Sergeant Jesse Bannister
240888 2/5th East Lancashire Regiment
Killed in Action 5th September 1917, Aged 38
Lived at 12 Roebuck Street
Buried in Ramscapelle Road British Cemetery, Belgium
Burnley Express 15th September 1917

Burnleys Great War Centenary

Sponsored by: Christine Smith

"my wifes grandfather was Sergeant Jessie Banister 2nd/5th East Lancs Regiment killed in action September 5th 1917 at Passchendaele he lived on Roebuck Street near Gannow Top now demolished and we have yet to find his name on any local memorial stone, we have seen his grave stone in Belgium, he also fought in the Boer War, where he earned a Queens South Africa medal, he also won a gold watch in South Africa for being an expert rifleman. He was in his late thirties when he went over to France in 1917 and was actually killed by a German bomb dropped from an aircraft, according to his comrades he was held in high esteem"

(courtesy of John Smith)