Andrew,+JR

ANDREWS, John Robert Private, 3252907, 5th Battalion The Essex Regiment. Died 20th December 1943, age 23, while fighting with the Eighth Army in Italy. Prior to his death he had been in the army for three and a half years, and abroad for nine months. He was native of Knottingley. Son of Mr & Mrs A. Andrews, He married Miss Louise Wright of Oxenhope, and they made their home in Haworth. See Keighley News 22nd January 1944, (Photo) Named on the Keighley WW2 Memorial Plate in the Library Interred in Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy, XIV - A - 30