Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Pte. John Wainwright

British Army 2nd Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers

from:Ancoats, Manchester

(d.10th October 1916)

John Wainwright is my great uncle who died, aged 22, on the Somme. John had joined up about 1911, he had followed his brother Thomas into the army. Thomas was a Grenadier Guard who was killed in Belgium in 1914 aged 29. John married Mary Ann Degnan in 1914 before being sent to France. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Never forgotten.



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