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JOHN WILLIAM DURHAM
BORN HULL 1872. SON OF EMMA/EMILY NETTLETON (1867-1946) OF 52, RYDALE TERRACE, HOLBECK, LEEDS. ONE OF THREE SONS LOST IN THE WAR.
HE ENLISTED AT LEEDS. SERVED WITH THE 8TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 05/12/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 08/10/1916, AGED 44. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, EMMA NETTLETON.
HIS STEP BROTHERS WERE, PRIVATE, JOSEPH NETTLETON, 203414, 1ST CAMERON HIGHLANDERS, KILLED ON 21/09/1918. BURIED BELLICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
SERGEANT, TOM JACKSON, SS/731, 29TH RASC, DIED ON 20/02/1919. BURIED AT TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE
THESE THREE MEN ARE ALL LISTED ON THE SAME WAR PENSION CARD.
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