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William Edward Furness

Serjeant

Service No. 2365

Age 31

Died on 15 August 1915

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Son of Mary Ann Furness, of Berkshire House, Shirland St., Chesterfield, and the late James Edward Furness.

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Stewart Beard

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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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