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Albert E. Corson
Private 41304
2nd Bn., King's Own Scottish Borderers
Albert E. Corson died on Sunday 30th June 1918, Age 20, and was buried in the TANNAY BRITISH CEMETERY, THIENNES, Nord, France.
He was born c1898 in Sheffield, Yorks, and was the son of John & Elizabeth Corson. John Corson was a Travelling Draper, and a native of Scotland. His wife Elizabeth was born in Chesterfield, Derbys. On the 1901 census the family were living at Brimington, Derbys.
At the time of Albert Corson's death, the family resided at 178 Outram Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
Notts Free Press - Sutton's Roll of Honour - 10th January 1919
Corson, Private Albert, K.O.S.B.
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
King's Own Scottish Borderers’
Albert
CORSON. Born Sheffield, Yorks, enlisted
Mansfield, Notts (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts). 2nd Bn.,
King's Own Scottish Borderers. Private
41304, Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 30th June 1918. Formerly
164502 H.L.I.
Research by Heather Faulkes