Leslie James's Story.
Birkenhead News 09 September 1916Killed by a Shell.
The sad intelligence has been received of the death of Private Leslie James Routledge, King’s Liverpool Regt., who was killed in action on August 31st. He was the eldest son of Mrs J. Routledge, 20 Whitfield Street, Higher Tranmere, and nephew of Miss Isabel Miers, 374, Poulton Road, Wallasey. He was 22 years of age. Pte. John Davies, writing to his mother, says :- “We were working in the trenches when a shell hit him. I was wounded myself, and have written this from hospital.”
Pte. Routledge was employed as a clerk in the Water Department of the Birkenhead Corporation. and a member of the Wesleyan Church Choir, Higher Tranmere. He was well known and highly respected among a large circle of friends, and much sympathy has been expressed for Mrs. Routledge and family in their sad bereavement.