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EDWARDS J. W.
John William Edwards
Private 3035
8th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
John William Edwards died on Saturday 1st July 1916, aged 22 years, and was buried in the FONCQUEVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France.
He was born c1894 at Grassmoor, Derbys, to parents Joseph & Sarah Edwards. Joseph Edwards was a Coal Miner, and both parents were native to Walsall, Staffs. On the 1901 census the family were living at Newton Green, Blackwell, Derbys.
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From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
J. W. EDWARDS Born Grassmoor, Derbyshire, Enlisted Newark (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield) 1/8th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 3035, Killed in Action, France & Flanders 1st July 1916.
Research by Helen Wilson and Heather Faulkes
