Corporal John Thomas Sellars
291376 Royal Engineers att. 104 Chinese Labour Corps
Lived at 18 Talbot Street (formerly 12 Hart Street)

He joined the Coldstream Guards in 1903 at the age of 19, having previously been in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (this is given in his enlistment record which I obtained from the Guards' archivist). He was discharged
after only a year on medical grounds (cataracts of the eyes (which he finally had removed about 1950!).
In 1914 he joined the RE and served in France until 1919. At the time of his discharge he was with RE 104 Coy. Chinese labour. His pay book gave his rank on discharge in 1919 as sergeant, rather than corporal (although my late mother thought that he had been a corporal). After the war he worked as a flour carter then for the Highways Dept. of Burnley Corporation. He Died in 1960.

Information from his Grandson - David Spencer