Lance/Corporal Francis Thomas Nightingale
5480 1st East Lancashire Regiment
Missing in Action 1st July 1916, aged 21
Lived at 39 Hart Street
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France
Pickup Croft Memorial
Burnley Express 14/8/1915 - 14/8/1915 - 18/8/1915 - 18/8/1915 - 30/09/1916 - 28/4/1917 - 28/4/1917 - 28/4/1917 - 25/01/1919

Francis Thomas (‘Tom’) Nightingale of 39 Hart Street, Burnley, was my maternal Great Great Uncle. Following the death of my maternal GrandMother (who was the daughter of Tom’s younger sister) in 2002 and Grandfather 2010, I was passed a family archive which included the attached photographs and correspondence.

(courtesy of Darren Cox)