Private Philip Shears
1st East Lancashire Regiment
Died of illness 1st October 1917, aged 35
Served for 12 years
Lived at 7 Villers Street
Buried in Burnley
Cemetery, UK
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
