DALLISON J. W.

John William Dallison 

Private 17924

9th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)

Notts Free Press - 18th February 1916

John William Dallison died on Monday 9 August 1915, Age 31, and is commemorated on the HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey.

He was born c1884 at Clowne, Derbys, and was the son of William & Lillias Dallison. William Dallison was a Colliery Stall Man, and a native of Nottinghamshire. He married Lillias Coleman at Selston in May 1880. Lillias Dallison died at Mansfield sometime after 1892, and William Dallison married again to Fanny Caunt in 1899. 

At the time of his sons death William Dallison was living at Lime Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield. John William Dallison was the husband of Gertrude Dallison, of 3 Slater Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.

Notts Free Press - 18th February 1916

Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 9th August 1918

Dallison - In loving memory of my husband, Private John William Dallison, 17924, 9th Sherwood Foresters, who was killed in Action August 9th 1915, aged 31 years. He answered duty's call - From his loving Wife and Children.

From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’

JOHN DALLISON. Born Clowne, DBY - Enlisted Mansfield (Resides Sutton-in-Ashfield) 9th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 17924, Killed in Action, Gallipoli, 9th Aug 1915.

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