DENNIS C.

Cyril Dennis 

Rifleman 71110

16th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)

Cyril Dennis died on Tuesday 29 May 1917, Age 21, and was buried in the LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

He was born on the 9th March 1897, on Stoney Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield to parents James & Sarah Jane Dennis. James Dennis was a Coal Miner, who married Sarah Jane Newton at St Mary, Sutton-in-Ashfield in December 1889. At the time of the 1901 census the family were living at 62 Stoney Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield.

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

DENNIS Cyril. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. Enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield. 16th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 71110, Died of wounds, France & Flanders 29^th Sep 1917* . Formerly 54110, North Staffs. Regt.

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Research by Heather Faulkes
* Date of death differs from www.cwgc.org