RAINSBURY F. B. P.

Finn Barre Prendergast Rainsbury

Private 8364

20th Bn., Royal Fusiliers
attd. 8th Bn., Gloucestershire Regiment

Finn Barre Prendergast Rainsbury died on Sunday 23rd July 1916, Age 21, and was remembered on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France.

He was born at Stanton Hill on 16th March 1896 and was the son of Dr. William Cornelius Rainsbury and his wife Kate. Dr Rainsbury (late Lt., Royal Army Medical Corps.), of "Kilcrenagh," Stanton Hill, was the local doctor in Stanton Hill from 1893 throught to at least the 1940's.  Both he and his wife were natives of Ireland.

Notts Free Press, 11th August 1916

From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –   Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)’

RAINSBURY, St. Finn B. P. Born Skegby, Notts, enlisted Mansfield (resides Skegby, Notts). 20th Bn.,  Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.) Private 8364, Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 23rd July 1916.

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Research by Heather Faulkes