Private James Willie Pooter
50702 1/5th Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Missing in Action 20th July 1918, aged 20
Lived at 5 Coalclough Lane & 30 Barracks Road
Commemorated on the Soissons Memorial, France
Coal Clough School Memorial
Howard Street Sunday School
His father George Arthur Pooter also served

(Photographs courtesy of his grandaughter Alison Love)

Burnley Express 18/1/1919 (P) 13/9/1919 (P)

Formerly TM/288483 ASC also 312397 1503 Coy RE
enlisted Dec 1916 , landed in France 18-2-17, concentrated between Canche and Authie.
Son of Pte Pooter serving in France since 1915.
Attended Howard St Chapel