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Henry Egner
Private 203000
1st/5th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Henry Egner died on Saturday 28 July 1917, Age 27, and was buried in the PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE, Pas de Calais, France.
He was born c1891 at Derby, to parents Henry and Elizabeth Egner. Henry Edger sr. was a Sausage Skin Maker, and on the 1901 census the family were living at 58 New Chester Street, St Pauls, Derbys.
Henry Egner was also the husband of Mrs Emma Egner (later Briggs), of 61 Carlton Road, Nottingham.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War
1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
HENRY EGNER. Born Derby, Enlisted Mansfield
(resides Sutton-in-Ashfield). 1/5th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby
Regt.). Private 203000, Killed in Action France & Flanders 28th
July 1917
Research by Helen Wilson and Heather Faulkes