Joseph's Story.
CORPORAL J. H. YARDLEY.
Mr. George Yardley, 32, Chesterfield-street, Crewe, has received official intimation that his brother, Acting-Corporal Henry Yardley, Manchester Regiment, was killed in action on the 1st July. He had been in the Manchester Regiment prior to the war, and his time as a reservist had almost expired when the war broke out. He went to the Front in August, 1914, and was in all the heavy fighting. He was employed on the coal stand at the Crewe sheds, was 30 years of age, and unmarried.
Nantwich Guardian. Friday, 4 August 1916.