In October 1915, the 4,600 bed King's Lancashire Military Convalescent Hospital opened in Blackpool and early in 1917, the town became a Royal Army Medical Corps training centre. During the Second World War, there were units of the Polish forces stationed at Blackpool and the Polish Air Force had its headquarters at Talbot Square. Blackpool (Layton) Cemetery contains 139 scattered burials of the First World War and 39 from the Second World War. A Yugoslav airman is also buried in the cemetery and there are 26 Polish war graves together in a group. A Cross of Sacrifice stands on the main drive
