Private
Edward Catlow
18574 7th East Lancashire Regiment
Died 2th August 1917, aged 20
Lived at 81 Cog Lane
Buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery, France III.E.274
Burnley Express 18th
August 1917
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TWO SONS KILLED (Burnley Express 18th August
1917)
Mrs. Catlow, 81 Cog Street, Burnley,
was last week informed that her youngest son, Pte. Edward, East Lancashire
Regt. died from wounds at a casualty clearing station on August 2nd. He
was only 21 years of age. Formerly he was employed at Bank Hall Pit. Pte.
Catlow had been three times in hospital, ont he first occasion from shell
shock, then from malaria fever, and lastly from injuries sustained as
the result of being buried by a shell. At home he was a member of the
Myrtle Bank Sunday School football team. He was very popular in the Cog
Lane district.
He is the second son Mrs. Catlow has lost in the war. Lance.Corpl. James
Catlow, East Lancashire Regt. aged 29, was called up as a reservist on
the outbreak of war, and fell in action on May 9th 1915. Of the three
remaining sons, one was a reservist whose time expired while he was on
services during the war. He was wounded on the same day that his brother
James was killed.
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