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30 November 1917 : L/Cpl William Dewhurst

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William was the son of Thomas (a cotton mill engineer) and Ann (née Bielby). All the children become weavers, probably working part-time from school as age 12 and full-time shortly after. Thomas Dawson died in July 1906. The children lived at home until they married in their early to mid-twenties.  At the time of the outbreak of war in 1914 Wi…