John MARSHALL

Main CPGW Record

Surname: MARSHALL

Forename(s): John

Place of Birth: Skipton, Yorkshire

Service No: 203309

Rank: Private

Regiment / Corps / Service: King’s (Liverpool Regiment)

Battalion / Unit: 1/8th (Irish) Battalion

Division: 55th (West Lancashire) Division

Age: 33

Date of Death: 1917-09-20

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 31 to 34.

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 Marshall was the son of James and Jane Marshall, née Speakman. James, a canal boat man, was born in Lancashire and Jane at Upholland, Lancashire.

1891 Shevington, Lancashire Census: Crooke, Marsh's Houses - John Marshall, aged 6 years, born Skipton, Yorkshire, son of James and Jane Marshall.

1901 Shevington, Lancashire Census: Crooke, 7, Woodcock Row - John Marshall, aged 16 years, born Skipton, Yorkshire, son of Jane Cullen. [James Marshall died in 1893 and Jane had married James Cullen in 1898.]

John was married to Elizabeth Ann Gibbons in 1907.

1911 Shevington, Lancashire Census: 66, Crooke - John Marshall, aged 26 years, born Skipton, Yorkshire, husband of Elizabeth Ann Marshall.

British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte John Marshall, 203309, L'pool R.

British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte John Marshall, 203309, 1/8th K.L.R.

Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte John Marshall, 203309, 1/8 King's Lpool. Date and Place of Death: 20.9.17. Death assumed France. To whom Authorised: Widow - Elizabeth A. Amount Authorised: £5 8s. 5d.

John is commemorated on Shevington War Memorial.

Photograph: 'Wigan Observer & District Advertiser' (10 November 1917).

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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