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Lance
Corporal John Walsh 330339
2nd/9th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment
Mobilised
at the outbreak of war with the local territorials. However he was only allowed
to go to France at the age of 19.
'Son of John Walsh, he was the sixth lad from that
illustrious little corner of Ormskirk, Elm Place, to have given his all for King
and Country' (Quote from Ormskirk Advertiser, 13th December 1917).
He was killed in action in the final stages of the
Passchendaele Campaign on the 4th November 1917 aged 20.
Before
the war he was employed as a coach painter at Farr's Garage Works, Chapel
Street.
His commemoration is at Tyne Cot Memorial,
Belgium, which is off the N303 just west of Passchendaele Village.
Footnote
John's brother Billy lost his life in June 1940
when the 'Lancastria' was blown up and sunk off St.Nazaire in the Bay of Biscay.
