Jack Start

JACK START

56401, Private, Jack Start, 14th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, formerly, 58197, Cheshire Regiment.

Born in 1898 at Macclesfield, son of Thomas William and Eliza Start, 35, Barton Street. Jack was a prominent member of Christ Church Young Men’s Bible Class and a keen and energetic Scoutmaster of the 3rd Macclesfield Troop (Christ Church), with which he had been connected since 1909. Prior to enlistment, Jack was employed by Messrs Neckwear Ltd.

Jack was conscripted at Macclesfield in October 1916, and was drafted to France in the May of 1917.
He had his first leave from there in August of that year, and he had only been back at the front just two months when he was killed instantaneously by a shell, Sunday, 6 October 1918, he was aged 20 years.

Medals: British War Medal and Victory Medal.

Private, Jack Start is buried at Prospect Hill Cemetery, Gouy, Aisne, France.
C.W.G.C. Ref: – V. A. 17.

Also refer to

• Macclesfield Troops pre WWI
• Photos from Barnswood archive Macclesfield WW1
• ‘Big Hats, Shorts and Dyb Dyb Dyb’ – a history of Macclesfield and Congleton Scouts by Norman Gosling
• WWI List of Addresses Trevor Druce Macclesfield Reflects
• Photos of 3rd Macclesfield Troop pre WW1
• ‘Great war history of 3rd Macclesfield’ by Sue Henderson