LOCKLEY E G

From Hoole History and Heritage Society

LOCKLEY, Eric Geoffrey

Regiment: 5 Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards Royal Armoured Corps

Rank: Lance Sergeant

Died: 24 May 1940

Aged: 29

Buried/ Memorial: Dunkirk Memorial

Address: Piper’s Ash and Plough Lane, Christleton


Cheshire Observer 15 June 1940

CHESTER SOLDIER MISSING

Mrs Lockley of Plough Lane Christleton, received news late on Thursday night that her husband Sergt Eric G Lockley is reported missing since May 24.

Sergt Lockley is the eldest son of Mrs Jackson, Piper’s Ash and the late Mr William Lockley who was killed in action in France in 1917.”