Burnley in the Great War Burnley Cemetery

Burnley Cemetery
(research by Andrew Gill)

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327099 Gunner J R Ackroyd Royal Garrison Artillery 11.9.1920 Age 22 A4073	114420 Air Mech E Boothman Royal Air Force 28.11.1918 Age 26 6154	2059 Driver M Cain Royal Field Artillery 25.6.1916 Age 35 A15747	37548 Private A Coupland East Lancashire Regiment 3.5.1919 A12241
19883 Private E Astin Royal Lancaster Regiment 1.3.1916 Age 16 A12575	5426 Guardsman T H Bradshaw Scots Guards 20.3.1919 12214	12922 Private A Calverley Royal Lancaster Regiment 26.3.1918 Age 26 NE5227	47426 Serjeant S Crook Manchester Regiment 6.11.1918 Age 37 A17421
4670 Private S Atkinson East Lancashire Regiment 16.5.1916 Age 37 1208	5791 Private H P Bridge Manchester Regiment 21.11.1918 Age 22 3355/6	Second Lieutenant P Camm Royal Air Force 20.10.1918 Age 23 10663	R/359418 Private W Dean Royal Army Service Corps 11.7.1921 Age 33 A1325
240639 C.S. M. Avery DCM. East Lancashire Regiment 12.11.1918 A16577	3859 Private R Brooks Royal Army Medical Corps 30.1.1921 Age 39 A14450	9183 Corporal W C Carr Lancashire Fusiliers 9.2.1921 Age 36 NE5051	66797 Driver J R Dixon Royal Field Artillery 18.10.1919 NE3493
25224 Corporal H Baldwin Royal Army Medical Corps 29.10.1919 Age 25 6573	58445 2nd Air Mech W Broome Royal Flying Corps 28.2.1917 N.E.3640	W Charlton Sto 1st Cl RN K/27497 H.M.S. Vivid 11 6.10.1918 Age 28 A12726	T/18755 Driver D Eastwood Royal Army Service Corps 22.2.1916 Age 34 NE2555
3939 Private W Balshaw East Lancashire Regiment 18.8.1917 Age 25 A12451	55018 Lance Cpl J F Brothwood Machine Gun Corps (Inf) 1.12.1917 Age21 A6626	20887 Corporal W Chew Royal Fusiliers 29.9.1916 Age 26 7169	6149 Private T Edsforth East Lancashire Regiment 19.1.1915 age 39 A11723
106195 Gunner J Bannister Royal Garrison Artillery 16.4.1920 Age 28 A5655	7001 Private E Brown East Lancashire Regiment 2.11.1916 Age 208367	11058 Gunner J H Clark Royal Field Artillery 31.5.1919 Age 24 6896	77539 Private J J Faulkner Manchester Regiment 16.3.1920 6257
422972 Corporal F R Bassnett Labour Corps and Army Cyclist Corps 7.8.1919 Age 46 A10963	23679 1st Air Mech F Brunton Royal Air Force 21.12.1918 Age 28 11932	37354 Private T A Cliffe-Riley East Lancashire Regiment 12.6.1919 Age 34 A12599	39286 Private T Fitzpatrick East Lancashire Regiment 16.1.1918 Age 34 A17060
84911 Private G H Berry Royal Army Medical Corps 14.6.1920 A15183	39185 Private W Buggs East Lancashire Regiment 4.3.1919 Age 24 A7605	L/18603 Gunner F Close Royal Field Artillery 20.8.1917 Age 42 A8768	3776 Rifleman W Fletcher Post Office Rifles 8.7.1918 Age 35 A12561
377632 Private J W Berry Manchester Regiment 23.9.1918 Age 23 A7098	83 Corporal J H Bullock East Lancashire Regiment 3.6.1917 Age 42 N.E.3113	24261 Lance Cpl. J A Coar Royal Lancaster Regiment 27.4.1918 10540	136947 Gunner J Gawith Royal Garrison Artillery 3.4.1919 Age 41 7462
4633 Corporal W Bird East Lancashire Regiment 8.12.1917 A11731	7707 Private P Burke Manchester Regiment 3.2.1919 Age 29 A17824	14864 Private P Conway K.O. Scottish Borderers 24.10.1918 Age 49 NE9465	WR/206214 Sapper H J Geldard Royal Engineers 11.11.1918 Age 24 A242

