William Ripley

Rank: Private

Regiment: 10th Battalion, Essex Regiment

Image sent by: Miss F Griffin

Miss Griffin’s Address: 4 Market Passage, Norman Road, St Leonards

Other Info: An article published in the Hastings & St Leonards Observer on 30th November 1918 reads; “killed in action in France on October 29th, aged 18 years and nine months”

According to CWGC, William is remembered at Cross Roads Cemetery, Fontaine-au-Bois, grave reference III.D.19.

Additional information on the Lives of the First World War website states that William was born in Hollington and lived in Hastings.

Published: November 1918

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