Listed below are a few men from Mansfield Woodhouse and Forest Town who served in the First World War. More will be added as and when i come across them. If you would require further information or can add anything please contact me via the contact form
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Surname |
Forename |
Initials |
Rank |
Regiment |
Additional Information |
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Adamson |
Harry |
H |
Private |
11th Sherwood Foresters |
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Allsop |
Joseph |
J |
Private |
Sherwood Foresters |
7 Montague Terrace |
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Bacon |
John |
J |
Gunner |
Royal Field Artillery |
24 Park Row |
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Baggaley |
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S |
Private |
Army Service Corps |
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Bailey |
Tom |
T |
Private |
2nd Sherwood Foresters |
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Baker |
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G |
Driver |
Royal Field Artillery |
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Barnes |
Walter |
W |
Private |
Sherwood Foresters |
Greyhound Inn. |
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Baugh |
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B |
Private |
Northamptonshire Regiment |
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Beardall |
Arthur |
A |
Private |
8th Sherwood Foresters |
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Blagg |
Tom |
T |
Drummer |
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Blagg |
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F |
Private |
1/8th Sherwood Foresters |
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Boden |
Frank |
F |
Private |
1/8th Sherwood Foresters |
9th |
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Bonser |
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Serjeant |
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Drill Instructor |
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Bonser |
|
E |
Private |
1st |
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Bonser |
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H |
Private |
3rd |
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Bowler |
William |
W |
Lance Corporal |
1st Sherwood Foresters |
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Bowler |
Joseph |
J |
Private |
Sherwood Foresters |
Prisoner of War |
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Bown |
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J W |
Corporal |
1st Leicestershire Regiment |
29 Blenheim Terrace |
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Bowskill |
Arthur William |
A W |
Private |
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Bramwell |
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F H |
Trooper |
4th Dragoon Guards |
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Briggs |
John |
J |
Private |
10th Sherwood Foresters |
Wharfedale Cottage |
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Briggs |
James |
J |
Private |
1st |
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Briggs |
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J P |
Gunner |
Royal Field Artillery |
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Briggs |
Henry |
H |
Private |
1st |
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Brown |
Joseph |
J |
Trooper |
4th Dragoon Guards |
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Bulter |
Harold |
H |
Private |
9th Sherwood Foresters |
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Cantrill |
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G |
Driver |
Royal Field Artillery |
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Cantrill |
John |
J |
Private |
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Cantrill |
Frank |
F |
Private |
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Caunt |
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Driver |
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Clarke |
Harold |
H |
Private |
11th Scottish Rifles |
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Coaten |
George |
G |
Private |
Duke Of Cornwalls Light Infantry |
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Coleman |
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H |
Private |
Sherwood Foresters |
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Collins |
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E |
Rifleman |
Kings Royal Rifle Corps |
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Consterdine |
John William |
J W |
Serjeant |
Leicestershire Regiment |
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Coupe |
Thomas |
T |
Private |
1st Sherwood Foresters |
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Cowpe |
Christian |
C |
Private |
1st Dragoon Guards |
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Crooks |
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E G |
Private |
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Crowder |
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Private |
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Dainty |
William Richard |
W R |
Captain |
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve |
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George |
G |
Private |
Royal Army Medical Corps |
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Dolman |
Erenst |
E |
Private |
Army Service Corps |
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Donnelly |
James |
J |
Driver |
Royal Field Artillery |
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Dyke |
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W E |
Private |
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Dyke |
Robert A |
R A |
Private |
2nd |
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Eastmond |
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R A |
Doctor |
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Joined Meditteranean Expeditionary Force |
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Fells |
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W A |
Driver |
Royal Field Artillery |
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Flannery |
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J |
Private |
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Fox |
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C |
Private |
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Gammond |