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27464 Private J Gill East Lancashire Regiment 16.9.1918 A6956	700935 Driver W A Hall Royal Field Artillery 27.7.1918 Age 20 A7486	9929 Private M H Holroyd Army Cyclist Corps 24.10.1918 Age 29 A12096	13099 L Cpl J A Jackson East Lancashire Regiment 12.7.1916 14011
23582 Private A Gorton Royal Lancaster Regiment 20.7.1920 A18089	6134 Serjeant F W Hanson East Lancashire Regiment 29.8.1919 Age 43 NE1470	254986 Pioneer E L Hothersall Royal Engineers 4.11.1917 16439	J R Jackson Able Smn RN 218812 HMS "Pembroke" 19.6.1917 Age 31 A2376
130193 Private J E Gorton Machine Gun Corps (Inf) 26.10.1918 A11287	6222 Private J H Hargreaves Loyal North Lancs Regt 3.10.1916 Age 22 A8267	700100 Saddler C A Howarth Royal Field Artillery 8.8.1919 5901	1016 Driver J Jaques Royal Field Artillery 23.10.1918 Age 29 A7338
22752 Private H Green East Lancashire Regiment 10.3.1919 A14585	241052 Private F L Harrison East Lancashire Regiment 28.10.1920 A1585	Private H C Howarth East Lancashire Regiment 9.11.1917 Age 34 16490	4615 Private J J Jolly 20th Hussars 22.10.1914 NE2231
167642 Gunner J R Greenbank Royal Field Artillery 10.3.1917 Age 40 NE3740	34344 Private W Harrison East Lancashire Regiment 4.9.1919 Age 32 13440	85033 Private G E Hull Welch Regiment 21.4.1921 Age 21 A6588	W Kenyon Sto 1st RN ss/117527 HMS "Antrim" 8.11.1920 Age 22 NE2205
90699 2nd Air Mechanic W Greenhalgh Royal Flying Corps 8.2.1918 Age 26 3441	18514 Private S Hartley East Lancashire Regiment 4.9.20 Age 40 A11290	.	2316 Private J Kilgallen Irish Guards 28.2.1919 A17196
12754 Private F Greenwood East Lancashire Regiment 13.9.1915 A12581	243843 Private F Haslam Loyal North Lancs Regt 22.9.1920 Age 30 A16861	27714 Private H Hurst East Lancashire Regiment 1.5.1919 Age 23 8468	34551 L Cpl F King East Lancashire Regiment 30.8.1917 Age 35 A6676
48139 Private H Greenwood South Lancashire Regiment 21.11.1918 A2803	3097 Private O Hepworth East Lancashire Regiment 14.11.1919 NE2622	37049 Serjeant F Hutchinson East Lancashire Regiment 27.6.1915 Age 36 A9950	97929 Serjeant J Kippax Royal Army Medical Corps 6.3.1919 Age 29 4779
3/1093 Private T Griffin King's Own Yorkshire L.I. 11.12.1919 Age 27 A17734	106295 Private R Hepworth The Kings Liverpool Regt 24.10.1918 Age 18 A13529	9725 Lance Cpl S Hutchinson East Lancashire Regiment 27.6.1915 Age 25 A17618	53667 Private J Knowles Manchester Regiment 21.6.1918 Age 37 12636
2055 Driver J Groom Royal Field Artillery 19.9.1915 A7849	79012 Serjeant E Hodgson Manchester Regiment 4.8.1919 2268	132915 Private W Ingham Royal Army Medical Corps 19.5.1918 Age 22 A13374	18212 Driver J T Larkin Royal Field Artillery 18.10.1917 Age 40 345
290469 Private F A Guilfoyle Pembroke Yeomanry 6.11.1918 Age 20 A11768	17093 Private H Holdsworth The Cameronians (Sco. Rif.) 11.5.1918 Age 20 A2928	112161 Gunner E Isherwood Royal Garrison Artillery 19.9.1917 Age 31 A7088	28346 Private A J Lawson East Lancashire Regiment 30.4.1918 Age 31 A13865

