Walter Haselhurst
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Charles Haslehurst and Sarah Bartrop married in Worksop in 1873 and lived under the roof of Sarah’s widowed fa-ther, John Bartrop, for 27 years until his death in 1900 age 80. Even after this, the couple and their children contin-ued to live in Eastgate, Worksop and were still there in 1911. They had six children, Ernest 1875, Sarah 1879, George 1881, Herbert 1883, Walter 1885, Annie 1889 all born in Worksop. In 1910, Walter Haslehurst and Margaret A Moore married in 1910 in Worksop. The following year they had a son who they named James W Haslehurst and shortly after this event, all three were living in 26 Garden Street, Mexborough, Rotherham employed as an underground colliery worker
Pte Walter Haslehurst Worksop Guardian 15 Jan 1915 Official information has been received in Worksop to the effect that Pte Walter Haslehurst attached to the Northumberland Fusiliers of 82 Creswell Street, Worksop, son of Mr and Mrs Charles Haslehurst 28 Eastgate, Worksop, has died as a result of a wound received in action. The statement from the War Office points out that Private Haslehurst died in a military hospital “from a fractured thigh” and had been buried. Private Haslehurst was a Reservist and immediately on the outbreak of war, he re-joined his regiment. He died a soldier’s death – a glorious death in the cause of right and justice. The deceased soldier leaves a young widow and one child to whom the greatest sympathy will be extended in their bereavement. She should remember however, Rudyard Kipling’s quotation eminently fitting just now, “Who dies if England lives, who lives if England falls”. Deceased was captain for some time of the Whitwell St. Lawrence Football Club and in the photograph we produce he is wearing the jersey of that club.
Buried in Kortrijk (St.Jan) Communal Cemetery, Belgium
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