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William Ewart Willis

Private

Service No. 18386

Age 21

Died on 21 July 1916

Leicestershire Regiment

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Somme, France

Son of Samuel and Emma Willis, of 10, Centre St., Banbury, Oxon.

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Henry Harrison

William, O valiant heart, who to your glory came ….. 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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