Gunner Harry Schofield
F/18068 Royal Marine Artillery
Lived at 154 Oxford Road

Harry Schofield lived at 154 Oxford Road, Burnley at time of 1911 cenus and was a Grocer's assistent at the Co-op when he enlisted in 1916 in the Royal Marines [Service number 1806]. He served for three years until the end of the war as part of the 'Heavy Siege Train' near Nieuport on the Belgium coast. He is on top row of this photo of him in training, fourth from the left, leaning forward over the bar. After the war he became a Master Grocer and ran a shop in Valley Road Colne eventually returning to live in Branch Road Burnley where he was living when he died in 1977.

Harry Schofield married Mary Anne Frankland after the war. This is a photo of her as a little girl in circa 1900 standing with a large cow in front of the Butchers shop that her father ran at 103, Parliament Street, Burnley.

(Courtesy of Grandaughter Jane Schofield)