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34585 Private T Layfield Lancashire Fusiliers 13.7.1916 Age 36 A12545	24791 Private J Mitchell South Wales Borderers 25.7.1919 Age 40 A14334	160084 Driver J O'Connor Royal Field Artillery 12.11.1918 8824	Second Lieutenant W A Proctor East Lancashire Regiment Attd Royal Engineers 25.6.1919 Age 24 11480/1
30554 Private W H Lee The Kings Liverpool Regt 25.2.1919 A10841	173248 Gunner J E Moore Royal Garrison Artillery 4.11.1918 Age 21 8990	30591 Staff Serjt N Oldcorne Royal Army Medical Corps 30.6.1918 Age 39 NE 4439	34582 Private J Redfern East Lancashire Regiment 27.12.1918 5783
T1/SR/27 Private W H Lyons Royal Army Service Corps 24.6.19120 Age 40 1664	64577 Private H J Morgan The King's Liverpool Regiment 28.2.1919 Age 38 A17920	105896 Bdr R H Parker Royal Garrison Artillery 9.2.1919 Age 32 A3118	13800 Private A Richmond East Lancashire Regiment 20.8.1917 14859
046724 Private R McAleese Royal Army Ordnance Corps 31.12.1918 Age 48 A16537	2990 Private D A Morrison 31st Bn Australian Inf 21.3.1917 Age 24 A12183	17103 Private D Parry The Cameronians (Sco Rif) 30.7.1919 A11239	J Riley Served as 27162 Private J Leach The King's Liverpool Regt 16.5.1918 A17453
101712 Private T McIntyre Labour Corps & Devonshire Regiment 3.3.1919 Age 35 A16226	623189 Private E Moss 10th Bn Canadian Inf 8.9.1920 14734	86154 L Cpl R S Payne Manchester Regiment 28.2.1919 NE5073	1289 Serjeant W Riley East Lancashire Regiment 16.1.1919 Age 24 A8783
278472 Gunner J McNamee Royal Garrison Artillery 2,12.1917 Age 39 A16730	158656 Private E Murray (Alias Burns) Machine Gun Corps (Motors) 14.6.1920 Age 29 A17824	13738 Private A Pearson East Lancashire Regiment 20.6.1921 Age 38 A9632	251144 Private J A Roberts Lancashire Hussars 14.7.1918 Age 20 A8941
97863 Corporal P Magnall Royal Garrison Artillery 23.2.1920 Age 33 1684/5	28761 Private C S Myers Border Regiment 17.2.1918 Age 22 A10585	51920 Sapper A Peel Royal Engineers 13.11.1919 Age 36 NE2046	95419 Gunner A Robins Tank Corps 26.8.1917 Age 20 NE3135
15244 Gunner T Margison Royal Field Artillery 19.7.1915 NE3147	35857 Private J J Neill The Cameronians (Sco Rif) 1.10.1919 Age 23 A14449	60052 Private J Pickup Royal Welsh Fusiliers 29.8.1917 Age 38 A11714	17745 Private A E Robinson Army Pay Corps 17.7.1918 Age 43 NE4705
24228 Private J Marshall East Lancashire Regiment 13.4.1916 Age 19 A3021	121409 2nd Air Mech R Ninnis Royal Air Force 11.7.1918 Age 21 A4840	L/242 Driver E Pilkington Royal Field Artillery 9.8.1918 Age 37 A12259	51626 Serjeant C Robinson East Lancashire Regiment 24.1.1920 Age 29 A421
23910 Private J W Mason Royal Lancaster Regiment 17.4.19120 Age 25 A3370	11758 Private P Nolan Leicestershire Regiment 16.7.1921 A18131	15067 Private J H Pollitt East Lancashire Regiment 1.11.1916 Age 40 NE2626	47158 Private J Robinson Royal Welsh Fusiliers 21.2.1919 Age 34 A946
CH/2055(S) Private H Mercer Royal Marine Light Infantry 23.4.1918 Age 20 14767	PLY/2508 Col Serjt T Nowell Royal Marine Light Inf 21.4.1920 Age 57 NE5057	7815 Private J A Pounder Lancashire Fusiliers 27.3.1919 Age 31 A2378	241531 Private M H T Robinson East Lancashire Regiment 25.5.1919 A6683

