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William Shaw Cleary

Private

Service No. 17984

Age 22

Died on 17 October 1917

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

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West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Son of Alfred James and Annie Cleary, of 41, Duke St.. New Basford, Nottingham.

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Henry Harrison

William, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes …. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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William, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalio...

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