SUMPTER A

SUMPTER, Andrew

Regiment: 10th Bn Cheshire Regiment

Rank: Private

Number: 35147

Died: 1 August 1917

Aged: 26

Buried/ Memorial: Ypres, Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium

Address: 1 Shavington Avenue, Hoole

Chester Chronicle 18 August 1917

PRIVATE A. SUMPTER (DIED OF WOUNDS)

“Private Andrew Sumpter, Cheshire Regiment, son of the late Mr. H. Sumpter and Mrs. Sumpter, 1 Shavington Ave, Hoole, has died of wounds. An old Arnold House boy, he was farming in New Zealand when the war broke out and he came back to the old country to join up. He joined the army in February 1916, and went to the front in June the same year.”

The 1911 Census shows Andrew as a 19-year-old plumber living at 'Brookside', Brook Lane with his father Henry, mother Sarah, sister Elizabeth and brother Harry. Also present were William Bates, a friend and Annie Pendleton a maid.