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L – Labourer, Local Government, Leather Workers.,

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  • Labourer

Labourers in various industries, Unskilled, doing the donkey work that is nowadays done by machinery – carrying, digging, manual work.

Private 6471 William J Healey, 2 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. General Labourer

Private 21425 William Husbands, 6 Bn King’ Shropshire Light Infantry. General Labourer – poss on railway (L&NWR)

Private 17679 E A (Evan Arthur) Humphreys, 1Bn Coldstream Guards. General Labourer

Private 32515 Charles Humphreys1/5 Bn South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales Volunteers) Labourer for County Council

Private 9724 David Jones, 2 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. Labourer at Oswestry Skating Rink built 1909 on Oswald Road, would later become Oswestry Bus Station and sheds

Corporal 15748 Robert E Jones, 6 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry unemployed labourer

Private 1748 Thomas L Jones, 1/1 Shropshire Yeomanry. Labourer at Messrs Brunner Mond and Co. Northwich – alkali and soda works  also at Bookbinder, quarry

Private M/403930 Herbert Parsons, Army Service Corps MT Depot Sydenham Brickyard Labourer  (1901) also at window cleaner

Private 29458 CW Mac  Roberts, 13 Bn Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). Labourer also mineral water bottler

Corporal 26963 William H Roberts, 4 Bn The King’s Liverpool Regiment. General Labourer

Private 17435 Richard Vaughan, 5 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. General labourer -also at Railways – former apprentice wagon builder ex Cambrian

Private 26265 Thomas Jones, 1 Bn Cheshire Regiment 

Rifleman 7015 John W Hughes, 3 Bn Rifle Brigade.  bricklayer and labourer for Oswestry Corporation.

Private 32515 Charles Humphreys1/5 Bn South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales Volunteers) – labourer for Salop County Council

.Private 6699 RH Cooper, 2Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. Pre war was working for Oswestry Council poss as a labourer.

 

 

  • Local Government & Public Authorities

Lance Corporal 9336 James Bayley, 4 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Gymnastic instructor

 

  • Leather Workers, Tanners, Fellmongers.

Private 34304 Thomas E Jones, 1/4 Bn Loyal North Lancashire. KIA 9 April 1918, labourer at leather works

Private 12369 Alfred E Evans, 1 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. – a fellmonger – dealer in animal skins. Father ran the Tannery on Oak Street

 

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