Person Sheet


Name Christopher Priestley, 1C3R
Birth abt Dec 18871650
Death app 1 Oct 1917, Belgium Age: 29
Burial Commemorated Tyne Cot Memorial Panel 50 - 51
Flags Military
Father Arthur Priestley (~1859-1913)
Mother Annie Manderfield (~1859-~1909)
Spouses
Notes for Christopher Priestley
Aged 3; living in 11 Moor Lane, Loughborough; shown born Loughborough @ census 5-Apr-1891.1512
@ census 31-Mar-1901.1513
Aged 24 @ census 2-Apr-1911.1514
Killed in action, WWI: Private 16035, 9th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment (Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919).

http://www.loughborough-rollofhonour.com/page43.htm

In mid-1917 the 9th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment was part of 110th Brigade, 21st Division. They were part of the Battle of Polygon Wood during the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele).
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