Private James Willie Pooter
50702 1/5th Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Missing in Action 20th July 1918, aged 20
Lived at 5 Coalclough Lane & 30 Barracks Road
Commemorated on the Soissons Memorial, France
Coal Clough School Memorial
Commemorated on the Howard St. Sunday School R.o.H.
His father George Arthur Pooter also served
Burnley Express 18th January 1919 - 13th September 1919


Formerly TM/288483 ASC also 312397 1503 Coy RE
enlisted Dec 1916 , landed in France 18-2-17, concentrated between Canche and Authie.
Son of Pte Pooter serving in France since 1915.
Attended Howard St Chapel

(Photographs courtesy of his grandaughter Alison Love)




 



 

 

 

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