DEARLY LOVED YOUNGEST SON OF
WILLIAM JOHN & MARY AINSLEY
OF 1, ST JOHN'S GROVE, LEEDS
YORKS

PRIVATE DONALD AINSLEY

KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY

25TH SEPTEMBER 1916 AGE 23

BURIED: GUARDS CEMETERY LES BOEUFS, FRANCE


Donald Ainsley, was a clothiers assistant in Leeds, as was his father, although at the time of the 1911 census the father is recorded as 'not working'. Donald was killed on 25 September 1916 in the Battle of Morval, the attempt to secure the ruined villages of Morval and Lesboeufs.