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8 June 1919: Lt William ‘Billy’ Nichol Wilson
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Billy Wilson was born 23 August 1899, Dalston, Cumberland. His father was Twentyman Wilson and mother Sarah; they were both from Dalston Cumberland and had agrarian backgrounds: the Wilsons were blacksmiths and wheelwrights, while the Nixons and Nichols on Sarah's side worked a small holdings. Twentyman got work in the then booming industrial t...
17 June 1917 : Air Mechanic Frank Waddington
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Frank Waddington was born in Burnley, Lancashire in 1893, the son of Isabella Waddington and step-father Barker Greenwood. At the 1901 Census Frank, age 8, lived in Burnley with his grandmother and his five adult cousins, who were all employed as weavers. At the 1911 Census, after his mother had remarried, Frank was back with his family, the t...