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30 November 1917 : L/Cpl William Dewhurst
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William Dewhurst was born in Helmshore, Lancashire 18 September 1885. He 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...