Private John William Medley
97 Army Cyclist Corps
Also 353912 Labour Corps
Lived at 118 Brunshaw Road

demobilisation photograph, which shows Ida as a 4 or 5 year old

"John William Medley was born in Burnley on 24th March 1882. His parents were Isaac Medley and Martha (nee Frankland) He was the 5th of six children, and the only boy.
Jack married Amy Mason on 3rd September 1912, at the Ebenezer Chapel in Burnley, and his daughter Ida was born 9 ½ months later in June 1913.
Family stories had told us he served in the army, in France, and that he spent much time either in the front line trenches or behind the lines near Paris. The only other details we knew were that he followed the first tanks into action."
After the war Jack established his own Newsagents shop at 118 Brunshaw Rd, in Burnley – just 3 houses down from the Burnley FC ground at Turf Moor

(courtesy of his grandson Graeme Medley)