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Arthur Benjamin Farnell

Private

Service No. 149

Age 25

Died on 23 July 1916

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Somme, France

Son of Arthur James and Elizabeth Farnell, of 76, Leonard Rd., Handsworth, Birmingham.

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Henry Harrison

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

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Arthur, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, although so many of our comrades must have been blown...

Henry Harrison