John HEANEY

Main CPGW Record

Surname: HEANEY

Forename(s): John

Place of Birth: Skipton, Yorkshire

Service No: 240634

Rank: Private

Regiment / Corps / Service: Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

Battalion / Unit: 4/5th Battalion

Division: 57th (2/West Lancashire) Division

Age: 29

Date of Death: 1917-10-26

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 102 to 104.

CWGC Cemetery: ---

CWGC Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL

Non-CWGC Burial: ---

Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)

Additional Information:

John Heaney (or Haney) was the son of John and Mary Haney, née Judge and brother of Corporal Joseph Haney (14051) (q.v.). Their father was born at Grassington and mother at Keighley, Yorkshire. Mary Haney died in 1889.

1891 Bolton, Lancashire Census: 2, Channing Street - John Heaney, aged 3 years, born Skipton, Yorkshire, nephew of Patrick Stephen and Jane Heaney [née Richardson].

1901 Bolton, Lancashire Census: 2, Channing Street - John Heaney, aged 13 years, born Skipton, Yorkshire, nephew of Patrick S. and Jane Heaney.

1911 Bolton, Lancashire Census: 3, Rupert Street - John Heaney, aged 23 years, born Skipton, Yorkshire, son [sic] of Jane Heaney, widow.

John was married to Alice Cresswell in 1916.

The British Army Service Record for John Heaney exists but may be incomplete. [John's married sister, Ellen Narey, of 146, Park Lane, Keighley is named in this record.]

British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte John Heaney, 2325, 240634, L. N. Lan. R.

British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte John Heaney, 21325, 1/5 N. Lan. R.; 240634, 4/5 N. Lan. R.

Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte John Heaney, 240634, 4/5 Loyal Nth. Lancs. Date and Place of Death: 26.10.17. Death Assumed. France. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow and Sole Legatee - Alice. £21 14s. 10d.

UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for John. Name(s) on card(s): Wife - Alice, born 10.7.84. Address 1. 69, Shaw Street, Bolton. Address 2. 68, Leonard Street, (off Settle Street), Bolton. Children: John, born 12.7.17.

The 1921 Census shows that Alice (born Nottingham) and her son John (born Bolton) were living with her parents, William and Emma Cresswell, at 69, Shaw Street, Bolton. The 1939 Register shows that Alice her son John and two others were living at 61, Leonard Street, Bolton. Alice died in 1977.

John is commemorated by Bolton Remembers: an online reference documenting Bolton's war dead (boltonremembers.org); Loyal North Lancashire Regiment – 5th Battalion (Territorials) Memorial (Queen’s Park), Bolton; Ss. Peter and Paul’s R.C. Church (1914-1918) Memorial Tablet, Bolton and William Walker and Sons Limited WW1 Memorial, Bolton.

Data Source: Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19 Records

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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---

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