Notts Free Press, 14th July 1916
GANNON A.
Aaron Gannon*
Private 29780
17th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Notts Free Press, 14th July 1916
Aaron Gannon died on Tuesday 4th July 1916, Age 17, and was buried in BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France.
He was born late in 1898 at Hucknall under Huthwaite, Notts, the son of Thomas Gannon and Eugienne (formerly Richards), who married at St Mary's Church, Sutton-in-Ashfield in January 1893. Thomas Gannon was a native of Clay Cross, Derbys. They lived at 1 Central Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
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Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 5th July 1918
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood
Foresters’
GANNON Dick*. Born Huthwaite, Notts, enlisted Mansfield (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts). 17th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 29780, Died of wounds, France & Flanders, 4th July 1916.
Research by Heather Faulkes
www.cwgc.org has his initial as "D",
and his age as 16. Soldiers Died has first name of "Dick"
