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Charles Sanson

Private

Service No. 40490

Age 28

Died on 31 July 1917

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Husband of Annie Sanson, of North Scarle, Newark.

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B Popplewell

MY GRANDFATHER, PRIVATE CHARLES SANSON. 4TL SHERWOOD FORESTERS, SERVICE NO. 40490, DIED 2ND AUG 1917, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIEL (31 ST JULY 1917).

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Henry Harrison

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

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Charles, 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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