William Carr
William Carr was born in Chorley in 1896, one of three sons born to John and Mary Carr.
They lived at 12 Harrison Road in Chorley in 1901, 1911 and when William joined the Pals in 1914; after the war (probably in the early-1920s) they lived at 47 Duke Street in the town. He attended Moor Road Methodist Church and was recorded in the local newspapers as being a Collier, although he is listed as a Shop Assistant on the 1911 Census.
William was known to have been in No. 9 Platoon and attacked the German lines at Serre on the morning of the 1st July 1916 but was killed. His body was not recovered and he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.
