Lives of the First World War

known 5th February 1916

PRIVATE WM GRIFFEN (sic) Official information from the Record Office at Shrewsbury was received by Mrs Griffen, of 51 Waterside, Macclesfield, last Thursday week, stating that her son, Private Wm Griffen, had been killed in action at the Battle of Loos on October 3rd… He was 42 years of age and had gone through the Boer War in South Africa. Upon the outbreak of the present war he was employed as a painter at Manchester, but he enlisted in the 2nd Battalion Cheshire Regiment, and after undergoing a course of training at Birkenhead he went to France… and has been in the trenches ever since. He was, however, wounded about the middle of last year, and after being in hospital he returned to the front…

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