Private Peter Longshaw

Army Number: 8856

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

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Husband of Emily Longshaw, of 147, Rosebery Street, Moss Side, Manchester. He went to France on 19th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, aged 33, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Buried: Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, France. Plot 1. Row C. Grave 11.

Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, France.