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Private James Hesketh 19880
14th King’s Liverpool Regiment
Son
of William and Ellen Hesketh of Bickerstaffe was a territorial when he
volunteered into the 14th King’s Liverpool Regiment, at the start
of the Great War. He was posted to Salonica for two years as a 
transport driver,
carrying ammunition and provisions to the front line by horse and limber, (a
type of two-wheeled cart).
James later served in France, where after
receiving wounds, returned to work at Stanley Gate Farm for two years.
However he contracted Pneumonia and died in
Stanley Hospital, Liverpool on the 6th October 1920 aged 28 years. A
subsequent post-mortem revealed a minute fragment of shrapnel in his lung.
He is interred in Bickerstaffe Church Yard.
Grave S 5 M 2.
