Thomas's Story.
Stalybridge Solider who had been wounded three times.
News has been received by Mrs. Hassall, on No.1 Acres Lane, Stalybridge, that her brother-in-law Lance Corporal Thomas Hassall, of the Cheshire Regiment was killed in action in France on February 10th. Deceased made his home with his brother, private John Hassall of the Princess of Wales Own Yorkshire Regiment, and who before the outbreak of the present war was head gardener at Eastwood, Stalybridge.
Lance Corporal Hassall was 28 years of age and was married last October to a Birkenhead young lady. He had been in the army about eight years. He was sent to France in February 1915 and was wounded there on three occasions. He was formerly a piecer at Quarry Street Mills, Stalybridge.
The Stalybridge Reporter. 10 March, 1917.
When the Commonwealth War Graves were collating next of kin information Thomas’s widow, Amy, was living at 311 Brook Street, Birkenhead.