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| William Henry Corby
came was born in Newport, Essex and enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Leicester
Regt when at Stratford. His service number was 8485. It may seem strange to the
casual observer that he enlisted in Stratford when he lived in South Hornchurch
and ended up in the Leicester Regt |
| All that can be said
here is that often the answer lay in the attestation papers, which were the
forms they signed at the time of enlisting. As you may know, some 60% were
destroyed in the Blitz in 1940. The rest are on microfilm at the PRO in
Kew. |
| As for William there
is no age at time of death, relatives or next of kin. The Commonwealth War
Graves asked for information, but if none was forthcoming then that was it and
this is all we have to go on. |
| As for William there
is no age at time of death, relatives or next of kin. The Commonwealth War
Graves asked for information, but if none was forthcoming then that was it and
this is all we have to go on. William died in action on the Western Front 13th
March 1915, he has no known grave and is remembered on the Le Touret Memorial.
It serves the area enclosed on the North by the river Lys and a line drawn from
Estaires to Fournes, and on the South by the old Southern boundary of the First
Army about Grenay; and it covers the period from the arrival of the II Corps in
Flanders in 1914 to the eve of the Battle of Loos. |
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