Weaste Cemetery

Database: William Burns

Name:	William Burns
Date of Death:	16-Sep-1914
Grave Number:	J_720
Age:	28
Address:	Alderley Street, Salford
Service Number:	9893
Rank:	Lance Corporal
Unit:	Manchester Regiment
CWG Memorial:	La Ferte Sous Jouarre
Biography:	Service number: 9893 Battalion: 2nd William was born and lived in Salford but enlisted in Aston Under Lyne. He must have been one of the first local lads to be killed in the war