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William Claude Edwards

Private

Service No. 4009

Age 17

Died on 1 July 1916

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Somme, France

Son of Mrs. Sarah Ann Wheatley (formerly Edwards), of 41, Duncombe St., 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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