Private John Francis Durkin
5888 2nd East Lancashire Regiment
Lived at 59 Tentre Street
Killed in Action 12th March 1915, aged 30
Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France
Burnley Express 24th March 1915

Boer War Veteran in Queens Lancers.Buried at the back of the firing line at Neuve-Chapel by his friend Cpl Frank Windle of Burnley. No c/be 11226