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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