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Pte Richard Kelshaw
British Army 12th Btn. King's Liverpool Regt
from:West Gorton, Manchester
(d.10 Sep 1916)
Richard Kelshaw was born in 1884 in Hulme, Manchester. He enlisted in 1901 into the 6th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers. On the 5th September 1914 he was mobilised at Seaforth into the 12th Bn King's Liverpool Regiment. He had a wife, Beatrice, and 4 children, Beatrice, Edith, Edna and John who was born just before he departed for France. His Military Record shows that in order to be present at his Son's birth he was absent without leave.
After his Regiment moved to France, he was wounded in action (gunshot to arm) at Trodes Wood between the 3rd and 5th September 1916 and was hospitilised in Rouen. His wife was notified that he was seriously ill and was issued with a Railway Warrant to travel to France and visit him. He died on the 10th September, a day before his wife received the Warrant. A sad Postscript, his youngest Son John died of Penumonia on Christmas Eve 1916, a few months after he died.
