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30 December 1915: Pte Stephen Sowden

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Stephen Sowden was born in Burnley in 1897. His parents were Thomas (coal hewer) and Mary (cotton winder), both originally from Cornwall. At the 1901 Stephen was the youngest of seven (two boys, five girls). By the 1911 Census there was one more boy in the family - a grandson. All the children ages 23 to 25 went on to work in a cotton mill. Ten...