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Pte. Ernest Needham
British Army 10th Btn. Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding Regiment)
from:4 Heath Street, Commercial Road, Halifax
(d.20th Sep 1917)
Ernest Needham was my great great uncle. Before the war he was a creeler, employed at Crossley's Carpets in Halifax. He was a member of Square Church Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Society. He was reported missing and assumed to have died at the Battle of Menin Road, Ypres on 20th of September 1917.
He is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial, in the Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance, on the Memorial at Stannary Congregational Church, Halifax and on the Memorial at Crossley's Carpets, Halifax.
His elder brother John also died at Ypres on 13th of August 1917.