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T |
Private |
2nd Sherwood Foresters |
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Gee |
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P |
Lance Corporal |
11th Sherwood Foresters |
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Gibson |
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J |
Private |
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Gibson |
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J |
Driver |
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Gill |
John |
J |
Private |
Sherwood Foresters |
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Grundy |
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W |
Private |
7th Sherwood Foresters |
125 Yorke Street |
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Hardy |
John James |
J J |
Lance Corporal |
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Harrison |
Bernard |
B |
Private |
16th Sherwood Foresters |
54 Coke Street |
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Hatton |
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G T |
Private |
11th Sherwood Foresters |
10 Kilburn Terrace |
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Havenhand |
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H |
Rifleman |
2nd Kings Royal Rifle Corps |
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Hawley |
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R |
Private |
Royal Engineers |
3 Vallance Street |
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Haywood |
Charles |
C |
Private |
11th Sherwood Foresters |
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Hill |
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J S |
Private |
Royal Army Medical Corps |
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Holmes |
Sam |
S |
Private |
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Hood |
Arthur |
A |
Private |
9th Sherwood Foresters |
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Horne |
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H |
Private |
9th Lancashire Fusiliers |
57 Coke Street |
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Houfton |
|
G H |
Second Lieutenant |
Sherwood Foresters |
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Howe |
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W |
Private |
1st Sherwood Foresters |
35 Common Lane |
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Howley |
|
T A |
Private |
Sherwood Foresters |
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Hunt |
|
H |
Private |
Lincolnshire Regiment |
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Lattimer |
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J C |
Lance Corporal |
6th Leicestershire Regiment |
2 Hospital Terrace |
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Leeson |
Willie |
W |
Private |
Sherwood Foresters |
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Lovely |
Levi |
L |
Private |
9th Norfolk Regiment |
Wounded Gun Shot Wounds 1918 |
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Mallatratt |
Leslie |
L |
Private |
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High Street, Prisoner of War |
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Marshall |
|
J W |
Private |
10th Sherwood Foresters |
16 Poplar Street |
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Marshall |
Samuel |
S |
Lance Corporal |
2nd Lancashire Fusiliers |
Cavendish Street |
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Massey |
|
L |
Corporal |
2nd Grenadier Guards |
POW Doeberitz |
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Massey |
|
L |
Corporal |
2nd Grenadier Guards |
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Matthews |
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F |
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8th Sherwood Foresters |
High Street |
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Matthews |
|
H |
Private |
7th Leicestershire Regiment |
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Matthews |
Frank |
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Sherwood Foresters |
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Mayhall |
|
A |
Lieutenant |
Royal Field Artillery |
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McDonald |
|
A A W |
Private |
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Depot House, Wounded 22/5/1915 |
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Mellors |
|
T |
Lance Corporal |
8th Northumberland Fusiliers |
57 Blenheim Terrace: Wounded, Shrapnel wounds, face, right ankle and left thigh |
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Mellors |
Joseph |
J |
Private |
Sherwood Foresters |
118 Blake Street |
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Miller |
Percy |
P |
Gunner |
Royal Artillery |
53 Blenheim Terrace |
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Millns |
Richard |
R |
Serjeant |
2/8th Sherwood Foresters |
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Mills |
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F |
Private |
Sherwood Foresters |
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Money |
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F E |
Quarter Master Serjeant |
Army Service Corps |
Coke Street |
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Moody |
Sam |
S |
Private |
Sherwood Foresters |
13 Newcastle Street |
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Munks |
George |
G |
Rifleman |
12th London Regiment (The Rangers) |
Wounded January 1916: Park Avenue |
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Munks |
Arthur |
A |
Private |
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Enlisted 4/9/1914 |
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Neale |
Charles |
C |
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11th Royal Welsh Fusiliers |
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William |
W |
Private |
1/8th Sherwood Foresters |
9th |
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William |
W |
Private |
Sherwood Foresters |
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Owen |
Richard |
R |
Private |
South Staffordshire Regiment |
Prisoner of War 1916 |
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Owen |
Edgar |
E |
Lance Corporal |
11th Sherwood Foresters |
Montague Terrace |
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Palfreyman |
Thomas |
T |
Stoker |
HMS Achilles Royal Navy |
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Perry |
