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Surname: PRIESTLEY
Forename(s): Edmund James
Place of Birth: Bacup, Lancashire
Service No: 23717
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 2nd Battalion
Division: 4th Division
Age: 38
Date of Death: 1917-02-21
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 6 A and 6 B.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: EARBY, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Edmund James Priestley was the son of Edmund and Ruth Priestley, née Collinge. Edmund, senior, was born at Crawshawbooth and Ruth at Bacup, Lancashire.
1881 Newchurch, Lancashire Census: Moss Gap - Edmund J. Priestley, aged 2 years, born Bacup, Lancashire, son of Edmund and Ruth Priestley.
1891 Stansfield Township, Todmorden Yorkshire Census: 17, Barker Street - Edmund J. Priestley, aged 12 years, born Bacup, Lancashire, son of Edmund and Ruth Priestley.
1901 Earby, Yorkshire Census: 10 Spring Terrace - Edmund J. Priestley, aged 22 years, born Bacup, Lancashire, son of Edmund and [stepson of] Mary E. Priestley.
Edmund was married to Mary Ann Hartley in 1906.
1911 Earby, Yorkshire Census: 7, Mill Brow - Edmund James Priestley, aged 32 years, born Bacup, Lancashire, husband of Mary Ann Priestley.
The British Army Service Record for Edmund James Priestley exists but may be incomplete.
See also:
‘Earby in the First World War’ by Stephanie Carter, published by Earby & District Local History Society (2014).
‘Our Finest Crop’ by Steven Marshall, published by Earby & District Local History Society (2020).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
PRIESTLEY, E.J., aged 38, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, 10, Stoney Bank, [Earby], killed in action Feb. 21, 1917.
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Private Edmund James PRIESTLEY

Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)

Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 4th Division
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