LOTHAIR ARMITAGE Died 2nd March 1915 aged 25 Buried Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France Son of Robert John and Edith Burnley Armitage Lived 4, Lobley Street, Heckmondwike Lothair enrolled in
the KOYLI at Dewsbury. He is recorded on the 1911 census
as being a Milk Vendor, born in Heckmondwike in 1889, the second son of Robert
John Armitage, a Warehouseman, and Edith Burnley Firth who had married at Birstall Parish Church
on August 9th 1884. His father then died before Lothair’s first birthday, so he
lived at first with his mother and older siblings Harold and Mabel in Kaye Street,
Heckmondwike. He is buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. A service was held at Heckmondwike Parish Church
on the first anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War and Lothair’s
relatives were invited along with the other seven Heckmondwike men remembered. Locally
commemorated on the Green Park Memorial, Roll of Honour, the Upper Independent
Chapel Memorial and Roll of Honour, Heckmondwike
Grammar School Plaque. Medals
awarded:- British War Medal and the
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