Private Harry Purcell
12429 2nd Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding) Regiment
Killed in Action 18th April 1915
Lived at 37 Inkerman Street, Bacup
Born Shrewsbury
Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium
Burnley Express 19/4/1918

My mother in law spoke very little of her father as she was only 18 months old when he was killed and her mother was very bitter about the fact that he had gone in the first place, she was left a widow with 3 small children (all now deceased).

In September our first grandson was born and his middle name is Purcell after G Grandad Purcell (it is also the middle name of my husband)

One thing I must point out is that G. Grandad Purcell was born in Shrewsbury (now an antique shop) and then lived in Bacup (from where he went to war and subsequently killed at Hill 60 battle)

Barbara Starkey
(my mother in law was Eleanor Purcell, married Norman Starkey and I am married to their youngest son Graham Purcell)