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P/8342 Corporal E Rogers Military Police Corps 5.12.1918 A201	240319 Corporal A Stansfield East Lancashire Regiment 18.8.1920 Age 25 A8510	48839 Private W A Thompson Royal Lancaster Regiment 6.8.1918 Age 28 A12691	240849 Private J Whalley East Lancashire Regiment 31.7.1917 Age 49 A12041
13326 Private J Rostron East Lancashire Regiment 18.6.1919 Age 39 15215	439815 Serjeant T Stanworth 52nd Bn Canadian Inf 9.3.1919 Age 23 12877	12708 Private J Thornton Royal Lancaster Regiment 24.1.1919 Age 32 15433	65420 Private B Whitham South Lancashire Regiment 18.11.1918 Age 41 NE4543
83780 Private J J Rushton Machine Gun Corps (Inf) 14.2.1918 Age 20 9149	77123 Gunner H Stell Royal Garrison Artillery 20.2.1921 Age 32 13857	104054 Private U Thornton Royal Army Medical Corps 13.3.1917 A5269	19292 Private T Whittingdale Royal Lancaster Regiment 31.12.1916 Age 34 A10062
38350 Private J Shannon Royal Welsh Fusiliers 9.11.1917 Age 50 A17478	112013 Private T Stephenson Royal Fusiliers 22.9.1920 Age 38 NE3703	18060 Private S Todd Royal Lancaster Regiment 11.3.1919 A17934	16367 Private J Wilde Royal Irish Regiment 29.10.1918 Age 33 A6622
114507 Private W R Shaw The King's Liverpool Regt 13.2.1919 Age 22 A3026	37263 Private J T Stuttard Royal Army Medical Corps 12.7.1919 Age 32 4528	65375 Private J W Treseder The King's Liverpool Regt 9.3.1917 Age 22 A6906	9792 Private F Wilde East Lancashire Regiment 19.5.1920 Age 30 3286
27374 Private A Simpson East Lancashire Regiment 18.6.1916 A1900	61623 Private E Tarren Machine Gun Corps (Inf) 3.8.1920 A1323	16499 Private L Tyman The Cameronians (Sco Rif) 11.1.1919 Age 34 A1200	122 Private A Wilkinson East Lancashire Regiment 31.5.1918 A2187
TR4/38835 Private J Singleton 66th Training Reserve Bn 17.8.1917 Age 19 NE3137	32870 Private J Tattersall Royal Defence Corps 3.10.1920 Age 60 A17352	48986 Serjeant P Valentine Worcestershire Regiment 20.12.1918 Age 47 NE4713	RX4/236064 Private G L Wilson Royal Army Service Corps 23.11.1918 A.4211
720521 Shoeing Smith P Smith Royal Field Artillery 12.12.1918 Age 21 A6800	36134 L Cpl T Tennant Border Regiment 25.12.1919 Age 20 NE5241	11173 Private T Warburton East Lancashire Regiment 12.2.1918 Age 28 NE3065	186475 Gunner J W Wood Royal Garrison Artillery 24.7.1918 Age 29 NE2619
1849 Driver A Smithies Royal Field Artillery 23.2.1916 A14797	9507 Private J Thelwell Lancashire Fusiliers 5.9.1915 Age 20 14787	18774 Private A Wardley East Lancashire Regiment 14.1.1921 Age 47 N.E.5313	3/105 Private W H Wrathall N.Z. Medical Corps 13.9.1915 Age 33 A679
55533 Private F A Sommerville Cheshire Regiment 20.9.1919 Age 41 13804	240850 Private A Thompson East Lancashire Regiment 5.6.1921 Age 29 A10508	73101 Corporal R Watson Machine Gun Corps (Inf) 8.3.1920 A15294	13452 Private G Yates East Lancashire Regiment 12.11.1917 Age 33 NE2565
583 Private T Spencer Royal Army Medical Corps 10.9.1920 Age 27 A5079	34132 Private J Thompson Cheshire Regiment 26.6.1917 Age 20 A2658

