Sergeant John Schofield Porter

Service No: 8269
Regiment: Manchester Regiment
Battalion: 17th Battalion
Battlefield: France & Flanders
Died: 01 August 1916
Age: 28
 Died of wounds
Memorial Location: Abbeville Communal Cemetery, Somme, France
Position:VI. F. 11.
Date Buried:
Home Address:
Notes: Son of Eliza Jane and the late Richard Porter, of Langdale, Welbeck Road, Bolton, Lancashire; husband of Elsie Porter (nee Lee), of “Hazelmere”, 98, Chorley New Road, Bolton, Lancashire. An old boy of Bolton Municipal Secondary School. Served as Sergeant Signalling Instructor in his Bn. Died of wounds at the Stationary Hospital, Abbeville, France.