Name Position on Roll Rank Service Number Unit Place of birth Date of birth Enlisted Place of death Date of death Age at death Where buried |
C1-09 Lance Corporal 242529 1st/5th Bn Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Bolton, Lancashire 1897 June 1915 Belgium 20 September 1917 20 Not Known - listed on Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium |
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Lance-Corpl. RUPERT MONKS, L.N.L. Regt., was killed by shell fire on September 20th. He enlisted in June, 1915, and had been at the front since March, 1916, serving as a battalion bomber. Aged 20, he was single, and the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Monks, 26 Shipton-st., Bolton. He is on the Rolls of Honour at Chorley Old-rd. Wesleyan Church, and Oxford Grove Council School, and before enlisting was employed at the Temple Bleachworks.
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Monks, Rurick Rupert W