ROWLAND RICHARDSON

RANK: Private.

SERVICE NUMBER: 49721.

REGIMENT: 2nd Bn Lincolnshire Regiment.

BORN: Leeds.

ENLISTED: Leeds.

GAVE HIS LIFE: 22/03/1918.

AGED: 19.

CEMETERY: Roye New British Cemetery 40km south-east of Amiens.

GRAVE: Marchelepot British Cemetery Mememorial 27

LEEDS MODERN: 1910-1914.

Rowland was the son of Alfred Rowland Born Bolton Lancashire 1861 and Eliza Annie Sollie Born Southport Lancashire 1867, they married At Southport in 1888.

Rowland left Leeds Boys Modern to work as a Clerk in the National Insurance Company in Leeds.

In March 1917 when he had reached 18 the age of enlitment, he joined the 2nd Lincolnshires being sent to France in January 1918.

Rowland was injured by a shell at the end of March 1918 and was sent to the 53rd Casualty Clearing Station at Roye where he passed away from wounds recieved.

Rowland was origanilly buried at Marchelpot British Cemetery, on the North-East side of the village, used by the British in the early months of 1918 and by the Germans in March-August, 1918, and containing 115 British graves. After the Armistance these bodys where moved to where they now lie in peace.

The CWGC shows the following details:

"Son of Annie E. Richardson, of 98, Bayswater Place, Harehills, Leeds, and the late Alfred Rowland Richardson."