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Pte. Rostron Haworth
British Army 2nd Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Lytham, Lancs
(d.31st Jul 1917)
Rostron Haworth attended Kirkham Grammar School in Lancashire.
He was tragically killed and was never found at Passchendaele (or 3rd Battle of Ypres) on 31st of July 1917. He was 24 when he died.
Rostron was a Private in the 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. He is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium. He was the son of Emmett and Mary Annie Haworth of Lytham, Lancs.
He is remembered on the Cenotaph in Lytham Square with other WW1 soldiers who died.