51617 Corporal Patrick Cusack of the 16th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers:

 

He died of wounds on the 27 May 1918, aged 45 years and he is buried in Bagneux British Cemetery, Gezaincourt, Somme, France.

 

James Cusack (aka Cusick) was born at Stalybridge, Cheshire, in 1873 to James Cusick and Ellen Logan who were married at Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, in 1872. He married Mary Ann Pearson at Ashton-under-Lyne, in 1898. In 1911 he was resident with his wife and family on Brierley Street, Stalybridge, employed as a shearer at a forge.

 

His brother 8003 Private James Cusick (aka Cusack) of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment also died.

Peter Whitehead