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Peter Dove
Private 29779
17th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Peter Dove died on Tuesday 4th July 1916, Age 19, and was remembered on the LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France.
He was born on 8th December 1897, at West End, Sutton-in-Ashfield. He was the son of John Charles Dove, a coal miner, and his wife Harriett (formerly Wilkinson). They had previously married at St Mary's Church, Sutton, in December 1882.
At the time of his death, his parents were living at 44
Willowbridge Lane, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War
1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
DOVE, Peter - born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. Enlisted at Mansfield (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts) 17th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 29779. Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 4th Jul 1916.
Research by Heather Faulkes