[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Mrs B

I have had a bit of excitement this morning (well, exciting for me) - and, thanks to some information passed to me by Ossy Kid I have discovered an indirect connection to someone else who served in the First World War.

Retlaw has already identified Herbert Swann who I 'laid claim to' earlier. Some time after the War, Herbert Swann married. I had always been given to understand (or my memory's playing tricks again) that his wife's fiancé had been killed in the First World War. In actual fact it turns out that this was her husband rather than her fiancé - Ross Haworth who died 25 May 1917 in France. Ossy Kid says his name is on the memorial at Burnley Road Cemetery.

So not exactly a relation, but certainly a connection.

Ross Haworth. Private. 20448. Lancs Fus.
Died 26-5-1917, age 30, in army less than six months.
buried in Etaples Miitary Cemetery.
wife Daisy Gladys Haworth of 40 Beech St, Accrington.

Accrington War Memorial.

Retlaw.