Pte 4745 James Deveraux Checkley (52983 KLR)

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Pte James Deveraux Checkley, enlisted 02/12/1915 4745 Manchester Regiment, mobilised 25/01/1916, served in Belgium & France 04/08/1916 - 21/10/1916, trans. 52983 KLR 28/09/1916, discharged due to sickness 19/01/1917. Pulmonary & laryngeal tb result of active service and tubercular infection. Son of William Deveraux and Mary Ann Checkley, of 28 Shaftesbury Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock. Worked as a printer before enlistment. Died 04/05/1918 age 22, cause of death on pension card is unspecified disease.

Buried at Manchester Southern Cemetery CE S/1243, headstone found.

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DC confirms cause of death as pulmonary tuberculosis & exhaustion. Case submitted via IFCP.

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Accepted for commemoration in the latest batch.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/75472395/james-devereux-checkley/