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10 October 1916 : Pte Beaumont Wood

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Beaumont Wood was born in Thornhill in January 1888. At the 1891 Census, age 3 Beaumont was the youngest of five children to his father a 'wood sawyer' and mother Elizabeth. Ten years later at the 1901 Census he had a younger sister and a younger brother too. His 17 year old brother and 15 year old sister were working. The family lived at 286 Ch...

9 April 1917 : Gunner Ewart Doodson

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Ewart was born in 1898 in Elland, near Leeds, Yorkshire. After the deaths of his natural parents he was adopted.  His adoptive parents were Tyas Wood (a rug and shawl finisher) and Morrennah (née Jagger) whose family included brother James (born 1890, a boot and clog maker) and Lily (a dressmaker’s apprentice) At the 1911 Census, age 12, Ewart w...

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