BARDSWELL, HAMILTON AINSWORTH, 2nd Lieut., 10th (Territorial) Battn. (Liverpool Scottish) The King’s (Liverpool Regt.), s. of Henry Hodgson Bardswell, of 10, Albert Road, Southport, by his wife, Sarah Ellen, dau. of William Ainsworth; b. Southport, co. Lancaster, 28 Feb. 1883; educ. Uppingham School; went to America in 1906, for Messrs. Cunningham and Hinshaw, of Liverpool, Cotton Merchants; joined the Liverpool Scottish in May, 1915; received a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 10th Liverpool Regt. 24 Oct. 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Jan. 1917; was in the fighting at Ypres, July, Aug. and Sept. 1917; was reported wounded and missing after the fighting at Epéhy, near Cambrai, 30 Nov. following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date. He m. at Southport, 7 July, 1908, Janet Neil, dau. of William Neil Maccoll, M.D., and had a dau., Jean Hamilton, b. 13 Dec. 1910.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5
