Private John H. Marsh

Army Number: 8519

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Husband of Olive Leigh (Formerly Marsh), of 24, Torr Top, New Mills, Stockport. He went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, aged 36, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Buried: Ration Farm Military Cemetery, La Chapelle-D’Armentieres, France. Plot 6. Row I. Grave 3.

Ration Farm Military Cemetery, La Chapelle-Darmentieres, France.