1920 Corporal William Mitcheson of the 9th Battalion, Manchester Regiment:

 

He died of wounds on the 26 June 1915, aged 31 years, and he is buried in the Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Turkey.

 

William Mitcheson was born at Denton in 1884 to John Mitcheson and Lucy Ashton who were married at Ashton-under-Lyne in 1875. He married Martha Alice Slack at Ashton-under-Lyne in 1907. In 1911 he was resident with his wife on Higher Tame Street, Stalybridge, employed as a cardroom tenter at a cotton mill. In the same year their daughter, Kathleen, was born. Later the family moved to Taylor Street, Stalybridge.

Peter Whitehead