|
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Serjeant |
Royal Army Medical Corps |
5th |
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Pidduck |
|
G |
Private |
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Pilgrim |
|
T |
Private |
Royal Marine Light Infantry |
3 Cursham Terrace |
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Pinnick |
John |
J |
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Royal Fusiliers |
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Pinnick |
Benjamin |
B |
Gunner |
Royal Garrison Artillery |
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Pinnick |
George |
G |
Driver |
Royal Field Artillery |
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Pinnick |
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H |
Private |
11th Sherwood Foresters |
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Raines |
|
J R |
Private |
Grenadier Guards |
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Rains |
|
J |
Private |
Grenadier Guards |
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Ranby |
|
J H |
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14 Clipstone Road, Forest Town: Missing 27/05/1918 |
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Redfern |
Herbert |
H |
Driver |
Royal Field Artillery |
73 High Street |
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Reynolds |
William |
W |
Gunner |
Royal Field Artillery |
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Richardson |
Alick |
A |
Private |
3rd Royal Scottish Fusiliers |
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Robert |
|
J |
Seaman |
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Roberts |
|
T J |
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Royal Marine Light Infantry |
Wounded |
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Robinson |
Victor |
V |
Private |
5th Leicestershire Regiment |
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Rockley |
|
W |
Serjeant |
7th |
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Saxton |
Reginald |
R C |
Second Lieutenant |
Sherwood Foresters |
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Sharp |
Austen |
A |
Private |
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Wounded Gun Shot wound right eye 1918 |
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Shaw |
|
W |
Driver |
Royal Field Artillery |
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Shuttleworth |
Robert |
R |
Private |
11th Sherwood Foresters |
6 Montague Terrace |
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Slaney |
Wilfrid |
W |
Seaman |
Royal Navy |
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Slaney |
Clarence |
C |
Private |
4th Sherwood Foresters |
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Smedley |
Matthew |
M L |
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Royal Navy |
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Smedley |
Sam |
S |
Private |
Sherwood Foresters |
31 Matlock Terrace |
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Smedley |
|
J |
Private |
Sherwood Foresters |
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Swinn |
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G |
Private |
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Thompson |
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W E |
Rifleman |
Kings Royal Rifle Corps |
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Thompson |
|
G |
Private |
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Tudge |
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G H |
Serjeant |
12th Sherwood Foresters |
Debdale Gate |
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Turner |
Arthur |
A |
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Wounded in Gallipoli |
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Turner |
Arthur |
A |
Private |
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Twyning |
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A W |
Lance Corporal |
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Joseph |
J |
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Royal Navy |
57 Old Mill Lane |
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Walters |
|
J J |
Driver |
Royal Field Artillery |
Morven Avenue |
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Ward |
Albert |
A |
Corporal |
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Prisoner of War |
|
Ward |
|
H |
Gunner |
Royal Field Artillery |
3 Fishers Row |
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Wareham |
Edwin |
E |
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Nephew of Harry Wareham, Warsop Road |
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Warren |
|
J |
Private |
7th Leicestershire Regiment |
41 Thoresby Road |
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Warriner |
John Harry |
J H |
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Royal Marine Light Infantry |
Blake Street |
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Wass |
John Samuel |
J S |
Corporal |
2/8th Sherwood Foresters |
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Webb |
|
G H |
Seaman |
Royal Navy HMS Hercules |
111 Coke Street |
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Webb |
William |
W |
Private |
1st Sherwood Foresters |
111 Coke Street |
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West |
|
W |
Private |
Sherwood Foresters |
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Williams |
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P E |
Private |
Royal Marine Light Infantry |
96 Sherwood Street |
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Williamson |
|
W |
Stoker |
Royal Navy |
25 Old Mill Lane |
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Wilson |
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S E |
Private |
Sherwood Foresters |
Glenleigh Terrace |
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Woodcock |
Sydney |
S |
Gunner |
Royal Artillery |
Sheepwash Lane |
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Wright |
|
J |
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Sherwood Foresters |
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Wright |
James |
J |
Private |
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Wright |
|
W |
Private |
Royal Marine Light Infantry |
51 Old Mill Lane |
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Wright |
Sam |
S |
Private |
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A few photos of the lads, i do have many more


