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William Edgar Priestley

Private

Service No. 15405

Age 22

Died on 25 December 1914

Grenadier Guards

GUARDS CEMETERY, WINDY CORNER, CUINCHY

Pas de Calais, France

Son of William and Maria Priestley, of 10) Corn Mill Lane, Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent.

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Emma Clegg

He was the first soldier to die from Tutbury in Staffordshire, on Christmas Day 1914, shot by a sniper during the Christmas Truce.

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