M.+BERRY

Berry, Mordecai, Lance Corporal, 17707, 2nd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment Born Leycett Bank, Staffordshire Enlisted Chesterfield, Derbyshire Killed in action 8th March 1916 aged 23 Son of Mordecai Berry, of 34, Red St., Chesterton, Newcastle, Staffs, and of Margaret Jane Berry, of 18, Ellesmere St., Failsworth, Manchester. Commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq

1911 Census A cotton piecer Son of Thomas Gould Berry, a blacksmith's striker, and Margaret Jane Berry, of 2, Robert Street, Failsworth, Lancashire