Modern map of Farndon Parish - Crewe Hall Farm is to the bottom right.

9th (Service) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment

The 9ths were formed at Chester on 13 September 1914 as part of K2 and attached to 58th Brigade, 19th (Western) Division. They moved to Salisbury Plain and by December 1914 was in billets in Basingstoke. They returned to Salisbury Plain in March 1915 and by 19 July 1915 they had landed landed at Boulogne. On 7 February 1918 the 9ths transferred to 56th Brigade in same Division.

Research continues into his life in Farndon and his war record.

St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France

St Sever Cemetery and St Sever Cemetery Extension are located within a large communal cemetery situated on the eastern edge of the southern Rouen suburbs of Le Grand Quevilly and Le Petit Quevilly. During the First World War, Commonwealth camps and hospitals were stationed on the southern outskirts of Rouen. A base supply depot and the 3rd Echelon of General Headquarters were also established in the city. Almost all of the hospitals at Rouen remained there for practically the whole of the war. They included eight general, five stationary, one British Red Cross, one labour hospital, and No. 2 Convalescent Depot.

A number of the dead from these hospitals were buried in other cemeteries, but the great majority were taken to the city cemetery of St. Sever. In September 1916, it was found necessary to begin an extension. St. Sever Cemetery contains 3,082 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. There is also 1 French burial and 1 non war service burial here. The Commonwealth plots were designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.