PENDLEBURY, James Pte. 15861

James Pendlebury

James Pendlebury

James Pendlebury was born in Chorley in late 1887 and married Mary Edith Eccles at St. James’ Church in Chorley in 1908 – they eventually had four children. Whilst being described as a Loomer in a Cotton Mill and living at 98 Seymour Street in Chorley on the 1911 Census, it was known that James served previously as a Policeman. Upon enlisting with the Pals in 1914 he worked in textiles at Jubilee Mill and lived at 11 Temperance Street in the town.

In the Pals he served in the Machine Gun Section and was killed at Serre on the 1st July 1916. James has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.

His wife, Edith, re-married after the war, marrying Ernest Heaton at St. James’ Church in 1922.