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 |
C5-07 Private 19076 B Coy 1st Bn Border Regiment Bolton, Lancashire 3 August 1893 January 1915 Gallipoli, Turkey 2 August 1915 22 Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Turkey |
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Killed by Sniper in Gallipoli. News has been received by his parents that Pte. James Whitworth, Border Regiment, whose home is at 3 Osborne-grove, Bolton, has been killed in action in Gallipoli. The information comes from a friend of deceased’s, Private Herbert Leyland,* who says he was killed by a Turkish sniper at 5 a.m. on August 2nd. Deceased would have been 22 years of age on August 3rd. He enlisted in the first week of this year, and went to the Dardanelles during the Bolton holiday week. He was employed by the Haslam Spinning Company, and attended Park-st Wesleyan Chapel and schools. His brother Alfred is also in the Border Regiment but is still in England. (*Herbert Leyland - also of Bolton - survived Gallipoli but died in France on 1st July 1917)
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Whitworth, James