Killed in Action
21st August 1916
Aged 31.
Commemorated Thiepval Memorial.
Newspaper Report.
The death in action is announced of Private Alan Wm. Heywood (31), Lancashire Fusiliers of Haslingden. The deceased was a Southerner and came to Haslingden from London. At Haslingden he was chauffeur to Dr. Albert Peterson and he lodged at 8 Dale Street. He enlisted about March of this year and just before enlisting he married a young lady from Rochdale.
