John Barton Cumberlidge 1889-1974

Gunner 362991 Lancashire & Cheshire Royal Garrison Artillery previously 110545 Duke of Lancaster's Yeomanry

John Barton Cumberlidge was born 9 October 1889 in Tonge near Middleton in Lancashire, England. He was the eldest son of George William Cumberlidge and his wife Eliza nee Spiller.

He was a piecer in a cotton mill by 1911 and a cotton spinner by the time he married Sarah Hannah Watson in 1915. They had four children:

• Ronald Cumberlidge, born 1916
• Nellie Cumberlidge, born 1918
• Edythe M Cumberlidge, born 1920
• Jack Cumberlidge, born 1922

John Barton Cumberlidge joined as Yeoman 110545 in the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry and later transferred into the Lancashire & Cheshire Royal Garrison Artillery as Gunner 362991. He was awarded the British War and Victory medals.

John was a Wholesalers Salesman Traveller for a General Merchants by 1939 and his son Ronald as a postman. John died in 1974 and his wife had died in 1966.

Medal Roll

LANCASHIRE & CHESHIRE R.G.A. (TF) REGIMENT OR CORPS

ROLL of INDIVIDUALS entitled to the Victory Medal and British War Medal granted under Army Orders 266 and 301 of 1919.             1794B

Dover, 6 March 1920

Medal Card