Private John Myerscough
8081 2nd East Lancashire Regiment
Died 25th April 1916, aged 30
Born in Burnley, lived in Blackburn
Buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France
South Yorkshire Times February 1915 - March 1915
Commemorated on St Saviours Church, High Green Sheffield, UK
Commemorated on Chapletown War Memorial, Uk

"Hello Andrew , can I relate a story about the abovefor the last few years, I have been researching the families of those on our WW1 memorial,& have got stuck on some who I can't relate to a local family . One of the names on our tablet is G Myerscough.it was only when I decided to take a new digital photo of of the memorial of the Chapeltown parish , of which we were a part until 1925 that I noticed Myerscough's initial was J ! Obbviously someone had given the wrong info to the engravers.

Going back to the CWGC site I found there were only 3 J.Myerscough's - 2 Johns & a Joseph. altough the initial info was Lancashire linked, I went back to our local paper, the S. Yorks Times, which has been a mine of info on our WW1 soldiers. & immediately came up with the attached cuttings.John had obviously left the mills of Burnley for the mines of Yorkshire, as the 1911 census shows him as a lodger with a fellow miner in a local hamlet ,Howbrook, having married a local girl ,& joined the WMC.the cuttings are from Feb/ March 1915, so he must have recovered & gone back in service as he died i april 1916.

Hope this finds a corner in your archives, perhaps you could pass it on to your FHS as info on a stray, any news cuttings from your local press , particularly a photo, would be welcome regards Edward"

(courtesy of Edward Bellamy, archivst at St Saviours Church, High Green, Sheffield)