DOVE W.

William Dove 

Private 203660

2nd/5th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)

Notts Free Press, 19th October 1917

William Dove died on Wednesday 10 October 1917, aged 29, and was buried in MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT, Seine-Maritime, France.

He was born on 19th May 1888, at Low Street, Sutton, to parents William & Ada Dove. William Dove sr. was a Boot & Shoe maker, who was living at Bowers Yard, Sutton-in-Ashfield in 1901.

William Dove was also the husband of Priscilla Dove, of 16 Langford Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.

Notts Free Press, 19th October 1917

Notts Free Press, 11th October 1918

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

WILLIAM DOVE. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Enlisted Derby (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield). 2/5th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 203660, Died of Wounds France & Flanders 10^th Oct 1917.

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Research by Helen Wilson and Heather Faulkes