Private Edwin Shears
4897 2nd East Lancashire Regiment
Attached 176 Tunnelling Coy. R.E.
Died of Wounds 9th July 1916, aged 29
Lived at 7 Villiers Street
Buried in Hersin Communal Cemetery Extension, France I.F.3.
Commemorated in Burnley
Cemetery, UK
Burnley Express
29th July 1916
Victor
Slater, killed in action, his half Brothers
Edwin Shears, and John
Shears both killed in Action, Philip Shears
died whilst in service. Brother in law James
Hargreaves also killed.
All
five commemorated on the same memorial in Burnley Cemetery