Buried in the Cemetery but not on the Memorial

8126 Private William Bayliss Seaforth Highlanders 21.11.1915 Age 47 A16219	S/274 Driver D A Fielden Royal Field Artillery 8.3.1921 Age 27 NE5257	89395 Sapper J S Moat Royal Engineers 14.7.1920 Age 43 NE5331	6837 Private T Webster Yorkshire Regiment 4.3.1917 Age 38 A5375
285890 Sapper M J Cabrey Royal Engineers 7.6.1921 Age 43 A15192	8146 Private A Hartley Royal Army Veterinary Corp 11.10.1919 Age 48 7253	Private L Murray Labour Corps 14.5.1921 Age 42 A17489	11634 Private John James Lord East Lancashire Regiment 24.11.1915, age 20
402396 Air Mech 1st T R Campion Royal Air Force 25.2.1920 NE4264	66268 Sapper A Heaton Royal Engineers 4.7.1920 Age 45 NE2233	8149 Private T Rawstron Labour Corps 26.12.1920 Age 52 NE1632	36303 Private James Thompson Kings own R. Lancaster Rgt. 1.4.1924
18503 Private T H Chadwick Royal Lancaster Regiment 4.7.1920 Age 27 NE4989	8721 Gunner G H King Royal Field Artillery 8.5.1920 Age 34 A15629	74574 Private L Wareing Manchester Regiment 22.2.1919 Age 19 15428	Private Philip Shears 1st East Lancashire Regiment Died 1st October 1917, aged 35

Commemorated, but not Buried in the Cemetery

2nd/Lieutenant William Barrett 11th East Lancashire Regiment 11th August 1916, age21	Private Robert Abbott 12595 1st East Lancashire Regiment Missing in Action 1st July, 1916, aged 28	2nd/Lieutenant Alan Bellingham 2/4th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Killed in Action 26th October 1917, aged 23	Private Edwin Shears 4897 2nd East Lancashire Regiment Attached 176 Tunelling Coy. R.E. Died of Wounds 9th July 1916, aged 29
Private James Booth 241973 8th Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 29th September 1917	Private Matthew S Storey 242643 1/5th Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Killed in Action 20th September 1917	Private Percy Lonsdale Smith 35956 9th East Surrey Regiment Killed in Action 18th September 1918, aged 19	Private John Shears 241447 2/5th East Lancashire Regiment Missing in Action 9th October 1917, aged 31
Private Earling Walsh 29425 14th Highland Light Infantry Killed in Action 31st December 1917, aged 22	Private Frank Gill 243749 1/5th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Killed in Action 10th January 1917, aged 28	Private Victor Slater 16533 10th Scottish Rifles Missing in Action 25th September 1915, aged 21	Private James Stephen Hargreaves 25386 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Killed in Action 18th September 1918, aged 23
Lance/Corporal Alfred Sunderland 5597 2nd West Yorkshire Regiment Killed in action 1st February 1915, aged 31	Private John Flaherty 5152 1st Lancashire Fusiliers Died 28th February 1917, aged 27	Gunner Herbert Flaherty L/8927 Royal Field Artillery 150th Bde County Palatine Died 2nd November 1918, aged 23	Private Richard Hetherington Mason 31638 2nd Cameronians, Scottish Rifles Missing in Action 17th August 1917, aged 23
Act./Bombardier Herbert Howarth L/17121 Royal Field Artillery (County Palatine) Killed in Action 1st July 1916, aged 32	Private Lambert Shaw 36243 6th East Lancashire Regiment Died of Enteric Fever 25th July 1917, aged 34	Driver James Downham L/143 Royald Field Artillery Lived at Cop Row (Craven Heifer) Died of Wounds 5th October 1917, aged 22	Private Walter Downham 16767 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers Lived at 3 Bivel Street Killed in Action 16th June 1915, aged 25
Sapper Harry Horne 42613 Royal Engineers Died of Wounds 8th September 1915 in Gallipoli, aged 40	Farrier/Sergeant Frederick Riley 3497 Royal Field Artillery 124 Btty Killed in Action 25th May 1915, aged 37	Private William Knapton Taylor 5738 20th (Public Schools) Royal Fusiliers A Coy. Killed in action 20th July 1916, aged 21	Driver Henry Rimmer M2/264064 Army Service Corps (MT) Killed in Action 13th March 1918, aged 31
Private John William Berry 10150 11th Royal Fusiliers Killed in Action 10th February 1917, aged 19	Private Alfred Kenniford 242207 1/4th East Lancashire Regiment Missing in Action 21st March 1918, aged 25	Captain Alfred Christopher Pearson 9th Royal Warwickshire Regiment Died 4th April 1919	Lieutenant Raymond Glenara Ross Royal Field Artillery Missing in Action 4th April 1918