Michele's Story.
Michele was born on the 13th March 1892, he was one of seven children born to Michele and Margaret Amoroso, a shipbroker of Ellerslie, New Brighton. Michele was educated at St Francis Xaviers in Liverpool. From the 15th September 1904 to 30th July 1908 he studied at Stonyhurst College near Clitheroe. He was considerably successful at sports, particularly football. Throughout his time at Stonyhurst he played for his year group XI usually playing centre-half and represented the school on a number of occasions, one of them against Manchester University when he was still only 15. He also played cricket and was quite a successful bowler. In athletics in 1907 he came 2nd in the 100 yards and 3rd in the half-mile. He was a member of the Sodality (for those with a more than usual commitment to religious faith) and took part in debates. He joined the Elocution Club for one year in 1906. In his final two years he joined the Cadet Corps and did moderately well at shooting.
He joined the Liverpool Scottish on the 4th August 1914 and after three months of training in Edinburgh he was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery, He went to France on the 1st September 1915 and participated in the battle Loos with the 95th Brigade. On the 1st July 1916 he and another officer brought in wounded men over the parapet under heavy fire. The following day with great coolness and thoroughness, he ran his telephone wire out over a shell swept area in front of the British lines, establishing connection with an advanced post known as the crucifix, owing to the care with which his line was laid, communications with battery was never interrupted throughout the day, the same evening he led a small party of bombers and cleared the crucifix trench for a distance of a hundred yards beyond the point designated as an artillery observation post near Fricourt.
On the 3rd July 1916 Michele was killed in action, working parties were being harassed by snipers close to the front of his trench, to investigate this he took charge of a machine gun which he worked until he was killed by a sniper at the close range of around thirty yards.
Cheshire County Memorial Project thank Richard Flory for researching Michele, source: Irwin, The Rev. Francis. Stonyhurst War Record: A Memorial of the Part Taken by Stonyhurst Men in the Great War. Derby: Bemrose & Sons Limited, 1927