Pt. James Makinson
Local WW1 historian & author Steve Williams will lay a wreath at the Chorley Pals memorial plaque on the Somme on Saturday, 1st June.
Steve is taking a well earned break from working on the Chorley Remembers ‘Experience’ exhibition (due to open on the 15th June), by spending a few days in France.
Besides visiting the Pals trenches at Serre on the Somme battlefield, he intends to visit the grave of Chorley Pal, Private 15960 James Makinson who is buried in Etretat Churchyard on the Channel Coast.
Pte. Makinson lost a leg in the attack on the 1st July 1916, only to die eight days later in an Army Hospital based at Etretat, a few miles north of the port of Le Havre.
